Andrew D Wilson

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Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics. He/him

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Some more good news and reasons to actively support Biden, if you want some

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Reyhan Furman, PhD

Yeah it was pretty intense, but in a good way. Perfect way to end the show

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This seems like a good time to introduce everyone to Bobby WaffleCone

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Jar-Jar Binks Lollipop (1999-1999): A promotional item for "Star Wars: Episode I", this candy featured the plastic likeness of character Jar-Jar Binks, whose mouth opened to reveal a retractable strawberry-flavored sucker, shaped and textured like his tongue. Delightful.

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Ed Zitron

I think about this so often

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RIP Bob Shaw. Sad to see him go. True luminary of ecological psychology.

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Ed Zitron

It's time to call BS on Sam Altman, and demand that OpenAI shows *ACTUAL EVIDENCE* of ChatGPT's ability to do more than it could 18 months ago. This man is a liar that lies for a living, accumulating power and money by having the media publish his lies. wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

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This week's newsletter: It's time to call BS on generative AI and demand that companies like OpenAI actually provide useful, helpful software, and actively reject the growing coterie of hucksters using AI as a marketing tool to get media headlines. www.wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

Put Up Or Shut Upwww.wheresyoured.at I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their in...

Late to the party but I finally watched Derry Girls and it is just a fucking delight that made me feel a lot of things ❤️

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I never really understood the Prince love till I saw footage of him live

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Paddington solemnly leading Southgate into Heaven. Southgate protesting, I’m not dead though. Paddington keeps a firm grip on his hand. Southgate screaming, crying, pleading. Paddington does not relent

What if, for a change of pace, literally anything good happened?

Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords | Biden administration | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com President to unveil rent control plan for larger landlords that would restrict increases to 5%, or risk losing tax breaks

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Matt Steinglass

This sort of thing drives me nuts - ‘just asking questions’ without engaging with the actual answer is designed to make it seem like the answer will suit you. It’s deeply deceptive

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Pwnallthethings

Seems like a useful amount 🤔

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Roger Giner-Sorolla

Oh sure - it’s still dumb though :)

It worries me that ‘actually being pretty good at your job’ wasn’t enough for Southgate to keep his. I hooe this doesn’t become the standard, I don’t work nearly as hard as he did 😂

Imagine being so racist that you come up with a racist scare-mongering argument but can’t even bring yourself to credit it to the people you’re being racist about

Trump’s running mate says UK could be ‘first Islamist country’ to get nuclear weapon

Trump’s running mate says UK could be ‘first Islamist country’ to get nuclear weaponwww.theguardian.com JD Vance’s criticism of Labour government comes as David Lammy tries to build bridges with vice-presidential nominee

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Keith Wilson 💭

I really miss old Twitter. I had so many connections, ways to talk about my work that people saw and engaged with. It turns out I was really depending on that and I’m mad it’s gone

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Not gonna lie, it would be funny if they gave her something important to do and she fucked it so hard the GOP fell apart too 😂

I feel like you shouldn’t be allowed to donate $45 million a month to any politician but hey it’s a crazy world I guess

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla

They’re so racist they can’t even credit their big racist fear to a non-white source 😂

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Dr Neil and Mr Price

Worst part is Lammy’s been sucking up to Vance for some reason 🙄

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"Oh God, what happened? Why can’t I hear anything on the right side of my head?"

Terrified Don Jr. Awakens In Ice-Filled Tub Missing Earwww.theonion.com BUTLER, PA—Groggy and bleary-eyed as he returned to consciousness, a terrified Donald Trump Jr. reportedly awoke in an ice-filled tub Monday to discover he was missing an ear. “Hello? Is anyone here?”...

Off to a great start 🙄

Trump’s running mate says UK could be ‘first Islamist country’ to get nuclear weapon

“On a real-world manipulation task specified by natural language description” - hmm

Olivia Y. Lee, Annie Xie, Kuan Fang, Karl Pertsch, Chelsea Finn Affordance-Guided Reinforcement Learning via Visual Prompting https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10341

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Bix

Well the instruction was to fit in, so… 😬

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Soren Spicknall

Surely it would have been faster to just train it on Twitter data

I endorse every word here - I still look this up to wonder at it pretty regularly

Speaking of all star performances, this is the greatest of all time. It starts off as a fairly prosaic, doing-it-for-the-paycheck ensemble performance. And then Prince shows up. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFN...

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Inductionm.youtube.com Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. http://rockhall.com/⁍ Buy...

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Emily Gorcenski

I watch this regularly because it is so fucking incredible than I cannot believe it happened. My favourite part is that Prince does what he does looking like he’s running at about 60%