Dr Nick
@nmwilkinson.bsky.social
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Hey, everybody! Not that kind of doctor. Embodied cognition, AI and robotics, eating behaviour, flavour & the senses Mostly cathartic ranting Personal account
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nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Ok fine.

Hey everybody, I'm Dr Nick!

I kibbitz #neuroscience and #ai and #embodiment conversations, insert jokes and takes and challenges and share papers.

But mostly, sorry it's cathartic rants about the state of things. I mean, wtaf?
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tobyn.bsky.social
I learnt a lot reading these 750 easy-to-digest expertly-written words on why these guys won their Nobel prize.
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
It means that voters voted in Dem fed admin, which then failed to take seriously the Trump threat, and let a man who attempted a coup back into the white house, like massive scaredy dum dums
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5 million of them are about research
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nmwilkinson.bsky.social
We're not mega far from being able to turn this argument on Labour voters

"Wasting your vote on the <20% party? Gah, you want Reform to get in?"
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Well, they could have been. And I spose that is the point
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
thefred.bsky.social
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
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machete.gay
every picture of a professional table tennis player in the heat of battle looks like they're staring at the ball with such intensity and force that the paddle is merely a conduit for their telekinetic powers
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mariesposeets.bsky.social
Red-breasted merganser watercolor comic, sorry had to after seeing bsky.app/profile/hibb...
Watercolor sketch: a male red-breasted merganser does the courtship dance of sticking his butt out of the water and looking weird (see real-life  red-breasted merganser mating dance). Says: Huhhhughhuh s'up ladies, huhuhuh. 
A group of female mergansers on rocks are watching. First one: Ugh. Second one: Creep. 
Third one is gawking in delight and her tail feathers are fanning like crazy trying to cool her down.
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Super interesting paper! We made some similar points re the newborn face preference in this paper 👇🏻

bsky.app/profile/nmwi...
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
E.g. newborn preference for faces was taken to imply the existence of "innate internal representations" of faces. But this model shows that this putative implication is not implied at all. It does make predictions, but even if it didn't, the point would stand.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Staring us in the face? An embodied theory of innate face preference
Human expertise in face perception grows over development, but even within minutes of birth, infants exhibit an extraordinary sensitivity to face-like stimuli. The dominant theory accounts for innate....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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adamchicago.bsky.social
Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Hard to overstate the extent to which easy luxury is dependent upon international wage differentials
dieworkwear.bsky.social
Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." 

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
To the extent that people know their neighbours, imv it's really good to just talk to your neighbours. A lot of people are probs like 'am I the only one feeling like everything is going mad?'
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Ok here's one

Shitbit - an advanced wearable which beeps when you need to go for a poo

@brendelbored.bsky.social
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
I actually bothered to click through and read before adding my bit, and it was trite shit and soon I had to stop
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
gotta admire the commitment to this bit
brendelbored.bsky.social
Number 600: the Butterball turkey cook helpline but the only person you can reach is an AI with the voice of Joe Rogan who thinks whatever you’re doing to that turkey is really important and he appreciates it
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
Have any investigators joined ICE and published details of the training and deployment?
jtischauser.bsky.social
This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.
clarajeffery.bsky.social
ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
No idea if this is true, but that would be some quality (Chinese?) trolling
angeledehart.bsky.social
Another maga loser will gladly spend their hard earned $75 plus shipping for this horrible piece of trash. I hope it’s ends up like the trump watches missing the T.
Picture of cheap trump pink watch made in China missing the letter T which shows “Rump.” Statement reads: Customers upset with Missing ‘T’ in trump-branded watch that cost $640.
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
😃ok
What is the premise of success here? Bari Weiss manages to turn around an ailing network to make it a successful propaganda outlet? Honestly, I wouldn't bet against it, as long as she is supported to make massive financial losses until she gains the clout to make money in Trumpofascist America
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
When will the hypocritical woke mob extend their tolerance to the much-oppressed measles virus?

by RFK Jr
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
so fucking basic like star wars pretty much nails the whole thing
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
I think I've seen other direct evolution-as-law-of-physics takes, though I'd have to dig around for examples. FEP seems at least in this ballpark though, no? @mjdramstead.bsky.social ? For me, it's hard to take it as causative, but also interesting in the sense of a principle like say the 2nd law
nmwilkinson.bsky.social
we are living in the lamest story ever told