It's hard not to notice how the UK "financial papers" POUNCE on temporary reductions in the pound, but then act utterly oblivious to the clear, long-term trends. It's almost like there's an obvious agenda at play.

Movie budgets and video game budgets are bullshit.

The one thing snake oil grifters can help doing is offering panacea.

Children getting blood vessel damage was known from 2020!! #Longcovid All children are at risk. Each reinfection carries cumulative risk of damage. studyfinds.org/children-wit...

Many of us "cannot live with it". It can and will cause irreparable harm and/or kill us. And when I say many of us, that includes many who don't realise, or refuse to believe this.

Frozen grapes on a hot day. Elite snack.

www.bbc.com/news/article... "Distinguished lawyers". That's bullshit, and what they are saying is bullshit.

I look forward to the trend of cartoonish facial expressions on YouTube thumbnails coming to an end. There are only so many performatively shocked/surprised/mildly annoyed/excited faces I can take in a given day.

it isn't AI it's a glorified autocomplete it's predictive text it isn't intelligent it does not think therefore it does not make things up it just posts text slop that pattern matches the ones & zeroes it sees that the user posted based on other ones & zeroes it scraped from its plagiarism library

A year since the wave of riots in which hotels housing asylum-seekers were attacked. Our study examined events in three locations, finding only limited evidence of intentions to protest. @qeios.bsky.social Funded by @ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering keeping "That's bullshit" in my clipboard to paste as needed.

The UK online safety act is useless, and in no way fit for purpose. Please, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, stop letting people cobble together laws about which they have not the first clue! Ideologically driven vibes help nobody.

*So* much research starts with difference-based questions and researchers' categories/assumptions - helping to feed or legitimise communication myths and stereotypes. But the evidence about what people say/do in actual non-lab non-post-hoc accounts of interaction shows something else entirely #EMCA

Cf. psychology. The first research skill we tend to teach our students is how to do a t-test. I wonder has anyone ever traced how that shapes students' subsequent understandings of what psychological research *is*.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social It's not complicated: Recognise Palestine now.

'We also know the way to achieve a solution: a public health campaign for immunisation; vaccinations in the community; and a culture of collective responsibility to protect one another.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

According to the trumpet, Americans are getting paid to eat eggs as prices have plummeted 400%. Also, Trump thinks Harvard students need remedial mathematics lessons.

“Newcastle University has paid out £1,717,400 to students who saw scheduled teaching missed, disrupted, or not replaced promptly, as a result of walk-outs by unionised academics.”

With testing practically non existent, this is the tiniest tip of a very large ice berg. This also does not touch the number of people being incapacitated from the late effects of COVID.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Beyond idiotic, and barely above a coin flip in terms of accuracy, but to mention the blindingly obvious bias issues in such a gross categorisation system. Beyond. Idiotic.

Ofwat scrapped. Now do Ofgem and then nationalise water and energy.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... If you are asking this question, you are perhaps not ready to be a peer reviewer.

Long COVID impairs cognition. It is currently experienced by around 10% of the population. This includes people in occupations where failures of judgement, decision making, reaction times etc can be lethal. This is clearly going to lead to knock on injuries and deaths.

Turkey has a serious smoking problem that's going to lead to serious health outcomes in the not too distant future. I've not seen so many young people smoking for a long time!

This morning, I noticed a man pushing a large mop sweeper machine around a shop floor. THIS is the labour we should be replacing with machine learning robots.

In reality, my inbox should not be in my favourites tab. The recycle bin on the other hand...

For an immediate and significant reduction in harmful pollution, ban cruise ships. Each one is the same as between 1 million and 3 million cars. Some of the larger ones will be closer to 5 million cars. And no, most "cruise goers" will not suddenly jump ship to air travel.

Journalists need to stop anthropomorphizing LLMs immediately. They don't say, want, believe, or think anything. They create output that is statistically likely based on petabytes of stolen training data.

LLMs (Gen AI) Do not: Think Reason Judge Want Like Dislike Rate Count Compute Analyse LLMs do: Very fancy predictive text Hack together pieces of stolen content The sooner the whole thing collapses, the better.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Demand low, supply very high. Annual price hikes.

"IT'S SO NOT JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS! IT'S YEARS! YEARS! STOP BEING MEAN TO US! WE HIT THE BULLSEYE!"

1976 arguments incoming.

Wtf

EVERYONE should be entitled to a COVID vaccine every 6 months. This would be even more effective if we had Novavax.

Late to the game of ruining a film by changing one letter: Pilates of the Caribbean.

By accident: It happened by way of an unintentional act or turn of events. The outcome did not rest upON these acts or events. On purpose: The acts or events intended to lead to this outcome. They outcome tests upON these acts or events. Things mean things, and language does not randomly evolve.

Millions of kids could now contract infectious, potentially deadly, diseases because people have stopped vaccinating their children. Those who spread misinformation about #Vaccines should pay for putting children at risk. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The ingredient in some #vaccines that triggered worries, thimerosal, isn’t in them anymore and hasn’t been for 20 years. But the misinformation has a life of its own as worried people share it without questioning its sources. apple.news/AgAqTmDEdRNm...

All the fear mongering from landlords about the incoming UK renters reform about how landlords will just sell their property which will "destroy the rental market!!" Sounds good. Let's go.

One more thing: STOP EMBRACING EVERYTHING!

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

Once more: Please stop delving into things. Just stop.

www.bbc.com/news/article... No, they are not the same.

If you have a PS5, and you are a geek, install Climate Station. It's amazing.

Preparing for the first week of teaching Qualitative Methods in Psychology.

not mentioned in this video: • it was an assassination • of a democratic official • by a right wing • anti-abortion • republican • disguised as a cop

The sheer ho-hum, plodding news coverage of an actual domestic terror attack enacted by a white, Christian, white nationalist, anti-abortion REPUBLICAN against democrat politicians. What is happening? A republican, white domestic terrorist with a hit list. They are reporting it like a bake sale.

Actual footage of me pulling 8 gummy candies from the bag all stuck together:

Today on "nothing is old anymore", 12yo singing "Dirty Cash".