#EuropeanHistory accounts to follow:

🇪🇺 EUROPE
@IHChistory - Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon
@eseh - European Society for Environmental History
@OxMedStud - Interdisciplinary medieval studies at Oxford Univ
@stonepages (guide) & @gratefulwolf (editor) - Guide to ancient megalithic monuments in Europe
@RichardNevell - Medieval archaeologist, fan of castles
@domwass - Medieval historian, especially northern Europe
@S_Chaussee - Marine archaeologist, Roman & Early Medieval history

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I finally got my reading for August written up:

https://ohheybrian.com/blog/2026/09/august-2026-reading

#blog #reading #bookstodon

Productive discussions in Dublin today. Met with Commissioner Dale Sunderland at Data Protection Commission Ireland on rights-compliant data collection and processing and robust oversight mechanisms.
I also had an insightful exchange with Liam Herrick, the Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, covering pressing human rights issues across Ireland and Europe.

#DataProtection #AI #HUmanRights

The programme for the eighth edition of the International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, organised by the #PHONLAB R&D project, is now available.

📅 17 and 18 September, at Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC).

Attendance is free, but subject to pre-registration.

More information on our website.

#Histodons #PHONLAB #HSCR

New tool in Pixel Art Studio for Blender: a pixel perfect Bézier path and polygon tool (for the 3D viewport and in the image editor). A pixel art, non-vector path tool with no doubled pixels at the corners.

Available in the latest version as experimental feature.

Pixel Art Studio is also now available on Superhive (previously Blender Market): https://superhivemarket.com/products/pixel-art-studio?ref=10057 (link with my affiliate code)

And of course, itch: https://alfredbaudisch.itch.io/pixel-art-studio

#bender3d #pixelart #blender #b3d

🏆 The applications for the 5th edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize are now open! The prize will be awarded to an early-career researcher for "an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires".

📅 30 September

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/quinta-edicao-do-premio-amilcar.../

#Histodons #IHCNews #Amílcarcabralprize

So what has actually happened with this project is that the Arduino simulates an Intel 8080, which in turn runs a virtual machine.

Rather convoluted, but in the end we will end up with a powerful Tiny BASIC.

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The benefit of all this is that it may be possible to cram the interpreter into a small enough memory footprint to squeeze in the famous TVOut arduino library alongside it.

This will allow a true computer in a chip, and will keep costs down as the project gets released.

@otyugh Je t'encourage donc à faire tes propres recherches. Les bons mots clés sur startpage te donneront beaucoup de sources plus diversifiées

@adamgreenfield 😞 I didn't realize he was still alive. I just read one of his books for the first time earlier this year. Hit and miss, but more hit than miss, and WOW when it did.

@ashah yeah it’s also pretty awesome on iOS too, I wonder why it still isn’t out of beta

PSA for Austrians and people living in Austria

Credit referencing agency CRIF probably has your name, address, and date of birth and uses this information to assign you a “score.” Banks, mobile phone providers, and others access this score. NOYB now started a class action. I already signed up and you can too:

https://crif.noyb.eu (also has english toggle in menu if it opens up in german)

#privacy #dataprotection #austria #gdpr

@merwanat blog post, definitely 😁 And if I don't make a game with it, I'll open-source it. It's too cool to not be used either by me or someone else.

@misty thanks for the bug report and as you've confirmed now fixed 👍

Here's one of the papers I'm reading behind these thoughts: Bilalić, M., McLeod, P., & Gobet, F. (2008). Why good thoughts block better ones: The mechanism of the pernicious Einstellung (set) effect. Cognition, 108(3), 652-661).

And of course, in The Psychology of Software Teams, I tackle a whole host of topics that can help us create those better collaboration environments! Not just good for the heart....also good for the problem solving! 😊

https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

#psychology

Luxury potato bear. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

@nileane This looks promising: https://uplock.app

Today I changed it up a bit and tried to paint a moody Alberta summer sky with a storm and canola fields. 🇨🇦🫶

#watercolor #art #MastoArt

@cwebber ✊

Sometimes, prior experience, and the strong associations it creates for our minds when a *new* problem shares the same context as old problems, can push our minds toward reaching for familiar, suboptimal solutions and ignoring better ones.

And experts can get hit quite deeply with this bias, even in their own problem-solving domains. The familiarity of old successful solutions can actually block us from recognizing novel, unexpected solutions.