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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 4h

I have to imagine even the parking inspectors think what the cops are doing here is a pathetic joke.

Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 4h

Until recently, I would have said that UK cops are pretty inoffensive, by world standards of cops.

And while this (pic) happens a lot (and we don't know how often the cops ignore it), it's happening enough for me to be concerned with how easily the average plod will just 'carry out orders'.

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 5h

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

www.thenational.scot

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 8h

And yet people have strong opinions about both dice, and car colour.

The issue is people care about die for the *wrong reasons*. No-one is developing a probability heuristic based on the dice system (which is what designers are doing).

They just like certain clicky-clacks. Red car go fast.

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 9h

By the way, my real hot take is, die choice doesn't really matter. It's a tiny, unimportant part of game design that gets massively overfocused on. Calling a game "2d6 based" or whatever is like saying a car is "red paint job based".

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering how different psychology was 100 years ago.

Well, you can check: www.jstor.org/stable/i261711

I skimmed the articles, but they seemed pretty robust, both in their content and the topics of their arguments (Methods. They were arguing about methods and numbers).

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 5d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @rebeccasear.bsky.social led by @hggaddy.bsky.social with @anthrolog.bsky.social challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…)

it's open access 🔓 🧪 @brunelpsy.bsky.social

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market

www.pnas.org

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think I have anything thoughtful to say on the topic (at least, not within the constraints of this call), but I think it's a cool idea.

Though I do think it requires a companion piece that should be what *ought* psychology look like in 2125.

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 2d

Love the look of this Call for Papers in Perspectives on Psychological Science: "Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward"

Editor: Arturo E. Hernandez
What will psychological science look like in the year 2125?

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Call for Papers: Psychology in 2125 – A Century Forward

Editor: Arturo E. HernandezWhat will psychological science look like in the year 2125?This special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science invites contributors to imagine the long arc of our di...

www.psychologicalscience.org

Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 5d

Busy day with students. A colleague said that some of the experiences were "a neuro-atypical nightmare". I said "I'm not atypical, but I struggled..."

No fewer than 3 colleagues (all of whom I like and respect) disputed this. I am, apparently, definitely atypical.

w0t?

Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 5d

On the train this morning I spied the front page of the Daily Mail.

Anyone reading this is not media literate. Putting aside the factual claims, the framing and design is explicitly propagandist. I was genuinely shocked.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 5d

Spotify's default 'shuffle' setting is violence against art.

Very annoying when you find a new album, start with track one, and realize seven songs deep it's been shuffled.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing better illustrates how broken publishing in academia is than when an author cannot read one of their own papers online.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 6d

The average grade of a first year undergrad. Could you imagine handing everything over to a green 19 year old?

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 6d

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2%" 😶

I often wonder how these corps would have turned the world upside down if genAI was actually accurate and useful. they've lost their minds over shoddy and mediocre tools

www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

www.theverge.com

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 6d

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 7d

eeyyyy, I remember this!

I still think any hacky scholar using rnorm() with an appropriate accounting of floors/ceilings is still a more sophisticated fraudster than the rest who got caught (usually 'cause they copy-pasted values, or +2 across a whole column).

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 7d

... I don't get the reference? Any links?

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 7d

This is just putting a hat on a hat. If you want to be a hack, it'd be faster to just use rnorm(). Honestly, I'd respect you more if you were self-aware and deceptive, than if you'd convinced yourself 'silicon samples' have any merit.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 8d

I'm personally struggling with how much game stuff I can/should have on my office book shelf...

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 9d

The last guardian is just an insult. Why would it show up there like that? It might be game breaking for me - to go deal with the widow, get the bells, and no hint of another boss then BAM.

Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe I'll eat my hat on this, but Silksong isn't notably harder than the original Hollow Knight. I'm not a 'get good' kinda guy, but I don't see what everyone is complaining about. (Yet?).

Like the original: if you can't do an area, back off, go upgrade, and come back with a new ability.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job.

If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job.

You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies.

Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 14d

Classic Meme material here

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 15d

This is a good and proper metaphor, because chromosomes are exactly like protons, the value of gold was never itself a social construction, and - most importantly - the use of gold in transactions was never replaced by some third thing.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 15d

Elsevier is bad, huh. Like, I did all your stupid proofing for you, and yet you didn't incorporate the comments. None of the authors have affiliations.

Clearly it's fully automated and no humans eyes process the feedback.

Sigh.

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Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 16d

I reviewed Steven Pinker's new book on common knowledge. Tl;dr: "A book can be bad without its thesis being untrue".

What Fuels Revolution, Social Embarrassment and Public Acclaim? It’s Common Knowledge.

www.nytimes.com

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Guy Harling @harlingg.bsky.social · 16d

Lovely detailed description by @haneuljang.bsky.social & @danielredhead.bsky.social of how knowledge & skills are differentially spread through the network of a forager village in DRC. And how this is patterned by own & contact age, kinship and relationship status

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

academic.oup.com

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 16d

This is a notable scholar's citations per year. Can you think of an explanation for 2018?

(Note: I'm not suggesting anything funky about this pattern, just curious to understand why).