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Dario Argento's "steph"

@urschrei.bsky.social

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Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · Nov 24

My offer of a gherkin has just been rejected out of hand as "too reviving at this hour".

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 4h

I saw this coming a mile away FWIW, and I think it’s gonna be great.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 1d

Just use thiserror. Everything else is fucking incomprehensible.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!

@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com

Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.

Cover of 2025 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Susan Orlean. The cover illustration is an organic looking pattern of pine green and aquamarine with pink dots - it could be a maze or a William Morris wallpaper design.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 1d

Very solid lineup tbh

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 2d

Peepo! is one of the most emotionally devastating works of literature in the Western canon, and it isn't close. If you can make it to the last page without crying, there's something wrong.

[voice cracking]
Here's a little baby
One, two, three
Fast asleep and dreaming
What did he see?

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if I – personally – would be comfortable characterising AI data centre compute capacity as useful for "literally anything with floating point operations". I am not an economist, of course.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 3d

I want him to release a new video for his classic 1982 hit “Don’t Pay the Ferryman” in which it stars. Perhaps wearing a little top hat.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 5d

If you're a Claude code user you can now use Claude to search your local Zotero library for journal articles, books, &c. (including full-text search): gist.github.com/urschrei/8e8.... This uses the new Pyzotero CLI which I just published. The CLI will grow new functionality over time.

Pyzotero local library search Claude skill

Pyzotero local library search Claude skill. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 5d

MIT Media Lab continues to cover itself in glo— well, it’s not glory, exactly.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5d

this paper is bafflingly bad

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, interesting.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Get Chacon on the line and demand some fucking answers. I think he’s one of the normal ones.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Mama Mia (also I wondered if it was Ronan Burtenshaw when I saw the name. He has his head on his shoulders. I always assume no Irish person ever makes it out of Ireland)

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder whether it got much actual use. If you squint a bit the idea that you could easily grab commits from all over the graph, fix up conflicts, and go on with your day is way ahead of its time (the fact that git’s conflict resolution is self-harm-inducing notwithstanding)

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

It has been like a two-week-long intrusive thought.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Why on earth would anyone pay attention to what the stacks guy has to say about EU industrial policy? Or to the media studies people spinning the big dial that [sic] says “tech won’t save us” and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Very funny that Ben Bratton is purporting to have flung open the door of the giant criti-hype clown car that is preventing Europe from innovating (or something). He has presumably done this in the hope that nobody will notice that he was the one driving it. [spider man pointing meme placeholder]

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

This is bonkers. By accident?? Arghhhh

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

I saw two people canvassing on Lennox St on Monday. They had a Mormon vibe, but weren't (no name badges, were clearly Irish and not American etc). In retrospect obviously HH canvassers.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, late 80s – our neighbour was the architect for them (£££ presumably). They pulled out overnight I think? Wonder what happened.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 7d

Cowards.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 7d

The interesting point is that the hyperscalers are just spending cash they have at this point (not debt), a bit more aggressively, and that GPUs have an aggressive depreciation schedule compared to other data centre components (3-5 years!)

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 7d

No, there’s not a computing workload that can be swapped in at anything like the scale required. But I don’t know enough about data centres to say whether it would be cost-efficient to swap GPUs for general computing hardware.

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 7d

(Data Stories are at Maynooth, btw)

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Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 8d

I could have sworn that he already won, but of course he hasn’t. Just another example of the fake Nobel being bad.

Dario Argento's "steph" @urschrei.bsky.social · 9d

I remember when nobody had ever heard of it and how delighted I was to recommend it. Ruined.