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Welcome to the United Nations International Year of Centrism
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Slightly diminish a band
Room Temperature Chocolate
Room Temperature Chocolate
The Beatless
Slightly diminish a band
They Might Not Be Giants
They Might Not Be Giants
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Slightly diminish a band
Room Temperature Chocolate
Room Temperature Chocolate
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little tip I'm passing on learnt from being alive for many years. if someone smiles and says, "good morning" to you in passing, this is your prompt to do the same. don't grimace and look away and remain silent, you're not Clint Eastwood bitch. have a tiny bit of social glue, as a treat.
January 10, 2026 at 10:04 AM
little tip I'm passing on learnt from being alive for many years. if someone smiles and says, "good morning" to you in passing, this is your prompt to do the same. don't grimace and look away and remain silent, you're not Clint Eastwood bitch. have a tiny bit of social glue, as a treat.
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Every autistic person has been screaming this stuff for decades while genocidal shitheads have been saying we need to be eradicated.
No, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova.
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People
For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Every autistic person has been screaming this stuff for decades while genocidal shitheads have been saying we need to be eradicated.
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Worth waiting for! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I did a LOT of podcast guesting last spring & summer and this one, one of my favorites, is finally available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmk...
Thinking Through...The AI Con & Deconstructing the Hype
YouTube video by Thinking Through Podcast
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Worth waiting for! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I did a LOT of podcast guesting last spring & summer and this one, one of my favorites, is finally available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmk...
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That Maggie Chascarillo is ageing alongside the rest of us is one of the most unexpectedly moving and raw things in my life.
January 9, 2026 at 8:09 AM
That Maggie Chascarillo is ageing alongside the rest of us is one of the most unexpectedly moving and raw things in my life.
I shall be super generous and say that the Guardian is converging to a view of what the Starmer Government stands for that was obvious even before the election victory. A slow convergence, incrementing year by year. But nevertheless: a convergence.
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I shall be super generous and say that the Guardian is converging to a view of what the Starmer Government stands for that was obvious even before the election victory. A slow convergence, incrementing year by year. But nevertheless: a convergence.
"Mum! The facehuggers and the chestbursters are at it again!"
British Teen Returning From Semester In U.S. Regales Friends With Tale Of Food That Tastes Good https://theonion.com/british-teen-returning-from-semester-in-u-s-regales-friends-with-tale-of-food-that-tastes-good/
January 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"Mum! The facehuggers and the chestbursters are at it again!"
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✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
![Figure 1
Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is
created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24ngrqljhck7hpvbgrg7a23k/bafkreie5dbxbxpaszqwfbgne6pi7kf26im6chq45olvzxyyrg7eitq6uue@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Dunno if anyone's interested, but I've written a mod that makes my health secretary more pillowy.
Wes Streeting, "UK secured trading terms with the US"
Sophy Ridge, "That were worse than they were before"
Wes Streeting, "I don't dispute that"
Sophy Ridge, "Has Donald Trump broken international law when it comes to Venezuela?"
Wes Streeting, "I've got nothing to add to that"
Sophy Ridge, "That were worse than they were before"
Wes Streeting, "I don't dispute that"
Sophy Ridge, "Has Donald Trump broken international law when it comes to Venezuela?"
Wes Streeting, "I've got nothing to add to that"
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Dunno if anyone's interested, but I've written a mod that makes my health secretary more pillowy.
Reading that WB Yeats was a student of the tarot, and sorry, but if the tarot had any predictive powers The Second Coming would have been 15 words: 'Watch out for the fat rapist with hair transplants. About 100 years. Just you wait'. Rather than all that stuff about falcons and gyres.
Mapped: Every country Trump has threatened after strikes on Venezuela
Mapped: Every country Trump has threatened after strikes on Venezuela
Mapped: Every country Trump has threatened after strikes on Venezuela
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Reading that WB Yeats was a student of the tarot, and sorry, but if the tarot had any predictive powers The Second Coming would have been 15 words: 'Watch out for the fat rapist with hair transplants. About 100 years. Just you wait'. Rather than all that stuff about falcons and gyres.
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This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
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I was really going to wait longer to post this until I'd added all the examples to github, but since clearly the pace of 2026 may actually outstrip 2025: here is a rough guide to archiving legislative and congressional hearings. 2026 is going to be an all-hands situation. We need eyes on everything.
Streamripping democracy: archiving legislative hearings — Jessica Kant
While people scrambled to the livestreams and, whenever possible, posted updates as they happened, the sheer size and scale of the project was too much for any one person. Even the most well-resourced...
jessk.org
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I was really going to wait longer to post this until I'd added all the examples to github, but since clearly the pace of 2026 may actually outstrip 2025: here is a rough guide to archiving legislative and congressional hearings. 2026 is going to be an all-hands situation. We need eyes on everything.
