I'm sceptical, concerned, about people trumpting 'empirical research' that AI use 'makes people dumber'. Like, folks but you're literally supposed to be the same people who are critical of psychometrics! What makes these criterion upon which decreases in intelligence are quantified any different?

This pub I go to to work has probably the most decadent pub meal I've ever come across. This is called Cheesy, hammy, eggy" and it's literally cheese sauce, ham, and eggs on toast and it's delicious.

Clinical trials today are highly bureaucratic, expensive, and time-consuming. Most trials fail to recruit enough participants to answer their questions at all. This great post by Adam Kroetsch explains how things got this way. www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/clinical-t...

Man, I forgot how much I LOVE HPS. I maintain it's fundementally practical - the good stuff that is - ie you can use it to do things that aren't just writing philosophy (source - me, I have done this successfully)

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I extremely do not like oxbridge existing as a thing, nor academia's a priori institutional enforcement of epistemic hierarchy... But... Cambridge is clearly 10x more interesting than Oxford. Like from a HPS perspective it's not even close

Folks we are cooking

I've never properly done causality in my philosophy studies but I'm realising it's an unmarked/indexed centre piece of a lot of the stuff I'm looking at

Yesterday had a weird vision/daydream/memory thing about the building where I did Spinoza at Berkeley. Think my subconscious wants me to read the ethics again 🫠🙃

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

Which philosopher, when asked by the University admins about which pedagogical innovations he was using in the classroom, replied something along these lines? "The correct method of teaching Philosophy was developed by Socrates 24 centuries ago, and I don't intend to further innovate on it."

I can parse philosophy again.

Another one for today - instagram CLI github.com/supreme-gg-g...

Guys I'm prototyping an art-design-AI-history-computer-science-thing

OK but like wtf is it with the Doomsday Clock? Like, it's some people's opinions on a panel, and it gets reported/shared/talked about like it's some objective-o-meter of world riskiness. It kinda seems really dumb to me.

all my political economy knowledge is starting to come back to me

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Yeah I'm gonna stop tweeting this. It's fucking grim. Reach out to you're folks who are affected -regional diaspora etc...

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

It is. It's a terrible law that shouldn't exist. Yet it is precisely because of the civil disobedience of the Iranian people that enforcement is declining and attitudes are changing. It's the same type of resistance you may see against Trump. But no one says bombing americans is the solution there

not the time to self-centredly pontificate on IR analyses -- regardless of whatever actually happens, people in Iran - and like the gulf in general - how utterly barbaric to fuck with people's psyche by threatening to wipe them out. You can't do that to people, it's completely out of order.

Maybe I should get a jamaican passport ... horrendous scenes when my first thought after that idea popped into my head was "ooh, maybe not tho cause then the home office might try and deport me" 🙃

So this is the rhetoric of desperation. It's impotence of extreme narcissism collapsing in on itself; attempting to project ineffable power and force through representation - language - which is in fact in complete contradiction to the material reality (the war couldn't be going worse for the US)

Yanks are so self centered that even when they murder other people they position themselves as The Real Victims

The nice thing about the phase of SSRIs after the horrific onboarding is having those lovely days where they just kick in and everything feels great

lots of cool ppl are still on twitter so I might start posting there again too

I feel less guilty about getting lift from Artemis mission because it's getting me back into crit-tech/sci - remembered the title of this podcast episode taking the piss out of that FB page "I fucking love science" cause I just saw someone post "I love science" soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

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I stan Ed in For All Mankind S5 taking off his ASBO tracker so he can get jailed and talk to his pal. I aspire to that level of sas.

Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!

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Is there such a thing as ocular-motor enactivism research?

Rivival of the fittest always cheers me up www.instagram.com/p/DWyoLFcEZNQ/

Another AI thing I'm seeing - massive upsurge in people doing hardware projects. Like loads of people setting up circuits with microcontrollers, hacking material things ... this is part of a wider thing with people kinda going hardware oriented.

I miss math - since I've been forced to flee my flat by racist hippies and am floating in limbo back in England I might console myself with trying to pick up linear algebra...

second umamusume horse rave, somehow better than the first

prediction/hunch - big shift with UIs - many ppl shifting to using terminal, partly mediated by LLMs. Something interesting with terminal user interfaces emerging. Might be shift away from hegemony of the desktop. Liber Indigo's series worth watching now www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpB...

George Monbiot - not even once...

Trying really h hard not to live tweet - but wth I enjoy it - some classic cognitive anthropology

So much of the production (Marxist dialect) of proletarian/subaltern bodies seems to be organised around the social mediation of pain.

Trump on Israel: We are like a big brother and little brother. Source: Axios

It's funny how communism, socialism, Marxism etc are often conceived as free loading/working for free/... when the essence is literally "fuck you pay me, you make me do an insane amount of free labor"

If abuse is characterised as coercisively demanding you do something whilst at the same time depriving you of the means to do it, then the various iterations of the capitalist mode of production are abusive par excellence.

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Man, I love prozac ❤️🔥

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

More white people should start podcasts.

The artemis ii launch seems to elicit this kinda transcendental religeosity vibe. Like the rocket is some kinda cathedral like structure-symbol. Watching ppls reactions and the media around it v interesting.