can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

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Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

Sadly, it feels like more people than you’d hope can still learn from this. 😉https://www.smbc-comics.com

Heh, apparently MS stuff has crashed enough times for macOS to think it appropriate to auto-add the error reporting tool to my dock 😂

Since you all need more animals in your timeline, meet Smokey and Sparkles 😉

This is high art

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY

Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—a risk to Earthlings everywhere. An illustrated essay by @weinersmith.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, based on their Hugo Award-winning book, "A City on Mars."

Spearheading the attempt at a new record

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

And for today’s class, we‘ll talk about calculating forward and inverse kinematics of spring-damper systems vs more traditional motors.

resonates.

Hey Meta, friendly reminder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzy...

Anyone else remember this argument from when it was just kids downloading their favourite movie? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

🤝 The Donders Institute, Radboud University, and Maastricht University are joining forces by establishing a platform for research, education and medical applications. The first project to make use of this platform is #Neural #Control: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Not sure how to feel about the fact that Luxembourg's the only thing not getting renamed in this 🤔

🧠 🤝 DI and @nin-knaw.bsky.social have awarded €500,000 to five research projects. The goal of this DI-NIN Fund is to support new and innovative research and to strengthen collaboration: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

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Le 20 janvier sera l'occasion d'une grande vague de départs de Twitter. Si vos contacts hésitent à venir sur Bluesky, voici un article synthétique qui explique son fonctionnement et ses différences avec Mastodon, Twitter etc. : bonpote.com/bluesky-enfi...

For a forensic analysis of Truss’s letter, see: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/a-cl... It’s even worse than it seems to be. 😄

How about I just tell you which squares don't have a bus instead?

"I forgot something important. Something really powerful and kind of beautiful: So many of you—a critical mass of you, possibly a majority of you—are really fucking stupid. And I’ve always loved that about you!"

Explain this, humankind

Et tu, NZ? www.science.org/content/arti...

It wasn't that viral on Twitter, but to this day, philosophy meme accounts share the screenshot, and then people inform me I am famous and I say, "Oh ok cool"

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

Der Tag hat ja noch ein paar Stunden.... Vielleicht stirbt noch der Papst?

It's a crap day to be sharing good news? But for anyone looking to permanently join Edinburgh's lovely philosophy department and EFI's Centre for Technomoral Futures (@technomoralfutures.bsky.social) we are hiring a new Lecturer in Ethics of AI - closing date is 6 December. Please RT/share widely!

Mood

Is there a prize for finding the /smallest/ hitherto undiscovered prime? Feels like an intellectually more interesting problem than just number-crunching increasingly large Mersenne prime candidates…

New paper out, led by Alex Easton, where we argue that context only really makes sense at the point of retrieval, so it can't be encoded: Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

I am recruiting a postdoc at imaginerealitylab.org! Are you interested in mental imagery and reality monitoring and do you have a background in cognitive neuroscience? Check out the ad at: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it

“If there is intelligence in the vicinity of pencils, shoes, cigarette lighters, maps or calculators, it is the intelligence of their users and inventors. The digital is no different.” #PhilAI #AIEthics aeon.co/essays/can-c...

If you see this post a vampire

Just wow

How have I not seen this one before?

<insert "godzilla had a stroke trying to read this" meme>

And the Nobel Prize in Prophetic Posts goes to.....

One thing I find depressing / unintentionally funny about the replication crisis in psychology is there’s all this high-level drama about retractions & fraud, then you look at the original study & it’s like… “Thinking about God made undergrads (N=28) wash their hands 0.8 seconds longer (p=0.04)”.

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