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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 9m

The best talk I believe I have seen this year: Hanna Pickard beautifully communicating philosophical considerations, to both preclinical and clinical neuroscientists of the Bordeaux Neurocampus, regarding paradigms of addiction and how these impact how we investigate and how we treat addiction.

Hanna Pickard beside slide titled "The Puzzle of Addiction"

Hanna Pickard beside a slide featuring a photo of Keith Richards and his quote, "I never had a problem with drugs. I only had a problem with the police."

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 4h

Gan dabht. The Tóibíns are out there and we shouldn't construct our messages worried about irritating their ilk. Recent safe driving ads are a good example of showing both the behaviour to avoid and the kind of behaviour to adopt, on a subject of equal importance re protecting others.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 5h

100% agree with all of this. A parallel consideration is whether this specific ad, as an audiovisual signal, effectively communicated the message it needed to communicate to the audience who needed to hear it. There are imo some lessons to be learned there, precisely because it's important.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22h

The furore over this is ridiculous, but I will say that what the ad lacked, from a purely educational point of view, was an exemplification of what proper (or *sound*) grandparent behaviour would look like here: reading the situation and, for ex., rebuffing a parent trying to force the kid to hug.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21h

This news is of course to be understood as accumulating on top of the PHP weaknesses identified and exploited by AI too (a story far from over). Perhaps slop will eat itself, but if so... it's going to devour so much else along with it. #refuseresist

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 15h

Haven't seen For All Mankind but, fun watch that it is, it's not better than, or really even comparable to, Widow's Bay. But it is lots of fun. I'd give the show 7.5 out of 10, and Gary Oldman 11.

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

The quality journalism only the BBC can provide

Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy says he didn't know PHP existed until yesterday morning - it's "one of these things we take for granted", he says.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

🏷️ There's a flash sale over on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints on the spookier folklore and mythology prints until Hallowe'en - the perfect opportunity to support bog-hag-made art AND pick up something a little creepier for the cherished undead in your life 🧟

Cartoon of the Irish hallowe'en turnip smiling with the text Spooky Sale - Sale on spookier prints now on over at www.ciaraioch.com, against an orange background with the outline of bats.

#SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #Ireland #Halloween #Art #Samhain #IrishArt #HumanArt #TraditionalArt

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21h

"Major US banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions" Again, fellow academics promoting AI agents, have you honestly thought about what that society looks like? #pulltheplug

axios.com

Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts

Banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and others are racing to contain agent risks.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22h

This was always behaviour I recognized as sound when my folks would try to oblige awkward heel-kicking me to hug or kiss on the cheek or whatever: those adults who'd say, "Leave him he's grand; he's no need to be giving hugs if he doesn't feel like it!" etc. Basic, simple: sound.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Paralleling the make-up of the Starlink network, every X user also constitutes a satellite Musk owns and uses to his ends, viz. to further his fascist vision of the future of humanity.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Asked non-rhetorically, this--the question of who wants to (primarily) consume generated-on-demand personally customized community-isolated art--is undoubtedly one of the most important sociological issues of our age.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

It is AI. Something which Musk sells. But even the genAI not sold by Musk is sold by people who are plainly as evil-aligned as he, making the post (which didn't need an image to get its msg across anyway) self-defeating. genAI-powered protest will eat itself.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Were Pratchett still with us he may well have given us the 'AI Unseen University' in a Discworld novel satirizing this latest chapter of human absurdity 🙂

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

"Drain *long drag* the *long sip* portable *long exhale* swamp."

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Love that my mind automatically replaced "great" with "brilliant" 😅 Isn't memory brilliant!

youtube.com

Fast Show Christmas - Brilliant!

YouTube video by Alex P

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

One literally *has* to wonder how the psychopaths (sensu stricto) who make military targeting software for the likes of Palantir weigh up the value of infant vs adult life, ie when it comes to questions of calculating "permissible" civilian kill margins. Cos looking at result of their use in Gaza..💀

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Are these stories linked? Consider... Meta has major ties & contracts with the US military, including via Anduril. The Irish state, thanks to FFG, holds about €1 million shares in Palantir. OpenAI also has offices in Dublin. Meta, Palantir & OpenAI executives were sworn in as US reserves last yr 🤔

rte.ie

Legislation to remove Triple Lock passes Dáil vote

Legislation to scrap the Triple Lock has passed its first vote in the Dáil tonight after 79 TDs backed the change and 71 opposed it.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

rte.ie

Legislation to remove Triple Lock passes Dáil vote

Legislation to scrap the Triple Lock has passed its first vote in the Dáil tonight after 79 TDs backed the change and 71 opposed it.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Add his other two most known films, The Revenant and Amores Perros, and the least you can say about him is that he doesn't repeat himself (I haven't seen Digger yet, but most likely will).

