Stefano Lanzavecchia
@wildy2k.bsky.social
Dad husband geek musician
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Borrowed with love from Mastodon:
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Borrowed with love from Mastodon:
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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So RAM prices have basically tripled because of the AI demand, wonder how that's negatively affecting everyone else who might, you know, use computers 🤷
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December 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So RAM prices have basically tripled because of the AI demand, wonder how that's negatively affecting everyone else who might, you know, use computers 🤷
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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"Man becomes first ever trillionaire" is a headline that should only inspire anger. No joy, no ambivalence, no apathy, just pure seething rage.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"Man becomes first ever trillionaire" is a headline that should only inspire anger. No joy, no ambivalence, no apathy, just pure seething rage.
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Musicians, stop using AI for your album art. I would legitimately rather you just make your art a selfie of you on the bus than see even more slop
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Musicians, stop using AI for your album art. I would legitimately rather you just make your art a selfie of you on the bus than see even more slop
I am a cranky old man ("back in my youth Halloween didn't exist 'round here"), but I can only agree with mr. Green here. Though my experience is for another country.
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I am a cranky old man ("back in my youth Halloween didn't exist 'round here"), but I can only agree with mr. Green here. Though my experience is for another country.
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Call out to music creators on YouTube: don't use GenAI for your visuals. As a fellow artist, would you like to be replaced with an algorithm because someone else couldn't be bothered to reach out to you?
If you are using GenAI for visual, why would I trust that music is made with your own effort?
If you are using GenAI for visual, why would I trust that music is made with your own effort?
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Call out to music creators on YouTube: don't use GenAI for your visuals. As a fellow artist, would you like to be replaced with an algorithm because someone else couldn't be bothered to reach out to you?
If you are using GenAI for visual, why would I trust that music is made with your own effort?
If you are using GenAI for visual, why would I trust that music is made with your own effort?
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Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why?
This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why?
This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
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Absolutely peak millennial media vibes to be using a Mac even when a a Windows PC is the better tool for the job
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
#windows95
#windows95
August 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Absolutely peak millennial media vibes to be using a Mac even when a a Windows PC is the better tool for the job
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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i shudder to think about how many human lifespans have been spent debugging / vs \ in file paths
Svelte: come for the DX, stay for the @rich-harris.dev commit comedy 😂 #svelte #webdev github.com/sveltejs/kit...
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
i shudder to think about how many human lifespans have been spent debugging / vs \ in file paths
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I just want to say “thank you” to the people who turned “Discovery Channel” into “Ghosts and Bigfoot” and “The Learning Channel” into “Granite Countertop Propaganda” for being a guiding light* for me as an owner of an educational media company.
*to run away from.
*to run away from.
July 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I just want to say “thank you” to the people who turned “Discovery Channel” into “Ghosts and Bigfoot” and “The Learning Channel” into “Granite Countertop Propaganda” for being a guiding light* for me as an owner of an educational media company.
*to run away from.
*to run away from.
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When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
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Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
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"Team building exercise".
Quote this with your most spine-chilling three-word phrase in the English language. I bet you can't beat "replacement bus service" or "family fun day".
June 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Team building exercise".
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I don’t want dinners at fancy restaurants, I want breakfast in a sunlit kitchen. Not awkward conversations over expensive dessert, but quiet words over gently burnt scrambled eggs we forgot to stir because you were too busy distracting me and I was too busy letting you.
June 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I don’t want dinners at fancy restaurants, I want breakfast in a sunlit kitchen. Not awkward conversations over expensive dessert, but quiet words over gently burnt scrambled eggs we forgot to stir because you were too busy distracting me and I was too busy letting you.
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I canceled my company subscription for Adobe Acrobat Pro, and they charged me $100 for "premature cancellation".
I hope the whole company goes up in flames.
I hope the whole company goes up in flames.
May 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I canceled my company subscription for Adobe Acrobat Pro, and they charged me $100 for "premature cancellation".
I hope the whole company goes up in flames.
I hope the whole company goes up in flames.
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