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Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️‍⚧️ perfors.net
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If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that. www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

Freedom in the genocide

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Thinking of Greta Thunberg (and co) and those being attacked by ICE in LA. Lot of horrible stuff going on right now but also A LOT of people standing up for what's right.

submitted 9 hours ago • 79 comments

It’s fucking infuriating that the authoritarian regime has troops in the streets and all you hear in coverage is concern about “anarchists and extremists.” The fascists are fucking extreme. Corporate media is a curse on this society.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 10 hours ago • 206 comments

The American version of democracy sausages. As a dual citizen I am very proud of both!

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Kooky that a create-your-own-feed-without-an-algorithm site is criticized as “a bubble,” but a spoon-fed, cruise-ship, gated-community algorithm-driven site is treated like a free market of ideas or Mars Hill.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I have a lot of complaints about this place sometimes, I do. But none of my concerns are that it’s not getting big enough or staying big enough. This mindset is a freaking disease. Everything does not have to be infinitely big, keep getting bigger, grow grow grow in size.

submitted 12 hours ago • 24 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 13 hours ago • 183 comments

All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

It is so frustrating when people say that Trump needs a pretext to escalate or a reason to be authoritarian. There is no justification for either and he has already done both without needing an excuse. This is what abusers do. They victimize regardless of what their victims do

submitted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

There was minimal coverage or actual footage of yesterday’s events in Los Angeles on the X platform. Everything I saw was here. As a result, Trump and the right-wing information machine are in almost complete control of the narrative on the X platform.

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

I re-present this piece, given Trump deploying the military to the streets of LA.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Lego art 🍳 😄

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

There are moments with authoritarian takeovers where resistance is met with state power and violence in order to intimidate a population into compliance. What happens then literally defines everything. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay focused.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

I blogged with some #rstats simulations about the topical question of whether changes in the proportion of p values that fall between 0.01 and 0.05 tells us much about the replication crisis. I conclude 'probably not'. (1/n) freerangestats.info/blog/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 1 day ago • 581 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Fun read by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social on how students think #ChatGPT is helping them prep for their course - spoiler: it’s not. A great reminder that tools ≠ shortcuts to understanding. #GoToClasses #Learning #HigherEd #GenAI #OpenAI

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sorry everyone, but these are the rules* *That cis people made up

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

2010: My source of existential dread is climate change 2016: ... climate change! and fascism 2020: ... climate change!! and fascism and pandemics 2024: ... climate change!! and fascism!! and pandemics and AI really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

#WeirdPride

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments