Michael Larkin

Good point in a good thread. It's wild! Bill Burr lives in *Los Angeles* a city that is in every way more dangerous and worse than London!

48 people shared photos and stories of detention under the Mental Health Act 📸

The Co-Pact PhotoVoice study found coercive care, institutional racism, and people feeling "voiceless" 🌳🌤️🍄

#MentalHealth #RacialEquity #MentalHealthAct #CoProduction #ElfHelp

🧵 THREAD

watch out for pretend papers guys!

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.

In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.

Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.

No end to nightmare without public ownership.

On the importance of staying in motion Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) discusses observing how others work, longevity and timing, and getting better by just doing it.

"Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter J Mascis discusses observing how others work, longevity and timing, and getting better by just doing it."

J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) on the importance of staying in motion:

Today's one hour Kosmos Klub radio show as broadcast on Radio Worm. Listen here : www.mixcloud.com/ajaysaggar/k...

The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology - Michael P. Grosz, Julia M. Rohrer, Felix Thoemmes, 2020 Causal inference is a central goal of research. However, most psychologists refrain from explicitly addressing causal research questions and avoid drawing causa...

in psych, whole subfields have decided to simply skirt the issue, so the causal inference happens in the introduction of the next paper that cites the "totally-not-causal-I-swear" paper and of course absolutely interprets it causally 🥲

9th Heaven, by Backxwash from the album Only Dust Remains

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Backxwash:
🎵 9th Heaven

#Backxwash

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Radioactive Dreams, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo from the album In The Earth Again

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Chat Pile, Hayden Pedigo:
🎵 Radioactive Dreams

#ChatPile #HaydenPedigo

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

... and you get a lot more predictive power about who is going to say what in various fights about quant/qual or positivism or etc by just noticing who displays the above character traits than you do by paying any attention to the apparent content of their arguments.

Heron Oblivion, by Heron Oblivion 7 track album

Still playing Fen Creatures to death. This made me wonder what other bands lurk in my collection who are in a similar vein to @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social? First up, this self-titled behemoth from Meg Baird’s Heron Oblivion.
heronoblivion.bandcamp.com/album/heron-...

The Stars Are Insane, by Versus 12 track album

…and thank God I listened, because I saw THIS yesterday:

versusny.bandcamp.com/album/the-st...

Really enjoyed both sets of photographs!

Exhibition description and poster hanging on a white brick wall.

Wall 1 of the exhibition, 12 photographic prints hanging on black brick wall. All photos of various bands live.

Wall 2 of the exhibition, 10 photographic prints hanging on black brick wall. All photos of various bands live.

A table with a yellow table cloth and 4 red covered zines laying on it. Along with a sign that reads "Noise and Detail photozine by John Convery and Julie R. Kane. £5 DFF rate"

What an evening!

Noise & Detail zine launch and exhibition was great! Exhibition ends 20 December!

I'll be at Centrala later this afternoon so you might still be able to pick it up for the discounted 'launch' rate of £5 before they go online.

#zine #photozine #centrala #birmingham #digbeth

This is excellent Robert

Some news This has had a very personal impact over the last month, with the organisation having to let some colleagues, including myself, go. It might seem odd that I wanted to write this email, but it is because I believe passionately in what Full Fact does and want to leave it in the strongest possible position. One final favour I think Google's decision is influenced by the perceived need to please the current US administration, feeding the harmful new narrative that attacks fact checking and all it stands for. Fact checking has never seen a threat like this.

oof - latest Full Fact newsletter written by someone having to leave because of Google pulling funding.

The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity

A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

I think there's a basic misconception as to what racism is - too often it is framed as an inherent character-trait, when in fact we only need to look at people's actions and the effects of their actions...

What strikes me over and over again about the reality we are currently creating with so-called “generative AI” is that it’s always pitched as saving human time and effort. But this is only true if you are a parasitic grifter. For anyone with principles, anyone who cares about reality

🤘💕💞❣️

New on Palilalia, Shane's Parish's latest "Autechre Guitar." Shane's been working on this one a LONG time. Check it out on Bandcamp. The first two singles are up, you can read Philip Sherburne's illuminating notes and preorder the gatefold 2LP and CD!

shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

Good times

Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

User-centred design pathway course, Cake Design Studio Design products and services centred around user needs. Discover 20 user research methods, and gain an understanding of terminology, roles, digital transformation, multi-disciplinary teams, iterati…

I also offer a user-centred design pathway course, which covers 20 different user research methods, inclusive design considerations, a glossary of #UCD terms, plus a whole lot more.

Paul, and a display screen.

Paul Flowers motivating us all to build more logic models

Sparkly lights in a starry arch

Sparkly lights in the trees

Went to Chung Ying with Paul and Rachel. Apparently we have known each other for 25 years. Not sure how that happened, but grateful for it. Walked back through campus, which provided some sparkle.

Industrial Action Ballot Result Statement UCU Commons members are disappointed in the outcome of the ballot; a failed ballot is not a result that any of us wanted. However, we know that many members have lost faith in our union’s elected comm...

As I argued at the time, HEC should not have called a formal ballot when it did. Our @ucucommons.org statement on this predictable (and predicted) failure is out now. It is well past time for UCU’s elected reps to get serious about confronting the crises in UKHE: ucucommons.org/industrial-b...