A stranger walking past me on the street said “I like your outfit”

P.S. I was on Dr. Phil talking about this and telling the Cart Narc himself that he is a bully. He didn’t agree. https://youtu.be/CCCBTk_V7Uk P.P.S. This article is packed full of hilarious puns.

Dr. CJ Reynolds (@reynoldscj) and I are properly pleased to announce the publication of our brand new (but long time in the making) article, ‘That’s not where the cart goes!’: ragebait as accountability entertainment. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2665797 🧵 1/n

English people are in bliss because there is nothing to talk about *except* the weather

I'm falling down a rabbit hole. Can anyone here point me in the direction of work on how much general knowledge people have and whether that has changed over time?

Here's a thing about LLMs that I keep forgetting and can't quite get my head around: I know their answers to questions are constructed probabilistically, and that they can therefore get things wrong, but when I call them out on mistakes I FORGET THAT THEIR APOLOGIES ARE CREATED IN EXACTLY THE […]

Anyone at #aoir2025 got a clicker on them they can lend me like now?

Let’s go! #aoir2025

I've got the final episode of Squid Game to go (don't @ me). There are other questions one might want to ask about this show, but I just can't get beyond how incredibly awful the rich guests are. Lee Jung-jae (Player 456) is acting his socks off, and then those scenes with... randos they picked […]

2 episodes left to consume, but Akram from Dept. Q is currently one of my favourite people.

The robots aren't coming to get us (yet)

I discovered Blue Prince in my efforts to find something distracting during the scary war with Iran. I don't feel like I really know what I'm doing, but I'm exploring a lot and and it looks like the uncle was dodgy af

[End of S02 of The Last of Us] Just finished The Last of Us, Season 2. I've not played the games, so I didn't know what was coming up and I really wasn't ready for it. In fact, the ending mostly made us go "huh?"

Just the briefest of runs, making sure that I was never too far from my house in case of air raid sirens 😬

From yesterday, Wayne Ivey, Brevard County sheriff speaking on what police will do to those they deem violent at protests: "We will kill you graveyard dead"

All set for the #aoir2025symposium!

I took apart a fan to see if I could fix it. I couldn’t and nor could I put it back together again. I had quite a nice time though, and that’s not nothing these days.

I only just now heard about the AI bot persuasion experiment carried out on Reddit users on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit. This is the post in which the CMV mods let users know that they were experimented on without their knowledge […]

Last night a group of (leftie) Jews was attacked by a larger group of (very right-wing) Jews in a synagogue, where the former had gathered on the eve of Israeli Remembrance Day to watch a broadcast of a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony. The attack was entirely pre-meditated. The […]

During and after COVID-19, my university installed cameras in every classroom. Our department seminar room, where we hold department meetings, is also a classroom. There is a central control room from which one can see all of the streams, and, at the push of a button, hear what is happening in […]

We decided to watch Curb from the start. Turns it we never watched season one. The Pants Tent! Porno Gil!

Look, I know it makes a huge mess, and I know I'm a week late, but I've been heartily enjoying the chicken jockey vids. Real life meme, innit.

I know everything is fucking catastrophic, but I'm here to tell you guys that Better Call Saul is really, really good!

browsing the guardian website assuming everything is an april fool is quite fun

No spoilers but OMG #severance

Now that Google has changed the map to show the Gulf of America, I assume they will also refer to POTUS as Russia’s Bitch.

Things aren’t “wild” and “insane”. They are terrifying and catastrophic.

I never knew what doom scrolling was until now

More evidence that both-sides-ism doesn't explain a thing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study

"With relatively basic “read only” access, Musk’s people could easily find individuals in databases or clone entire servers and transfer that secure information somewhere else." This has presumably happened […]

Academics outside the US: were you accepted to present at a conference in the US but are now reconsidering your participation?

Submissions are now open for #aoir2025, taking place at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Fluminense Federal University) in Niterói, Brazil, from October 15th to 18th 2025. Submissions are due by 1st March 2025. https://aoir.org/aoir2025/aoir2025subtypes/ Two new BIG innovations for us […]

Perhaps this is the push I need to try Twin Peaks again. I tried once and got 3 episodes in.

AI is stoopid, case #7,409 I wondered whether ChatGPT 4o could do cryptic crossword clues. I learnt that it absolutely cannot do anagrams. From our recent chat: "Re-arranging "BROTHERHOOD" gives HOVERBOARD, a form of transport." "Take BROTHERHOOD (11 letters) and remove one O (possibly implied […]

I’ve finished watching season one of Severance (for the third time) ahead of season two starting very soon. What are people’s fave writings about the show? #severance

How long does one wait for a student to arrive (late) at a Zoom meeting they themselves chose the time for?

21st century idiocy on proud display yesterday in my neighbourhood: When I went out to the shops, I saw a man in a parked car trying to stop its alarm from going off. By the time I was walking back from the shops, the car was surrounded by people, including […] [Original post on aoir.social]

איפה הכי טוב לעקוב אחרי העדות? #משפטנתניהו

Hey, @aram, look what's just been published! https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22254

i'm checking in here half way through the american work day and it's like oh god what have i missed now

I write this with some embarrassment, because I have read this book rather slowly, only at times when I knew I could sit and concentrate on it - and god knows (as does @aram) that these have been few and far between for the last year or so, but: I just finished reading The Secret Life of Data […]

Waking up after two or three quite stressful dreams is worse than waking up without having had stressful dreams.

I'm rather pleased with myself for solving this! IYKYK

If you know what I’m doing here, and want to chat about it, reply!

I got an email from @guardian about their commitment to the planet. I will take this more seriously when they stop publishing recipes for meat.

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

I totally know what Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is and I don't need anyone to explain it to me and I haven't tried Googling it only to be wished Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day by every site I clicked on

Big news and a great step from The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x #press #journalism #x #socialmedia