This thread is a prime example of Goodhart's law and how hard it is to beat.

This thread describes with examples why Usable Security exists as a field.

Scientific notation was invented to correctly display unread email numbers of academic inboxes.

Ich habe gerade den Satz "Fluff den woofer von mir" unironisch versendet und komme mir nun sehr minderjährig vor. Aber auch ein bisschen cool.

American Timmy

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Fuuuuuuuuuuck

Email server misconfiguration is, unfortunately, the default case in most orgs (the numbers point to 70% misconfiguration in the wild). But this one really is something that should not happen even with mediocre admin staff.

TACO is the most reliable thing about Trump. It boggles the mind.

too soon

Usec version: You mean I'm supposed to know the field I'm reviewing for?

"but my PhD student " first off, fuck you for blaming juniors and second impose the rules on your juniors, and third, you get banned from uploading preprints to arxiv, nobody beheads you or takes your tenure away.

Leaked image of new Apple EV.

Hallo gibt es hier leute die ich für ein analoges bild/gemälde comissionen kann? 🐭✨ Gerne rt

Except the first thing wasn't real for almost 50 years.

Unfortunately the ACM cannot ban people submitting papers with hallucinated references since probably half their AI summaries of papers contain hallucinations.

Academic conferences and journals: please implement this as well. Academic reviewers: please check references of articles.

Most scientists are Bayesian by default, but get brainwashed into frequentist beliefs.

Far too many open source projects when asked about usability

Surely they've suffered enough?

Today is a good day to see social norms making people post things.

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...

Heute ist Tag des Orgasmus und wir feiern. Kommst Du auch?

Your mom concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it (same sentence, really).

Heads of predatory publications should be called "editor-in-thief"

Awesome.

IPHONE BAD, CAVE ROCK GOOD

This is a bad metaphor because every kid should definitely learn how to use cocaine in the course of drug prevention seminars. (I'm not kidding)

Holy fuck

Hustle culture.

Bundesverband der Homöopathen kritisiert geplante Zuckerabgabe der Bundesregierung www.der-postillon.com/2026/04/zuck...

I would consider this appropriate for my neighbour's baby.

I love this essay very much!!!!

I have a similar graph about p-values.

AI WEED?

In a nutshell. 😊

Please do note that blowing up outliers with a bazooka is considered a questionable research practice!

Corollary: Conservatism is just virtue signalling to dead people.

Uhm @bsky.app why can't i search my own posts without encountering a server error?

Schrödinger's strait of hormuz

Machine translation is a beautiful thing

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I didn't know until today that BlueSky has a boomer conservative contingent. Look at this! It's so quintessentially Boomer Conservative! The profile pic! The badly cropped image! The "humour" that's factually incorrect but you know would just hit so hard if you're incredibly stupid and also unfunny.

Every paper of mine is a first

The lizardmen believing in themselves. Something something self-efficacy.

generation lead never fails

Have they tried turning him off and on again?

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