a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

i am not sure that *anyone* holds the position described in the first paragraph (maybe Hutto but...) and I think the people cited there are better represented (sic) by the second. Lack of citations in 2nd is telling imo. Or am I way off? (e.g., @tonychemero.bsky.social ?)

#ShareGoodNewsToo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brook Ziporyn wrote a book that traces a line through Zhuangzi, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bataille. This is exactly what I want to read at the moment. Ignore the clickbait title and skip the discussion of Zizek to about 18 mins. The rest is a discussion of that book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a09z...

@sethcooke.bsky.social - relevant to your interests

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

This weird tape of virtuoso sheng noise performance is great but I haven't seen it yet any props. More generally Dusty Ballz is a great label with a great name. dustyballz.bandcamp.com/album/noisin...

(ADD tendencies + 6 public transport connections a day) x the frozen north of Denmark = a lost property office overflowing with my gloves.

Lionel Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team.

Movement science people - is there an analogous word to "interoception" for perception of e.g. movement variability, in a task. It seems like maybe "motor metacognition"? But I'm not sure this takes in e.g. affective aspects. ...

The only other person on this rail replacement bus to the bleak north of Denmark has the face of a slightly smoothed young Willem Dafoe.

Roughly 20 years ago: UX design "seems to point to a situation where we are trying to optimise fit on the basis of predictions rather than knowledge, eventually trying to design something that is not there for us to design" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/port...

One month left for our ML competition to predict depression onset, in a massive dataset we collected over 5 years, including EMA and passive sensing data. We have nearly 200 signups already, very excited to share our data and see who can fit the best models! www.codabench.org/competitions...

This is my favourite record that I think basically nobody has heard. Never seen it written up. 12 owners on bandcamp. Corsano's spattery hardcore-tinged playing meshes with Nalbandian's more jazz, Monk-ish mannerisms in a really satisfying way. armennalbandian.bandcamp.com/album/a-spon...

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

How many LLMs can be persuasive paper are gonna be published in top journals before we remember that yes, people can be persuaded by text? And where was this thinking amidst all the hot takes that social media and misinfo has no causal effects?

A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living

One of my weirdest revelations since starting this kind of work is that people often seem not to have looked at the items beyond typing them into Qualtrics. I assume sometimes it's a distributed responsibility thing: with several people on a study, everyone assumes someone else looked.

At all of psychology 😂 now but seriously, I think the problem is the naive notion that psych has established measures that just “work” and reflect precisely what the label says.>

I am teaching design this semester, so I'm using that as an excuse to finally read Vilém Flusser. Here's a PDF of The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design if you're interested. memoof.me/read/589/pd For myself, I'm already in the market for two pairs of glasses and a turtleneck.

I just thought everyone should see this

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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Now consider this for training datasets that contain audio, image and video media, reproducing learned faces, voices, movement - biometric data. Processing copyright material is a downstream legal argument from processing personally identifiable information. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!

I'm a big fan of Lily Alexandre. Seems like she's on the edge of not being able to make it work financially. If you've seen her videos, appreciated them, want to continue appreciating them, consider doing all the usual support things like subscribing and Patreoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3oE...

I'm a big fan of Lily Alexandre. Seems like she's on the edge of not being able to make it work financially. If you've seen her videos, appreciated them, want to continue appreciating them, consider doing all the usual support things like subscribing and Patreoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3oE...

“The beauty of [Béla Tarr’s] images is never an end. It is only the reward for a fidelity to the reality that one wants to express and to the means that one employs in doing so.” – Jacques Rancière

Advice needed - I'm seeking suggestions for a keynote for a conference I'm organizing around immersive technologies in sports. No need for her/him to be particularly senior.

A theory may be inspired by thinking about one phenomenon but actually describe something much wider or just different...

I remain unconvinced that Integrated Information Theory (IIT) has much to do with *consciousness*. It seems useful in assessing things like coordination, collective integration, and macroscopic causation (as in the soccer team example).

Heidegger had a whole radio address about why he turned down a professorship in Berlin to stay in Freiburg, because the peasants in Black Forest pubs were the people who were real Germans. We know where this all leads.

Like most human beings, chatbots struggle to make new discoveries. Fortunately there’s a tiny irritating minority of humans who do make discoveries, in part by systematically doubting received explanations. Not clear whether it would be possible or ethical to increase their number.

Why we are defunding liberal arts? Read this: everyone is "incentivized to reinforce acceleration of early performance years...starting in a discipline early, focusing exclusively on that discipline...[leading to] early, but not long-term, exceptional performance" 🔥 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apply for my old job as Lecturer in HCI at Bristol. It's a lovely group and a good place to work. I only left because my wife lived in a different country. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Researchgate interface for "request document" is so frustrating. V easy to click through by accident because it's barely distinguished from the interaction flow to download an available paper. Once a month I "request" a doc for which there's an arxiv link.

Are you a philosopher of biology or physics interested in interdisciplinary research? Do questions about life (evolved & artificial), self-organization and #development fascinate you? If so, we have an exciting postdoctoral opportunity for you! Please help us spread the word! #HPbio #philsci #ALife

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Alan Watts on Zhuangzi: antiquity's greatest shitposter youtu.be/y9DWzIcjIDY?...

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

Xabier Barandiaran on agency and creativity with generative AI www.youtube.com/live/PkcUrHL...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do I have mutuals who have crowdfunded game development and would like to talk to me about how that went/what they learned?

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1. Cornford & Farmer 2. Rie Nakajima eliciting tears by arranging tiny motors & cups 3. Spem in Alium 4. Burkhard Schlothauer string quartet in a scout hut, beautifully disrupted by the slow passing of a party boat 5. Shirley Collins

As always in the 2020s TS Eliot's The Rock has it down: They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

" I don't think there will be ... apps ... the phone will just display what it anticipates you would most like to receive" An amazing illustration of the pervasive, problematic error in understanding human motivation that I've been going after in recent papers.