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I should declare my interest but I agree with Marnie here

Last night was really fun! Thank you, London. Remember that I have another event this coming Friday with Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 and Tom Chivers, with drinks after for ticketholders. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-studies-…

I always tip well because I want to be a nice person, but I really hate how tipping is basically a subsidy from nice people to dicks

mildly annoyed that the WHO frames "life expectancy gap drops 33% in 20yrs, under-5s mortality halves, maternal mortality drops 40%" as "the world must do more". Surely that's good news? ft.com/content/5f1e09… (I know it's missing its own targets but still, fewer deaths: good!)

Last call! The Studies Show with Tom Chivers, Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦, and yours truly tonight in London. £18.31, which is the price of one quarter of one cocktail! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-studies-…

Years ago, Slate Star Codex suggested including an obviously silly dummy question - he suggested "Do you believe Barack Obama is a hippopotamus?" - on surveys, to get a sense of how many people are trolling or randomly ticking boxes. I love that Pew has done basically that

I find this so very odd. None of it is real! None of it happened! Nothing even particularly *like* it has happened! It's a good programme but you can't learn anything real from it. It is literally made up.

Thank you to everyone who came to see Tom Chivers, Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦, and me in London the other night! I really enjoyed pointing!

Charmed by this old machine slowly and mechanically sorting eggs by weight.

What are you supposed to be doing right now? Does it take less than 5 minutes? THEN FUCKING DO IT Does it take longer than 5 minutes? THEN BREAK IT DOWN INTO SMALLER TASKS AND REPEAT THE FIRST STEP FUCKING DO IT

This may be the first ever fault rupture caught on camera. Captured during Myanmar's 7.9 magnitude earthquake on March 28 2025, it shows the moment the ground tore apart and two blocks of earth move past each other causing the landscape to slide.

Me to my AI-enabled smart fridge in 2038: Do we have any milk left My fridge: Wow. Now that's a question worth exploring. By asking me something like that, you've proven that you're not thinking in ordinary ways—you're dialed in to what's really vital about food. Let's dive in.

It's pretty weird to see some journalists still, in 2025, trying to paint extinction risk from AI as some kind of fringe concern. Some quick reminders: 1. The 3 most cited AI researchers of all time are vocally concerned about this. One of them believes the risk of extinction is