Are you someone who wants to - shake their faith in the scientific enterprise to its very core? - be motivated to be an even *more* conscientious researcher? - to read about an entertaining albeit horrific catalogue of scientific f*ck ups? Read this!

Pilot didn't go well

RT @Vinncent: Anglophone commenters love to attribute everything that happens in enemy territory to Bad Leaders, but when you talk about We…

The CCP also faced the fundamental problem of reconciling revolutionary politics with state bureaucracy. It turns out that these two things are probably mutually exclusive.

Estimated cortical distance (mm) versus illusion strength in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Got my (7 months late) stimulus check, and now somewhat determined now to have a signature that looks as slick as Donny's

One more pop-culture reference - in "Ex Machina" (2014), a tech billionaire makes a very human-like AI by using machine learning on a bunch of social media data. I thought it was silly at the time but that may very well be the most plausible way of replicating the brain IRL. 3/3

RT @Vinncent: The most obvious - and extremely common - offense here is to assume that violence / authoritarianism / extremism happen "out…

I'd think it was kinda cool to see people occupy congress if it weren't for the fact that the people doing it this time are QAnon conspiracy theorists

@MyopicSquid My only issue with this is that you need more granularity + unnecessary visualisation

I've noticed a lot of my left-leaning friends vacillating about whether it is morally acceptable to vote or Biden. For me, the immediacy of climate change alone makes voting for sleepy Joe a no-brainer, and I have yet to see any convincing argument to the contrary.

RT @AkiyoshiKitaoka: "Ebbinghaus thickness illusion" The contour of the left inner circle appears to be thicker than that of the right cou…

This the one I was telling you about @SoheilMpour. Unreal!

Transnational matai: Examining the experiences of intergenerational global Samoan titled chiefs:

RT @priyavprabhakar: a reminder that Du Bois invented data visualization

@MyopicSquid I'm just getting started so I don't know much about how the economy works, but I could give them compensation in the form of sticks and some shells I found on the beach.