Ginormous Troubadour
@guardjere.bsky.social
Wanderer. Tinkerer. Lover. Records. Engineer
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Many congratulations to Dr @guardjere.bsky.social 🎉🍾🎊
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Many congratulations to Dr @guardjere.bsky.social 🎉🍾🎊
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it’s deeply depressing to imagine being the kind of person who this would appeal to
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
it’s deeply depressing to imagine being the kind of person who this would appeal to
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Overly excited to be asked to write a story for an African Travel magazine on the main sites of the Zimbabwe Culture with my beloved wife. Tight word count which is a challenge but it has promoted clarity in what to include and how. Alway feel like I've left so, so much out though!
September 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Overly excited to be asked to write a story for an African Travel magazine on the main sites of the Zimbabwe Culture with my beloved wife. Tight word count which is a challenge but it has promoted clarity in what to include and how. Alway feel like I've left so, so much out though!
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I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.
Seattle! We're joining the Summer of Science with our first teach-in. Join us at Obec brewing and meet Dr. @katestarbird.bsky.social
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September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.
Crazy things happening all over.
It's almost as if tyrants (read, The Right, Techbros et al.), didn't get the memo about satire or dystopian fiction and their role in society.
They took all that as commandments, things to recreate.
We're so screwed man.
It's almost as if tyrants (read, The Right, Techbros et al.), didn't get the memo about satire or dystopian fiction and their role in society.
They took all that as commandments, things to recreate.
We're so screwed man.
a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face .
ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting in a dugout with his eyes closed and a sad look on his face .
media.tenor.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Crazy things happening all over.
It's almost as if tyrants (read, The Right, Techbros et al.), didn't get the memo about satire or dystopian fiction and their role in society.
They took all that as commandments, things to recreate.
We're so screwed man.
It's almost as if tyrants (read, The Right, Techbros et al.), didn't get the memo about satire or dystopian fiction and their role in society.
They took all that as commandments, things to recreate.
We're so screwed man.
If you're a fan of that Zimbabwean. band from yesteryear The Zig Zag Band, come on over to BandCamp, there's a listening session of their upcoming release from Analog Africa.
Plug in your headphones. You wont regret it!😌
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/live/zig-zag...
Plug in your headphones. You wont regret it!😌
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/live/zig-zag...
Zig-Zag Band "Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998" (Analog Africa No.42) Listening Party
Thank you good people for joining this Worldwide Premiere Listening Party of our upcoming release, Zig-Zag Band - Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998. Tonight we are celebrating a unique contribution to Zim...
analogafrica.bandcamp.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you're a fan of that Zimbabwean. band from yesteryear The Zig Zag Band, come on over to BandCamp, there's a listening session of their upcoming release from Analog Africa.
Plug in your headphones. You wont regret it!😌
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/live/zig-zag...
Plug in your headphones. You wont regret it!😌
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/live/zig-zag...
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At the risk of stating the obvious, if you antagonize a country that wasn't trying to weaponize its nuclear program to the point where they decide to actually build nuclear weapons, you did not actually "set them back" in any meaningful sense...
“[W]e don’t know where the [nuclear] material is. We don’t have any real confidence that we’ve got the ability to get it any time soon,” said a former senior US official who worked on Iran. “You would be foolish if you said that the programme was delayed by anything more than a few months.”
Where is Iran’s uranium? Search continues for 400kg stockpile
US and Israeli attacks hit key nuclear sites but questions remain over stash of enriched material
www.ft.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you antagonize a country that wasn't trying to weaponize its nuclear program to the point where they decide to actually build nuclear weapons, you did not actually "set them back" in any meaningful sense...
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Noticeable that he thinks ‘peace’ is good without understanding the need for international treaties, frictionless trade and mechanisms to resolve disputes to maintain that peace. He doesn’t understand what peace actually is.
June 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Noticeable that he thinks ‘peace’ is good without understanding the need for international treaties, frictionless trade and mechanisms to resolve disputes to maintain that peace. He doesn’t understand what peace actually is.
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The worst kind of ignorance is the one that thinks it's smart.
June 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The worst kind of ignorance is the one that thinks it's smart.
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POV: Watching Western civ break down in slow motion
June 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
POV: Watching Western civ break down in slow motion
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You don't. It's a grift. She's a grifter. Everything she says is to line her own pockets. Please don't engage with ANY of her content.
American influencer Candace Owens, "I'm not a flat earther, not a round earther.. I have left the cult of science.. Science is a pagan faith"
How do you even respond to this
How do you even respond to this
May 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
You don't. It's a grift. She's a grifter. Everything she says is to line her own pockets. Please don't engage with ANY of her content.
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Clearly a gang tattoo
May 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Clearly a gang tattoo
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oh another fun chicken fact: chickens love to wolf down shards of broken glass, and sometimes when you butcher a chicken, if you look in the gizzard there'll be a bunch of round glass pebbles. like seaglass except way cooler because it got worn smooth inside a dinosaur
May 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
oh another fun chicken fact: chickens love to wolf down shards of broken glass, and sometimes when you butcher a chicken, if you look in the gizzard there'll be a bunch of round glass pebbles. like seaglass except way cooler because it got worn smooth inside a dinosaur
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And this is where the Brownshirts become state-sanctioned
Within 90 days, SecDef, in coordination with the AG, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime
This mechanism shall inc use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such enforcement
This mechanism shall inc use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such enforcement
April 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And this is where the Brownshirts become state-sanctioned
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We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.
Holy shit, when Richard Hanania is not far enough right for you. Would love to hear what US Senators and prominent bloggers doing appearances with Andreessen think.
April 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
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“Be ungovernable”
baby steps 😝
baby steps 😝
Fuck your biscuit fascism. I'll eat my biscuits any way I want! You'll be telling the right way to dunk next, motherfuckers! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Taking the biscuit: for 100 years we’ve been eating chocolate digestives all wrong
McVitie’s reveals chocolate side should be down to fire up taste buds
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Be ungovernable”
baby steps 😝
baby steps 😝
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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After the Department of Commerce failed to renew one lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT, and building maintenance, the scientists picked up the slack.
NOAA scientists scrub toilets, rethink experiments after service contracts end
One federal lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT, and building maintenance.
arstechnica.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
After the Department of Commerce failed to renew one lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT, and building maintenance, the scientists picked up the slack.
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Learning about Ian Smith's "not in a 1000 years" and the declaration of UDI -white Rhodesian govt declared independence from British Crown with full intent to continue to oppress Black majority under a settler govt.
8. What event radicalized you as a Black person?
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Learning about Ian Smith's "not in a 1000 years" and the declaration of UDI -white Rhodesian govt declared independence from British Crown with full intent to continue to oppress Black majority under a settler govt.
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Peter Abrahams 1946 novel 'Mine Boy' captures the violence of recruitment on South Africa's gold mines.
Here, he describes how a new 'boss boy' was tested by a white miner for his physical strength and capacity for violence:
Here, he describes how a new 'boss boy' was tested by a white miner for his physical strength and capacity for violence:
April 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Peter Abrahams 1946 novel 'Mine Boy' captures the violence of recruitment on South Africa's gold mines.
Here, he describes how a new 'boss boy' was tested by a white miner for his physical strength and capacity for violence:
Here, he describes how a new 'boss boy' was tested by a white miner for his physical strength and capacity for violence:
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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
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Very pleased to be joining the maiden world voyage of the Queen Anne to give talks about the history of places we will be visiting.
April 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Very pleased to be joining the maiden world voyage of the Queen Anne to give talks about the history of places we will be visiting.
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Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
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see, this is exactly what I’m talking about
April 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
see, this is exactly what I’m talking about