Few people have more palpable contempt for learning than the people in charge of education; seems bad

If you're interested in #reproducibility, and/or a fan of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, check out this Veritasium video. A process is reproducible (good), then not (bad), then reproducible with a different result (very bad)

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

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Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW

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With solidarity and apologies for the colonial spellings

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!!

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Do you want to vote tactically in the Welsh election? A lot of political parties are talking rubbish when it comes to the election. I have written this guide to help you understand how you can use your vote most effectively. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/tactical-v...

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

Got to present this early draft paper today at a neat workshop organized by @rohanalexander.bsky.social. It's my attempt to grapple with the need for struggle and friction in learning in a world where LLMs remove all that friction. Read the whole thing at stats.andrewheiss.com/pinky-lychee/

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In just 2,000 words, @richardhywelking.bsky.social has produced a masterful guide through the last 27 years of Labour in Wales. Essential reading before next Thursday when the Labour century may come to an end www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There is a lot more in the paper. This is a culmination of our decade-long work in metascience, and this is a strong result. We have been pushing back against simplistic representations of science and arguing for principled modeling instead of rhetorical use of ad hoc tools. This paper shows why.

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

I sincerely believe that the reason so many tech-centric people believe that AI actually works is that they only ever use it to do generic coding in python or some equally non-specialist work. They are *shit* at dealing with specialist code. Like. Vastly, dangerously wrong 75% of the time

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database PocketOS founder says ‘systemic failures’ with AI infrastructure made catastrophic failure inevitable www.the-independent.com/tech/claude-...

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

look if the kids want to get into physical media i support their decision but this is not what cd players looked like. the faux retro industrial space sci fi aesthetic didn't exist in consumer electronics at the time. we are lying to them

"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Open position for the chair of the BPS Stat and methods adv panel: www.bps.org.uk/chair-bps-st...

Whether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.

Large-scale administratively-collected data is such a nightmare

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thanks for the flyer, my man, but using a hotmail account in AD 2026 is disqualifying

Today's Marshmallow #pigeonSky 🪶

This statement is based on the CTO of Mozilla (an AI company by now). This deep analysis goes through the Mythos docs available and shows that that model is really not a bit advancement at all https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

I asked ChatGPT who I am. It said I'm Chris Chambers. I am not Prof. Chris Chambers, and I didn't reveal myself as Chris Chambers (or anyone else) in 2015... I can see the logic in thinking that we're the same person, since we agree on a lot of things, but it's not true! And it gets worse...

This is the crux of it. I spent much of today fixing something a collaborator vibecoded. It did something that could never work, and repeated that code 4 times in slightly different ways, so I had to hunt them all down, figure out what they meant to do, and redirect them to a working function.

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

The older I get, the more that "What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem" seems like the best, most quotable line in 'The Life of Brian'.

"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?" Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach. Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.

Lauren continues to write fabulous papers a lot this. This was the other week arxiv.org/abs/2603.29134

I was supposed to finish this March 31 and then the #Claude Code leak happened, handing me the perfect opening example Some of it has been in the works for longer: it's also a version of (part of) my #DHd2025 keynote titled "What makes LLMs so irresistible?" Read it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

you should read my article, in which I explain why westerners are obsessed with a completely fictional idea of 'honor culture,' where it came from, and then repeatedly dunked on pete hegseth

The best song ever written: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuQb...

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war