D. Hicks
@danhicks.bsky.social
philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
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D. Hicks
@danhicks.bsky.social
· Nov 30
This is a thread to illustrate the nuclear block. I'm going to reply with a throwaway account, then block it, and screenshot the results from my alt account.
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What to do about this fourth kind of stories, about mundane-sounding policies that could be a nothingburger or could be opening the door to abuse? I don't really have a good answer—my own reporting is as fraught with the uncertainty of whether a policy like gold standard science will matter at all.
Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering
Some researchers say that US-agency policies provide opportunities for political interference.
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What to do about this fourth kind of stories, about mundane-sounding policies that could be a nothingburger or could be opening the door to abuse? I don't really have a good answer—my own reporting is as fraught with the uncertainty of whether a policy like gold standard science will matter at all.
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Do you ever wish you had a tool that would allow you to combine your mind with others? In this *just published* paper @mainomenous.bsky.social and I argue that AI is a tool that enables collective attention, rejecting the idea that it is a standalone agent + philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
View of Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Do you ever wish you had a tool that would allow you to combine your mind with others? In this *just published* paper @mainomenous.bsky.social and I argue that AI is a tool that enables collective attention, rejecting the idea that it is a standalone agent + philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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Look, we all agree this is amazing. But we used to live comfortable in the understanding that you had to invite Chotiner in, like a vampire.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
my goodness:
Chotiner: who funds this shit
Ben Smith: How dare you ask such a question. Check your facts!
Chotiner: I have now checked my facts. A thread (1/381)
Ben Smith:
Chotiner: who funds this shit
Ben Smith: How dare you ask such a question. Check your facts!
Chotiner: I have now checked my facts. A thread (1/381)
Ben Smith:
a man in a hospital gown with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
ALT: a man in a hospital gown with the words i 've made a huge mistake behind him
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Look, we all agree this is amazing. But we used to live comfortable in the understanding that you had to invite Chotiner in, like a vampire.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.
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Eh, I doubt this, though it's possibly that XTwitter may no longer be a useful or fruitful platform for influence operations targeting the left.
Anyway.
Anyway.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Eh, I doubt this, though it's possibly that XTwitter may no longer be a useful or fruitful platform for influence operations targeting the left.
Anyway.
Anyway.
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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RELEASE ME.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
RELEASE ME.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
AM NOT CRIMBINAL.
DO NOT DESERVE JAIL.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Welcome to the world premier of Marcel's Beans.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Welcome to the world premier of Marcel's Beans.
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Ok, that's enough Star Wars discourse for today. Time to move on to more important things. Who should voice ART in Murderbot S2?
I cannot wait to meet ART on the next season of Murderbot. It's a real make-or-break casting.
“So, you have a relationship with this transport.” I was horrified. Humans are disgusting. “No!” Ratthi persisted, “You have a friendship.” I settled back in the corner and hugged my jacket. “No. Not—No.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ok, that's enough Star Wars discourse for today. Time to move on to more important things. Who should voice ART in Murderbot S2?
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if you saw gonzo on the helicopter shelf, no you didn't
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
if you saw gonzo on the helicopter shelf, no you didn't
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Extremely bad news for everyone who rides a Rad Power Bike 😢
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Extremely bad news for everyone who rides a Rad Power Bike 😢
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They could start even with just caucusing. Less than 10 people, quite literally, could end most of the madness tomorrow.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
As @mcopelov.bsky.social repeatedly points out, at any time they could just caucus with Democrats and vote for impeachment
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
They could start even with just caucusing. Less than 10 people, quite literally, could end most of the madness tomorrow.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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That's what this is about. They spoke a lot to the parents of autistic children but almost never to the children themselves. It centers the perspectives of allistic people instead. They absolve themselves of this problem by focusing on high needs autistic children they claim they can't speak with.
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
That's what this is about. They spoke a lot to the parents of autistic children but almost never to the children themselves. It centers the perspectives of allistic people instead. They absolve themselves of this problem by focusing on high needs autistic children they claim they can't speak with.
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Because these are not good tools for regular deployment; they’re survival tools for a temporary but untenable situation. These are avoidance strategies, not emotionally healthy and mutually respectful strategies. These are tools you use only when you have no other option but open, familiar warfare.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Because these are not good tools for regular deployment; they’re survival tools for a temporary but untenable situation. These are avoidance strategies, not emotionally healthy and mutually respectful strategies. These are tools you use only when you have no other option but open, familiar warfare.
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Yep! But it’s also about being the best version of yourself and modeling split responsibilities to the young ones who will someday be in your position as adult. We model the behavior we want to see while not participating in the harmful stuff.)
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Yep! But it’s also about being the best version of yourself and modeling split responsibilities to the young ones who will someday be in your position as adult. We model the behavior we want to see while not participating in the harmful stuff.)
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If the non-cooking adults are being jackasses about this? Don’t push, but round up the older kids and do the clean-up. Make it fun, and to the kids, make it clear that they’re being the better people than the old farts who cannot be arsed into being minimally decent citizens. Gen Alpha > Gen X.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If the non-cooking adults are being jackasses about this? Don’t push, but round up the older kids and do the clean-up. Make it fun, and to the kids, make it clear that they’re being the better people than the old farts who cannot be arsed into being minimally decent citizens. Gen Alpha > Gen X.
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(And every kid in your orbit needs to know that you are trustworthy, that you’re safe, that you’re not a rat, that you don’t snitch, because every kid will have times when that need a responsible, safe adult, and that person isn’t always their parents. And food is a first step to building safety.)
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
(And every kid in your orbit needs to know that you are trustworthy, that you’re safe, that you’re not a rat, that you don’t snitch, because every kid will have times when that need a responsible, safe adult, and that person isn’t always their parents. And food is a first step to building safety.)
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
One of the radically underappreciated things about the UCs is that, in aggregate across the system, we have a 70% admit rate.
It's hard to get into several particular UCs. It's not hard to get into a UC.
It's hard to get into several particular UCs. It's not hard to get into a UC.
A few folks are like "WELL ACTUALLY, Berkeley is a public school!!," Yeah dude, I know, but it's a fancy public school that I could have NEVER gotten into as a punk kid growing up in Southern California.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
One of the radically underappreciated things about the UCs is that, in aggregate across the system, we have a 70% admit rate.
It's hard to get into several particular UCs. It's not hard to get into a UC.
It's hard to get into several particular UCs. It's not hard to get into a UC.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
"Happy holidays millennials, we broke the economy again just for you"
The most Sophisticated Investors, Insiders & Executives w/ the best information have all positioned identically for a crisis.
Either they're all wrong together,
or they see something the public doesn't.
Either they're all wrong together,
or they see something the public doesn't.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Other Insiders Dump More Than $250 Million Of Stock As AI Bubble Fears Grip Investors - Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR)
Senior Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) is seeing one of the heaviest stretches of insider selling in years, amid growing scrutiny on the company's valuations in recent weeks.
www.benzinga.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Happy holidays millennials, we broke the economy again just for you"