It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up. Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

fuck it, for the people in the back: the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small

It sounds like a joke, until you think about that one paper that "explained the evolution of female homosexuality" by showing that a bunch of college kids were turned on by pictures of women kissing with p<.05

"Well, the paper you've submitted 6 months ago is great, but I find its scope a bit large and it makes it hard to follow. How about you drastically augment its scope and resubmit within 7 days?"

American homicide victims are mostly men, except when the killer is an intimate partner— Almost 20,000 Americans were murdered in 2023. The chart shows the homicide rates among male and female victims. Men were 2.7 times more likely to die by homicide than women.

was idly curious if you could get a 2d6 probability curve as a single die and the answer is: yes, it's a "hendecahedron" that looks like this, and they work when 3D printed hbaktash.github.io/projects/put...

I've just preprinted my latest paper (in French!) on how "serious games" methodology can contribute to the ecological redirection. Guénin--Carlut, Avel. 2025. “Jeux Sérieux Pour Agents Énactifs - Une Ludique de l’enseignement Pour La Redirection Écologique.” osf.io/preprints/so....

Donc si je comprends bien un mec de la CIA a organisé une OPA pour voler à la France la technologie des cartes à puces ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMx...

Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137858

Late on writing youtu.be/-hiQ4qwC7XM?...

Erreur 404, pas de budget trouvé.

Le macronisme aura vraiment tout réussi.

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Hey ! Does anyone know if the drop in lithium batteries / solar panels impacted on consumer-end products yet ? Considering buying a 1kWh + 200W system, and I'm surprised not to find better than 750€ (with -50% Black Friday reduction!)

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

Doing less effort to learn about something leaves you knowing less about it? Uh, I guess we should learn everything the hard way (hanged by the feet to a tree that a friendly bear is shaking while a Russian man punches you in the abs)

We have long known that people retain more from doing synthesis themselves than from a prepared summary. And yet, papers have abstracts, journals have review essays, and the web has Wikipedia. People decide for themselves—not always rightly!—when to consult the full text of original sources.

It’s unfortunate to watch neuroscientists debating about whether spike rates or oscillatory dynamics are more important for cognition when Kant already showed that it’s done by the transcendental ego and so won’t appear in any time-series data.

J'ai enregistré ma propre version de "Je pourris camarade" en l'honneur de Guidoni. Je ne dirais pas que c'était un échec, mais ça n'a pas marché. (La version originale pour référence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM4... )

You’d think the forced displacement of 10 million people owing to climate change would be headline news everywhere. Instead 🦗 🦗🦗.

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI, sanctionné par les Etats-Unis : « Face aux attaques, les magistrats de la Cour tiendront »

I didn't think "electric scooter-based low intensity harassment tactics against ethnic cleansing" would be a thing in my lifetime, or afterwards, but here we are

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

we're done

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?

First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.

Comme l'écrit Micheal Eldridge : « In short, nature, which is inclusive of humanity, is all there is, and that’s okay. »

On the origins of Finnish nuclear energy law. Might be of interest to #HistSciTech and #STS folks too

This was a fun interview. One day prof. Laurila ordered them to his office and said, “boys, I hope you have notepads ready. I will now dictate new nuclear energy law for Finland.” (Laurila was an academic who consulted the state owned IVO, now Fortum. He wasn’t an official, let alone legislator.)

A lot of people don't quite understand how and why modern nuclear regulation came to be, or who designed it. Like in #Finland, the current (1986) #nuclear #energy law was *literally dictated* by the man hailed as the father of Finnish nuclear energy, academician Erkki Laurila!

I have my doubts: hard to see SMRs becoming cost competitive in time to compete with continuing cost reductions of wind, solar, storage, and increasingly integrated EU grid. I did this #LCOE projection in 2023. Reds are #wind and #solar; grey is traditional #nuclear; 2 arrows are #SMR estimates.

L'ouvrage "Politiser le renoncement" d'Alexandre Monnin est sur Cairn.info : si vous y avez accès, profitez-en pour le lire ☝️

Agreed. The primary function of language (both phylogenetically and ontogenetically) is expressive, not representative. Our expressed beliefs are tools by which we navigate the world - notably by signalling self-identity and building emotional communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5dl...

Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

I like how they don't even try making the robot look remotely possible

I think that unless major security risks and/or geographic constraints apply, virtually all industrial exhaust heat should be pumped into municipal heat networks

I hate how every nation is living down to its stereotype because I’m trained to look for complexity in things, yet the USA is run by a caricature of crony capitalism that Soviet propaganda would consider too unsubtle, Russia is run by a Bond villain, the UK is speedrunning Children of Men, etc.

If you're looking for a fun Tuesday night, tune in to my talk for the Emergentism, Ecosystem, and Expertise series: "The Role of Language in Human and Machine Intelligence" Tonight @ 9pm Eastern. Registration: polyu.zoom.us/.../register....

S. Korea has doubled the budget for its massive universal basic income experiment, increasing the number of rural counties included in it from 7 to 12, and relieving counties of more of the cost. As a result, the number of participants in the 2-yr UBI pilot will go from ~250k to near 400,000 people.

(Incidentally, I also found a fricking KGB general admitting in 1993 that Winter War had been a major mistake, that it and Soviet threats after the war were why Finland sided with Nazis in 1941, and that without Winter War, Finland would've likely stayed neutral.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_...

Finnish Jews were in a schizophrenic position: fighting alongside Nazis. Most Finns (probably) preferred the Nazis to lose the war, and Jews (and Social Democrats) had more at stake than the most. But necessity makes for strange bedfellows. www.anumuseum.org.il/blog/finland...

Regarding Finnish #intelligence #history, a snippet I discovered. I've mentioned before that Finnish #military intelligence had concluded by 1942 that #Nazi #Germany would lose #WW2. The brother of one of the most famous Finnish diplomats, Max Jacobson, served there. Max wrote about it later: