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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Obama: aliens are real. Today in Focus: Why did Obama say aliens are real? – The Latest Episode webpage: www.theguardian.com/news/series/... Media file: flex.acast.com/audio.guim.c...

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Interesting take on what AI can and can't do to progress medical as science shared by @scientificdiscovery.dev

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Listened to this today. Really interesting. It never occurred to me that the Victorian bustle might be an imitation of the black female figure. Mindblowen

AI discussion of the Victorian bustle being an imitation of the black female figure and Saartjie Baartman exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus"

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Hope TRIP ups its game in 2025, surprisingly didn't make it into my top 5 of 2024 (but 3 other political pods did - including No. 1)

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Quacks and conspiracy theorists thrived in those febrile days. Dr. Pierre Cory complained that, " They don't provide any evidence that it [Ivormectin] doesn't work"; if every drug is going to be permitted until it can be proved it doesn't work healthcare will be in a dangerous place.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

His fourth goal is the study of the 'more primitive human races and their subdivision'

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

However, Hrdlička's views are horrifying today. A couple of quotes demonstrates his mind set. One about his view that the goal of Physical Anthropology should be the study of the normal white man.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Boas also opposed Scientific Racism

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

At present, according to @fullfact.bsky.social's metrics the government are doing well on pledges (5 met, 12 on target Vs 3 disputed or unclear and 3 off target).

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The Selzer poll was spectacularly out. Not only did the Democrats lose but by a wide margin. Selzer's reported methodology seemed as sound as anyone so it would be interesting to find out what happened.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

But @philmoorhouse.bsky.social goes the extra mile and checked out a channel most likely to appeal to the Reform and right wing Tory voters - GB News. Although GB News report Labour delivering more deportations than in 2023 the viewers refuse to believe it - because, Phil says, they don't want to.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Author, columnist and podcaster @misszing.bsky.social I think really nails the problems with X (it's largely become unusable) and notes, "Bluesky is a much better user experience, eventually that is what is going to draw people in."

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

An interview with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social (presenter of R4's Life Scientific) highlights the problems with X and how much more pleasant Bluesky is ("very much like the old Twitter")

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

At that time Bluesky's userbase was circa 17M (oh the old days) and Musk claimed X had 600M but independent analysts dispute this figure and the numbers have been falling since the US election

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I missed the beginning of @adamfleming.bsky.social's introduction where he refers to the @brunelsbridge.bsky.social leaving Twitter because of a rise in inappropriate content and falling meaningful engagement. Adam then gives an express intro to Bluesky.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A point I haven't heard other commentators make is that while Badenoch's favourability score is low there are a lot of Don't knows that she could potentially win over (unlike Starmer or Farage)

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Phil suggests that when Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak took over the public were still willing to give the Conservatives a chance.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Moorhouse points out that while Badenoch's personal favourability ratings are below that of either Johnson or Sunak those 2 both benefited from taking over from particularly unsuccessful/unpopular leaders (May and Truss). Kemi suffers from being the leader of a particularly unpopular party now.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In fact making the algorithm was damaging since it allows bad actors to target vulnerabilites.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Anders suggests 3 requirements for responsible social media Good APIs wasn't obvious to me but it enables researchers to investigate the data, to look for example bias.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Mini-brains offer remarkable opportunities for studying Alzheimer's and testing for promising drug treatments. Mini-brains (cerebral organoids): lab-grown models of the brain used to study Alzheimer's disease and other neurological conditions.

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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Here is a graph of Trump, Biden and Haris on changes in communication ability, Biden's has declined, especially recently but so has Trump (and from a lower base). N.B. cognition not assessed includes things like: memory function, executive control the speed of information processing.

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