pope leo i am begging you to declare the butlerian jihad

I think from Tariffs to the anti-Harvard crusade to attacking foreign students a lot of the populist GOP are high on their own supply and not understanding where most Americans are on these topics

“How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Let’s check in on the DOGE guy and see how that’s… oh no

lol

It’s genuinely hilarious watching a super-rich guy with a giant media platform complain endlessly about being victimized and blackballed by like ten physicists. The only thing he doesn’t have is peer validation, and they just will never give it to him. It’s… art.

They're literally doing the meme

These people are not gonna enjoy when the Left comes back and does another purge of the universities. The next wave of woke will spare nobody.

Another exciting DEI initiative from University of Waterloo : Share your pronouns! Buttt .... 1. Pronouns cannot be more than "60 characters" 2. Using the (publicly posted!) pronouns without first getting permission can "devastate" people 3. "Mocking" this exciting system = DEI

Germany is a strange country, Germans hold almost 3 Trillion Euros in bank deposits which earn them negative real interests. No wonder that so many German retirees are poor.

Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks. x.com/mgeist/status/…

Cool coverage in Nature of the Medical Evidence Project, a new initiative that Open Philanthropy is supporting to root out flawed and fake medical papers.

Thank goodness the fuckwits who can’t even manage to stop industrial-scale car theft in Canada are investigating wars half a world away. Surely they can get to the bottom of things.

No clout. Can’t get leaders of any other nation to do what he wants. The very definition of a powerless loser.

Canadian tech: it’s government grants all the way down.

This should be for children.

“Scholarly publishing is ripe for disruption” said every scholar, every year, since forever.

Chinese EVs should not be sold in Cda due to their software that gathers data & stores it in China. We need to collaborate w other countries on Cdn EV dev’t. Our canola & other ag sectors need to diversify so China stops using them as leverage to change unrelated Cdn policies.

Some promising trends in the psychology replication crisis since 2004: - Fewer studies publish weak p values (.01 < p < .05) - Studies with weak p values are less likely to get cited - The % of weak p values (26%) is now roughly what we would expect from studies with 80% power.

The Head of John the Baptist brought to Herod, by Giovanni di Paolo, 1454