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Lukas Neville

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Assoc prof, organizational behaviour, Asper School of Business, UManitoba. Personal butler to Tuna the Cat.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · Nov 13

finally, another platform for tuna pictures

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Monica C. Schneider @poliscimonica.bsky.social · 3h

These are the gems in the acknowledgments that I’m here for .

Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 4h

eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜

But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.

The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 10h

Okay so execution for data fraud might be a bit much, but maybe we can settle on six months in the brig?

Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 1d

His records survive (under another number), and it seems like he was found guilty at court-martial and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. In the end I think he served about six months of that sentence before transferring.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 13h

i feel like we're overdue for a return of teddy riley new jack swing production

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 13h

... that the only thing that's not slow and difficult to build is more suburbs and exurbs

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14h

Finish this sentence: “The biggest obstacle to actually turning MY city into a better city for people is __________________________.”

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 13h

evergreen

The Onion: "Republican Party Attracting More Youth Who Look Like Old Men Than Ever Before"

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 14h

as ready as he is to taint and morally bankrupt it, I'm afraid kissinger beat him there

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot show up on a first date in a full length duster… that woman does not yet love you

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 16h

Between this and the ID-linked porn access law the real growth industry is going to be blackmail

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 17h

is this the win10 end of life, the openai pivot to sexbots, or some other third thing

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 1d

"no kings except figureheads and the burger one"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 1d

The boys in FTD's Invented Holidays Lab have been up to some big things

FTD ad: "Boss' day is Thursday! Gifts for the boss: When you have a great boss, it's worth celebrating. Our handmade bouquets are the perfect way to thank them for being the best in the business. Shop boss' day"

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 1d

The vanilla sandwich cookies are the best.

I say this as a chocoholic.

A box of Canadian Girl Guide cookies.
They are chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 1d

happy canadian thanksgiving 🍂🌽🥧🦃

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 2d

"lady, we don't write 'em, we just sell 'em"

sign from a thrift shop book section: "we do not censor reading material, nor do we endorse everything that is in on these shelves"

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

Canada’s an adorable country, I wish it was real

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 2d

we really have to give up on this fiction that billionaires are somehow deep geniuses when they're just terminally online weirdos

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 2d

a billionaire is just a heavy reddit poster who happens to have a billion dollars

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 2d

*whispering* faculties of education

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 3d

give this headline writer a raise

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 4d

this must be the Gold Standard Science they've been talking about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 4d

a dark horse emerges

Apple Rankings review of the Golden Russet: "a putrid corpse"; 22/100, "despicable"

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 4d

does this belong in the category of pseudolaw, where it's less about actual legislative intent or legal outcomes, and more about creating a shared fiction for a cause's believers?

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 4d

Munch Madness

Globe and Mail apple bracket with 16 seeded (haha) apples to compete

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 5d

So, speculating, the people who were speeding and straightlining in 2019 are probably using AI tools now, making their impact on data quality harder to discern