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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...

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Computational complexity for hype immunity

Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of Britain's leading allies in the Middle East has apparently spent years systematically desecrating one of the most treasured parts of our national culture. Sportswashing was supposed to make it easier for states like the UK to support regimes like the UAE. Clearly this does the opposite.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good lord. I remember her when she just used to have a bob.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For context, Starmer's speechwriter came up with this burning rhetoric for the 2022 conference: "Now, you may have heard some of this before. I grew up in a pebble-dashed semi. Dad was a tool-maker, Mum was a nurse, our first car was a Ford Cortina – this was the 1970s."

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do love a bit of Michel Gondry choreography, but why not go direct to the source? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P76c...

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I Only Have Eyes For You | Dames | Warner Archive

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hud (Pictured: the moment just before Cloverfield became the Nation's Sweetheart)

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the Machine, and Matteo Pasquinelli's book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence are both very good correctives on this.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I walked by the Stop & Shop Then I drove by the Stop & Shop I liked that much better than walking by the Stop & Shop 'Cause I had the radio on

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obviously been on my mind recently, but Premier Anatoly Cherdenko.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She should be sacked, and then we should ask how and why the main left party going very hard into National Front crackdowns, rhetoric and imagery - a thing that horrifies their own members - earned them the roaring approval of the British press. Because that’s the core issue, right there.

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So are we saying that if I got a van and started ramming ambulances, slashing their tires and assaulting their staff, I'd be fine as long as I was a fascist. Mahmood should be sacked. The situation with this government is intolerable.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But please pause for a moment and think about what metaphors "unleash" rests on. What do we put leashes on? (Mostly dogs) Why do we keep dogs on leashes? (To keep them from running off and hurting themselves, other animals, or people) >>

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The closing date for emails to the consultation is a minute before midnight tonight. Please don't use the government's own questionnaire (ridiculously partial - "do you think it's all been going on a bit too long?"), but send it via here instead: ucpi.uk #spycops

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SAVE THE SPYCOPS INQUIRY | Stop The State Cover-Up

The Home Office is attempting to scrap or severely limit the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Join survivors and take action now.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An important thing to remember, surely (although I never stopped calling it sociobiology) but here's just one more:

NYT Op Ed - Sniffing out the Gay Gene by Steven Pinker; May 17 2005

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Political spectra, eh? Instead of the mystery of 'centrism making common cause with the far right', 'the class who think the status quo has got resource distribution just right has a lot in common with the class who think the powerless have too much already' is MUCH more intuitive.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As the conflict in Yemen resumes, Britain risks complicity in another round of indiscriminate bombing and collective punishment of Yemeni civilians. In a new article for @zeteo.uk I argue that Britain must reject Saudi calls for support, and end all arms sales to the regime zeteo.uk/p/britains-r...

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Britain’s Role in Yemen’s Brutal War Must End – And Reparations Should Follow

The war in Yemen is escalating again. The UK must end its military support of Saudi Arabia – or it could do to Andy Burnham’s premiership what complicity in the Gaza genocide did to Keir Starmer’s.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 20/09/2026

submitting this as a cover letter along with my latest manuscript

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's GENUINELY like this: You cannot "solve" intractability with heuristics. Trust me. I devoted 20 years to this, and really, if you squeeze out intractability in one spot it'll pop up in another. It may look different on the surface, but in essence you're still facing the same epistemic problem.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alan Bennett reminisces on the 2000's NY indie rock scene: "I remember one night being at the mercury lounge when I first came across The Strerks".

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kevin O'Neill

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never be itty bitty titties and a bob.' When that moment comes, one's ambition ceases. Don't you agree?"

Uncle Monty from Withnail and I attempts to console himself with the ambition to be a Gen-Z boss and a mini; he finds it hard going, and quite frankly I have every sympathy for the man.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A closer look at yesterday's Drinker moth caterpillar (Euthrix potatoria), suspended by water surface tension inside a blue plastic barrel. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I doubt that was really the point of the OP, and it was definitely not mine. The point was that there is a vocal (to put it politely) « pro-"AI" » clique on here who spend their time harassing academics and any "AI" skepic's voice.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Even if it's not quite a desert desert, it'd still count as a cultural desert, what with it being set in a place without book clubs, or opera. (It's actually a Christmas movie too, come to think)

Gary Bond as the teacher in Wake in Fright, absolutely CHEWING a pint of lager. A film that will put you off the booze for life. Aussies too, probably.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Any scifi series that sets a whole season on present day Earth has gone on too long. Sorry Galactica 80. Sorry Lexx. Them's the rules. You're fine, Star Trek; no-one minds the odd good episode, particularly if it involves Joan Collins poignancy.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The 1913 Premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (that's Le Sacre du Printemps for all you lads who went on honeymoon in Paris). I'd probably prefer to sit in the front with an uninterrupted view, because of all that rioting.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Jean Rook de nos jours would like to remind guardian readers before she goes that page 3 girls put a smile on the great british public's face, and what's more they're getting paid for it! Take that, women's libbers!

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Wouldst thou like to live deliciou-OI! Knock it off!"

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026

yes, and they really want it to be that way and have wanted it to be that way for a very long time...

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I liked Mad Men just fine, but I'd have respected it more if the season one finale was less about kodak projectors, more about Don Draper pitching a campaign to a gambling company by repeatedly shouting "TITS", growing more reflective as he slowly realises his wife has tits, too.

Sydney Sweeney advertises some online gambling app by being naked except for a rugby ball and an american football ball. If you're a brit of a certain age, it's basically the Big D display in pubs, except it's not bags of peanuts covering up someone's boobs.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Get warmly nostalgic remembering arguments about overfitting: that throwing coefficients into a model to make the numbers come out good wasn't really the point.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
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Chuang, Yihsin
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Guest, Olivia1
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Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.

a figure that looks like a cloud that stays "cognitive capacity" with an arrow pointing to a lozenge with "theory" which points to a lozenge with "specification" which points to the same with "data" which is pointed to by a cloud that says "phenomenon"

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You'd think for something so remarkable, there'd have been someone (out of a whole classfull) who would have come out with this story over the last 25 years, but no. The only woman brave enough to bear witness was the woman who described being mocked on the internet as a 'digital pogrom'

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Now if I think in terms of left and right, I soon run out of brain. But say that the people making the investment decisions that count will fight like mothers against anyone on the side of equity, but smile paternally on anyone who think that the powerless get too much as it is, I get that just fine

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Spread.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Severance (and it really only needed the one, soz).

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My stars, I've seen it 10 plus times at the cinema.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People have rightly said "what about the muppets putting on a show and calling it The Muppet Show", but I think 'The Muppets continuing Deadwood and finishing it THE RIGHT WAY' is staring us all in the face.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Even as an intellectual exercise, can YOU think of a way to be the biggest prick at the Spectator Garden Party?

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In Empire of AI, Karen Hao names Jack Clark as the man who sent a warning on the OpenAI slack channel warning employees not to speak to her in "unsanctioned conversations", so well done John for getting him to open up.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Radio 3 vs Classic FM.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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