Finally on leave for the summer. I am going to unplug from here too, see how much I miss it. Have fun with whatever Trump does next!
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
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Finally on leave for the summer. I am going to unplug from here too, see how much I miss it. Have fun with whatever Trump does next!
I’d fail this essay on the grounds it doesn’t actually describe anything real
I swear there’s a website in here somewhere.
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
Man they really went balls to the wall on this one. Gotta respect it 🫡
Yeah it really was - absolutely incredible
PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.
When South Park was good, it was off the deep end good 😂
It’s kind of legendary. But they’re all getting weird 😂
The hair on Strange New Worlds is getting out of control, and it’s not just Pike
Not gonna lie, I’m enjoying this a lot 😂
Did they say something about Trump being in the Epstein files?
Yes, this is a joke. The original mummy voice video is here:
I always try to watch with a straight face and this video remains undefeated 😂😂😂
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting
Is.... is my coffee about to cum?
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
The thing the reboot did update in a way that felt believable was the details of the combat doctrines designed around these. The way all the ships got used felt really real
I saw an old woman swallowing a fly outside Tesco earlier so I've been following her about to see what crazy shit is about to unfold next
I would build the shit out of a proper Lego Galactica though 🤔
I also tried to make them with the Lego I had. I made a pretty sweet Galactica once!
Actually a ton of the BSG design was amazing. The Galactica was just fabulous as well. When they did the reboot I was so happy they kept the majority of those design elements, because they were iconic
The Viper remains one of the single coolest things sci fi has ever given us
South Park went after CBS and Paramount too.
Look I haven’t watched in years but this is funny and it’s funny it’s making people mad 😂
Why does this look like a live Looney Toons cartoon?? 👀😅🤣
checking into a motel under an assumed name and putting this on to get in the mood
6. Just because you're more specific about the flavour of a bag of crisps (e.g. Not 'salt and vinegar' but 'Himalayan rock salt and Somerset cider vinegar') doesn't automatically mean it's worth more, and we need to stop playing along with this con.
It’s all we scientists really want to do - just fuck around and find out, but in a good way
“To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up. But that’s still “long enough to be interesting”… To which he added: “I’m very thankful that I get to blow stuff up with giant lasers for discoveries. And that’s my job, you know.””
I mean, that’s a little bit amazing
Perfect quote. No notes.
“Leave politics out of it” Pride is political, my friend, and this is good politics
love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you
Respect ✊
I used to be proud of IU
It must be so weird to just fly like this
Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified. UK: “lol, no”
It’s awful how she was involved in that bizarre self-decapitation accident next week.
Just told a friend and this was her exact response - apparently I’m the weird one for not having seen him till now 😂😂
The pull-quote is “Go fuck yourself” but the better one is “They left me alive.” It will be interesting to see if CBS pulls the plug early because Colbert is clearly ready to go down swinging.👏👏👏 thehill.com/homenews/med...
I just remembered I saw a guy taking his snake for a walk the other day
Not gonna lie, this is excellent journalism
Love that cover, love that issue
lol
We don’t represent things, but also yeah we actually perceive and act within the bounds of the relevant physics. This is why we don’t die immediately!
I’m mad at Nurse Chapel for just arriving with a boyfriend. Fucking rude not to think it might be weird
Strange New Worlds remains a weird little show. Is it a sci fi show? A soap opera? It depends on who wrote the episode! Are the characters the best of Starfleet? Are they all n way over their heads? It depends!
Inferno was a really interesting and multi layered story that, in part, gave Claremont a do-over with the Dark Phoenix idea that he got to just nail
*stares in ecological psychologist*
Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg "Click to view full size")
At last, some good news.
Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP
Yeah, he went out on a real high of love from the fans. That’s gotta be a good way to go ❤️
My grandmother warned me about falling through the gaps between boards on piers and I was afraid of piers till quite late in my life
I can’t stop listening to this, it’s amazing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Enshittificationception
That was astonishing to see happen after years of Bush doing his shit
The Colbert Report remains for me one of the most astonishing pieces of satire ever. It lasted years, he was so committed to the bit people were never entirely sure if he was serious, & he said so many necessary things it was incredible. A man who can do that is not a man to be fucked with like this
I mean, if you’d asked me to predict this pattern I think I’d have nailed it 🤔😂
AI shaming is good, though. I thought we were all on board with that
USA TODAY: “.. The president is wildly unpopular, and he is creating a crueler version of America that a sizable majority of voters reject.” @usatoday.com @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Beautifully written and important piece here:
It's #WorldBrainDay! You know YOU have a brain, but does a lobster have a brain? How about a worm? Different people give different answers! There is no generally agreed upon definition of "brain": neurodojo.blogspot.com/2018/03/what... #Neuroskyence
The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
Oh I’m definitely just sympathising with you here ✊😂
Academics when teaching is done for the year:
Boo ☹️
And we’d be debating zip up or pullover hoodie style
Thanks for coming! It was great to meet you, good luck with your project :)
First blog post for our forest intelligence project! www.um.es/mintlab/inde... @diovicen.bsky.social #plantintelligence
It's a bias amplification engine thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
But maybe it is just Fox News etc. Definitely an option
I mean yes, but also I feel like this is tapping some value in left wing politics. Like, they’re trying to make sure people feel heard and it’s turned into not being forceful enough to control the narrative
Ok now I’m interested 🤔😂 Just madness, really
Can we all just agree to be kind to each other and not create endless pointless problems? Is that so hard? Apparently so :(
Had an interesting chat with Alexander Bendiksen on free will, cognition, consciousness, agency... all that good stuff! 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/7e1G...
That’s what they tell me! It’s just funny to me that my kids and I both really found it grating, given I don’t THINK we’re evil 🤔
So yeah, someone saying out loud that EU membership of some kind is simply a good idea would be nice
It’s also just a theme across the world - the right sets the terms of the debate and the left bends over backwards to accept the framing. Then you get people like Ardern and AOC who have clear goals and values and people resonate to it, but no one learns the lesson. Drives me mad
Yeah, it’s definitely time to get this back into the discussion. Labour has just accepted the ‘Europe bad’ framing and its 🙄🙄
This is it - Europe has to be on board with any proposal. Part of the UK party’s problem is then that they are letting the EU dictate their policy. Which they have to. But is a bad look.
I admit to having paid 0 attention to the Lib Dems for a long time. But anything that moves us back towards Europe that Europe will support is ok by me
Needs to remind the reporter too
Me having to walk places and do things after a weekend of softball 🥎
But it’s not the flow that’s providing the safety I don’t think. So either the answer is ‘you are chill, therefore feeling chill’ or the flow is doing something else 🤔
The vague Tory belief that the EU will just do what is useful for them is so wild and without any evidence at all (quite the contrary!)
One does not simply... rewrite the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. 😅😅😅😅😅...😭
What the fuck kind of plan is this
Annual Groningen Lectures in Ecological Psychology (this year, Fred Hasselman and Peter Beek)
Do any of my ecopsych or other vision friends have a take on why the rapid optic flow of images that you experience on a train is so relaxing?
First it’s just flow, not a flow of images :) Second, I have no idea! It’s global flow which specifies self motion - maybe self motion with no effort is just nice 🤔
Are my kids and I the only people who just don’t really like Bluey? Like, I’m not mad about it’s success, I just never enjoyed it
Journalist Fooled By Very Thing Their Story Is About
As a student of the classics I *already* have a degree which involves asking questions of oracles who are high on drugs or fumes and interpreting answers which have precious little basis in understanding the topic.
I literally once wrote an entire lecture on Thor and Loki when Marvel was at its cinema peak. Seriously, the shocked looks I got when I explained that Thor was a male power fantasy. Loki was a queer-coded female fantasy. Now, I have to explain Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 to the same people.
Examples are happiness and some gases.
Yeah I think it’s legit but it feels like a crime