Types of Board Game

See also

xkcd.com/3235/

The greatest threat women face is the online spread of misogyny by predator-influencers and via algorithms - even onto blank accounts set up as those of 24yo men, as in the article below.

Boys and men are being radicalized into misogyny by white men. Trans people & immigrants are not the problem.

This was an interesting and frustrating saga. One moral is that we need better data sharing and reproducible protocols. Otherwise crazy people like us will have to spend 2 years finding out that things don't work.

It still boggles me that we would consistently fail when so many papers have been published on this phenomenon. I'm still waiting for someone to swoop in and show us the error of our ways. But until that happens, our evidence argues against classical conditioning in planarians.

Lynn: “low IQ was likely a significant cause of the Irish economic backwardness”

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.”

What if mental disorders aren’t just brain problems, but disruptions in how we make sense of the world?

I enjoyed speaking with Professor Sanneke de Haan about her work on the enactive approach to psychiatry in the latest Behind the Stigma episode :)

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

We've got to stop thinking fascism is dark magic, like it's evil but it works, so decent people must agree not to use it. It doesn't work. Every fascist society ever has contained the seeds of its own destruction. We oppose it not because it works, but because too many people suffer while it fails

Introducing Middle School Students to "The Secret Ghost Workers of 'Artificial Intelligence'" — Civics of Technology Upcoming Book Clubs: We’re reading The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms our Kids’ Learning - And How to Help Them Thrive Again by Jared Cooney Horvath. Join us on Wednesday, Ap...

I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.

Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:

Eileen Culloty: Patrick O’Donovan’s attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media It is fair to ask if news media do a good job of capturing and representing a range of public views

A crucial lesson we all should have learned is that the principles of journalistic practice need greater skill to uphold than they used to, but are utterly vital.

Eileen Culloty from DCU flagging some good points here on the fuel protests, ministerial gaffes.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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.

Surprised this hasn’t gotten more attention.

It is a BIG change in academic research assessment.

American research assessment increasingly looks out of step.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Be sure to read the whole thing.

Am quoted by columnist Jennifer Horgan in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social piece this week.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Measuring and appraising placebo effects in clinical trials: contemporary challenges and approaches in psychiatry pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41997697/

I am in this picture and I don’t like it…

Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.

Open Call for Proposals 2026 - Levante Deadline for submission: June 10, 2026. The overarching objective of LEVANTE is to identify how individual variability, group heterogeneity, and contextual variability influence children’s learning an...

The @Jacobs Foundation has opened the 2026 Call for Proposals for the LEVANTE initiative, aimed at understanding of how children aged 3 to 12 grow, learn, and develop across times, places, and cultures. Apply before 10 June.
levante-network.org/open-call-fo...

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.

New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons?

ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️

When has any govt FGFF TD demanded that Mikey Martin show 'more empathy'?when child homelessness reached record figures?When he ignored everyone and shook hands with a rapist dictator?Enabling a genocide?
No.
But a small cohort,interspersed with fash,holds us hostage.

Showing yer there arse lads.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.

Specifically, As Lorde states:

Idly researching when the last excommunication of a political, as opposed to religious, figure was, and it seems to have been Marshal Tito?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

#PortfolioDay

Bruce Sterling: Futures of Cybernetics YouTube video by Hanart Forum

*Before the 70 years of confusing "Artificial Intelligence" were the older and just-as-confusing years of "Cybernetics"

*What happened with them, well, it's quite a melancholy human story

youtu.be/Qi6jaKaaaEs?...

Your weight has a weekly cycle and a yearly cycle. 3 years of daily weigh-ins confirm it:
Monday heaviest → Thursday lightest
January heaviest → September lightest
New blog post breaking it all down with GAMs in R:
jbogomolovas2.github.io/Julius-s-Blog/posts/weight_fluctations/
#rstats #datascience

Cover of Orbital Studies magazine Issue 0

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now!

Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture.

Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin...

orbitalstudies.com

Hundreds of gardaí clear O’Connell Street blockade at 3.30am as new poll reveals what the public really think of fuel protests Garda cleared protesters from O’Connell Street in Dublin during an early hours operation involving the public order unit, mounted unit and water unit.

The Irish Independent quoting their own online poll as showing support for the protestors in this article: m.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

Worth noting it was an online poll of self-selecting participants that didn’t block multiple voting or voting from outside the State.