Jamie McClenaghan

recently i have been doing some research for a company on using LLMs to replace humans in survey interviews (the results are not good, and it's generally a betrayal of many principles of public opinion polling, so i do not advise this).

but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..

It’s a clever strategy but it’s just going to fuel nonsense, which I’ve already seen on the other app amp.rte.ie/amp/1527295/

News organizations repackaging press releases as stories on behalf of private companies is a pet peeve www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/3700...

People use beamer, in part, because they assume that it serves as a competence signal, but then use horrible looking defaults that signal only that they don't know how to use it competently. Use powerpoint or, if you want to integrate code or do something else fancy, Quarto. Beamer's dead tech.

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

(since i'm among friends on this platform, I'll be more explicit: if you say you understand politics - or if you are paid to - the least you can do is open a poll and **look at the fucking crosstabs** there is quite a lot going on in there beyond the surface level of 'one party up, one party down')