Published!
What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
Thank you to Andy Wills www.andywills.info for inviting me to his SI (Advanced Studies in Human-Centred AI) — and furthermore, for being up for me completely disagreeing with so many mainstream views on HCAI! Great reviews too.
Commercial software can contain 50+ errors per 1000 lines of code; scientific software, written by relative newbies, is more error prone. I spoke to @tracykteal.bsky.social @amyko.phd @weecology.bsky.social & more to learn best debugging practices @nature.com 🧑💻 🐜 ❌ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ICB blog
Here are three examples from #SICB2026 ( @sicb.bsky.social )
of how academic societies and #conference organizers can successfully integrate #art into the conference experience:
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/h...
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@e-v-griffith.bsky.social
“we learned the lawyers from the other side write the judge’s filings, write her rulings. so i guess… starting to think it’s a set deal.”
i think he’s referring to the extremely normal practice of the judge asking one of the attorneys to prepare a draft of the proposed order lmao
mia keeps explaining “the economy” to me but i’m increasingly convinced these episodes are an elaborate bit and she’s actually just deep into some extremely niche fandom where they write horror fic about banking because this all sounds very made up!!!
If you buy the Jerk City collection and shelve it right next to the Frank Book, the resulting explosion will power your home for a year
youtu.be/YSchy56dvhE?...
there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.
it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City
We live in a reality where Pac-Man, probably the most famous video game character of all time, is known in all regions by a name that was not what he was intended to be called in the 1st place
Everyone knows of Puck-Man but in the West he was going to be Snapper
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension.
Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho.
jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, add a fishing minigame and you entertain him for a lifetime
investigate everyone involved in DOGE
thanks!! realizing you might also be interested in another contribution to the special issue my article is a part of, by Courtney Handman rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
yes definitely, thank you
💯 agreed, and probably we don't need to pay OpenAI for Whisper.
Apologies for the Substack, but interesting story here icymi about the Overcast app dev running his own local "server" of Mac Minis to do real time transcripts in app with Apple Intelligence
braddelong.substack.com/p/is-the-day...
early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Also a lot of the work Cizek and co-authors cite in No One Knows What Attention Is might be relevant, like debates about whether "spotlight" is the right metaphor
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31489566/
Esp. Anderson does a good job of reviewing how terms can confuse
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
I think this falls under 3 and I'm guessing you're familiar with it, but Cizek's "nothing in behavior makes sense without (understanding brain) evolution" seems like an important nuance to add -- he def talks about cogsci inheriting hand-me-down terms from psych
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31161495/
Recently have been putting a lot of thought into what norms govern the movement between folk concepts and scientific concepts. What concepts are resistant to operationalization? Really interesting thread from a cognitive scientist on what concepts we can have “theories of.”
The tariff refund portal goes live today. Maryland businesses should review eligibility and apply as soon as possible.
My team will be watching closely to ensure the process works as intended, and every Maryland business gets the money back they are owed.
I firmly believe that rebuilding a high-trust society will require gratuitous humiliation of prominent wrongdoers such as Alex Jones
The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.
Get excited.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
El problema es que eres básico
youtu.be/CzqbXMehVaw?...
Enola Gay (5 hour bachata remix)
youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo?...
For the first time in our 9-year history:
WE ARE HIRING!
We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
Good recap of where we're at with the 12 Year Old's War
also I regret to inform everyone that I've determined that the jazz band playing behind Trump's insane ramblings is doing a cover of Stevie Wonder's I Wish
youtu.be/kYWVebCZlbU?...
Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
