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Show me some phenomena…. Seattle bus rider. Tinkerer with #rstats and bikes and things. Onetime vision scientist (motion + crowding), interested in data science, open science & reproducibility. github.com/crowding

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/05/2026
Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There should be a law that nothing in the tax code should require any computations you can’t do in Excel (without lambdas or extension functions) Try FIFO inventory valuation lol. I had to do key parts in Javascript bc native formulas would time out due to O(N^2)
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
in 15-20 years will AI slop aesthetics become the next vaporwave? 🤔
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...
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bootion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
It’s USB 3 Mini B innit? A regular USB Mini B will work (but limit to USB 2 speed)
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s like what if Underworld was a metal band youtu.be/Uqs9EdpjMHY?...
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MAQUINA. - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cool orb. Maybe I’ll name my startup after it.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Need distraction from trauma. Maybe The Dispossessed? LeGuin: Even in anarchist utopia, academic advisors are narcissistic shits Me: fuck Years later: Need distraction from the world. Maybe The Left Hand of Darkness? LeGuin: Mass communication leads directly to a rise in nationalism Me: fuck
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have plenty of reservations about the reliability of funnel-plots and z-curves and such, as well as their interpretation..... But holy shit look at that.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
TIL you can get a 50 pound brick of silly putty www.dupont.com/products/mol...
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MOLYKOTE® 3179 Dilatant Compound
NLGI Grade 6, coral, used primarily for its dilatant rheological properties
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The BBQ Continuum
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Nap Shmeggege Monomanager
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
playing Gone Home. It appears to be a game about losing pens underneath the furniture
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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
SEATTLE PEEPS Word on the street is that tomorrow ICE is planning to ambush people heading to court at the Federal building downtown from 8-4 tomorrow Check it out if you want to help observe, obstruct, report, resist, or otherwise get involved in crushing some ICE
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Well, another way you could read that is SimCity’s developers consciously created an illusion that it doesn’t
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So is literate programming making a huge comeback in the age of vibecoding or nah?
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2025
It is a political open goal to go after these companies. They’re unsympathetic, disconnected from humanity, their leaders are charmless and bland pseudo-people with a flimsy attachment to reality and nothing to lose. Run them into the ground - people love technology, but they hate the tech industry.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“I See Hawks in L.A.”
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing Ta Fuck With” “Atari Teenage Riot”
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Level 3 automation arrives at 0:32 in this clip youtu.be/frGoalySCns?...
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Tesla model 3 2025 FSD 13.2.8 crash front view
YouTube video by Syn Gates
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Optical #illusion found online. Most commenters thought the boards were of different widths. I think they're the same width and the cut is something other than 45 degrees.
The corner of a deck, with two sets of parallel boards running at right angles meeting in a miter cut. Annoyingly, the boards from one side do not align with their counterparts on the other side.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Why can’t they make the smoke alarm battery alert so that you can tell what room it’s coming from?
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Disco Elysium inventory screen meme.

INTERSTATE WRAPAROUND
SHADES
+1 American Nationhood: Great again
-1 Conceptualization: It's all the deep state

Shielding your eyes from the glares of the sun and
woke moralists alike, these tactical shades are just
as suited to the gun range as to streaming from
behind the wheel of the big rig you own-operate
(just 47 monthly payments at 17.6% APR left.)

MOIRÉ-INDUCING
HOUNDSTOOTH SPORT COAT

+1 Savoir Faire: Private rail car, baby
-1 Visual Calculus: Compression artifacts

Is that moving out of the corner of your eye? This
sturdy woolen jacket features a high-contrast woven
pattern certain to glitch out any pixel-based graphics
pipeline. If you had an art director they would surely
have objected. Good thing you don't.
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
(Its honestly stunning how *far* you can see it from once you know where it is)
Satellite photo of Spain. On the southern coast, about halfway between Gibraltar and Valencia, a circle is drawn on a thumbnail shaped peninsula that is basically solid white color. All that white is greenhouses
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Okay fine, it’s on a perfectly flat Euclidean plane. Even better. Humans are adapted to pursue prey over miles and of open savannah until they fall over of heat stroke. Gorillas are adapted to eat leaves in the forest and travel less than 1 mile/day. 100 humans simply run the gorilla to death.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Even linkedin is starting to get it
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We keep hearing that AI will soon replace software engineers, but we're forgetting that it can already replace existing jobs... and one in particular.

The average Founder CEO.

Before you walk away in disbelief, look at what LLMs are already capable of doing today:

↳ They use eloquence as a surrogate for knowledge, and most people, including seasoned investors, fall for it.

↳ They regurgitate material they read somewhere online without really understanding its meaning.
 
↳ They fabricate numbers that have no ground in reality, but sound aligned with the overall narrative they're trying to sell you.

↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had.

↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't.

↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place.

↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events.

↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do.

↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes.

↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
They should have asked an anthropologist. These primatologists completely ignore the physical abilities which set humans apart from almost all other animals: aerobic endurance, and throwing things. Simply maintain a circle outside of charging distance, and throw rocks until it tires itself out.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We can already pinpoint the bottlenecks, thanks to GPS in everyone’s pockets. What does GenAI have to contribute? GenAI can’t even do algebra.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Dude, GenAI does not analyze data. GenAI can’t even do math.
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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
i swear i am not actively searching for it but the amount of "crows have pretty good statistical literacy" work i'm seeing is starting to raise questions for which i don't have good answers.
Part of a figure from Liao et al. "Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations", Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0984
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harpy @harpy.party · 23/04/2025
please use alt text on your screenshots so that my mute list prevents me from having to see the dumb shit you've screenshotted
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hello, father of a socialist boat
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@nogodsnomayors.com
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Friend, this is the kind of boring ass list of boomer tediousness that should not leave facebook
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Detainment implies a temporary condition. One is detained awaiting trial, one has an hour of detention after school. We have Bukele on record saying that imprisonment in these highly crowded - indeed concentrated - conditions has no forseeable end. Try again.
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This guy literally said theonion.com/historians-q...
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
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CrumbedUp Haunting Eclipse 1st Cour @crumbedup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
so to explain to anyone not in the know Autism Speaks has a long rep for being run by ableist eugenicist fucks them being on this is like if a letter from a bunch of religious advocacy groups condemning crimes against humanity got cosigned by the Literal Devil
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Literally same
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025
classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Did you click play on the video or are you reacting to the single sentence?
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Everyone saying 2001 but (much like pulling the economic self-destruct lever) the UK had a good headstart on this via the Troubles
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I mean I think it'd be fine if you kept taking their money, it's just funny, almost "Work for the Washington State Highway Patrol ads on Behind the Bastards" level funny
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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Ice T Law & Order meme: Ice T is saying “LLMs are making up the names of software packages in their code and hackers are naming their malware to fit. The script kiddies are calling it ‘slopsquatting’.”
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Just watched this. My takeaway is that a helicopter is a machine that is always primed and ready to have its rotor just fall off
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Mast Bumping - Causes and Prevention
YouTube video by PublicResourceOrg
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/04/2025
If the vibe is discovery! Excitement! Collaboration! Learning! etc I think people are much more likely to do good science in decent quantities than they are if the vibe is (in contrast) "how can each of us get ahead", "we're the best and everybody else sucks", "competition produces discovery" etc
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We’re in the third year of people mostly of the managerial class being convinced that word prediction machines will attain consciousness any day now I’m increasingly suspicious that the managerial class does not actually have consciousness I wonder if anyone wrote a book about this 150 years ago
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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@micahgallen.com perhaps 🧠📈should not be a trigger for the #neuroskyence feed? It seems to catch a lot of posts that are rather brainless
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