The time of the Nicks is over, the dominion of the Matts is about to begin

@ironeconomist.bsky.social 🫡

*ten other people immediately make this joke but I was first*

Don’t worry there’s a plug, you put it in the hole

I’m actually starting to see why there’s a big thread of academics (aside from the money and the sleaze), there’s a certain maladaptive “I can share platforms with people I disagree with” tough guy-ness (or nearest equivalent) that will have snookered some of them

Yes I was just then thinking this is the same techniques as the abuse itself isn’t it, test boundaries and you weed out the people who have them

In political affiliation that’s a lot of the story with Trump and probably Boris Johnson as well. People genuinely miss the first wrong notes and then they’re *committed* to not seeing them.

Like impact is probably the bit a leaner/more industrial strategy-driven UKRI would want to keep but not necessarily in this form

I quite like the “no research” starting point of IAA and/but sometimes there’s a tiny grey area of eg some data analysis that is pitched to a particular purpose. We’d be immediately swamped in research otherwise. But I have been wondering about longevity of IAAs given the *gestures* landscape.

Just love the absolute hutzpah of sharing this as if it's new information R&D have figured out, that's changed the grand plan - rather than something someone's granddaughter could have mentioned at her space themed 9th birthday party 🎈

This reads like he’s only just noticed the moon

What is happening. I wish @hookland.bsky.social was here.

No wonder everyone’s so friendly to me, I’ll probably be in that thing next year

The best thing about this as I recall was they released a video of “her” talking and it turned out to be an actress pretending to be an AI. One of the internet’s best days for Mechanical Turk jokes.

There is no evidence yet that he is not AI, it’s right there

Someone else said they only have big indoors spaces and maybe actually yes? Europe is small also in that we can hear each other all the time in all types of buildings (unless on a remote farm)