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connoisseur of the futile attempt. lecturer in computer science at birmingham city university. + @ caluapataca.com

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[0002394] Dwarves sleeping to death

06.03.2026 03:00 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

One of the things that really gets me about this policy is that it doesn’t have the impact its supporters seem to think. It don’t affect numbers arriving but it does actively harm integration of those who come. It’s just a really, really bad policy. There’s no case for it being “necessary” at all.

03.03.2026 10:31 👍 105 🔁 30 💬 8 📌 0

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

27.02.2026 18:10 👍 1108 🔁 709 💬 7 📌 11

when it all comes crashing down it'd be funny if this was the paper trail that gets them

(Maybe I should bet on it?/

01.03.2026 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

01.03.2026 15:04 👍 10473 🔁 2193 💬 59 📌 62
still from the film 'watership down', depicting fiver, a clairvoyant rabbit, looking back over his shoulder with trepidation and fear as the field above him fills with blood

still from the film 'watership down', depicting fiver, a clairvoyant rabbit, looking back over his shoulder with trepidation and fear as the field above him fills with blood

mood

28.02.2026 19:28 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

27.02.2026 10:18 👍 931 🔁 149 💬 16 📌 1

Damn it just before my meeting

26.02.2026 12:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🪧Aesthetic Appraisals (Chair: Jan Mikuni)

PAPER 1: Individual differences in the relationship between beauty & comfort
(@mariapombo1999.bsky.social & @denispelli.bsky.social)

Font beauty & comfort
• Are separable dimensions of the subjective experience of reading
• define font categories
#psychsky

14.03.2025 19:23 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

HCI researchers!
Pre-CHI is coming up fast. We're looking forward to welcoming you for a day of learning and sharing in Bristol on the 27th of March.
Don't forget so register by the 8th of March!
Registration: bit.ly/4qPjMP7
Website: bit.ly/4qI2uTQ
#PreCHI #CHI2026

23.02.2026 10:33 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

This is a policy choice.

22.02.2026 18:44 👍 127 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0

Actually, symmetry arguments rule out both of these theoreticals. Destructive interference drops their wave function to approximately zero, so that they're only observed temporarily, during high-energy collisions. Only skeleton and luge are considered stable enough to be Olympions.

19.02.2026 09:27 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

18.02.2026 13:19 👍 3321 🔁 753 💬 42 📌 37

You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)

We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.

17.02.2026 16:44 👍 196 🔁 24 💬 18 📌 9

caraca q virada

15.02.2026 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, perdão, falha minha! Tive contato com vários sistemas privados e públicos, mas não sabia do censo

13.02.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Não sei se é tão preto e branco assim...eu morei lá por um tempo, me classificava latino, e não torciam o nariz pra isso (inclusive tive acesso a eventos por conta dessa denominação)

13.02.2026 14:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My theory remains that the public only cares about immigration because Rupert Murdoch cares about immigration and if he didn’t run the immigrant crime family of networks and newspapers people would rightly look at you like you’re crazy if you said the US should treat its border like the Berlin Wall

12.02.2026 21:05 👍 232 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 0
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

12.02.2026 20:07 👍 1910 🔁 476 💬 38 📌 46

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

13.02.2026 07:58 👍 1550 🔁 358 💬 26 📌 17

Bud Bunny ha entendido que para confrontar el disfrute de los malos siendo malos no hay nada mejor que hacer cosas alegres siendo mejores. Nada más contagioso que el goce y la alegría comunitarias.

09.02.2026 16:31 👍 155 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 3

Here's your check for 8 dollars (which wise flagged as suspicious so now I have to fill out a form)

09.02.2026 20:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminds me of video game systems where the trains are actually giant hats on NPCs.

09.02.2026 03:30 👍 76 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
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User hatingongodot:

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

User Shitacademicswrite:

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: “In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

08.02.2026 09:01 👍 2339 🔁 962 💬 21 📌 64
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Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

06.02.2026 07:25 👍 81 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 5
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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

06.02.2026 11:26 👍 188 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 5
Informático explicando com o material extra na região da virilha cria uma espécie de asa que ajuda o atleta a saltar mais alto.

Informático explicando com o material extra na região da virilha cria uma espécie de asa que ajuda o atleta a saltar mais alto.

eu li sobre os caras injetando ácido hialurônico na piroca para as provas de salto nas olimpíadas e depois do "eles o q???" básico de quem não é focada em esportes e jamais faria esse tipo de coisa, fui atrás de me informar e é basicamente aerodinâmica, né. esse infográfico do sunday times ajuda:

06.02.2026 10:22 👍 295 🔁 111 💬 10 📌 77
claytoncubitt says:
"The sky above the port was the color of
television, tuned to a dead channel," the opening
line of Gibson's Neuromancer, describes such
different things when it was published in 1984 vs
2024

Two images, first one is analog TV static, second one is a deep blue.

claytoncubitt says: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel," the opening line of Gibson's Neuromancer, describes such different things when it was published in 1984 vs 2024 Two images, first one is analog TV static, second one is a deep blue.

05.10.2024 11:28 👍 251 🔁 70 💬 2 📌 8

This is what is possible when your primary consideration in designing public infrastructure isn't discouraging usage by the unhoused.

05.02.2026 16:23 👍 86 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

I know the govt is in meltdown again…

but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model

& I explain what to do about it

05.02.2026 07:16 👍 395 🔁 160 💬 11 📌 4