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Torba today: site updates for new speech warriors "preparing Gab for a storm...I see forming on the horizon. I hold a deep conviction that censorship is going to make a massive draconian comeback in the years to come, specifically surrounding the topics of Israel & foreign influence in our country."

Building a faraday cage around the classroom over break; see ya.

The strictness of my soon-to-be-implemented no phone policy will be 100% savage immediately. I'm so fucking fed up.

In an effort to combat LLMs next term all work will be done in-class, with charred sticks on slate.

I don't know whether my face can predict my salary.
My salary is very predictive of my face.

Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Vaccines cause adults

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group identity and cashing in on viral content.

New from me - how AI-generated political videos have become just another part of social media, used to entertain, outrage and monitize attention

theconversation.com/ai-generated...

(This is a pointless conversation. I have engaged with high-follower people - many of whom I trust for information and commentary - over the use of the word, and I've refrained from doing so. Why are you so fixated on this? Use the word! I'll think you are stupid. That's OK!)

Maybe he has! I see no skeets in 2025!

The word you are looking for is eugenicist.
Thank you for providing such ready evidence for my thesis; people have a hard time giving up using such a word.

I am pretty well convinced that K-12 schools should be blocking access to conversational chatbots at this point.

Your brain evolved for movement

An evergreen tell...

I'm reading this in Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London cadence.

"Bassett, a 1979 graduate of Harvard Medical School who has run the FXB Center for the past seven years, was informed just a few hours before the dean’s email was sent that she would be replaced"

Yikes.

🚨New research in SPPS:
Call a dish plant-based meat and people think it will taste worse + looks “less manly.” Sexist beliefs made this even stronger.

Results of nearly 1400 meat eaters across 2 studies
w/ Salmen, @nadirafaber.bsky.social & Krings
Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

lol, the seasonal refrain.

Aw, shit man, not Mariah

Age-related changes in proprioception are of limited size, outcome-dependent and task-dependent Our ability to sense the position and movement of our limbs is essential for all activities of daily living. This ability arises from the signal sent by muscle spindles to the brain. While there is cl...

Another day, another paper accepted at Geroscience:
our work on the (limited) effect of age on proprioception has been accepted
preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I can't properly locate any individual data points from the original on the replicated dual y axes.

is it really that hard to un-rehabilitate the word "moron?"

It's a gross word, I don't find it funny, it makes me ill to contemplate using it. The word has an ugly history.

Or you could not use a eugenics-derived word when these politicians want to eliminate half the country by eugenic means.

Dehumanization: The Catastrophic Loss of Our Shared Humanity Autoimmune diseases misidentify parts of the body as a threat. Dehumanization mirrors this error. Here's why we dismiss others’ humanity and how to break the cycle.

This @psychologytoday.com piece by @rossgwhite.com explores what fuels dehumanization, citing past work by Francesca Prati, Richard Crisp, & Monica Rubini showing that counter-stereotype exposure reduces prejudice and helps re‑humanize others. 🧠💙

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Once feedbacks kick in, like permafrost melt, then warming is indeed likely to continue until a new equilibrium is reached.

Every Democrat who voted for this should resign. Wtaf.

New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science:

'Expanding statistical horizons: Supplementary training trends in a sample of North American psychology researchers'
- Crone, G., Alter, U., & Counsell, A.

buff.ly/WQPOrOv

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Make it so.

This framing obscures the vast mediating apparatus of the university itself—centers, policies & funding structures— & presumes (in keeping with tech-sponsored ideology) that any rejection will happen individually bt teacher & student even while broad consent has already transpired institutionally