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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

A case of brazen copyright infringement of John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, part of a trend where people use AI to repackage and replace sources (Andy Baio/Waxy.org)
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.

Here's quite a big, positive step! Capital has not used its freedom well (arguably, it cannot), and here's the start of some nature-relevant credit guidance.
#PoliticalEconomy #BankOfEngland #PosiriveMoneyUK

This paper argues that frontier models approximate tenure-level academic outputs in social science and humanities topics with "minimal engineering effort". They developed some custom agent skills to extract the qualities of individual scholars from their published works.
#LLM #AIResearch #academia

full text of MoU Iran/US:
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863027/us-iran-trump-memorandum-of-understanding-full-text.
wow, that is readable and uh straightforward.
(sorry if you have seen it)

Shocks, Winds, and a Torus - the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) Resolves the Active Nucleus of NGC 4151: #BlackHole? https://aasnova.org/2026/05/19/i-spy-with-my-large-binocular-eyes-a-dusty-torus-around-a-supermassive-black-hole/

Pleasantly surprised I can measure this timing difference on my cheap scope; In both cases this is a chain of a pair of inverters in a 74LS04 package; the difference between the two captures is just the length of breadboard wire between the 1st and 2nd inverter; the first is about 1cm and the 2nd is about 20cm; so that's about 0.5ns difference measured which is reasonable - and surprisingly good for a 500MS/s scope.
(The yellow is input from a sig gen, blue is op of 2nd inverter).

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

The Growth of Dust in #Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18266 -> Where Did All This Dust Come From? https://astrobites.org/2026/05/20/high-z-dust-accretion/

PolitiFact launches Well Informed to provide credible health information on social media and to news partners, with plans to launch a paid B2B newsletter (Jennifer Orsi/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-r…

Poynter’s PolitiFact launches service providing reliable, engaging health information to consumers and news organizations - Poynter
"Well Informed” offers social videos and stories backed by research to help people sort out personal health claims.