Rick Skarbez
@rickskarbez.bsky.social
Virtual reality, board games, sports and cats. Originally from the US of A, now residing in Naarm (Melbourne Australia).
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ChatGPT out here starting cults while the heavy magick is in the dwarf fortress code.
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
ChatGPT out here starting cults while the heavy magick is in the dwarf fortress code.
I’ll cite you when we’re both not so emotional.
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I’ll cite you when we’re both not so emotional.
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when you try to tell me anything
August 28, 2024 at 6:45 PM
when you try to tell me anything
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Very excited to be co-CI on this awarded ARC Discovery Project investigating whether and how knowledge gained from VR experiences corresponds to knowledge gained from their "real" "equivalents". Let me know if you're interested in collaborating, especially at #IEEEVR 2026! #VRresearch
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very excited to be co-CI on this awarded ARC Discovery Project investigating whether and how knowledge gained from VR experiences corresponds to knowledge gained from their "real" "equivalents". Let me know if you're interested in collaborating, especially at #IEEEVR 2026! #VRresearch
First I can recall is Number Munchers on a ][gs.
nom nom nom
nom nom nom
July 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
First I can recall is Number Munchers on a ][gs.
nom nom nom
nom nom nom
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proprioception was a mistake. why should I know where my limbs happen to be at any given time. how is that any of my business
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
proprioception was a mistake. why should I know where my limbs happen to be at any given time. how is that any of my business
I'm at the Lil' Caese
I'm at the Chicken Shack
I'm at the combination Little-Caesars-Chicken-Shack.
I'm at the Chicken Shack
I'm at the combination Little-Caesars-Chicken-Shack.
The non-Michigan mind cannot comprehend the Combination Little Caesers Chicken Shack
July 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm at the Lil' Caese
I'm at the Chicken Shack
I'm at the combination Little-Caesars-Chicken-Shack.
I'm at the Chicken Shack
I'm at the combination Little-Caesars-Chicken-Shack.
I am mad about a lot of things - maybe most things - a lot of the time. (Probably most of the time.)
But I am grateful for Ron Carter and the music he's made, for the fact that this titan is still with us, and for @themountaingoats.bsky.social, for both the tip and their own tremendous catalogue.
But I am grateful for Ron Carter and the music he's made, for the fact that this titan is still with us, and for @themountaingoats.bsky.social, for both the tip and their own tremendous catalogue.
Album - Alone Together
YouTube video
music.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I am mad about a lot of things - maybe most things - a lot of the time. (Probably most of the time.)
But I am grateful for Ron Carter and the music he's made, for the fact that this titan is still with us, and for @themountaingoats.bsky.social, for both the tip and their own tremendous catalogue.
But I am grateful for Ron Carter and the music he's made, for the fact that this titan is still with us, and for @themountaingoats.bsky.social, for both the tip and their own tremendous catalogue.
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This is a fascinating piece. It says a lot that #metascience is apparently not the place to discuss competing interests. One of the more conspicuously missing reforms is competing interest disclosure, as though the sources of bias aren’t worth consideration or examination.
After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky
All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...
All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...
What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology
This week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publis...
warrenpearce.pika.page
July 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is a fascinating piece. It says a lot that #metascience is apparently not the place to discuss competing interests. One of the more conspicuously missing reforms is competing interest disclosure, as though the sources of bias aren’t worth consideration or examination.
Gendo Ikari would get his bag in Silicon Valley.
July 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gendo Ikari would get his bag in Silicon Valley.
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Please share: I am looking for 1-2 PhD students working with me at the intersection of perception and augmented reality. Different directions are possible, depending on the background of the applicant. Application deadline 1st of August – read more here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Perceptually driven Augmented Reality interfaces
phd.nat.au.dk
July 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Please share: I am looking for 1-2 PhD students working with me at the intersection of perception and augmented reality. Different directions are possible, depending on the background of the applicant. Application deadline 1st of August – read more here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
I've heard a lot of things, but I haven't heard the bell yet.
a man in a captain america costume is standing in front of a window and saying i can do this all day .
Alt: Captain America saying, "I can do this all day."
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've heard a lot of things, but I haven't heard the bell yet.
Maybe I should be more grateful for Big Tech tracking my every online interaction, because I just accidentally saw logged-out YouTube, and wow! I hate it!
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Maybe I should be more grateful for Big Tech tracking my every online interaction, because I just accidentally saw logged-out YouTube, and wow! I hate it!
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Hello, I’m chestnut-eating champion, Joey Hotdog and I’m here today to talk to you about the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics
June 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hello, I’m chestnut-eating champion, Joey Hotdog and I’m here today to talk to you about the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics
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19) Lastly, about rejection:
Every! Rejection! Is! A Gift!
Every! Rejection! Is! A Gift!
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
19) Lastly, about rejection:
Every! Rejection! Is! A Gift!
Every! Rejection! Is! A Gift!
Can't fight it anymore, time for "Sea Change."
June 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Can't fight it anymore, time for "Sea Change."
The Gun Has No Trigger: David Graeber
YouTube video by Aztlan
www.youtube.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
😬
Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
June 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
😬
Even assuming best-case outcomes, it seems like what Graeber called a "bureaucratic technology":
"We have people using all sorts of creative energies and insights and innovations to create ever better platforms to fill out forms."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
"We have people using all sorts of creative energies and insights and innovations to create ever better platforms to fill out forms."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Even assuming best-case outcomes, it seems like what Graeber called a "bureaucratic technology":
"We have people using all sorts of creative energies and insights and innovations to create ever better platforms to fill out forms."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
"We have people using all sorts of creative energies and insights and innovations to create ever better platforms to fill out forms."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
Belatedly discovering this fascinating talk from the late, great David Graeber, on technologies and the future(s) (🧵): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
David Graeber: On Bureaucratic Technologies and the Future as Dream-Time
YouTube video by School of Visual Arts
www.youtube.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Belatedly discovering this fascinating talk from the late, great David Graeber, on technologies and the future(s) (🧵): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q84...
Going to my happy place.
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Going to my happy place.
Reading is thinking. Writing is thinking. If you don't do the reading, and you don't do the writing, you don't actually do the thinking.
The thinking is the point.
The thinking is the point.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reading is thinking. Writing is thinking. If you don't do the reading, and you don't do the writing, you don't actually do the thinking.
The thinking is the point.
The thinking is the point.