Sean Bohan
@seanbohan.bsky.social
I play #RPGs and #wargames. I paint #minis and make terrain. I love #sci-fi, #fantasy and #mysteries. All of my interests give me joy, none of them will pay the rent and I am fine with that.
Rotterdam, NL
Rotterdam, NL
I could watch this on repeat all day...
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I could watch this on repeat all day...
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Evergreen
This is simply too much information
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Evergreen
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Free expression is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, EFF’s work grows more urgent for everyone’s right to free speech. You can help when you join the movement to Take Back CTRL. supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
Defend Privacy and Free Speech
Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.
supporters.eff.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Free expression is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, EFF’s work grows more urgent for everyone’s right to free speech. You can help when you join the movement to Take Back CTRL. supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
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I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about a new standard that flips the script on cookie notices, surveillance, and the adtech fecosystem. Its IEEE P7012, better known as #MyTerms. It'll be on Zoom. More at doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/m...
MyTerms are Your Terms
That’s the case I’ll be making next Tuesday in a talk at Indiana University. The subject is big—maybe the biggest in your online life. That’s because MyTerms is the only way you&#…
doc.searls.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about a new standard that flips the script on cookie notices, surveillance, and the adtech fecosystem. Its IEEE P7012, better known as #MyTerms. It'll be on Zoom. More at doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/m...
I cannot wait:
This was fun. Now we can expect Scott to blow off the Stress of all that prep by getting drunk on the job and gambling all his savings away.
Fresh off a fantastic talk with @shaneivey.bsky.social about the nuts and bolts of the upcoming Black Company RPG, what went into creating this system, and how it bring’s Glen Cook’s world to life. I am beyond excited to see this come to the table.
Part One of the interview coming soon. 🤘🏻😊
Part One of the interview coming soon. 🤘🏻😊
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I cannot wait:
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Science is cool
We use distant black holes to know the position of Earth in space. If we invented GPS and didn’t use them to confirm our position, GPS would be inaccurate and unusable because we could not tell the precise positioning of Earth even though we’d know the relationship between your car and a satellite.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Science is cool
I backed a previous kickstarter. This team does great work
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I backed a previous kickstarter. This team does great work
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the trouble with having a loft full of cannibalised kits and at least fifteen Bisley tool drawers full of kit bits is that you go in looking for a couple of interesting gribblies and come away an hour later with about twelve new model ideas
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
the trouble with having a loft full of cannibalised kits and at least fifteen Bisley tool drawers full of kit bits is that you go in looking for a couple of interesting gribblies and come away an hour later with about twelve new model ideas
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“Good politics also requires…a healthy public sphere, in which at least the most egregiously bad ideas and bad actors are subject to sufficient scrutiny that they are weeded out.”
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe...
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe...
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Good politics also requires…a healthy public sphere, in which at least the most egregiously bad ideas and bad actors are subject to sufficient scrutiny that they are weeded out.”
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe...
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe...
No one in Detroit is doing anything even remotely like MRKT, easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Experimental space-prog inflected with jazz fusion and krautrock, incredible jams and unusual time signatures, totally fantastic live. Link to their music in comments!
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I'm enthralled by the great quality of the adventures that have sprung forth from The Raspy Raven organised competition.
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm enthralled by the great quality of the adventures that have sprung forth from The Raspy Raven organised competition.
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
Third Party Community Content Creation embraces all of Sanction, and I'm loving what's coming out of it.
www.sanctionrpg.com
www.thedeesanction.com/the-dee-sanc...
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🧵if you cover the community & economic & environmental impact of data centers, cloud & AI companies, so called hyperscalers in the US… please be aware:
"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims.
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...
![Data Center Watch has published a report claiming that $64 billion worth of American data center projects were ‘threatened’ because of grassroots opposition.
Data Center Watch picture
A map produced by Data Center Watch tracking opposition to data centers in America
– Data Center Watch
The organization is backed by 10a Labs, an intelligence company specializing in AI security. Led by Robert McKenzie, a former adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, it provides “intelligence collection, investigative research, and analysis for AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and US tech leaders.”
The report claimed that $18bn worth of projects were ‘blocked’ and a further $46bn more were ‘delayed’ in the two years prior to March 2025.
It primarily attributed this opposition to local concern, identifying several “common themes” of opposition, such as “higher utility bills, water consumption, noise, impact on property value, and green space preservation.”
