AndreasThinks
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I 100% agree with this, and on a related note, I really want to build an atproto implementation of @octopus-ac.bsky.social, because it would be the best thing.
Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat
www.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I 100% agree with this, and on a related note, I really want to build an atproto implementation of @octopus-ac.bsky.social, because it would be the best thing.
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Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Science Must Decentralize
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat
www.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Doing a fireworks night without a single K Pop Demon Hunters song should be an actual crime
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Doing a fireworks night without a single K Pop Demon Hunters song should be an actual crime
is anybody apart from Anthropic supporting the new agent skills yet? Building quite a weary MCP implementation, and strikes me that using Skills would just be way easier...
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
is anybody apart from Anthropic supporting the new agent skills yet? Building quite a weary MCP implementation, and strikes me that using Skills would just be way easier...
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Nick, Nick, Nick... #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Nick, Nick, Nick... #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors
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The extremely strange afterlife of the Xbox Kinect camera, which came out 15 years ago today: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...
Ghost hunting, pornography and interactive art: the weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect
Fifteen years since Microsoft’s motion-sensing gaming camera was released for the Xbox 360, artists, roboticists and more are still finding new ways to use it
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The extremely strange afterlife of the Xbox Kinect camera, which came out 15 years ago today: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...
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Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
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This is excellent.
@tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!
@tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!
wrote down some thoughts justifying @tangled.org's existence & planned trajectory.
building for the future
on tangled's existence and direction
icy.leaflet.pub
October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is excellent.
@tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!
@tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!
Vibe coding yourpolice.events got me excited for the potential of vibe coding and public data APIs, so I wrote a hot take on what the National Data Library should be for...
andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...
andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...
What I want from a National Data Library – Andreas Varotsis
Open data and vibe-coding
andreasthinks.me
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Vibe coding yourpolice.events got me excited for the potential of vibe coding and public data APIs, so I wrote a hot take on what the National Data Library should be for...
andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...
andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...
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This week's FT column: why I've stopped worrying about birthrates:
Demographic doom-mongering isn’t helping
Frankly, I doubt that the human race is going to become the first species in recorded history that chooses to go extinct
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This week's FT column: why I've stopped worrying about birthrates:
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I wish I had internalised this two years ago but it was a different world and a different game. I'm just grateful I've moved away from this all or nothing mindset now
I will say this: a lot of new folks are clinging to a nostalgia for ‘getting a publisher’ as a marker of validation, of being a ‘real game’.
And I’m here to tell you that’s bollocks. They need you more than you need them. If they can provide a service, awesome, but you hold the means of production.
And I’m here to tell you that’s bollocks. They need you more than you need them. If they can provide a service, awesome, but you hold the means of production.
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I wish I had internalised this two years ago but it was a different world and a different game. I'm just grateful I've moved away from this all or nothing mindset now
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Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
I am very excited (and not sure Waymo know what they're in for. Mostly roundabouts)
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I am very excited (and not sure Waymo know what they're in for. Mostly roundabouts)
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This seems notable - on current data, the 90 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year to August 2025 is the lowest 12-month total since the monthly data started in 2003. #crimestats
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This seems notable - on current data, the 90 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year to August 2025 is the lowest 12-month total since the monthly data started in 2003. #crimestats
Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be - on.ft.com/3KQ8utE via @FT
Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be
Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth
on.ft.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be - on.ft.com/3KQ8utE via @FT
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ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.
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Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Okay, so what you're going to do is get some friends together. They don't all have to be radical leftists but they do at least need to believe that borders are fake. They also need to think that the sentiment of NASA's Voyager record is the coolest thing ever but that's easy because who doesn't?
October 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Okay, so what you're going to do is get some friends together. They don't all have to be radical leftists but they do at least need to believe that borders are fake. They also need to think that the sentiment of NASA's Voyager record is the coolest thing ever but that's easy because who doesn't?
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Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...
Team dynamics after AI
Small giants and real giants
mechanicalsurvival.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...
ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.
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Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...
NYPD turns public housing Internet program into surveillance network | Biometric Update
Officers are now able to watch New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents through a live feed connected to NYPD’s Domain Awareness System (DAS).
www.biometricupdate.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...
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