Okay can we get the platform edge doors without the side of pork?

social scientist: men play videogames as a power fantasy me: no way I literally just play cities skylines me: and there's tons of bike infrastructure me: and you can easily get around by public transit me: and its all paid for with taxes me: no cars allowed social scientist: ... me: ...

Dylan M. Taylor, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Credit Genie, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu, & Arch. He collaborated with two Microsoft employees to merge it. Lennart Poettering then personally blocked the revert & allowed the PR through. The surveillance state runs on unpaid simps.

It's wild to write a white paper like that while witnessing what's happening in the US

A very special episode, have a listen: pca.st/episode/59c7... Hollowed, with @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social

Gonna work on being more "young and excitable" because people who would be annoyed by that are exactly the people I want to annoy!!! Lighten up, bitches

I think about this study so often

WARNINGS I stg drivers are the most coddled fucking segment of society

I can’t believe we have been going for 10 years! If you’re in London, please come and join us to celebrate some brilliant people and share some cake with us! #prideinstem 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Oh @editorialboard.bsky.social did you notice they fired us? beat up our students? deported them?? blacklisted us? i hadn’t in front of students for two years until this week, and it’s in another country. The protesters were purged by Biden, so the bravest student organizers are gone for Trump.

Happy to share my first PhD preprint! We show that magnitude estimation measures the perceptual noise distribution (it's Poisson-like!), resolving the sources of Weber's law & the pedestal effect. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks to @linaresdani.bsky.social @jlmoliner.bsky.social !

Honestly even a lot of philosophers of CogSci don't see the forest for the trees when it comes to AI, which is imho mostly due to sociology/social sciences being an afterthought in CogSci

I am not sure why I'm following Eastern Iowa's premier newspaper but I certainly appreciate the focal point of this preview picture

Abolish the ivy league

LIVID that my upper arm hurts less after my workout if I warm up properly

"We will also build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should" is so fucking funny to me

One of my goals in science is to exhaust my coauthors so much that they surrender and let me get away with stuff like this

"Banning OnlyFans would not undo the culture of fetishizing 'barely legal' women, because it would primarily hurt them, not their customers. It’s almost never the predatory men who are policed or held accountable. It’s almost always the women..."

Making it a habit to bring up unionizing at least once in every conversation I'm in

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

Provincial legislation that gives police power to clear encampments & displace unhoused Torontonians could be expanded to TTC's special constables. Bill 6 opens the path for special constables to detain anyone on transit they deem “suspicious” & lead to profiling of riders. Here's how ⬇️ 1/9

This whole debate is just so embarassingly stupid 😭

Serious contender for the most NYT headline of all times 🫣

"I learned that brown skin, worn clothing, wet garments, and walking could be a sign that you didn’t have legal permission to inhabit this side. Racial profiling and classism informed surveillance operations on the border."

"El ataque se originó por su forma de vestir" but its not homophobia, this is US Supreme Court levels of motivated reasoning 😭😭 literally throw out all judges in Spain and start from scratch, this is wild

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

Guess I'm too earnest to be among the cool kids (leftist artists and shitposters) 🥲

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Ngl, one of the things that make me most angry here is that US universities could have so much power in opposing fascism if they bandied together rather than rolling over and caving one by one

Steam doing the train gays a solid

“The emails shed light on their ideology, showing how billionaire backers of the early IDW had a vested interest in convincing the public that women who accuse powerful men of sexual abuse are liars, and spent millions bringing a right-wing movement that discredits victims into the mainstream.” 1/

I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Abolish the ivy league (as if we needed more reasons)

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦 it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

No hate to this person because its a society-as-a-whole thing, but how are we collectively so bad at introspection that so many people make it to adulthood with this level of emotional immaturity in the first place? Good on her for turning it around, but why did a student have to initiate it?

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Application for Canadian citizenship submitted! 🥳

my god do I love a list

One of the things that drive me like 4/10 crazy is people just taking it for trivially true that social media and smartphones are bad for us, while like all studies show incredibly mixed and inconsistent results

damn Spain just gave 500.000 illegalized migrants the residence???? That's insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

this book could have been an email

Now do Eurovision, too

Tried to bike on Bloor the other day and it was a really fun game of guessing which blocks would be plowed and which werent 🙃🙃🙃 gave up super stressed and I'm not gonna bike anymore until it thaws 🥲

What is this, jfc 😭😭😭

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1