This is incredible. I don’t know how else to explain this but it makes the moon look so real. I get that’s a funny thing to say but the clarity and the closeness of the image taken by an actual person changes the perspective I think.
Thank you!
New episode about the latest research into how AI can negatively impact human reasoning and decision making:
youarenotsosmart.com/2026/04/13/y...
I love it too. It comes from the work of Bransford and Johnson. Here is a link: www.gsis.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/opencourses_...
I strongly suspect AI is not getting better nearly as quickly as it is getting better at convincing users that it is getting better.
A big splash in the ocean under the three red and white parachutes
Splashdown!
Welcome home, Integrity.
Integrity main chutes
Lawd. Happycry over here
A "live" logo above a headline reading NASA's Artemis II crew returns to Earth. Above an artist's rendering of the Orion spacecraft entering Earth's atmosphere.
🌎 Watch the return of NASA's Artemis II mission live with us--just an hour to go until the astronauts splash down! www.scientificamerican.com/video/watch-...
Astronauts in the cockpit of Orion viewed from NASA livestream
This is so exceedingly rad.
Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...
A screenshot of the Youtube live stream of the Artemis Two mission, it shows the Artemis 2 craft on the far left lit by the sun, and in the middle of a completely black background is Earth, looming fairly large half shadowed, with the brightly lit part showing blue ocean interlaced white clouds
hey kids
you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission
it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big*
they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight
www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...
I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch:
This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.
Really timely re-release of @davidmcraney.bsky.social’s brilliant You Are Not So Smart podcast with @chenoweth.bsky.social. #NoKings feels so close to 3.5%. Also makes the key point that the likes of the odious MTG opposing the US government really helps. Stoking division works both ways.
I appreciate how when I fumble a bit entering my food intake into my app for that stuff, it just dutifully records and calculates. You ate 690 little red potatoes? Sure. 11,900 calories for dinner? Ok. No judgment here. Keep at it. What gets measured gets managed
Yeah. If the word limit had allowed, I probably would have replaced love with "intensely fascinating" or somesuch.
I love how we reacted to Furbies, owl toys that played prerecorded gibberish less and less and prerecorded words more and more. People believed they were learning, they had minds. Give us just the right amount of the right kind of lifeform cues, and we will fill in the rest with agentic pareidolia
If the motivation to resist is strong, some will resolve dissonance by considering that source no longer trustworthy as a whole. For others, they'll pick out elements. For instance, imagine NASA announcing the Earth is flat. You could cease to trust NASA, or cease to trust certain elements.
The permission to change usually comes from resolving dissonance in the direction of a deeper value or motivation than whatever seems threatened in the moment. That video: I strongly doubt that voter will change her party affiliation.
The information deficit model is appealing, but the research suggests we resist updating our priors even when exposed to mountains of expertly-vetted information if that updating threatens our social connections or requires us to admit we made poor decisions based on misinformation and propaganda.
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People significantly overestimate the social costs of changing their beliefs.
Partisans self censor and suppress dissent to avoid appearing disloyal and facing social punishment.
Reminding them of prior group loyalty can open them to changing their beliefs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41627338/
Everyday wisdom in 30” from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @davidmcraney.bsky.social
Your attention is your most valuable resource (“pay”) so don’t let others decide how you use it. Scrolling adds up!
No “view from nowhere”, believing is seeing.
Most political content on SM is a tiny minority opinion.
It might actually lead to better turkey. Also, it doesn’t involve staring at a screen, and you play it with the person instead of avoiding them
How can so many people watch the same event yet “see” so many different realities?
@davidmcraney.bsky.social and I discuss why people often come to different conclusions--even if they watch the same video
Listen: youarenotsosmart.com/2026/02/16/y...
Read here: www.romolocapuano.com/wp-content/u...
I listened to this ep of You Are Not So Smart with guest Steven Franconeri from Colorado State, and I think every jurisdiction in the country oughta be looking to his lab for help.
Episode webpage: www.youarenotsosmart.com
Media file: stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/aa9f2648-25e...
If this was a reverse psychology ploy, it worked!
Noted. Will refrain in the future
Got to meet @davidmcraney.bsky.social at a conference last summer. Knew his books well before we met. He is a journalist who is great as translating research and practice to broader audiences. Last week I had the chance to chat w him on his podcast about my work. youarenotsosmart.com/2026/01/23/y...
Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform
Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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