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This long work from @… and @…, among many other interesting ideas,
calls the new kind of "AI" by a new name to distinguish it from older, often more ethical kinds of stats models:
"Displacement AI"
I lov…

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia@scholar.social)
Attached: 3 images New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @Iris & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 🧵 1/

Enhancing Science Literacy through Cognitive Conflict-Based Generative Learning Model: An Experimental Study in Physics Learning
A Akmam, Serli Ahzari, E Emiliannur, Rio Anshari, David Setiawan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01295

Enhancing Science Literacy through Cognitive Conflict-Based Generative Learning Model: An Experimental Study in Physics Learning
This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of the Cognitive Conflict-Based Generative Learning Model (GLBCC) in enhancing science literacy among high school physics students. The novelty of this research lies in the innovative integration of cognitive conflict strategies with generative learning principles through a six stage structured framework, specifically designed to address persistent misconceptions in physics education while systematically developing scientific literacy compe…

It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In the space of seven days,
the agency’s head was sacked and replaced by an interim head,
four senior staff members resigned,
and existing staff took to the streets to express support for their ousted leaders.
To understand how everything unfolded and what it could mean for the health of Americans, science editor Ian Sample hears from health reporter Melody Schreiber and form…

RFK Jr and the chaos at the CDC
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 09/02/2025 · 18m

#WritersCoffeeClub October 2025
1. Have you written in an epistolary format?
2. Do you tend to include prologues? Why?
3. How do you transition into writing mode?
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1. Not the entire big literature thing. I did better.
In-game letters.
I love notes and letters in Morrowind, Deus Ex HR and MD as well as Dishonored. Not so much post-Oblivion (Beth Fallout3 …

Spotify says founder Daniel Ek will become Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026, replaced by CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-30/spotify-announcement-daniel-ek-executive-c…

Spotify Announces Leadership Evolution: Daniel Ek to Become Executive Chairman, Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström to Become Co-CEOs in January 2026 — Spotify
The following press release went live on Business Wire earlier today. You can also find more detail here in Founder & CEO Daniel Ek’s letter to employees. Stockholm and New York — 30 September, 2025 Today, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced that Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will transition to the role of Executive...

Spotify says founder Daniel Ek will become Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026, replaced by CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-30/spotify-announcement-daniel-ek-executive-c…

Spotify Announces Leadership Evolution: Daniel Ek to Become Executive Chairman, Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström to Become Co-CEOs in January 2026 — Spotify
The following press release went live on Business Wire earlier today. You can also find more detail here in Founder & CEO Daniel Ek’s letter to employees. Stockholm and New York — 30 September, 2025 Today, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced that Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will transition to the role of Executive...

Esto fue un hallazgo del día del vinilo hace unas pocas semanas. Un disco que andaba buscando hace tiempo y que me faltaba en mi colección de R.E.M. 🫶🏻
«Unplugged 2001»
#REM #Unplugged #Vinilos

Don't agree with everything here but it's a welcome optimistic take: there's still work to do but trajectory is clear
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change: The Inevitable End of Fossil Fuels | Ep221
https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/end-of-fossil-fuels-2065-tWtKAuDZ

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Wei-Chang Lo, Jih-Chiang Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25932 https://…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Our previous numerical simulation [C.-E. Tsai et al., Physical Review Research 6, 023065 (2024)] has shown that, for soft granular particles under quasistatic shearing, incorporating a speed-dependent friction is a necessary condition for reproducing the rate-dependent stick-slip fluctuations that have been found in laboratory experiments [J.-C. Tsai et al., Physical Review Letters 126, 128001 (2021)]. As a continuation, here we employ the simulation at a wide range of driving speeds to examine…

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …