@neurojitsu.bsky.social
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
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FT Exclusive: Internal memos seen by the Financial Times said that Meta would 'suppress detections' based on how much an advertiser spent on the platform, and that some top advertisers would instead be reviewed by humans. www.ft.com/content/9255...
January 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
FT Exclusive: Internal memos seen by the Financial Times said that Meta would 'suppress detections' based on how much an advertiser spent on the platform, and that some top advertisers would instead be reviewed by humans. www.ft.com/content/9255...
Love this Muskorrection!
Musk: Anyone can break laws created by people, but I have yet to see anyone break the laws of physics
Prof Keen: ... when it comes to banking and the function of the financial sector, accounting is the law - but everything else is actually fraud.
youtu.be/TSmDwbrL3zI?...
Musk: Anyone can break laws created by people, but I have yet to see anyone break the laws of physics
Prof Keen: ... when it comes to banking and the function of the financial sector, accounting is the law - but everything else is actually fraud.
youtu.be/TSmDwbrL3zI?...
"Elon Musk is Wrong Again" Top Economist Warns the US
YouTube video by ProfSteveKeen
youtu.be
January 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Love this Muskorrection!
Musk: Anyone can break laws created by people, but I have yet to see anyone break the laws of physics
Prof Keen: ... when it comes to banking and the function of the financial sector, accounting is the law - but everything else is actually fraud.
youtu.be/TSmDwbrL3zI?...
Musk: Anyone can break laws created by people, but I have yet to see anyone break the laws of physics
Prof Keen: ... when it comes to banking and the function of the financial sector, accounting is the law - but everything else is actually fraud.
youtu.be/TSmDwbrL3zI?...
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This looks very interesting...
We often define the ideological space in terms of the economic and cultural dimensions; how does this resonate with ordinary citizens? This is the question Thomas and I explore in a new Element, analyzing answers to open-ended survey questions 🧵
cup.org/4gEYCOj
cup.org/4gEYCOj
The European Ideological Space in Voters' Own Words
Cambridge Core - Organisation Studies - The European Ideological Space in Voters' Own Words
cup.org
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This looks very interesting...
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Quarter of freshwater species face extinction risk, research finds
https://www.ft.com/content/2de7e5de-b677-441f-b91c-97014e940684
https://www.ft.com/content/2de7e5de-b677-441f-b91c-97014e940684
Quarter of freshwater species face extinction risk, research finds
Fish, shrimps and crabs threatened by pollution and land use changes, study involving thousands of scientists concludes
www.ft.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quarter of freshwater species face extinction risk, research finds
https://www.ft.com/content/2de7e5de-b677-441f-b91c-97014e940684
https://www.ft.com/content/2de7e5de-b677-441f-b91c-97014e940684
Look forward to seeing this new film "2073" by Asif Kapadia that imagine where we are headed.
Arendt's "banality of evil" is a phrase that's been feeling pertinent to the last few days' events...
Arendt's "banality of evil" is a phrase that's been feeling pertinent to the last few days' events...
Just watched last night - brilliant. And most terrifying part was that it was hard to know where film ended and the BBC news began. First 2 news items:
(1) Meta ditches fact checking
(2) Trump threatens to gain control of Greenland
“It may not be too late for you” - friends, it’s getting later …
(1) Meta ditches fact checking
(2) Trump threatens to gain control of Greenland
“It may not be too late for you” - friends, it’s getting later …
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
January 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Look forward to seeing this new film "2073" by Asif Kapadia that imagine where we are headed.
Arendt's "banality of evil" is a phrase that's been feeling pertinent to the last few days' events...
Arendt's "banality of evil" is a phrase that's been feeling pertinent to the last few days' events...
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Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...
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It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
January 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
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While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
about.fb.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
While the press has focused on the ending of Meta's fact-checking program, not enough has focused on the removal of restrictions on certain types of speech previously deemed harmful on FB & IG, incl. criticism of vulnerable groups—immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ people. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
Ressa vs Trump: two polar opposites, the former puts her life at risk for free speech, the latter puts others' lives at risk for financial and political profit. There is simply no room for fence sitting or staying silent.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ressa vs Trump: two polar opposites, the former puts her life at risk for free speech, the latter puts others' lives at risk for financial and political profit. There is simply no room for fence sitting or staying silent.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Never get high on your own supply!
"Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product" on.ft.com/3W6Zx1S
How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
[FREE TO READ] Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue
on.ft.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Never get high on your own supply!
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The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
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Interesting and fruitful excursion by @pmdfoster.bsky.social into the deep end of post-Brexit trade/regulation align-or-innovate dilemma. www.ft.com/content/90f7...
UK delays gene editing plans in push for Brexit reset
[FREE TO READ] Brussels warns that current British plans not compatible with agreement to cut border checks
www.ft.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Interesting and fruitful excursion by @pmdfoster.bsky.social into the deep end of post-Brexit trade/regulation align-or-innovate dilemma. www.ft.com/content/90f7...
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The best thing you can do is starve Meta for revenue. Never click on or buy anything through their ads. Never pay for an ad to sell a product or advertise an event. Never do anything again that will put one cent in Mark Zuckerberg's pocket!
January 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The best thing you can do is starve Meta for revenue. Never click on or buy anything through their ads. Never pay for an ad to sell a product or advertise an event. Never do anything again that will put one cent in Mark Zuckerberg's pocket!
Practical thinking tools here for navigating the minefield of AI tools: please share generously as I feel we need to bring in more rigour to counter all the hype.
Nic Rouleau & I: checklist to go through when settling on opinions about AI, diverse intelligence, unconventional cognition, consciousness, mind/machine issues, etc. When you read (or write) about these topics, run the perspective through this, to kick the tires. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Discussions of machine versus living intelligence need more clarity - Nature Machine Intelligence
Sharp distinctions often drawn between machine and biological intelligences have not tracked advances in the fields of developmental biology and hybrid robotics. We call for conceptual clarity driven ...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Practical thinking tools here for navigating the minefield of AI tools: please share generously as I feel we need to bring in more rigour to counter all the hype.
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thoughtforms.life/diverse-inte...
my talk on diverse intelligence, and downloadable content - the slides, and an old book and citation library of papers on plant intelligence. 🧪
my talk on diverse intelligence, and downloadable content - the slides, and an old book and citation library of papers on plant intelligence. 🧪
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Diverse intelligence in plants and beyond: a talk and some downloadable resources
A talk I gave on diverse intelligence (with downloadable slide content) plus downloadable library of references to papers on plant cognition.
thoughtforms.life
December 17, 2024 at 2:29 AM
thoughtforms.life/diverse-inte...
my talk on diverse intelligence, and downloadable content - the slides, and an old book and citation library of papers on plant intelligence. 🧪
my talk on diverse intelligence, and downloadable content - the slides, and an old book and citation library of papers on plant intelligence. 🧪
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Levin is doing some of the most intriguing work around for anyone interested in #cognition… this paper asks:
If all persistent systems are to some (perhaps only minimal) extent cognitive, are all persistent systems to some extent alive, or are living sys-tems only a subset of cognitive systems?
If all persistent systems are to some (perhaps only minimal) extent cognitive, are all persistent systems to some extent alive, or are living sys-tems only a subset of cognitive systems?
Started talking to Chris Fields on how to revise the Drake Equation to focus on the *observer* and their degree of ability to detect unconventional minds around them; it turned into this preprint - OoL, diverse intelligence, Conway-Kochen theorem, Free Energy Principle: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Levin is doing some of the most intriguing work around for anyone interested in #cognition… this paper asks:
If all persistent systems are to some (perhaps only minimal) extent cognitive, are all persistent systems to some extent alive, or are living sys-tems only a subset of cognitive systems?
If all persistent systems are to some (perhaps only minimal) extent cognitive, are all persistent systems to some extent alive, or are living sys-tems only a subset of cognitive systems?
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Now we will know just how far gone John Roberts is.
January 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Now we will know just how far gone John Roberts is.
It appears AI-aggregated news is not ‘just’ summarising, but also hallucinating - Apple have admitted their AI is having problems… a quote:
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told the BBC Apple needed to go further and pull a product he said was "clearly not ready."
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told the BBC Apple needed to go further and pull a product he said was "clearly not ready."
January 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It appears AI-aggregated news is not ‘just’ summarising, but also hallucinating - Apple have admitted their AI is having problems… a quote:
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told the BBC Apple needed to go further and pull a product he said was "clearly not ready."
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told the BBC Apple needed to go further and pull a product he said was "clearly not ready."
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In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?
January 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?
