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Patrick Sturgis

H-index: 38
Political science 41%
Sociology 30%
patricksturg.bsky.social
Financial Fair Play in the Premier League doesn't work and they should just get rid of it.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
I'm not sure that would be very helpful if you were prosecuting these 2 people in a court of law.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
do you also think that banning legal speech is problematic, i.e. once the threshold moves beyond what is lawful?
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
So who gets to decide whether these tweets, that you presumably selected as being egregious examples, are a "coded incitement to violence" or observations?
patricksturg.bsky.social
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?
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
the obvious defence the people you have screenshotted would mount is that they aren't calling for terrorist violence but predicting it will happen.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.com
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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bloomberg.com
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
patricksturg.bsky.social
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.

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cmmjournal.bsky.social
👣 "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....
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patricksturg.bsky.social
Interesting, I've never been to Reading.
leharrison.bsky.social
#Booksky #Readersky #Books
patricksturg.bsky.social
these are what are called ad hominem arguments. Look it up.

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lsemethodology.bsky.social
🤖 Recent advances in AI are beginning to reshape how we design, implement, and analyse surveys.

@patricksturg.bsky.social‬ will be sharing his expertise at UCL's AI for Survey Data Collection Methods and Data Analysis workshop on 9 July.

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