How can an artist's perspective help us to make better decisions?🎨🔮 Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett. Read more 👉 ow.ly/t54S50Vgk5a Image: agsandrew

I enjoyed @raviguru.bsky.social’s blog on lotteries as a policy tool this week ravigurumurthy.substack.com/p/should-pol...

My thoughts on a major reason why the DOGE mindset is bad. If you thoughtlessly f*ck about at this intersection then you will find out.

Is anyone maintaining some kind of simplified account of what’s happening in the US? I can’t tell what matters and what’s noise (which I assume is deliberate) and want a scant “in ten years we will see that this stuff mattered” timeline or something (obv it’ll be speculative).

Facebook is truly broken at this point. This is about 60% of my feed now - “look at this things that’s obviously AI. I know no one will praise me for making it”. Is it just a scam victim recruitment pipeline now?

Well that’s the stupidest experiment I’ve run in a while. Thanks for playing.

Please do my stupid little one question survey! It’ll take ten seconds nimble.li/vdrben69

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

I asked ChatGPT to generate 5000 random numbers between 1 and 10 and then simulate 5000 humans choosing numbers between 1 and 10… yeah, it knows us

I swear to God, if I see one more person excuse Musk's absolute and undeniable support of fascism, obviously not meaning @stevepeers.bsky.social, because "he is autistic" I will lose it. Amazingly I've managed to make it 43 years on this planet as an autistic individual without supporting the Nazis.

These stats from the “List of Municipalities in Florida” Wikipedia page feel… totally wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I don’t have anything profound to say but I need to say something because that was a Nazi salute and silence isn’t an option

Just realised this is basically the argument against TikTok

The sun is in my eyes... I could just buy and install blinds, or I can use my design thinking and UX tools to solve the problem creatively

Such a delight to talk to Spencer Greenberg on the Clearer Thinking podcast - a really fun format and a wide ranging conversation podcast.clearerthinking.org?ep=244

Wut?

Whoever named the local coastal features was on something

My kid has got the measure of the political capital system at play in primary school because yesterday she sighed dramatically and said “I just wish I was allergic to something”

Merry Christmas, especially to the lady listening to a sermon on top volume on her phone after hissing at my giggling kids to be quiet on the train 🤡 #sufferthelittlechildren 🙄

Never mind the word search, spot the typo 👀 #knowyouranemone

Dancing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with the five year old. Suddenly she stops and says, “Mummy, what comes after death?” Me: 👀 Her: 👀 Me: 😬 Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?” Me: 😑

📄In @naturehumbehav.bsky.social, "The Formality Effect" explores how formal communications from the government can lead to increased resident action. By @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Jessica Lasky-Fink, @chriselarkin.bsky.social, Lindsay Moore & @karminker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Slow take (it’s been at least thirty years) is the kid in the trio advert called Suzi (Trio, I assume) because of Suzi Quatro?

When a picture says 1000 words. (Taken in a toilet cubicle at a local church)

SIMPLY HAVING A

Interview with Louise Bourgeois

Well I’ve been banned from posting on AITA for this but I think it’s worth it

This @bmj.com article from 2015 says Americans have 7.31 missing teeth on avg and English people 6.97. From nationally representative samples. This cannot be right, can it? Must be conditional on having missing teeth? Paging @timharford.bsky.social

Post a classic from your notes app. I’ll go first.

God I’d be livid if I was her

Everyone in the cinema’s phones going off for a severe wind warning at Wicked felt very immersive theatre 🌪️

winsorize() ahem

GWR train manager just announced “this train is overcrowded due to multiple cancellations, pretty normal for a Sunday these days. Not the best day to travel.” Which makes the £230 I spent on tickets feel even more extortionate 😒

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

Something I love on here - University starter packs. Eg just followed everyone in the @uniofexeter.bsky.social pack and now I’ll have news from all kinds of academic disciplines all over my feed. Amazing!

How is Lizzie and Freddy the best thing about Rivals? (Not saying the rest of it is bad)

Pleased to see nursery training up the next generation of snowflakes ❄️

Four year old just asked me how babies come out. I told her. She considered for a moment and said “no, thank you, mummy”. 😆

This ChatGPT generated banana bread recipe, which I followed to the letter, feels like a helpful metaphor for what happens if you take LLM outputs at face value: it is somehow burnt and raw.

Mood

Public apology to @elisabethbik.bsky.social - I did a TikTok about what a hero you are and multiple people commented to say they’re nominating you for RFK Jnr’s taskforce “against corruption in science”. 😑 I am so sorry!

It’s mad how “to father” and “to mother” mean completely different things.

I feel seen

Next they will be saying Frankenstein was the monster!

On a train and a lady nearby has held four conversations with strangers as they have got on and off. I’m in awe. I want this skill.

Five #AI predictions in the next 3 yrs: 1. Most call centre workers will be replaced by AI 2. The #UBI discussion will take off as we grapple with a future where human labour is not valued 3. Insurers will refuse to cover scamming as it becomes too ubiquitous sophisticated

Is it just me or does The Gruffalo have a Chaucerian quality to it?

Terrible deal. This is worth about £1.56 in today’s money

When you hire a nanny but it turns out to be your extrovert ex-husband in disguise