However, the report’s claims should be read with close attention to its definitions. For instance, ‘blocked’ projects include cases where a “company submits a new proposal with similar characteristics in a different but nearby location after withdrawing a previous project.”
Two examples, which amount to $14.5bn out of the total $18bn, fit this criterion.
The first is attributable to Tract, a company specializing in ‘master-planned’ data center parks, which withdrew a $14bn, 1,000-acre project located in Maricopa County, Arizona, in May 2024. Tract then announced in August of the same year that they had acquired a land parcel - double the size of the original project - within the same county for a data center park.
Whether Tract had already intended to develop a second facility prior to the withdrawal of the first is unclear. Grant von Rooyen, Tract’s CEO, previously told DCD that the company “very rarely [goes] into a market with only one solution… [Tract] will ultimately have multiple s…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreihtwegmocoffjawkkb5v5gtnkxsca76piog2t6mexzippglpwjnza@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🧵if you cover the community & economic & environmental impact of data centers, cloud & AI companies, so called hyperscalers in the US… please be aware:
<throws money at screen>
Tell me you cannot hear Tim Robinson saying "I'm not Mario, I'm... Wario"
And Sam Richardson confidently following up with "And I'm WALUIGI"
"YOU CAN'T JUST ADD WA- TO YOUR NAME YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN THING, I CHANGED THE M TO A W, YOU JUST ADDED WA-"
And Sam Richardson confidently following up with "And I'm WALUIGI"
"YOU CAN'T JUST ADD WA- TO YOUR NAME YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN THING, I CHANGED THE M TO A W, YOU JUST ADDED WA-"
Hear me out: For the Super Mario Movie sequel, Wario and Waluigi, two guys who show up to claim credit for Mario & Luigi saving Brooklyn while M&L run off to the Mushroom Kingdom
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
<throws money at screen>
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“Open source” as defined for the past couple decades is not the end of history nor the last word ever to be said on the subject. In fact, one can argue — as Erlend does and I would, too — that licensing innovation is very urgently needed. The world has changed since the nineties, let’s catch up!
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“Open source” as defined for the past couple decades is not the end of history nor the last word ever to be said on the subject. In fact, one can argue — as Erlend does and I would, too — that licensing innovation is very urgently needed. The world has changed since the nineties, let’s catch up!
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Today is @dansinker.com 's birthday. If you're not already signed up for his emails, you should! dansinker.com/follow/ And maybe buy some stickers or something. I love my "TRYING" sticker, it is the anchor sticker on my laptop, the first one I put on.
follow my stuff | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today is @dansinker.com 's birthday. If you're not already signed up for his emails, you should! dansinker.com/follow/ And maybe buy some stickers or something. I love my "TRYING" sticker, it is the anchor sticker on my laptop, the first one I put on.
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November's Call Sheet is here with the latest jobs in immersive events & media including positions with Cosm, Sphere, Meta, AREA15 and Walt Disney Imagineering.
www.noproscenium.com/call-sheet-n...
www.noproscenium.com/call-sheet-n...
CALL SHEET: November 2025
The latest jobs in immersive events & media including positions with Cosm, Sphere, Meta, AREA15 and Walt Disney Imagineering.
www.noproscenium.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
November's Call Sheet is here with the latest jobs in immersive events & media including positions with Cosm, Sphere, Meta, AREA15 and Walt Disney Imagineering.
www.noproscenium.com/call-sheet-n...
www.noproscenium.com/call-sheet-n...
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At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I reviewed @johnhornor.bsky.social's new novel The Night That Finds Us All. (It's good!) reactormag.com/book-review-...
Here Be Dragons: John Hornor Jacobs’ The Night That Finds Us All - Reactor
A bracing work of maritime cosmic horror.
reactormag.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I reviewed @johnhornor.bsky.social's new novel The Night That Finds Us All. (It's good!) reactormag.com/book-review-...
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With cool art by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social - check it out tomorrow!
TOMORROW! - Our newest issue of SNARL drops. In the newest issue, we have a complete 1-1 mech fighting game called Chrome Rangers! If you love the idea of an anime-inspired game and fighting with your big stompy robots, this is the game for you!
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
With cool art by @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social - check it out tomorrow!
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Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
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Just for laughs...
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just for laughs...
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What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?
Can we make this a thing?
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Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.
Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice.
It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.