Christopher J Stevens

There's a link to the survey results in the first comment beneath this, and man do Trump-voting Hispanic and African-Americans tend to have some truly out-there beliefs. Provides a good indicative answer to the question, what kind of non-white US citizens vote for Trump? Brain-washed ones, seemingly

Generative by product but associative by process? Auditory system produces a (novel) representation; speech production circuits attempt to reconstruct the compliment vocal representation via novel associations between relevant priors (eg. previously acquired and audio-speech linked phoneme "chunks")

Equally good in both its original drenched wet version and this full-on dank one 🤘

yoda and obi wan are standing next to each other in a dark room Alt: The spirits of Anakin, Yoda and Obi Wan are standing next to each other

For some reason I'm imagining a closing scene where we see Gaybo, Pat and Ryan watching on approvingly, Star Wars redux style.

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

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Ada d’Universcience : l’IA pour enseignants avec des images GenAI absurdes sur l’évolution - Next

Ada d’Universcience : l’IA pour enseignants avec des images GenAI absurdes sur l’évolution

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Universcience propose une "IA" aux enseignants pour les aider à faire leurs cours.

Problème ? On a trouvé des images générées par IA qui illustrent n'importe comment les sciences.

Interesting the White House don't mention the world's current biggest investor in and fastest transitioner to clean energy: China.

Quand on ne fait que jouer à être philosophe, ce sont souvent les mauvaises lectures qui révèlent sa mauvaise foi.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

Slight aside, but does eLife have available bibliometric data à la WoS (notably, outward citation targets and inward citation sources)? Working on a project I'd like, if possible, to be able to include eLife in.

Why Look at Animals? with Jo-Anne McArthur and Zed Nelson - Kairos Thursday December 11th, 6.30 for 7pm How can contemporary photography, by focussing on our broken bonds with animals and the rest of the natural world, help drive a paradigm shift in our priorities an...

If you‘re in London on the 11th December, there’s a great event exploring the role of photography in building empathy towards nonhuman animals. I can really recommend events at this venue, it’s a wonderful space: www.kairos.london/event/why-lo...

A year ago today, by sheer synchronicity:

I don't think this makes her situation any worse. If, at the time, even an IT journalist had more direct dealings with Hayes than she did.

Someone should tell him we already have more than enough such examples!

Musk has been at this precise "white minority" point for a couple of years now. He retweeted an almost identical version of the second tweet here, from the same account, four months ago. There's been no mask on his white supremacy for a long time. Do your part: make Xitter users a minority!

From the abstract: "it is not clear whether these interactions have resulted or can result in the emergence of de novo psychosis in the absence of pre-existing vulnerability"

"not clear", but we were mainlining the stuff during writing anyway. Provocatively, is that not itself a form of delusion..?

I had also thought of this: seems a good solution!

YouTube video by Ryan Chapman The Story of Israel's Creation (Zionism, Explained)

The pains Chapman goes to in order to maintain impartiality and objectivity have been criticized in the past. I would say that persistent effort is paying dividends in this and his previous video aimed at providing sufficient historical background to understand the current Israel-Palestine situation

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Asked for comment by Sky News, the IDF responded: "Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."

They were 8 and 11 years old

Trans Professors comment Mel Curth (She/They) November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive. While you are entitled to your own personal beliefs, there is an appropriate time or place to implement them in your reflections. I encourage all students to question or challenge the course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses, but using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice. You argue that abiding by normative gender roles is beneficial (it is perfectly fine to believe this. but to then say that evervone should act TPUSA OU

Trans Professors comment the same, while also saying that people aren't pressured into gendered expectations is contradictory, especially since your arguments reflect a religious pressure to act in gender-stereotypical ways. You can say that strict gender norms don't create gender stereotypes, but that isn't true by definition of what a stereotype is. Please note that acknowledging gender stereotypes does not immediately denote a negative connotation, a nuance this article discusses. Additionally, to call an entire group of people "demonic" is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population. You are entitled to your own beliefs, but this isn't a vague narrative of "society pushes lies," but instead the result of countless years developing psychological and scientific evidence for these claims and directly interacting with the communities involved. You may personally disagree with this, but that TPUSA OU 2

Trans Professors comment doesn't change the fact that every major psychological, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric association in the United States acknowledges that, biologically and psychologically, sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed. I implore you apply some more perspective and empathy in your work. If you personally disagree with the findings, then by all means share your criticisms, but make sure to do so in a way that is appropriate and using the methodology of empirical psychology, as aligned with the learning goals in this class. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this or would like some additional educational resources, I would be happy to discuss this further and provide you with them. 3 TPUSA OU

Additional professor Megan Waldron (She/Her/Hers) November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also taken the time to read your paper. I concur with Mel on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment. Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning. I find it concerning that you state at the beginning of your paper that you do not think bullying ("teasing") is a bad thing. In addition, your paper directly and harshly criticizes your peers and their opinions, which are just as valuable as yours. Disagreeing with others is fine, but there is a respectful way to go about it. That goes for discussion posts as well as reaction papers. Please employ more thoughtfulness in your future assignments TPUSA OU

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

And minimization on such a topic..?

From the abstract: "it is not clear whether these interactions have resulted or can result in the emergence of de novo psychosis in the absence of pre-existing vulnerability"

"not clear", but we were mainlining the stuff during writing anyway. Provocatively, is that not itself a form of delusion..?

Here's a weirder one: this preprint on 'everyday AI'-induced psychosis includes a declaration about how much of it was composed by/with an everyday AI. Strangely never seen such a declaration on articles about other potential psychosis inducers: "This paper was written with extensive use of cocaine"

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

His politics, both personal and wrt Middle-earth, are quite clear from his letters though and, indeed, they don't in any way validate modern liberalism or fascism.

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This is Isaac Herzog, son of Chaim Herzog, who has a park named after him in Dublin. Chaim, like his son, was a strategist in the long-standing project to displace Palestinians from their homelands. None of the mainstream media reports I saw about the proposed park renaming mentioned this element.

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.

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