Gosh. I'm applying for jobs, and I think loads of them are false AI-generated in order to get my information. And even the real ones need to be geared to the AI that will be 'reading' them when sifting through CVs. So I'm asking AI to help with the wording. No humans required?!

My therapist and I come from cultures with similarly sized personal space. When we pass by each other in her practice I don't feel her need to hold in her breath, to wait it out until I'm further away, there is no internal hurdle to overcome, it's not even an event. This is huge.

Therapists like to talk about “empathy.” Who doesn’t want empathy? The problem is that the concept rarely holds up to critical thinking. Psychology’s major insight is that we are not of one mind. We are of many minds. We have multiple, often contradictory feelings. We have

OK I no longer understand how ski jumping works

7yo: What rights do you have? Me: Let's see... to travel to different countries, to work, to say what I think out loud... Kid: You also have the right to love me, and to be angry with me. And to make me dinner. Me: ... ... ... (wait for it) Kid: I'm hungry.

It finally happened. I just read a student’s paper that said, “as an AI model, I do not have personal beliefs.”

Slightly more rain than usual in the UK 😱 The path I normally take on dog walks had more and more and more water 😱 until I had to do a fetch the ball test and compare dog wetness to rubber boot height. The ‘puddle’ won by a long shot. 🌧️⛈️🌧️

Mahlerite Milli Hill Personally, what rattles me most in stories of widespread sexual abuse is not the belief that many men would do this. I think most would not. For me the bigger issue is all the people who would never do this but were still more or less in the know... who shrugged and carried on.

Me: How do I attach some storage boxes to this gate? ChatGPT: Totally get what you’re trying to do — 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦😄 I'm really at a loss at how something this annoying can become someone's companion

Me to son: Can you stay with Dog 2 while I walk Dog 1? Dog 2 is limping and I don't want him to howl while we're out. You know he'll hate to be left behind. 🥺 Son, later: Mom, mom, look at this! I filmed him howling and when I play it back to him he howls even more!!

Something big is happening STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone. I hate to break it to you, but we’re dealing with a Total. Technological. Bloodbath. The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities. Words. Books. Art. Music. The only lifeline we have left.

This is a perfect example of how to mislead with data. A lot of 35y/o women who are childless don't want kids. Among heterosexual couples trying for kids: ~80% of women aged 30-31 are pregnant within 12 mo ~60-70% of women aged 36-37 are pregnant within 12mo

In standard scientific reports in psych 96% of first mentioned main hypotheses are supported. In Registered Reports, this is 46%. The 96% is clearly biased (given true H1 rate and power). Lack of transparency means we do not know the true baserate. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

My view: we are still seeing the tip of the iceberg. The duty is ordinary and uncomfortable: tolerate the dread, notice what does not fit, do not collude with charm, status, or ideology. To protect children, we have to think the unthinkable before it becomes speakable.

Whereas the graduate premium has increased in most rich countries, it has plummeted in Britain since 1997. Earnings for British graduates have shrunk (next pic). ->

The real sign British education has failed is the number of people responding to this chart with "that’s what happens when too many people go to university" HE has expanded in all of these countries, and in every one apart from UK that didn’t erode the graduate earnings premium.

Henry Hill One can absolutely argue that too many people go to uni! That’s a totally valid opinion. It’s an opinion I hold myself, on the basis that a lot of what uni does is signalling, so we now have a situation where lots of people (and the state) are effectively paying to get a piece of