Julia S
@mmmmmozart.bsky.social
Teacher, Editor for Video Games, Music Person, 🇺🇸 in 🇵🇱
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Julia S
@mmmmmozart.bsky.social
· May 5
On The Bad Site, I had a pinned thread of songs that all triggered that intoxicating "I can listen to this on repeat indefinitely" energy that I wanted to share with others. Time to bring that back!
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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Ellsworth Kelly, Three Panels: Orange, Dark Gray, Green, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135839
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135839
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ellsworth Kelly, Three Panels: Orange, Dark Gray, Green, 1986
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135839
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135839
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I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Should’ve gone to Poznań for the weekend! Couldn’t have summarized it better myself.
Choose your Poland carefully on 11 Nov!
Poznań:
- colourful parade
- Roman legionnaire cosplay
- superheavy croissants
Warsaw:
- nationalist rally
- Tommy Robinson as a guest of a PiS MEP
- vandalism and "people I don't like, get out!" chants
Poznań:
- colourful parade
- Roman legionnaire cosplay
- superheavy croissants
Warsaw:
- nationalist rally
- Tommy Robinson as a guest of a PiS MEP
- vandalism and "people I don't like, get out!" chants
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Should’ve gone to Poznań for the weekend! Couldn’t have summarized it better myself.
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"It turns out there are arts administrators — some of them right here in California — who understand the importance of innovative creative leadership."
I'm back in the SF Chronicle this morning, with thoughts on Salonen's new posts in LA and Paris. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
I'm back in the SF Chronicle this morning, with thoughts on Salonen's new posts in LA and Paris. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new roles in L.A. and Paris show S.F. Symphony made a costly mistake
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new positions in Los Angeles and Paris highlight the blunder made by the San Francisco Symphony in letting him walk away, former Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"It turns out there are arts administrators — some of them right here in California — who understand the importance of innovative creative leadership."
I'm back in the SF Chronicle this morning, with thoughts on Salonen's new posts in LA and Paris. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
I'm back in the SF Chronicle this morning, with thoughts on Salonen's new posts in LA and Paris. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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From "where fun goes to die" to "where funds go to die."
Per Dr. Ando, managerial missteps hastened U of Chicago's transition from quirky but lovable intellectual giant to debt-ridden simulacrum.
As former member of the faculty (briefly), this is hard to read.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
Per Dr. Ando, managerial missteps hastened U of Chicago's transition from quirky but lovable intellectual giant to debt-ridden simulacrum.
As former member of the faculty (briefly), this is hard to read.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
August 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
From "where fun goes to die" to "where funds go to die."
Per Dr. Ando, managerial missteps hastened U of Chicago's transition from quirky but lovable intellectual giant to debt-ridden simulacrum.
As former member of the faculty (briefly), this is hard to read.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
Per Dr. Ando, managerial missteps hastened U of Chicago's transition from quirky but lovable intellectual giant to debt-ridden simulacrum.
As former member of the faculty (briefly), this is hard to read.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
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[looking at the gettysburg address]
“that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”
“that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”
August 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
[looking at the gettysburg address]
“that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”
“that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”
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💼🇪🇺⚖️ I'm hiring! Team Europe at Democracy Reporting International is looking for fresh talent to tackle key research challenges on the rule of law in the EU and beyond. 1/
#Ruleoflaw, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, #EU legal frameworks - rings a bell?🔔
Join our Europe team as a Research Officer in Berlin!
💻Monitor legal + political developments in EU countries
📊Produce timely analysis
🤝Engage with policymakers, journalists & EU institutions
Link to apply⬇️
Join our Europe team as a Research Officer in Berlin!
💻Monitor legal + political developments in EU countries
📊Produce timely analysis
🤝Engage with policymakers, journalists & EU institutions
Link to apply⬇️
August 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
💼🇪🇺⚖️ I'm hiring! Team Europe at Democracy Reporting International is looking for fresh talent to tackle key research challenges on the rule of law in the EU and beyond. 1/
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Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.
This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.
Source: theWellRedMage
Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.
Source: theWellRedMage
Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.
This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.
Source: theWellRedMage
Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.
Source: theWellRedMage
Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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live action catbus looking pretty sweet
August 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
live action catbus looking pretty sweet
Though I prefer his second album, his first is still phenomenal.
July 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Though I prefer his second album, his first is still phenomenal.
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"If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so. Every Instagram post, every TikTok video, every gloating WhatsApp message sent from its luxury is an abomination."
Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar
In Dubai.
newleftreview.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so. Every Instagram post, every TikTok video, every gloating WhatsApp message sent from its luxury is an abomination."
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Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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Los Angeles, graffiti wisdom: "*This* is America"
July 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Los Angeles, graffiti wisdom: "*This* is America"
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The archbishop of Łódź has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants in Poland.
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
Polish archbishop condemns "fear and hate" of migrants as unchristian
notesfrompoland.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The archbishop of Łódź has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants in Poland.
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
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I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
July 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.
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The problem here is that "checking" an AI translation often takes more time by someone with just as enough skill to translate it as their own -- and they're paid even less to do it!
AI and machine translation just aren't good enough to produce "good enough" translation on their own.
AI and machine translation just aren't good enough to produce "good enough" translation on their own.
I wouldn’t mind people using AI as much if it was only for initial translation to be checked and proofread for errors and localization purposes. But nah, it’s only used to cut costs and fire staff.
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The problem here is that "checking" an AI translation often takes more time by someone with just as enough skill to translate it as their own -- and they're paid even less to do it!
AI and machine translation just aren't good enough to produce "good enough" translation on their own.
AI and machine translation just aren't good enough to produce "good enough" translation on their own.
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At least DLsite is honest about the quality of their AI localization.
"Not the best"... so who's gonna pay money for it?
Let's see what we've got...
"Not the best"... so who's gonna pay money for it?
Let's see what we've got...
July 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
At least DLsite is honest about the quality of their AI localization.
"Not the best"... so who's gonna pay money for it?
Let's see what we've got...
"Not the best"... so who's gonna pay money for it?
Let's see what we've got...
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.