I almost cried to see a man who'd happily seize your or my private property, would trample constitutional liberties without thinking twice, and has zero fiscal responsibility, being welcome in the Oval Office. And it didn't help matters that Zohran Mamdani was there right next to him.

Maybe an odd take, but Silksong is a great game for casual players like me. If you only have 10-30 min a day to play, then you do a few rounds with a boss or platforming challenge, sleep on it, and you're better next time. Or you look for an item or explore or something else for a while. I love it.

I am baffled as to why people think 'operational definitions' bring clarity to scientific concepts. Conflating the (presumed) evidence for the effects of something unobservable with the thing itself does not *clarify* anything. It is *muddling*, collapsing the distinction between theory and evidence

Mark Bickhard's magnum opus 'The Whole Person' is finally published! shop.elsevier.com/books/the-wh...

RIP Bob Shaw. Sad to see him go. True luminary of ecological psychology.

The attack on Trump is erasing news of Israel’s bombing of the al-Mawasi refugee camp, located in a designated “safe zone, killing at least 90 and wounding 300. Most of the casualties were women or children. An atrocity. www.npr.org/2024/07/13/g...

They need to find a way to make clean energy a brutally exploitative enterprise that consumes human lives and mostly just benefits a small handful of millionaire investors. Then conservatives can get behind it.

After dealing with Crohn's disease for almost 20 years now, I finally had surgery to get the bit of intestine that's been bothering me all this time removed. I'm feeling pretty great now! I hope this is the last of my health problems for a while.

How to hit the research program jackpot in three simple steps: 1. Be critical so you offend everyone enjoying the status quo 2. Be interdisciplinary so no one thinks your work is relevant or good enough by their field's standards 3. Be theoretical to annoy as many empiricists as possible Voilà!

This crisis has produced the clearest possible fault lines: students and faculty (the authentic university) on one side, administration and finance capital (with an assist from the security state) on the other.

A reminder that every argument about regulation is an argument over who will pay for shareholder profits

I have an extremely high-tech scientific laboratory setup. This is cutting edge research

My dissertation research participants have emerged from the soil

This seems bad

Bring back Craig Kilborn!!! www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

I turned a passing, extremely inside joke from more than 10 years ago into a tattoo. 😂😂😂

I guess the Irish just needed to wait for Ye Olde Empire to cash its last check

Hyvää huomenta!

CONCLUSION: AI-as-engineering has been trespassing into cogsci, confusing us with decoys. The time is apt to reclaim the early conception of AI-as-theoretical-psychology. This means using AI as a theoretical tool; but we want to not fall in the trap of makeism again. 17/n

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Bickhard on Gibson's theoretical development, his move from a direct encoding theory to an interactive theory of perception. His statement of these points is perfect here.

Wrote about the resurgence of racist pseudoscience on the American right, and the very transparent lies about what its proponents want and believe. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is so cool a critique. "Violin plots are never the best version of a plot. They are hard to read and bad." Also yes, vulva not vagina but 100% indeed the sexual harassment is wild and a very valid point! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QM...

🧵 I'll talk up a recent paper I loved working on. We show why meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding & stronger empirical foundations. It's a theory paper like our other metascientific work. 🧪 #metasci #philsci #stats royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Cannot emphasise this enough

The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. I shall hereafter call this the ‘psychologist's fallacy’ par excellence. - William James

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