Reposted by Matt WilliamsStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'. 11034411280
Reposted by Matt WilliamsGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 2033701258
Reposted by Matt WilliamsNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 268196176035
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSlow Down Arthur @admiralbooth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Amol Rajan thinks this is about him. 021
Reposted by Matt WilliamsJeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comA Heterogeneous Slopes Approach to Difference-in-Differences with Non-Binary TreatmentsI extend the approach of Wooldridge (2023, 2025) to allow for heterogeneous gains to treatment in the context of staggered interventions for non-binary treatmen 211135
Reposted by Matt WilliamsDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026we saw a wave of "woke is overrrr!!!" pieces after the election, mostly typed one-handed. just now we're starting to see some very sotto-voce "we need to talk about woke 1" pieces, whether that's the lesbian bar piece or the nikole hannah-jones education piece.liberalcurrents.comWhat Is Woke 2?Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power. 430447
Reposted by Matt WilliamsKane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The two had been guests of honor at the con the previous year. They left behind a whiteboard with porn of all three and a tally of how many times she cheated on him with both of them, and then later on drew a weird cuckporn comic and iirc poem explaining her side of the story. 1302
Reposted by Matt WilliamsKane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The sanest possible explanation: one of the two leaders of the sole explicitly right wing furry convention - who were married - dumped her husband and kids overnight for a pair of perpetually scandal-embroiled Canadian alt right furry porn artists and ousted him from the con, which then collapsed. 6876
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSteve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The attitude that regulation is hard so we should lower standards and emphasise in service evaluations using ‘real world’ (i.e. likely biased, questionable quality) data isn’t one I’m excited about. 251
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSteve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There’s an eerie parallel with the history of screening in the UK. In the second half of the twentieth century there was very little regulation around cancer screening and little to no evidence that it was doing more good than harm. It took a series of scandals to create enough impetus to fix this. 251
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSteve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Medical AI has a proof problem Really good and important article. Echoes a lot of issues I come across in practice.ft.comMedical AI has a proof problemThe technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care 1122
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSteve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A major problem IMO is that statistical validation of an algorithm isn’t the same as showing that it’s viable in practice or improves use of NHS resources. Never mind whether it saves money, which is a very high bar and also a significant assumption in the NHS ten year plan. 151
Reposted by Matt WilliamsAdrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I am electrifying my life - for 'free'!(Ok, cost neutral) Still, might be a good time for you to do the same? Have a watch of this first episode and I will walk you through the whole process. youtu.be/lm1LmpbhnVk?...youtu.beCan Adrian Electrify his Home for Free ? EPISODE 1YouTube video by Electrification Alliance 0258
Reposted by Matt WilliamsSimon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Scott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich - latest edition of Wealth of Nations nixons.substack.com/p/i-am-the-h...nixons.substack.comI Am The HouseScott Bessent’s self-sabotage, Canada’s return to Europe, the politics of Britain’s super-rich 2125
Reposted by Matt WilliamsKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/09/2026omg. (it wasn't me) www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/09/meta...famouscampaigns.comMeta smart glasses mocked by fake notices on London UndergroundLondon’s backlash against camera-equipped smart glasses has reached the Tube, with spoof stickers styled as official TfL safety notices appearing inside Underground carriages and warning wearers that ... 381891552
Reposted by Matt WilliamsDraculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden. 26493144
Reposted by Matt WilliamsDr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Well, I've got to grant Dr. James Orr this, his "impact" submission for REF 2029 is already sorted. 0354
Reposted by Matt WilliamsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/08/2026What's the greatest "greatest hits" album ever?static.klipy.comWoman Playing a Broken RecordALT: Woman Playing a Broken Record 49427114
Reposted by Matt Williamslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/11/2024This flow chart is also canonical (sincere apologies but I do not think I can alt-text this) 471124165
Reposted by Matt WilliamsMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank 241886294
Reposted by Matt WilliamsDan Hon @danhon.com · 25/07/2026of course in Europe Hecate is goddess of roundabouts 052
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026They may think this, but post-Black Death England might want to have a word.... 060
Reposted by Matt WilliamsLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I keep telling my joke about Narcissus, but everyone thinks it’s about them. 514813
Reposted by Matt WilliamsWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I keep telling my joke about Icarus, but it never lands right. 1316218
Reposted by Matt WilliamsGingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 317254956964
Reposted by Matt WilliamsMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I started writing a joke about the Greek tailor, Euripides Imendides 1151
Reposted by Matt WilliamsMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I started writing a joke about the Odyssey and turns out I got a lot of mileage out of it 810411
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Yet another great weekly column from @hpiandycowper.bsky.social The non-abolition of NHSE, and more And (right at the bottom) the impact of staff shortages ~20% shortage of oncologists in the UK, and patient numbers are rising. Will not end well www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...healthpolicyinsight.comCowper’s Cut 436: When is abolishing NHS England not abolishing NHS England?Healthcare management, online analysis, and intelligence. 121
Reposted by Matt WilliamsG @gpatrick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026What's the difference between Black Eyed Peas and chickpeas? Black Eyed Peas can sign us a song. Chickpeas can only hummus one. 4234
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 10/07/2026New paper! Patterns and predictors of dying at home for adults with primary malignant brain tumours: a comprehensive national cohort analysis Support: @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @braintumourcharity.bsky.social and mostly @braintumourrsch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 030
Reposted by Matt WilliamsKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma. 362593786
Reposted by Matt WilliamsCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/20261. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.academic.oup.comGeneralization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learningAbstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e 9402118
Reposted by Matt WilliamsErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Ok some folks said yes so 🧵 (Keeping in mind we spend every single day at the beach and value comfort and essentially make it our living room LOL) 2231336
Reposted by Matt WilliamsClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE 564122759
Reposted by Matt WilliamsDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026EXCLUSIVE A former ice cream salesman, whose only medical training is watching videos online, treats stage 4 cancer patients in his central London clinic by sealing them naked in a plastic bag and gassing them with toxic bleach www.wired.com/story/pseudo...wired.comPseudoscientific Cancer ‘Treatment’ Involves Gassing Naked People in Plastic Bags With BleachA London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide. 1915655
Reposted by Matt WilliamsUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: 242009539
Reposted by Matt WilliamsAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026On 9/11, someone in my family, who fought in the first Gulf War, asked me bewildered: ‘why do they hate us (Americans) so much?’ Dunno, it has got to be all the ‘freedom.’ 24814
Reposted by Matt WilliamsThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest... 151578592
Reposted by Matt WilliamsShaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It's thought more than half the 60 former directors and senior managers from @nottmhospitals who were asked to give evidence to Ockenden refused to do so 👀 23229
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 19/06/2026They want to use whole body ultrasound (and AI) to diagnose you There are........ questions 110
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Off to watch the Brain Tumour Petition debate in #Parliament this afternoon Well done to @BrainCancerJustice for making it happen 000
Reposted by Matt Williamsarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 437153854209
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A tutorial lesson in the correct use of alt text 3153
Matt Williams @matthwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026So, I have a question for @lastpositivist.bsky.social In the Sherden Pact universe, is there social media? Specifically, is there an equivalent of LinkedIn? Surely khornate bureaucrats would want to talk about their achievements? 000
Reposted by Matt WilliamsMAGNUS BEEFCASTLE @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI 80111362805