manu schwendener

These Committee meetings seem to last an eternity…

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I wrote a thing about Wales 🫣 adrian-ortega.medium.com/be-bold-is-n...

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The LEGO® Parts Guide: Book Review Tom Alphin, author of The LEGO Architect, has learned a thing or two about LEGO® Elements over the years.... https://ramblingbrick.com/2026/10/26/the-lego-parts-guide-book-review/

The deadline to apply as the new Mammal Curator at the Natural History Museum Denmark is coming up soon (2 November 2026)!! Get your application in, or forward the ad to someone you know who dreams of being a curator in a historical and important collection! 🧪

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Majestic indifferent bat.

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

There was an NPR reporter named Alex Chadwick. Alex would stop someone on the street and ask them some questions to elicit a story from them. And the stories were amazing. Alex maintained that everyone has a story. People have stories. I want to know this woman’s story.

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Join me online for three sessions starting Thursday Nov. 26th - Dec 10th 7-9 pm CDT for Drawing Polar Bears. I'll be fresh off of guiding 4 polar bear trips in Churchill, Manitoba and we'll use my photographs as references. #SciArt cc @gnsiart.bsky.social www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes

The big tech companies have been the default software for far too long. Take a few steps and find software you actually like to use. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

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iOS: Settings⁠ ➔ Data privacy⁠ ➔ ⁠Toggle off "Smart features"⁠ ➔ ⁠Tap "Google Workspace smart features"⁠ ➔ ⁠Toggle off both options⁠ 4/

The off switch exists; it's just split across places. On desktop: Settings ➔ See all settings ➔ Smart features ➔ untick the box. Then, same page: Google Workspace smart features ➔ Manage Workspace smart feature settings ➔ untick both boxes. 2/

If you use Gmail, you need to read this. Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc. For many, this feature was switched on without consent. Here's how to turn it off 🧵 1/

Harvested from tiny blisters on the trunk, balsam fir resin was used in the optical industry as a glue. Made into a turpentine, it dries very hard and has a similar optical index to some glass. It was used for decades to glue lens elements and prisms and make permanent microscope slides. 🌿

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

🦃 toon and the art that inspired it

My cartoon in the latest @newyorker.com 🎉

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“It was a refreshing change from how private developers think about affordable housing. Here, they weren’t talking about the land as a commodity, but as a genuinely public asset.”

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Travesty if CNN wins this, searching for birds is a BEAUTIFUL Dataviz by comparison! Vote people!

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

So, at @tetralogical.com, we've done a thing. We've started open sourcing our component examples, with their WCAG requirements, Gherkin scenarios, and working Playwright tests. There's 8 so far, and more on the way: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10... #Accessibility #a11y

How your email finds me.

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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

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One thing I absolutely love about #langsky is that you can post about any language at all — and someone here will have more information or a personal experience. The collective knowledge is impressive.

For a while I was the ninth Google Image result for “floating dumpster fire”

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I did not know this. Bricktastic Bogotá!