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Most of the things you do every day are not done because you consciously chose to do them. Brains don't work like that.
"good choices/bad choices" behavior change theories have limited usefulness.
"good choices/bad choices" behavior change theories have limited usefulness.
what's the thing in your subdiscipline that loads of people constantly mess up even though by your lights they really ought to know better? (for me it's clearly distinguishing contents and vehicles)
January 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Most of the things you do every day are not done because you consciously chose to do them. Brains don't work like that.
"good choices/bad choices" behavior change theories have limited usefulness.
"good choices/bad choices" behavior change theories have limited usefulness.
Remember this: most of you lot have consequences, but some of us don't. We have nuance | John Harris
In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris
In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris
Populists rewrite the history of this nation because they were complicit in much of its ugliness. The progressive fightback must start now, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Remember this: most of you lot have consequences, but some of us don't. We have nuance | John Harris
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If your opening position is, "My rubber stamp was ready and waiting, all you had to do was ask," then guess what: Your rubber stamp is worthless. Nobody cares. You have rendered yourself redundant.
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
If your opening position is, "My rubber stamp was ready and waiting, all you had to do was ask," then guess what: Your rubber stamp is worthless. Nobody cares. You have rendered yourself redundant.
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When it comes time to sacrifice to fend off Farage in Britain, who do you think it is that will be compelled to choke down their own interests and objections, and eat shit for the greater good? Will it be them? No, it never is and it won’t be this time either.
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
When it comes time to sacrifice to fend off Farage in Britain, who do you think it is that will be compelled to choke down their own interests and objections, and eat shit for the greater good? Will it be them? No, it never is and it won’t be this time either.
Sometimes you only have to wait.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Sometimes you only have to wait.
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Weird how he was straight in with Israel has the right to defend herself, though
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Weird how he was straight in with Israel has the right to defend herself, though
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People need to start radicalising fast, tbh.
No more liberals in 2026, we don’t have time for this anymore.
No more liberals in 2026, we don’t have time for this anymore.
January 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
People need to start radicalising fast, tbh.
No more liberals in 2026, we don’t have time for this anymore.
No more liberals in 2026, we don’t have time for this anymore.
If I'm being shown a quotation of a quotation, I'd expect it to have more oomph than "The things I hold to be nice are better than the things I hold to be nasty".
Just to add that this is not in itself a defence of centrism: it's a statement of value, in fact the blandest one possible.
Just to add that this is not in itself a defence of centrism: it's a statement of value, in fact the blandest one possible.
Terrific defence of centrism by Oliver Johnson, quoting Kenneth “Civilisation” Clark bristoliver.substack.com/p/in-defence...
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
If I'm being shown a quotation of a quotation, I'd expect it to have more oomph than "The things I hold to be nice are better than the things I hold to be nasty".
Just to add that this is not in itself a defence of centrism: it's a statement of value, in fact the blandest one possible.
Just to add that this is not in itself a defence of centrism: it's a statement of value, in fact the blandest one possible.
All hype aside, it's quite clever to teach a robot to say 'no mas'.
A few weeks ago, they sent a robot to the Mavs and Kyrie accidentally killed it by pushing it over and this so funny
www.instagram.com/reel/DSYWNRj...
www.instagram.com/reel/DSYWNRj...
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
All hype aside, it's quite clever to teach a robot to say 'no mas'.
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From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs
your Pivot to AI holiday special!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBh... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251231-ube... - podcast
time: 10 min 15 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/31/f... - blog post
your Pivot to AI holiday special!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBh... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251231-ube... - podcast
time: 10 min 15 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/31/f... - blog post
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs
your Pivot to AI holiday special!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBh... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251231-ube... - podcast
time: 10 min 15 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/31/f... - blog post
your Pivot to AI holiday special!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBh... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251231-ube... - podcast
time: 10 min 15 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/31/f... - blog post
However you celebrate, no-one should be too occupied about centrists today. I like to think that somewhere there's a calabria marble kitchen island with quite sharp corners, someone running on the shiny tiles to the cupboard to see in the new year with that forgotten bottle of Fernet Branca...
can’t believe centrists are making me this furious on the last day of the year, there is not a hell hot enough for you enablers!!!
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
However you celebrate, no-one should be too occupied about centrists today. I like to think that somewhere there's a calabria marble kitchen island with quite sharp corners, someone running on the shiny tiles to the cupboard to see in the new year with that forgotten bottle of Fernet Branca...