Patrick Sturgis

I'm not sure that would be very helpful if you were prosecuting these 2 people in a court of law.

I mean that if a bunch of left-wing liberals flee X to Bsky because X is too rightwing then follow a heuristic of "block jerks, don't feed trolls", it's a recipe for very boring ideological conformity. This is why Bluesky is boring and rapidly losing subscribers.

will have a read!

the big problem is when you move beyond banning what is unlawful (not itself unproblematic given many laws), how do you decide what can and can't be said? That is how you end up with Twitter banning women from saying there are only 2 sexes.

do you also think that banning legal speech is problematic, i.e. once the threshold moves beyond what is lawful?

And that pressure can result in lawful speech being banned, such as women expressing gender critical beliefs on pre-Musk Twitter. Making perceived harm the threshold is therefore highly problematic for free speech in a democratic society.

So who gets to decide whether these tweets, that you presumably selected as being egregious examples, are a "coded incitement to violence" or observations?

Haven't been on here for a while but popped over to take a look because Twitter is so awful. Some interesting discussions going on but I'm mostly struck by the rigid ideological conformity and thirst for punishing those who indulge in wrongthink. Should I try Threads?

Not defending them obviously but it kind of does make a difference in understanding the motivation in that mindless morons boo the opposition no matter the extent of the bad taste. I've witnessed it many times.

It was the Palace fans

the obvious defence the people you have screenshotted would mount is that they aren't calling for terrorist violence but predicting it will happen.

It's rooted in complying with the law. But practically, trans-identifying women ('trans men') aren't the problem here, no man is going to care if they use the men's toilets. Alternatively, they can use mixed-sex toilets.

My, admittedly somewhat limited, experience of GPT-5 has not been good. Particularly weird that it didn't even know how to code API calls to itself.

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden.

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AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects Explicit labeling of online content produced by artificial intelligence (AI) is a widely mooted policy for ensuring transparency and promoting public confidence. Yet little is known about the scope of...

New working paper with Chuyao Wang and Dan De Kadt, "AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects". The title is a concise summary but read the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16202

The greatest tennis match of all time.

Interesting, I've never been to Reading.

these are what are called ad hominem arguments. Look it up.

two men are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them says " london baby " ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them says " london baby "

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‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue

No @theguardian.com the SC judgment is absolutely clear. What you are struggling with is how you lot are going to keep misrepresenting the law now the judgment is in.
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Isn't having coppers out looking for you being tracked by the state?

Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024

Really can't see what the problem is with AI face recognition as long as it's only used for identification. Just much more efficient and less costly than using humans to do it.
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Survey Experience and Nonresponse in an Online Probability Panel: A Survival Analysis We fit discrete time survival models to data from an online probability panel, where the outcome is the respondent first nonresponse to a survey invitation, following at least one previous survey comp...

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Universities to be ‘named and shamed’ over vice-chancellor pay The education secretary is proposing league tables of institutions that pay bumper executive salaries but offer poor value for money to students

Unpopular opinion: Vice Chancellors aren't overpaid and VC pay is just a distraction from the real issues.
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West Ham have gone backwards under Potter, that’s 7 on the bounce without a win. The only reason we’re staying up is the points won under useless Lopetegui. Potter will have zero fan patience if we get off to a poor start as we usually do. I’d sack him if it were up to me.

yeah, wouldn't work for buses but a reasonable solution for trains.

There could be designated carriages where people who want to scroll tiktok with the sound on can all sit together.