@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-03 21:31:07
"everything is brittle and at the mercy of anyone angry enough to poke it"
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-02 01:12:55
Christmas presents come from Santa Claus. Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny. But where do birthday presents come from?
When I was little my brothers and I concluded that the answer was... The Birthday Moose.
One of the non-birthday brothers would be designated the Moose. The outfit of the day was a brown paper grocery bag with a pair of eyes drawn on it in black marker, a lunch bag taped on the front as a snout, and sometimes a pair of cardboard ears up top.
Notably, tra…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-06-30 05:35:09
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-29 10:56:48
A working paper uses an LLM to analyze political discourse on X, finding that anger is the dominant emotion expressed by US users, especially those over 65 (Tim Harford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/914d0e31-231c-4663-9b39-c81d80187aef
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-04-29 20:29:20
People that "want a phone call" instead of just answering a simple question in email.
➡️ Don't want a paper trail
➡️ Are unable to put their thoughts into written words
➡️ Don't know how or are too lazy to type
#thismeetingcouldhavebeenanemail
@DGIInfo@openbiblio.social2026-04-29 17:16:08
📢 Online-Veranstaltung: „Wissenschaft zwischen Wahrheit und Fake – Wenn der Publikationswahn die Demokratie angreift"
🗓 Di, 12.05.2026, 17–19 Uhr per BBB
💻 https://talk.hshl.de/b/for-leg-xnu-btx
Paper Mills, KI-Fälschungen, „Publish or Perish": Wie schützen wir die Integrität…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-16 01:45:30
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.
The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.
Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared t…
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2026-05-21 09:30:16
Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?
In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like
"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."
Then they had to answer the question:
"Did Mary dress the baby?"
Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.
🤯
Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-04-17 09:10:42
My response: The paper, all experimental items, the entire experiment code AND the analysis code and raw results are all publicly available online. But I can only answer concrete, specific questions.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-13 16:20:09
My name is Beth Macy.
I’m the author of best-sellers Dopesick and Paper Girl,
and I’m the Democrat who’s running against Ben Cline in VA-06.
Virginia’s Supreme Court just overturned the redistricting referendum that our voters approved last month.
I'm not a lawyer, and I won't pretend to have all the answers on what comes next legally.
What I do know is this: the country is on fire, and decisions like this one represent another serious step backward.…
