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Hey, everybody! Not that kind of doctor. Embodied cognition, AI and robotics, eating behaviour, flavour & the senses Mostly cathartic ranting Personal account

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · Nov 10

Ok fine.

Hey everybody, I'm Dr Nick!

I kibbitz #neuroscience and #ai and #embodiment conversations, insert jokes and takes and challenges and share papers.

But mostly, sorry it's cathartic rants about the state of things. I mean, wtaf?

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 6h

Hard to overstate the extent to which easy luxury is dependent upon international wage differentials

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 6h

To the extent that people know their neighbours, imv it's really good to just talk to your neighbours. A lot of people are probs like 'am I the only one feeling like everything is going mad?'

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 7h

Ok here's one

Shitbit - an advanced wearable which beeps when you need to go for a poo

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 7h

I actually bothered to click through and read before adding my bit, and it was trite shit and soon I had to stop

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 7h

gotta admire the commitment to this bit

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Number 600: the Butterball turkey cook helpline but the only person you can reach is an AI with the voice of Joe Rogan who thinks whatever you’re doing to that turkey is really important and he appreciates it

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 8h

Have any investigators joined ICE and published details of the training and deployment?

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 11h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 10h

No idea if this is true, but that would be some quality (Chinese?) trolling

Angele @angeledehart.bsky.social · 15h

Another maga loser will gladly spend their hard earned $75 plus shipping for this horrible piece of trash. I hope it’s ends up like the trump watches missing the T.

Picture of cheap trump pink watch made in China missing the letter T which shows “Rump.” Statement reads: Customers upset with Missing ‘T’ in trump-branded watch that cost $640.

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 10h

😃ok
What is the premise of success here? Bari Weiss manages to turn around an ailing network to make it a successful propaganda outlet? Honestly, I wouldn't bet against it, as long as she is supported to make massive financial losses until she gains the clout to make money in Trumpofascist America

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13h

When will the hypocritical woke mob extend their tolerance to the much-oppressed measles virus?

by RFK Jr

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 11h

so fucking basic like star wars pretty much nails the whole thing

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 11h

I think I've seen other direct evolution-as-law-of-physics takes, though I'd have to dig around for examples. FEP seems at least in this ballpark though, no? @mjdramstead.bsky.social ? For me, it's hard to take it as causative, but also interesting in the sense of a principle like say the 2nd law

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 11h

we are living in the lamest story ever told

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 12h

Little sods, no consideration

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 14h

Wait, who told you about antifa and the extremely violent radical left?

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 23h

People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 16h

Hockey stick?

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 16h

It's clear that you are a simpering hanger-on with nothing to say. Quite simply, I am not going to agree with nonsense just because someone online says they are a linguist. Linguistics has schools and factions and opinions. That's fine, but I don't have to agree with one school/faction cos authority

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

Ok but that's no absolution.

"We made this terrible decision for political reasons"

"Ok, that was stupid."

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

Imv it's displacement to blame the system when this is all downstream of basically human decision making failures which wimped out of imposing accountability for a goddamn televised coup attempt

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

Like, how was this the actual plan?

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · Nov 23

US Democrats:

"Get ready everyone, the resistance starts the moment after we hand over the keys and the weapons to Trumpofascism!"

You fucking numbskulls.

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 18h

For sure. Otoh, there were four years if Dem fed power to deal with this. Obvs it's difficult to prevent fascist takeover once the fascists are in power

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 19h

I mean...Labour have set up Reform *on purpose*. That demarks them as part of the problem, not the solution.

"We boosted the fash so you have to vote for us even though you hate us and we hate you"

"No fu"