Dustin Freeman 🧙♂️🇨🇦
@dustinfreeman.bsky.social
Applied researcher with PhD in CS/Theatre. Working on something new {📸⏩🎞️} to cross the ML-HCI Chasm. Frequent digital/immersive theatre director. Bi 🌈.
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I am used to thinking of Google's index as "complete".
I was trying to recall if I wrote a specific blog post. It didn't appear in Google results, so I assumed it didn't exist.
Then I looked in Wordpress and there it is. It would have appeared in site indices, RSS feeds etc since 2011.
Damn.
I was trying to recall if I wrote a specific blog post. It didn't appear in Google results, so I assumed it didn't exist.
Then I looked in Wordpress and there it is. It would have appeared in site indices, RSS feeds etc since 2011.
Damn.
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I am used to thinking of Google's index as "complete".
I was trying to recall if I wrote a specific blog post. It didn't appear in Google results, so I assumed it didn't exist.
Then I looked in Wordpress and there it is. It would have appeared in site indices, RSS feeds etc since 2011.
Damn.
I was trying to recall if I wrote a specific blog post. It didn't appear in Google results, so I assumed it didn't exist.
Then I looked in Wordpress and there it is. It would have appeared in site indices, RSS feeds etc since 2011.
Damn.
So I’m reading The Kalevala for the first time, and my impression is that Tolkien really toned things down.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So I’m reading The Kalevala for the first time, and my impression is that Tolkien really toned things down.
Great quote from @eggplantshow.bsky.social 's Balatro episode
"When you design a game, you're also designing how people are going to learn the game."
Spelunking through the possibility space: What game is the hardest to learn but the simplest to play once you've learned it?
"When you design a game, you're also designing how people are going to learn the game."
Spelunking through the possibility space: What game is the hardest to learn but the simplest to play once you've learned it?
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Great quote from @eggplantshow.bsky.social 's Balatro episode
"When you design a game, you're also designing how people are going to learn the game."
Spelunking through the possibility space: What game is the hardest to learn but the simplest to play once you've learned it?
"When you design a game, you're also designing how people are going to learn the game."
Spelunking through the possibility space: What game is the hardest to learn but the simplest to play once you've learned it?
Reposted by Dustin Freeman 🧙♂️🇨🇦
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Just meant to type "crowd-sourced" to a friend, but wrote "crow-sourced".
Something to think about.
Something to think about.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just meant to type "crowd-sourced" to a friend, but wrote "crow-sourced".
Something to think about.
Something to think about.
Applying tinting to my windows so I can reduce the rendering cost to Society. Everyone do your part.
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Applying tinting to my windows so I can reduce the rendering cost to Society. Everyone do your part.
I got the bigger iPhone to get the wide angle zoom, but now my pocket prolapses every time I pull it out.
This is problematic.
This is problematic.
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I got the bigger iPhone to get the wide angle zoom, but now my pocket prolapses every time I pull it out.
This is problematic.
This is problematic.
I have no idea what mild-mannered James Joyce looks like without his glasses.
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have no idea what mild-mannered James Joyce looks like without his glasses.
Asking for us all, but does The Louvre contain The Friends We Found Along The Way?
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Asking for us all, but does The Louvre contain The Friends We Found Along The Way?
Insanely irresponsible for the Citizen App to use the knife icon as default because
1) throwing trash is nothingburger, and the icon choice treats extreme fear as the correct response
2) I got excited to hear about throwing knife man and was disappointed.
1) throwing trash is nothingburger, and the icon choice treats extreme fear as the correct response
2) I got excited to hear about throwing knife man and was disappointed.
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Insanely irresponsible for the Citizen App to use the knife icon as default because
1) throwing trash is nothingburger, and the icon choice treats extreme fear as the correct response
2) I got excited to hear about throwing knife man and was disappointed.
1) throwing trash is nothingburger, and the icon choice treats extreme fear as the correct response
2) I got excited to hear about throwing knife man and was disappointed.
I’m going straight to a vampire LARP after the socialist tech worker meeting and I will need to be in costume as an Ancient Elder. So I hope that anyone really feeling the vibes are off asks me what’s up.
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I’m going straight to a vampire LARP after the socialist tech worker meeting and I will need to be in costume as an Ancient Elder. So I hope that anyone really feeling the vibes are off asks me what’s up.
Overheard: “Dude, joke don’t about that! I have incest in my bloodline.”
October 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Overheard: “Dude, joke don’t about that! I have incest in my bloodline.”
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October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Come see my talk on Productivity for Async Teams!
My @theonion.com physical subscription lapsed because I got a new card, and they included this in my last issue
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My @theonion.com physical subscription lapsed because I got a new card, and they included this in my last issue
Just landed back in NYC (which is in the USA) after a month in London. What did I miss? Is there still a government?
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just landed back in NYC (which is in the USA) after a month in London. What did I miss? Is there still a government?
What if we make the immersive VR Brooklyn mirage mirage experience
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What if we make the immersive VR Brooklyn mirage mirage experience
Are there more clowns or have my functions become more clown-adjacent?
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Are there more clowns or have my functions become more clown-adjacent?
Who Slops the Sloppers?
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Who Slops the Sloppers?
Someone just gave me two slices of toast and I referred to it spontaneously as a Control Group Sandwich and I think that works?
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Someone just gave me two slices of toast and I referred to it spontaneously as a Control Group Sandwich and I think that works?
The Seattle transit system announcer voice says “doors to my right”, not the more conventional “doors on my right”. A strange degree of implied embodiment.
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Seattle transit system announcer voice says “doors to my right”, not the more conventional “doors on my right”. A strange degree of implied embodiment.
Reposted by Dustin Freeman 🧙♂️🇨🇦
Regrettably, I have found a new schema to arrange my bookshelf in
[Absolute Cinema splayed hands]
[Absolute Cinema splayed hands]
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Regrettably, I have found a new schema to arrange my bookshelf in
[Absolute Cinema splayed hands]
[Absolute Cinema splayed hands]