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What in the George Orwell is this shit? Why the fuck do cops need to know if we're neurodivergent or not? If cops treated people like human beings it wouldn't fucking matter.

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Website of an initiative we have been working on for the last few years on building ethical behavioural science frameworks within corporate contexts. Has been a fascinating year developing the cohorts and materials. www.forgoodframework.com

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

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On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

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Trump’s attacks on Iran are another hugely dangerous escalation. Unjustified, illegal, provocative; they make the world less safe, not more. The UK must condemn these attacks and make clear it will provide no support.

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God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

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THERAPIST: you seem to interpret real life as if you're streaming, and can only process emotions through a discussion with some sort of non-existent group viewing your every action ME: Chat am I cooked

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Wars are hugely unpredictable, have massive unintended consequences and kill lots of people. One should call out politicians who suggest otherwise. They are lying.

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AI won't take your job, someone using AI will take your job. And then they'll break everything, and you'll get rehired to fix it, albeit at a lower wage. time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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Cybernetic theories of psychology. Just hook it to my veins open.substack.com/pub/experime...

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Fining people for playing music out loud on public transport is, in my opinion, a classic example of misunderstanding the cause of a problem. siu2lh.com/articles/in-...

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New piece in the @lsebr.bsky.social about why AI might not make businesses especially efficient: blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

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we need to be saying again and again and again that even if 100% of these people had a criminal record none of this would be okay. people who are criminalized are humans and deserve human rights. people are systematically criminalized based solely on the color of their skin, poverty, language etc

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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

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That’s a lie, though! The only reason we got 10% was because we do not have a large trade surplus with the USA! Thats IT, that’s All, there’s NOTHING else at play here! The toadying accomplished ZERO! Starmer would have accomplished the same outcome by just farting in the Oval Office and leaving!

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The UK government talks a lot about 'tough economic choices', 'fixing foundations' and its management competence. However, toadying to Trump, hammering poor, and keeping asset rich and super wealthy out of paying more tax are biased, easy and knee jerk choices.

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Today's feature from our latest print issue is from researcher and writer Bryan McMahon about AI, and specifically the business of AI. Though hundreds of billions have been poured in, that money hasn't bought dominance, & a gaping hole in the public markets may result. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Really interesting case study into the politics of behavioural economics. Obviously, I have to link my own paper on this topic, too: doi.org/10.1093/cje/...

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The deadline for this position is now approaching. Make sure you apply by February 28th! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #phd #futures #democracy

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@dsquareddigest.bsky.social's excellent book: "The Unaccountability Machine" continues to pique the interest of political scientists. But I wanted to broaden a little & explain that Beer's ideas are not new to systems thinkers. And there's much, much more to add: open.substack.com/pub/clairejh...

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This is it. (via @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social)

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Something I think a lot of AI people are missing is that ordinary people find tech bros annoying and bad. A good deal of the cheer around DeepSeek is schadenfreude.

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I am the only one that remembers that 2023 leaked Google memo that said something like DeepSeek (open source, low cost) could easily happen? semianalysis.com/2023/05/04/g...

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The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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I have just discovered this wonderful blog on technology, which draws so much on Illich and others. One of those moments where one feels they are not going quite so mad. This post on the enclosure of the mind is great.

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Bertold Brecht “Praise of Dialectics"

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New draft chapter, on the problems of algorithms in decision making and the possibilities of a more radical behavioural science: siu2lh.com/pdfs/ib/algo...

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I will share my thoughts on music here and my thoughts on books on the 'professional' website: siu2lh.com/articles/wri...

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Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy - with Dr Stuart Mills www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6p...

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To the extent people defend broadly liberal values in the context of ethics of behavioural influence should be more emphasis on genuine threats. Things like pension auto-enrolment, tax simplification, healthy eating nudges, are not threats to core values of liberal democracies.

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I have a new paper out in the Journal of Business Research with David Spencer. We argue that rather than enhancing productivity, AI is likely to suffer from efficient inefficiency--more efficiently doing inefficient things. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

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I spoke to @unlearnecon.bsky.social a couple of days ago about AI and other things. You can watch our conversation here: www.youtube.com/live/geYkzVz...

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I have a new paper out in Public Administration Review. I argue that behavioural science can (and maybe should) advocate for more fiscally impactful policy. I show why both Simon and Keynes have important contributions to behavioural policymaking. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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