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

"Organized by Oxford Reform UK" Makes sense... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp4h...

Screen shot of a Reform UK councillor secretly filmed saying "I would quite happily do Sunday morning Rose Garden executions." From ITV's 'Undercover Inside Reform UK' investigation documentary.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/10/2026

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Do you care more about human welfare than buildings? Are you looking at France & presuming there's nothing you can do to help? Faux! You can raise the subject of France's horrific record on police brutality every time someone mentions the protests: it should be a much better known source of shame:

theguardian.com

French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests

Four children allegedly ‘mutilated’ by explosive weapons and lawyers say unprecedented number held in custody

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

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French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests

Four children allegedly ‘mutilated’ by explosive weapons and lawyers say unprecedented number held in custody

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Off Investigation @offinvestigation.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🗣️ "Epstein travaillait au cœur d'interrelations avec des chefs d'État" Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, le prince Andrew, Tony Blair... dès les années 1990, le prédateur s*xuel américain évolue au cœur du pouvoir mondial. 🎬 « EPSTEIN, prédateur et espion » ➡️ off-investigation.fr/jeffrey-epst...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

one bad habit i have not imported from twitter is to lift irritating, rude, or otherwise bizarre replies from my mentions with a qt. it's one little thing i do for the world i'd like to live in and for positive vibes during the day. i reply or mute or block but i don't try to expose or shame anyone

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Calling that "the joke" is imo giving Sacha Baron Cohen far too much credit. If you've had the unique displeasure of seeing the first film, it should leave you in no doubt that any deeper level of humour than the puerility and mocking was accidental.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

1. Increase social welfare allowance to a humane level. 2. Decrease retail profit margins to a moral level. => Those collecting payments can now also be economy-stimulating customers. "Problem" solved! 🥳

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Related: every time there is a name trending that I don't recognize, it turns out to be a US sports star of some stripe or another. Go sports team!

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Spokesperson for Macron's government, on one of the billionaire owned 24 hr news channels, speaking exactly like a spokesperson for the Front National: "the main culprits are the lowlifes"; "the type of population is clear from the images" Bald racism to distract from state corruption & violence🤮

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

We desperately need movements for humanistic moral revival, both religious and secular

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

lol (or 'mdr') at the ironic bad faith grammar nazi-ing in the comments, naturally with a side-order of social prejudice of a different variety:

A grammar nazi calling two optional French typographic choices "mistakes" and calling the person "semi-literate" on that basis.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

The looting etc, is being manipulated (facilitated by and contributed to by riot police) under order by the ministry for interior though, that much is true, and that many on the left here are not accounting for it in their rhetoric. imo: keep bringing discourse back to police violence against kids

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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 20/10/2026

Our new investigation is coming out soon, showing links between Turning Point UK and loyalist paramilitaries who can do murders for hire.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Free VPN Browsec (or free version, rather) will allow you to pretend you are in the UK and watch this utterly shocking and utterly unsurprising exposé. This work from ITV should be an inspiration to investigative journalists worldwide. Beginning with the BBC.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Je sais, d'où mon "sans laver l'audiovisuel public de toute responsabilité"

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RaphJ @oim.rjo.name · 19/10/2026

Le maire de Marseille confirme que les FDP se sont volontairement écarté pour laisser les casseurs piller la mairie et qu'ils n'ont interpellé PERSONNE. Les lycéens sont gazés et mutilés, les casseurs et les voleurs sont protégés. C'est une stratégie de terreur de l'état.

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

"Conversely, if AI systems only seem to be conscious and lack actual inner experience, then granting them rights or protections could hinder efforts to govern and control them at precisely the time when oversight is urgently needed." And now the pushing of AI consciousness by Big Tech makes sense.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Enfin, sans laver l'audiovisuel public de toute responsabilité, là en l'occurrence il s'agit de tout le paysage audiovisuel détenu par des ultra-riches, et c'est ça qui doit être souligné puisque c'est cette situation qui doit être démantelée en urgence première.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

The French protests aren’t race based or about migration. This is a narrative being pushed by the global far right. It is literally about the French government’s austerity measures against schools and education. The fact the debate has been morphed to be about race shows how racist the UK press is

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