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Researcher in philosophy of science and AI Naarm, Australia Sarcasm is my native dialect. My blog, loosely tied to Bayesian reasoning and argument analysis: https://bayesianwatch.wordpress.com/ Ex: FB, Twitter, Mastodon, Post (in order)
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The White House’s math on the budget bill requires nothing short of an economic miracle, says @bobburgess.bsky.social

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Hegseth is such a dumbshit it sometimes still shocks me. Like a bunch of their other people would know better and say this as a conscious lie, but this meathead probably believes it

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

"Medicalized treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria needs to be dispassionately scrutinized like any other area of medicine, no matter which side of the aisle is cheering it on. But in the United States, it has not been." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

if the ads I’m seeing are any indication of why consumers should get behind AI, we’re in big trouble if Google, Meta, Microsoft, et al think a selling proposition is a bewildered nitwit calling in for instructions on how to pull off a Fourth of July bbq… www.nytimes.com/2025...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Mamdani stood up to lies that supporting human rights is antisemitic. Other Democrats could profit from his good example.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Judd Legum decries a court's #copyright ruling that AI should have access to its legitimately sourced input works, since copyright laws explicitly allow for that. This ruling conforms to what I've previously written about #AI and copyright: if existing law means anything it grants AI fair use.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Just read about Caballo (Seville) Bell experiments supposed to show whether or not free will exists. Specifically, whether (partial) determinism may explain Bell violations. This is a story about physicists doing bad philosophy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

In order to demonstrate how well-justified Trump's version of the success of the Iran bombing was, the White House is suppressing Congressional oversight of US intelligence.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Mainting the class system- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump claims new evidence backs his obliteration claim. The idea that someone has crawled through the demolished tunnels of Fordo and established the facility to be destroyed is far fetched. I note that Ratcliffe's note doesn't contradict me.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump wets his pants over Zohran Mamdani's primary win.

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#BBC World Service just reported that Trump rejects the DIA assessment of limited damage in Iran ***because it's just a preliminary assessment***. Typical of #MSM bias, trying to make Trump normal, rejecting things for good reason. It's total nonsense. Bullshit.

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Bill Kristol lies about #Mamdani. 1. Yes, he's DSA 2. The public grocery stores he wants are in food deserts 3. "Globalize the intafada" means global support for Palestinian rights, not terrorism. #Bulwark and #Kristol should know better.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

There's actually one president whose approval was lower than Trump's. (It's Trump v1.0) See: "How Trump's approval rating compares to past presidents" in

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Uber, opaque exploitation coupled with lies.

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Only thing stopping us from achieving the same is an elitist ideology that favours a two-tier education system, a regressive and outdated understanding of pedagogy and a deeply entrenched disrespect for the, mostly female, teaching profession Surely we can do better, Australia?

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

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Declining to eschew principles & declining to capitulate to zionists could've saved Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, >$1M in legal fees (But Melbourne Symphony Orchestra still probably topping the leaderboard with $3.3 million in legal fees from sacking Jayson Gillham)

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Australian journalist wins unfair dismissal case over Gaza post 'The BBC has also seen dozens of WhatsApp messages from two groups that show a concerted letter-writing campaign against Lattouf in the days before she was fired.' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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This bizarre, apparently mistaken, public post by Rubio's "MAGA" aide - rebuking the NATO Ambassador for making an apparently anodyne statement about the value of cooperation with NATO allies - was very revealing. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments