how would you argue that LLMs do not have the capacity to summarise? I'd say that a summary has communicative intent and an author with the capacity to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, but would love a deeper treatise on this. Any papers from cognitive science that could be useful?

The health benefits, the freed up public space, ...

Have men ever responded well to anything

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

My conclusion of this fiasko is that we need to stop telling men how smart they are lest we want something like Richard Dawkins to occur

I'm *only* interested in the opinions of hags

I think agency is something you acquire and expand over a lifetime. Like when I was 18 there were so many things I didn't know I could, like, just do! So I don't think I'd be so hard on "younger communities" for not having a developed sense of being able to just go out and find the stuff they like

This is, I thought I was told, is exactly what tenure is for?

Praxis is walking in the middle of Augusta to antagonize cars

When abusers aren’t held accountable there’s an obvious benefit to being abusive and terrorizing people to get what you want. The Trump administration is far from the only example. This is why stuff like deplatforming and removing abusers from power is important and not just a trend or a catchphrase

I'm "credible on gay people" (I organize gay bashings twice a week)

After my masters in philosophy my interest in consciousness was at about +0.5 interest units, and now everytime "LLM" and "consciousness" appear within two sentences I lose about 5 units of interest

"one of the last remaining spaces where they can grow up doing what children everywhere have evolved to do: independently play and explore with their peers"

A womanless Psychology is an incomplete Psychology… An exclusive extract from ‘Absent Minds: The Untold Story of the Women who Changed Psychology Forever’, by @maddipow.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

And so transparent 😭😭😭 Surely we'll learn from this, collectively 🙂‍↕️

I feel like Ive been reading people warning about this shit for like the last 10 years, still insane to read how it's actually happening, and how the sole fact that its happening is in and of itself not a major scandal

VSS (@vssmtg.bsky.social) is coming up! Do you have an idea for a vision experiment but want to check you haven't missed anything? Looking for collaborators or relevant resources? Wanting to chat about a theory or model? Consider the pre-data poster session! www.visionsciences.org/pre-data-col...

What bothers to me to no end is Portugal legalised the sale of heroin decades ago as a public health measure—and it worked. Deaths from ODs dropped, use dropped, it helped people. Legalising heroin works. In a world with legalised heroin, my friend might still be alive. And it’s dismissed as a joke

I will take literal moutains over cars

In the original author's defense, I will make the expression "an excess of men" part of my vocabulary

Even if all of the purported harms to children caused by social media et al. were real (which they are MOST DEFINITELY not), the collateral effects of this would not be worth it

Just interviewed with CityNews @citynewstoronto.bsky.social! Will be live at 11:00PM EST tonight! Also video and possible article will be available tomorrow, so excited!

Jesse Singal is back on his transphobic bullshit by arguing that the trans rights backlash is self-inflicted and that anyone pointing to coordinated right-wing funding is peddling a "conspiracy theory." It's a masterclass in false dichotomy and victim blaming. archive.ph/ZD74X

See what's funny is that I was like "hell yeah intellectual freedom" because I thought we'd finally overcome the idiot's (=conservative) notion of "intellectual freedom", but alas

Paris transformed its streets by prioritizing people over cars. 🚲 More bike lanes, fewer cars, greener spaces — & a healthier city. What could #Toronto learn? shorturl.at/QKnQZ#Toronto #UrbanPlanning #Climate

Well, the beautiful thing about our shitty electoral system is that 39% of the vote is still easily enough for reelection 🙃🙃🙃

Considering how many aneurysms I had while reading, surely this is ragebait?

reading a book that talks about psychophysics in the past tense, as something that used to exist 😭

Preprint: "Our findings indicate that SARS-CoV-2 maintains high household transmissibility and requires substantial medical resources in the post-pandemic era." (Over a third of Covid transmissions in the study occurred before infected people showed symptoms.) doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Its always funny (sad) to see how biases (classism mostly, I guess) lead business owners to rail against urbanist measures that would BENEFIT THEIR BUSINESSES

I live right on Church in that area and oh my god have we needed this for ages!!!

I love that the candidates now have a whole section on their vision for VSS! I literally don't care about your publications, I just want to know what you intend to use the position for!!!

Es peor. Your current doctor está mirando cosas en chatgpt en vez de en fuentes solventes a no ser que sea un neoludita como los que vivimos en un pueblo de galos que resiste al invasor.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

I'm foray-ing a little (more than expected) into the intersection of eye movements and multisensory integration, does anyone have any studies on the matter they particularly like? (Self-nominations super welcome, of course!)

Polyamory is nerdy! So is BDSM. And engaging in them ethically is anti-patriarchal. That’s why it upsets some people. It’s also why queer people tend do these types of relationships more smoothly than heterosexual people

yelling in annoyance at my computer for being slow only to realize that I tried to plot 1.7mio data points onto one tiny ggplot

Ni un solo euro del dinero público andaluz para la sanidad privada. ✍️ Firma y apoya una sanidad pública de calidad: info.porandalucia.org/sanidadpublica ❌ Listas de espera en aumento. ❌ Escasez de personal sanitario. ❌ Deficiencias en los programas de cribado de cáncer.

Ah yes, love to load up my preregistration when I start writing the paper only to immediately see A Broken Promise 🙃

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

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