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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

How can an artist's perspective help us to make better decisions?🎨🔮 Decisionscape: How Thinking Like an Artist Can Improve Our Decision-Making by @karminker.bsky.social @nestauk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social reviewed by Robyn Gausman-Burnett. Read more 👉 ow.ly/t54S50Vgk5a Image: agsandrew

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I enjoyed @raviguru.bsky.social’s blog on lotteries as a policy tool this week ravigurumurthy.substack.com/p/should-pol...

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My thoughts on a major reason why the DOGE mindset is bad. If you thoughtlessly f*ck about at this intersection then you will find out.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Is anyone maintaining some kind of simplified account of what’s happening in the US? I can’t tell what matters and what’s noise (which I assume is deliberate) and want a scant “in ten years we will see that this stuff mattered” timeline or something (obv it’ll be speculative).

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Facebook is truly broken at this point. This is about 60% of my feed now - “look at this things that’s obviously AI. I know no one will praise me for making it”. Is it just a scam victim recruitment pipeline now?

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well that’s the stupidest experiment I’ve run in a while. Thanks for playing.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Please do my stupid little one question survey! It’ll take ten seconds nimble.li/vdrben69

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One question quiz

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Nat Lifton @carbonat14.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

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Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview | Peacock Original - SNL Fanatic

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I asked ChatGPT to generate 5000 random numbers between 1 and 10 and then simulate 5000 humans choosing numbers between 1 and 10… yeah, it knows us

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I swear to God, if I see one more person excuse Musk's absolute and undeniable support of fascism, obviously not meaning @stevepeers.bsky.social, because "he is autistic" I will lose it. Amazingly I've managed to make it 43 years on this planet as an autistic individual without supporting the Nazis.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

These stats from the “List of Municipalities in Florida” Wikipedia page feel… totally wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I don’t have anything profound to say but I need to say something because that was a Nazi salute and silence isn’t an option

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Just realised this is basically the argument against TikTok

The lyrics to Bullet in the Head by RATM

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The sun is in my eyes... I could just buy and install blinds, or I can use my design thinking and UX tools to solve the problem creatively

A series of sticky notes on the window that follows the path of the sun

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Whoever named the local coastal features was on something

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My kid has got the measure of the political capital system at play in primary school because yesterday she sighed dramatically and said “I just wish I was allergic to something”

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Merry Christmas, especially to the lady listening to a sermon on top volume on her phone after hissing at my giggling kids to be quiet on the train 🤡 #sufferthelittlechildren 🙄

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Never mind the word search, spot the typo 👀 #knowyouranemone

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Dancing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with the five year old. Suddenly she stops and says, “Mummy, what comes after death?” Me: 👀 Her: 👀 Me: 😬 Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?” Me: 😑

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Slow take (it’s been at least thirty years) is the kid in the trio advert called Suzi (Trio, I assume) because of Suzi Quatro?

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When a picture says 1000 words. (Taken in a toilet cubicle at a local church)

A photo from the inside of a women’s toilet cubicle of a piece of paper advertising a help service for those experiencing intimate partner violence. The phone number slips on the bottom are almost all torn off.

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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Interview with Louise Bourgeois

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Well I’ve been banned from posting on AITA for this but I think it’s worth it

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This @bmj.com article from 2015 says Americans have 7.31 missing teeth on avg and English people 6.97. From nationally representative samples. This cannot be right, can it? Must be conditional on having missing teeth? Paging @timharford.bsky.social

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Post a classic from your notes app. I’ll go first.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Everyone in the cinema’s phones going off for a severe wind warning at Wicked felt very immersive theatre 🌪️

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

GWR train manager just announced “this train is overcrowded due to multiple cancellations, pretty normal for a Sunday these days. Not the best day to travel.” Which makes the £230 I spent on tickets feel even more extortionate 😒

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Something I love on here - University starter packs. Eg just followed everyone in the @uniofexeter.bsky.social pack and now I’ll have news from all kinds of academic disciplines all over my feed. Amazing!

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How is Lizzie and Freddy the best thing about Rivals? (Not saying the rest of it is bad)

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pleased to see nursery training up the next generation of snowflakes ❄️

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Four year old just asked me how babies come out. I told her. She considered for a moment and said “no, thank you, mummy”. 😆

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This ChatGPT generated banana bread recipe, which I followed to the letter, feels like a helpful metaphor for what happens if you take LLM outputs at face value: it is somehow burnt and raw.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Public apology to @elisabethbik.bsky.social - I did a TikTok about what a hero you are and multiple people commented to say they’re nominating you for RFK Jnr’s taskforce “against corruption in science”. 😑 I am so sorry!

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

It’s mad how “to father” and “to mother” mean completely different things.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Next they will be saying Frankenstein was the monster!

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

On a train and a lady nearby has held four conversations with strangers as they have got on and off. I’m in awe. I want this skill.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Five #AI predictions in the next 3 yrs: 1. Most call centre workers will be replaced by AI 2. The #UBI discussion will take off as we grapple with a future where human labour is not valued 3. Insurers will refuse to cover scamming as it becomes too ubiquitous sophisticated

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Is it just me or does The Gruffalo have a Chaucerian quality to it?

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Terrible deal. This is worth about £1.56 in today’s money

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

When you hire a nanny but it turns out to be your extrovert ex-husband in disguise

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