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Cognitive Psychologist (Bremen) with an MBA (Henley). Left a career in management. Dealing only with beautiful things now. Graduate student of Medieval Englishes at UoN. Father of four. Cats. Chickens. Sourdough tamer.
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"Lo!" Beowulf: a translation into modern English prose, 1901 John Richard Clark Hall 🇬🇧

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„A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.“ Putins bester Mann ist Präsident in Washington. Unfassbar.

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Der tragische Held der Geistesfreiheit: Vor 425 Jahren wurde Giordano Bruno auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt – www.giordano-bruno-stiftung.de/meldung/der-...

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Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models": LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w... LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...

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- Breaking: One nation's billion-dollar fever dream about to shock the world 💥 - The most audacious territorial acquisition plan you've never heard of... - Imagine buying a WHOLE state like it's a garage sale item. This is NOT a fake news." denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

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Seen in Stuttgart, Germany

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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD Ġif ġé mé (se cóc!) út ádrífaþ fram éowrum ġeférscype, ġé etaþ éowre wyrta gréne. – Ælfríc's Colloquy on the Occupations If you drive me (the cook!) out from your fellowship, you'll eat your vegetables green/raw! #OldEnglish #Englisc

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If you put your country in the hands of two pathological narcissists, it will start behaving like a pathological narcissist. From of being admired, feared, hated, loved and respected, the world’s most powerful country goes to being only feared and hated. Congratulations,#USA.

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Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science How Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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--> "Es gibt keinen Zusammenhang zwischen Herkunft und Gewalt."

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Auf den Punkt gebracht von Christian Stöcker - "Deutschland ist sehr sicher - außer man ist eine Frau oder im Visier von Rechtsextremen". Man könnte auch sagen: Mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten umzugehen, fällt dem Durchschnittsdeutschen immer schwerer. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

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How did we get here? People ask. 1. Corporate PR masquerading as journalism, i.e., journalists doing their marketing and PR for them. 2. Academics who know better joining the hype and grift and misleading the public.

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„Wir gehen fest davon aus, dass wir Tesla bis Ende des Jahres in den Ruin getrieben haben.“ Die Süddeutsche Zeitung über unser Update der Tesla Gigafactory:

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Läuft in Washington.

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OE Sentence of the Day #OESOTD Man dēþ swā hē byþ þonne hē mōt swā hē wile. – OE Durham Proverbs A man does as he is when he can [do] as he wants. Or more colloquially, people act out of who they really are when they can do what they want. #OldEnglish #Englisc

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What a beauty just arrived on my desk...

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Another very exciting and important publication: a 500-page treatment of the early medieval royal site at Rendlesham, Suffolk. Essential reading for all early medievalists interested in kingship, landscape, economy and much else besides. Now available here: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Lordship-and...

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EnronAI open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

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Warning: likely that these are all #bots, they all followed at the same time, they are all following the same number of 1.4k accounts; minutes later, nearly all of them had stopped following me. I will block those that remain.

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Just found out that two of my teenage kids store my contact details under "Darth Vader" ...😧

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It’s a great book! Michelle Brown really knows her stuff! Reviewed in the blog on my website: www.patricialovett.com/bede-a

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. @ionaitalia.bsky.social talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics. cc @richarddawkins.net.web.brid.gy. quillette.com/2025/01/04/p...

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Facebook/IG is already clogged with crap you don’t care about. Now it’ll be even more fake and manipulative, and drenched in planet-burning AI sauce! This is Zuckerberg pooping on your doorstep and calling it a product.

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