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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 23

Financial Fair Play in the Premier League doesn't work and they should just get rid of it.

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 16

It was an incredibly poor performance and result. Terrible team selection, tactic and substitutions. Big call to start Hermansson which backfired. He’s under huge pressure now.

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 16

I can already say with some confidence West Ham are getting relegated this season. 2-0 down to Sunderland on day 1 and Potter brings on Callum Wilson and Andy Irvine. We lose 3-0.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 14

QED

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 14

I wouldn't see that, he blocked me.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 14

As I said, Twitter is awful, a total cesspit. Bluesky is nice but boring, liberal people agreeing with eacher other. like being a Guardian reader in the 90s, although you didn't get punishment beatings for wrongthink then.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ha ha ha 😂

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm not sure that would be very helpful if you were prosecuting these 2 people in a court of law.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

I mean that if a bunch of left-wing liberals flee X to Bsky because X is too rightwing then follow a heuristic of "block jerks, don't feed trolls", it's a recipe for very boring ideological conformity. This is why Bluesky is boring and rapidly losing subscribers.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

will have a read!

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

the big problem is when you move beyond banning what is unlawful (not itself unproblematic given many laws), how do you decide what can and can't be said? That is how you end up with Twitter banning women from saying there are only 2 sexes.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

do you also think that banning legal speech is problematic, i.e. once the threshold moves beyond what is lawful?

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

And that pressure can result in lawful speech being banned, such as women expressing gender critical beliefs on pre-Musk Twitter. Making perceived harm the threshold is therefore highly problematic for free speech in a democratic society.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

So who gets to decide whether these tweets, that you presumably selected as being egregious examples, are a "coded incitement to violence" or observations?

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

Haven't been on here for a while but popped over to take a look because Twitter is so awful. Some interesting discussions going on but I'm mostly struck by the rigid ideological conformity and thirst for punishing those who indulge in wrongthink. Should I try Threads?

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

Not defending them obviously but it kind of does make a difference in understanding the motivation in that mindless morons boo the opposition no matter the extent of the bad taste. I've witnessed it many times.

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

It was the Palace fans

Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

the obvious defence the people you have screenshotted would mount is that they aren't calling for terrorist violence but predicting it will happen.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 10

It's rooted in complying with the law. But practically, trans-identifying women ('trans men') aren't the problem here, no man is going to care if they use the men's toilets. Alternatively, they can use mixed-sex toilets.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 9

My, admittedly somewhat limited, experience of GPT-5 has not been good. Particularly weird that it didn't even know how to code API calls to itself.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 9

For months, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been hyping up the capabilities of GPT-5, setting up the launch as a seminal moment for the company. But in the first 24 hours after its release, the new model was met with mixed reviews

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Met With Mixed Reviews, Confusion in First Day

For months, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been hyping up the capabilities of GPT-5, setting up the launch as a seminal moment for the company. But in the first 24 hours after its release, the new model was met with mixed reviews.

bloom.bg

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Aug 9

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Reposted by Patrick Sturgis

Communication Methods and Measures @cmmjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

👣 "Uncovering Digital Trace Data Biases: Tracking Undercoverage in Web Tracking Data" by Bosch et al. @orioljbosch.bsky.social @patricksturg.bsky.social Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Featured in our latest issue!

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Jun 23

New working paper with Chuyao Wang and Dan De Kadt, "AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects". The title is a concise summary but read the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16202

AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects

Explicit labeling of online content produced by artificial intelligence (AI) is a widely mooted policy for ensuring transparency and promoting public confidence. Yet little is known about the scope of...

arxiv.org

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Jun 8

The greatest tennis match of all time.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · Jun 8

Interesting, I've never been to Reading.

L.E. Harrison @leharrison.bsky.social · Jun 7

#Booksky #Readersky #Books

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