Dan Bennett

@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Multisensory Human Computer Interaction, Bristol University
Human autonomy & agency, complexity, psychology.
Prev: Post-doc w @elisamekler.bsky.social

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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woke? An Admittedly Slapdash Comment on Clark et al (2024): http://osf.io/ab34v/

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Hehe @pronouns.adorable.mom and @labeler.renahlee.com are both self-service and you can have multiple pronouns/flags. Many thanks to @futanari.tentacle.expert and @renahlee.com for these. (Small heads-up that labellers are enumerable on ATProto, though, so these are directories on some level.)

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I bit a radioactive spider and now it's got human powers. It's crying

New Roberto Bolaño just dropped

Every evening at around 7:30pm two adolescent seagulls appear directly outside my office window and start screaming. I open the window, they fly off, then come back 5 mins later. This continues indefinitely. There is nothing but sloped metal roof outside my window. Why here?

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Seen this circulating. Fitting that it's referencing the Titanic

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Urgent government action needed, various options available

UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international studentswww.theguardian.com Applications for sponsored visas have plummeted since new restrictions brought in, raising financial fears

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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD

this was fun english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

‘No specific purpose’: Experts on how Big Tech attempts to create demand for AIenglish.hani.co.kr Ted Chiang, Gary Marcus, Choi Yejin and Abeba Birhane took part in a roundtable on the topic of AI at the Hankyoreh Human & Digital Forum on June 12

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That's the good stuff.

Surprising myself with how emotional I feel to wake up this morning with Carla Denyer as my MP. It's been a decade of absolute bigotry, vandalsism and decline, but Bristol just voted to massively accelerate the move to sustainability and equity in the city 💚 carladenyer.co.uk/meet-carla/

Meet Carla - Carla Denyercarladenyer.co.uk Carla Denyer: Your Bristol Central Green Party MP Candidate. Tackling the Climate Emergency - An End to the Housing Crisis - A Fairer and More Equal City

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Result of the night? The swing from the Tories to the far left in North Hereford is incredible. Clearly letting agri business turn the river Wye into a sewer doesn’t go down well with locals. But still, you have to be pretty determined to swing that far left.

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we saw you from across the bar and were wondering if you'd contribute to our edited volume

This afternoon!

People at #DIS2024 ! On Thursday @blackcorvid.bsky.social will be explaining what Chinese classical poetry can teach us about designing thermal and affective technologies. If you don't follow her, you should! Also say hello to her at DIS. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Chris Corsano has his name on two absolute bangers released this year. This one won't sell as well as the one on Drag City, but it goes equally hard. armennalbandian.bandcamp.com/album/a-spon...

A Spontaneous Breaking Of Symmetry II., by Armen Nalbandian & Chris Corsanoarmennalbandian.bandcamp.com 4 track album

Having coded the final extract for my qualitative analysis

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Read, and weep

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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'Eighty-one per cent of Labour supporters and 77 per cent of Conservatives said it was “important” or “very important” that the next government take action to support any university at risk of closure because of financial issues, “including providing emergency funding”.'

Voters back using public money to bail out UK universities – pollwww.timeshighereducation.com Nearly three-quarters of people want next government to take action to support a higher education institution at risk of closure

Two exciting releases for a Friday 1) Eiko Ishibashi's latest soundtrack eikoishibashi.bandcamp.com/album/evil-d...

Evil Does Not Exist, by Eiko Ishibashieikoishibashi.bandcamp.com 7 track album

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Hey, I know what you're thinking - "I would really like a second, redundant reason to hate 'Brewdog'" Well... tribunemag.co.uk/2024/06/asia...

Asian BrewDog Worker Sacked After Raising Concerns About EDL Presencetribunemag.co.uk EXCLUSIVE: Tribune can reveal that an Asian BrewDog employee was sacked after raising concerns about the presence of the EDL on the day of a far-right rally.

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Our model also suggests that reforms may only create the illusion of fixing the replication crisis without changing what hypotheses enter the literature, whether they're significant (at large N), increasing sign error and decreasing magnitude error. Reforms may be worthwhile, but for other reasons!

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It’s a terrible bind because protest should be rude, but at some point the notoriety cannibalizes on the connection you are trying to establish with the people you’ve made to look.

I think they send their message very effectively, and I do like the message (no point in protecting art and history when the environment is not protected). What I worry about is how much this does not win them any public support, something they 100% need for reach their endgame.

Just Stop Oil protesters spray Stonehenge with paint | CNNwww.cnn.com Environmental protesters have sprayed Britain’s most famous prehistoric structure, Stonehenge, with orange paint a day before huge crowds are expected to gather there for the summer solstice.

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New paper out today arguing that studying implicit metacognition is relevant for understanding emotional subjective experience in mental health. It was a pleasure writing this w/ @hakwan.bsky.social, Stefan Hofmann, @amygdaloid.bsky.social & @vincenttd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pcn....

Metacognition as a window into subjective affective experiencedoi.org When patients seek professional help for mental disorders, they often do so because of troubling subjective affective experiences. While these subjective states are at the center of the patient's sym....

I said I was not going to do another big qualitative analysis this year, and yet here I am doing inductive content analysis on 550 free text responses.

"Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic" targetting Philippine social media, where "The difficulty in vaccinating the population contributed to the worst death rate in the region." South Asians are expendable in the propaganda war? www.reuters.com/investigates...

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

Did not see "Gastr del Sol in the NY Times" coming (nor passing, aparently. This is a few weeks old now.) www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/a...

The (Very Brief) Return of Gastr del Solwww.nytimes.com In the ’90s, the duo of Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs made quiet, intricate music amid a loud rock underground. A new compilation brought them back together.

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🧵 preprint of my #DIS2024 paper w/ @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social & @elisamekler.bsky.social osf.io/7mb4c Smiles Summon the Warmth of Spring: A Framework for Thermal & Affective Design Grounded in Classical Chinese Poetry A very meaningful project for me! I'm excited to share!