another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Must not eat the chocolate nuclear submarine

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

I think the plural is Chocolates Orange, it’s a possessive noun, like Attorneys General.

I'm going to crack an egg in my bath tonight as a tribute.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

I'm curious to know if the 42 papers all cite the same thing, or have they been assumed to be citing the same thing by Google Scholar.

Just been shared this cursed quiz program. In tribute to Diana, 100 multiple choice questions on her life. youtu.be/7_Zsw6e-TGc?...

So much of what I know of history comes from strategy games. Also geography,not much better for familiarising yourself with a region than trying to conquer it.

Big news I've not seen reported elsewhere: Mr Blobby joined Spotify on the 1st of Dec, so you can now listen to the UK Christmas no. 1 for 1993 open.spotify.com/artist/6990P...

Guessing no Irish people were involved in naming this EU sexual health project? share.google/ivvblu2oua7B...

Good Lord

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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

ONS is so bad. (This is about specifically British nationals.) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

When you misparse the parcel

Seeing a lot of people share this with praise. It is not real, it is a prank.

I am obsessed with the sumo wrestlers currently living their best lives in London

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

This paper should be required reading for all editors, publishers, teachers, and anyone who has asked 'why don't you just use an AI detector to filter out AI-generated submissions/work?' osf.io/preprints/ed...

This is England

Toulouse is outrageously photogenic

I want to meet the people who built this wall

Do you like sitting in the middle of your loving room and staring at the walls? Have a lot of visitors who you don't want to look at? Bid now!

Played Russian Omelette and now having cheesy mash potato for lunch (aligot)

Vive la France

Show us the last four albums you listened to.

The Eurostar security staff addressing confused non-English people as 'boss' does not help the confusion

Pierce Brosnan about to walk into the Crucible for a first round match against Zhao Xintong

When analysing the length of beaver dams, you have to use a log scale

@sentimentbot.bsky.social tell me of my joys

ChatGPT, write me a manuscript about quantum technology - but in the style of Von Deyen's albums. pubpeer.com/publications... Pubpeerified by Jian Peng Chan.

What a name for a restaurant

In an excellent secondhand bookshop

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Something incredible could happen over the weekend

Delighted to calculate that Michelangelo's David would wear a UK size 69 shoe

Always wonder who would buy stuff like this from a charity shop. Great name though.

Hungry men create lunch times, lunch times create sleepy men, sleepy men create nap times, nap times create hungry men