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Finally! a rational, and most importantly testable theory of why business owners always object to pedestrianization and public transport projects near their stores even though it typically improves their business. They want a parking spot for themselves. They just can't quite say it.

Second Ave. Sagas@2avesag.as

In addition to the points made about patrons drinking more who don't drive, the bar *owners* are the ones who drive. They lose their spots. They don't have any sense about their patrons and don't seem to care. We see this everywhere.

It's "doch", isn't it?

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

"we fit a change-in-changes model"

Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social

Reminds me of this banger from 2021. Doesn't inspire much confidence that they've learned anything...

TFW your automatic transcription software has been trained on too much US data (not the actual speech, obviously)

Back from a conference with sessions on academic publishing and on how to fund the tokens for LLM-augmented research. Apparently there is no scheme where we give companies what we produce and they sell it back to us with extra noise & different fonts that we will not embrace. Some kind of fetish imo

One-Night-Stand der Dichter und Denker

They're not 'crawlers' they're ants, farming you like aphids.

Pete Birkinshaw@binaryape.bsky.social

People rightly focus on the direct resource usage of "AI" data centres but they have a secondary effect, massively wasting resources (and money) for people running the websites they're pilfering. "AI" is not symbiotic with the rest of the web, it's more like a disease or parasite that kills the host

Hello Belfast – not the most difficult and expensive place to get to from the middle of Europe, but competitive.

And there it is. The transcendence-free argument for philosophy. No labour market considerations required.

Rick Herrera@herreramilhist.bsky.social

Worth reading napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...

auf Wiederschauen Wien, Stadt der Kultur

In case anyone was wondering why *that list* looks the way it looks, here's a simple theory that doesn't require require any sophisticated taxonomic arguments:

Will Lowe@conjugateprior.org

The UK government's list of curfew-affected services doesn't approximate the category "social media" it enumerates completely the category "internet things we would like to regulate directly but don't have the balls"

TFW you look at the audience and know exactly who's going to ask awkward questions

Waschbär Rasierterbär Smokingbär

Telephone Friend@ironyhat.bsky.social

Would you fucking wear this

"The one thing you can't experience in this perfect world of pure pleasure is the 10,000,001st inhabitant" www.admin.ch/en/sustainab...

This, from Alexander Franklin nicely picks out a feature of race (and related constructions) practically useful for thinking of it as a variable. Roughly, race is made like issues are politicized: political interests selectively hook onto locally available attributes whether social, material or both

Q: What is mu.social? A: a member of the location-scale family. mu is a location parameter and the location is Europe. Scale is infra from @eurosky.social and @bsky.app

I'm biased because I've been banging on about alignment as a principal-agent problem to students and anyone else who'll listen for years, but I really liked this book by @travislacroix.bsky.social and I just ordered a copy for the library. Give it a read.

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science@thebjps.bsky.social

New from the BJPS Review of Books: Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem – Travis LaCroix Reviewed by Rune Nyrup www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #philsci #philsky

Just as you can write C in any language, you can – and probably will – 'learn to code' in any field.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

Crikey, look at computing! Presumably that's AI-related? Figures from UCAS.

Fun mediation analysis thread here. It reminds me of my favourite mediation analysis misapplication, in which you wonder if something mediates a relationship, fit a mediation model, then use it as evidence that there is a mediation relationship.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

Now that's what I call a spicy opeing: Understanding mechanisms is not a research question.

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone. (Also perfect for a remake of Angel Heart)

gzt aka zoidberg@giziti.bsky.social

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.