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benhr.bsky.social
Health services researcher and educator from Sydney, Australia. https://unsw.to/ben_hr https://benhr.xyz https://harrisroxashealth.com
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Technical and lengthy but super-interesting: Cryptocurrency and Extremism: How Social Network Analysis is Used to Track Extremist Cryptocurrency Donations

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"The point here is that the artificial intelligentsia is dragging us into an archaic future where intelligence is quantified, fixed, and ranked, and smartness is fetishized. We would do well to remember that IQ is, above all, a eugenic conc... https://benhr.xyz/2025/04/01/the-point-here-is-that.html

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Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza

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credit to @benhr.bsky.social for coming up with the killer app for AI

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This was mooted but the detail seems even worse than feared. It’s not really about DEI per se - it’s really about any research that recognises any health inequalities at all. NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants - Nature

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Trying to get LLMs to make ASCII art is one of my favourite things.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

“The IndieWeb doesn’t need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It’s a celebration of a more personal, decentralised, and creative world wide web. For those of us who still care about these values, it is already meaningful.”

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"What’s the Matter with Abundance?" Malcolm Harris' worthwhile critique of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's "Abundance": https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/20/whats-the-matter-with-abundance.html

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The two-lane road to hell is paved with good intentions: why an all-or-none approach to generative AI, integrity, and assessment is insupportable: https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/19/the-twolane-road-to-hell.html

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The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall: https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/19/the-m-cactus-heist-that.html

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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature (if only) Microsoft accidentally wipes out Copilot in latest Windows 11 update

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

open.spotify.com/episode/1Lv8... An excellent @hitfactorypod.bsky.social with guest @hamrahrama.bsky.social discussing the philosophical and sociological implications of the ill-starred and reflexive adoption of generative A.I. into contemporary American studio filmmaking.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Best sentence I’ve read in a while, courtesy of A S Hamrah: "British movies these days—from good ones like The Old Oak to OK ones like Bird to wretched ones like Saltburn—present British people as ruthlessly mean to each other, petty, c... https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/16/best-sentence-ive-read-in.html

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"Lists colonise the mind and impoverish the imagination." Elena Gorfinkel’s clarion “Against Lists” remains critically relevant.

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Trump administration demands Columbia University: put an outside Chair in charge of Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies adopt a new definition of antisemitism reform admissions ban masks overhaul student discipline comply immediately or risk funding.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. researchers consider "Scientific Exile" in France: https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/14/us-researchers-consider-scientific-exile.html

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General practice use of A.I. scribes is already much more widespread than people realise: https://benhr.xyz/2025/03/12/general-practice-use-of-ai.html

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

“I Was Strengthened at the Movies” https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/i-was-strengthened-at-the-movies Great thoughts on Malick’s films and their importance.

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Hackers launder most of Bybit's stolen crypto worth $1.4B https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/04/hackers-launder-most-of-bybits-stolen-crypto-worth-1-4-billion/ “Crypto is back” indeed

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