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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

@rjwatt42.bsky.social Greetings. Across your research into spatial cognition, did you examine how Coulomb’s law might be implicated in the cognitive construction?

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."

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Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024

In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I post over on Mastodon because I’m reluctant to labour for free for yet another bunch of tech bro billionaires. I also respect that not everyone will use Fediverse apps. bsky.app/profile/troy...

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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ottawa fans booing the American anthem is what we all need.

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Paradox @ctcwired.paradoxwolf.info · 15/01/2025

"how do I match these cameras" "why do smartphones look like this" "why are these skin tones different" "how come these PTZ cameras have weird contrast" "why do broadcast cameras use these charts" the real question: where is the tonemapper?

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

And here I was thinking the United States second amendment was potentially an anachronistic clause…

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A key part to dismantling the notion around stimuli - the electromagnetic radiation - as *colour*, is to focus on a multi-pronged assault on the myths we’ve been sold. The first, pervasive myth, is the “Eye as a Camera” myth. Gilchrist has called this the “Eye as Photometer” myth.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ok… one for BlueSky. Everyone talks about “The Abney Effect”, right? The truth is, few realize that it’s not a single effect. This false myth stems from our misunderstanding of stimuli *as* colour. Always remember: Anyone who tries to tell you that “Uniform Colour Spaces” or “Colour Appearance

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Lots of familiar faces. Would like to see more folks embrace the social media protocols that cannot be hijacked, like so much of our crucial cultural surface, by billionaires.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

How the heck does one control the notifications on this app?!

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

What is the time allocation set to the point where this new billionaire social media implodes like the rest?

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