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Harry Dayantis

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Head of Communications at the Cochrane Collaboration, nerd, ttRPG fan. All views personal, if that.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Absolutely fantastic journalism here
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
As LLMs get better at certain tasks and much more convincing, it's a useful exercise to ask about a subject you know intimately. Here, ChatGPT 5.6 diagrams the wrong game, doubles down, then finally admits its mistake. It cites a paper that doesn't exist, doubles down, and finally confesses again.
ChatGPT query: Diagram the enquist model of agonistic signaling

[poster output]User: This is fucked up. So you just made that up.

ChatGPT: Yes. I did, and you’re right to call it out.

My first description was not a faithful account of Enquist’s model. I supplied a plausible generic sequence for agonistic assessment—“initial assessment → signaling → reassessment → escalation”—without having verified that those were actually the stages or assumptions in Enquist (1985). Then, when you challenged the “prior information” point, I compounded the problem by giving another specific reconstruction instead of checking the source first.

I’ve now checked secondary material explicitly discussing Enquist’s 1985 model, and it describes the model as one in which players choose among possible displays/actions in an agonistic game, with the evolutionary question being when those choices can constitute honest signaling. That is importantly different from the staged assessment process I initially gave you.

So: do not use either of my previous stage descriptions as a representation of Enquist (1985). I should have looked up the paper/model before answering a source-specific question.ChatGPT: Yes. You’re right — again.

The poster actually says:

Enquist, M. (1985). “Communication during agonistic encounters.” In R. R. Hinde (Ed.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 15, 65–106. Academic Press.

And that citation is not the original Enquist model paper I should have been using.

I made three separate errors here: I generated an unverified citation, then misreported what the poster said twice. That’s a basic source-handling failure.

If you want, I can now do this properly: verify the actual Enquist agonistic-signaling model from the primary paper and give you only the real sequence/stages, with no reconstruction.

User: The paper on the poster doesn't even exist.

ChatGPT: Correct. That poster citation is fabricated. I generated a title and book chapter that do not exist.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@bransonreese.bsky.social I regret to inform you that being cool is now banned on the Athens metro.
An image showing a stick figure leaning nonchalantly against a wall, with one leg straight and one bent. The kind of nonchalant lean that implies the figure is about to say "hey, kid" before nonchalantly flicking a cigarette. The figure is surrounded by the standard "no" sign of a red circle with a diagonal line through it. The text underneath reads "Danger do not lean on doors" in both Greek and English.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Holy shit. This arc has everything
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Gotta hand it to them, @privateeyenews.bsky.social called it again
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
its only been like a week and this is already one of the stupidest things anyone's ever posted
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Pete Wilton @petewilton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: @lshtm.bsky.social launches a new network to help combat dangerous health #misinformation in the UK... THE SPECTRUM OF MISINFORMATION newsletter has the scoop on the Health Information Integrity Network that launched this week: the-spectrum-of-misinformation.ghost.io/network-lift...
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Network lifts off + News/Analysis
The Spectrum of Misinformation returns for 2026 with more news, analysis & practical advice for communicators. In News digest: AI overviews "put lives at risk", decline porn racism, White House made ...
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is a perfect example of why real images are so great. The joy here comes from the eggs looking like pints of Guinness, not contrived AI slop lacking any art or serendipity. Beautiful.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When I saw Private Eye in my postbox, in its opaque wrapper, I was sad for the team that the Nonce Andrew arrest happened days(?) after they went to press. After opening it, clearly I had nothing to fear as those Nostradamuses have done it again!
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Had lunch today outside at someone's house and I knew they had lots of flowers, so I brought my camera just in case some Hummingbirds were hanging out! #Birds #Nature #Photography
A Hummingbird hovering near an Orange flower
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 04/02/2026
FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Angela Collier ripping the shit out of that pathetic liar youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM?...
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dyson spheres are a joke
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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a little annoyed that 3d printer bfs [gender neutral] all over the country have been validated by the whistles. it's as if the revolution had suddenly needed all the weird cables they're holding onto. you know what i mean.

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We're three days into February and have shipped almost 80,000 whistles to all comers, across the US, for free, because we all keep us safe. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Honored to earn Representative Jamaal Bowman’s endorsement. Jamaal has shown what it means to stand up to powerful interests and fight for working people. I’m proud to carry that fight forward in IL-09! @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social
Endorsement graphic with a photo of Jamaal Bowman and Kat together, giving peace signs to the camera with 'vote for Kat' stickers.

Copy reads: 
CONGRESSMAN JAMAAL BOWMAN
ENDORSES KAT ABUGHAZALEH
FOR CONGRESS IL-09
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/01/2026
ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin
ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 28/01/2026
Democrats: Republicans will put you in a concentration camp if you don’t donate to us Republicans: We will put you in a concentration camp if you don’t donate to us
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Re-listening to @rudetales.bsky.social Class Dismissed, because I need some S Tier escapism, the score under the entire Ruleshaven arc is so fucking sick.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. 

"Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."
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Thomas Benner @thomasbenner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson | Tribune Content Agency
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want." Really?
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This 2018 Onion article is disturbingly relevent
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Swan Boy sitting on a huge hair dryer melting some ICE goons. The text says DESTROY ICE.
Maybe not my subtlest piece.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
weissand effect
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 17/10/2025
Our CEO, Dr Karla Soares-Weiser, joined global health leaders at the World Health Summit to discuss how trusted evidence can fight vaccine misinformation and rebuild public trust in science. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #WHS2025 #TrustedEvidence #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Misinformation
Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser sits on stage in a bright blue suit, addressing an audience with a microphone. The "Cochrane" logo is in the top left corner.
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Oh man I've just started latest @dimension20.bsky.social episode it's so fucking good
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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 05/08/2025
How are we advancing responsible AI for evidence synthesis? From developing guidance to engaging with developers, we're ensuring AI enhances – not replaces – human judgment in systematic reviews. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/how-cochrane-advancing-responsible-ai-evidence-synthesis
How is Cochrane advancing responsible AI for evidence synthesis?
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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 04/08/2025
We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for: The latest insights from Cochrane reviews 📖 Training and support for researchers 👩🏫 Information on research integrity, innovative methods and our global community 🌏
Four individuals are engaged in conversation near the arched entrance of a building. One person holds The Cochrane handbook. The Cochrane logo appears in the upper left corner
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/07/2025
OpenAI's CEO is busy hyping up his products and trying to get ahead of regulation he doesn't like and is doing so to supine tech blogs who should interrogate his bullshit much more closely
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Incredible bonus episode, excited for the next installment! Sound design is 👌 throughout and it's always a treat to hear @taylordotbiz.bsky.social play as a PC.
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Digital Dolphin @digitaldolphin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Someone made a Dropout starter pack for fans of #dropout now that the cast is joining Bluesky ❤️ go.bsky.app/FojXegL
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Harry Dayantis @hcdayantis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This arc of Swan Boy is incredible, truly a masterpiece. Bruno Tomato is 👌 @bransonreese.bsky.social swanboy.com Current arc starts here: swanboy.com/comic/catchi...
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Catching Up
Visit the post for more.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
my d&d guy is a green Mage who specializes in summoning off-Leash pitbulls from the doggy day care dimension . and using him is not politics
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/04/2025
RFK Jr. Starts National Registry Of Introverts Who Sometimes Get Social Anxiety
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RFK Jr. Starts National Registry Of Introverts Who Sometimes Get Social Anxiety
WASHINGTON—Promising to use all of his power as health secretary to find a cure for the condition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly directed the National Institutes of Health on Friday to create a reg...
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