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@whatsaspacebar.bsky.social
Once more into the fray
Day Job: Data Science
Also: Neuroscience, Respiratory Health, AI/ML, Trust & Safety, Gaming, Disability Rights
No patience for: ableism, casual eugenics, scientism, or bigotry of any kind
Day Job: Data Science
Also: Neuroscience, Respiratory Health, AI/ML, Trust & Safety, Gaming, Disability Rights
No patience for: ableism, casual eugenics, scientism, or bigotry of any kind
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I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
In honor of WhatsApp inserting ads into their app, I’m starting a recurring $5 monthly donation to @signal.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In honor of WhatsApp inserting ads into their app, I’m starting a recurring $5 monthly donation to @signal.org
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i hate having pronouns in my video game slop now i have no choicr but to support putting all immigrants in labor camps
June 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i hate having pronouns in my video game slop now i have no choicr but to support putting all immigrants in labor camps
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Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
Critical theory is notorious for this especially. I have never seen important ideas that should be widely spread locked behind absolute microsubject definitions and word salad that is completely inaccessible to pretty much anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time reading on the subject.
February 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
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Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.
I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi.
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it
Young people want stories about friendship more than romance, say researchers and industry execs.
www.pcgamer.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.
Why bluesky is one of the more trustworthy networks I have right now.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
February 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Why bluesky is one of the more trustworthy networks I have right now.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Thinking of the many people afflicted by long #COVID who persevered to make initiatives like this happening. Incredible work that should serve as a beacon to established NIH investigators (assuming the NIH survives the next four years).
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: Long Covid Research Need Your Help
A group of long Covid patients is financing research and making progress.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Thinking of the many people afflicted by long #COVID who persevered to make initiatives like this happening. Incredible work that should serve as a beacon to established NIH investigators (assuming the NIH survives the next four years).
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
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Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
Been on this site all of one weekend and already blocking Nazi apologists. This really is like old Twitter!
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Been on this site all of one weekend and already blocking Nazi apologists. This really is like old Twitter!
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Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
November 9, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
Well hey, look at that, protests work
New study looks at protests against far right in 2002 French elections. Finds “larger protests reduced number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing number of votes for the incumbent president, Chirac.” Also finds “effect worked
through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf
through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Well hey, look at that, protests work
For anyone that, on the off chance, wants to import their #Twitter history to Bluesky and is willing to use a little bit of #Nodejs, here's the package I used to do it for me. Can confirm it works with Windows System Linux too.
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
github.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
For anyone that, on the off chance, wants to import their #Twitter history to Bluesky and is willing to use a little bit of #Nodejs, here's the package I used to do it for me. Can confirm it works with Windows System Linux too.
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
Same, Grant. Same.
I picked a very interesting time to essentially restart my twitter account.
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Same, Grant. Same.
Migrating over to following as many of the same people I used to follow on Twitter, I encountered a sense of loss that I didn't feel when I stopped using the bird site.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
November 15, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Migrating over to following as many of the same people I used to follow on Twitter, I encountered a sense of loss that I didn't feel when I stopped using the bird site.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Heads up to any of you who monetize content on this platform
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Heads up to any of you who monetize content on this platform
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
Been over a year since my last tweet. Have you all been well?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Been over a year since my last tweet. Have you all been well?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
I don't know where the time went, but today marks 10 years that I've been on the bird app. After a lot of introspection and thinking over the past few months about what I want for my future, I've also decided today is where I part ways with Twitter. At least for now.
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
I don't know where the time went, but today marks 10 years that I've been on the bird app. After a lot of introspection and thinking over the past few months about what I want for my future, I've also decided today is where I part ways with Twitter. At least for now.
Probably shouldn't have fired one of the best AI teams ever assembled by a single company. Whoops.
But sure, go for it man, if it goes as well as Tesla FSD I'm sure it'll kill hundreds of people. https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1630371994607947779
But sure, go for it man, if it goes as well as Tesla FSD I'm sure it'll kill hundreds of people. https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1630371994607947779
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Probably shouldn't have fired one of the best AI teams ever assembled by a single company. Whoops.
But sure, go for it man, if it goes as well as Tesla FSD I'm sure it'll kill hundreds of people. https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1630371994607947779
But sure, go for it man, if it goes as well as Tesla FSD I'm sure it'll kill hundreds of people. https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1630371994607947779
Love the mission and what Thorn does: backs up a lot of the gaming survey work from the team I previously worked with.
(But this is still probably the worst Venn diagram I've ever seen) https://twitter.com/thorn/status/1628091639418716167
(But this is still probably the worst Venn diagram I've ever seen) https://twitter.com/thorn/status/1628091639418716167
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Love the mission and what Thorn does: backs up a lot of the gaming survey work from the team I previously worked with.
(But this is still probably the worst Venn diagram I've ever seen) https://twitter.com/thorn/status/1628091639418716167
(But this is still probably the worst Venn diagram I've ever seen) https://twitter.com/thorn/status/1628091639418716167
If only JIRA were so useful https://twitter.com/techdirt/status/1625948119065104388
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
If only JIRA were so useful https://twitter.com/techdirt/status/1625948119065104388
Apropos of nothing, it's probably worth mentioning that Twitter's significantly reduced engineering force likely means their anti-scraping measures have eroded https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1624174474710110209
November 16, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Apropos of nothing, it's probably worth mentioning that Twitter's significantly reduced engineering force likely means their anti-scraping measures have eroded https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1624174474710110209