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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 5h

These people had a head start in cognitive offloading and are true pioneers on the brain atrophy ladder.

Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Under the UK Terrorism Act 2000, the legal definition of terrorism extends beyond mass casualties to include serious criminal damage or violence designed to influence a government or intimidate the public to advance an ideological cause. They are welcome to protest, but not to do these crimes.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If one day trade unions, pro-EU organizations, or gay rights movements caused millions of pounds in damage and violently attacked people, sending them to the hospital to advance their ideology, they would rightly be designated as terrorists. Fortunately, they don't do that.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One could say god itself is an artistic creation of humans. Theology is anthropology.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's about time these so-called Russian 'leaders' were put in their place. Hopefully, this will be done by their own population, but alternatively, by Ukraine and the rest of the free world.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We need an AI to peek at the logs of the AI that peeked at the logs of the AI that peeked at the logs of the mathematicians.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We are on a path to a world in which all people who understand anything about physics will be dead too.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You're assuming they care about preserving the current model. In a few years, AI-powered robots will be advanced enough to essentially become artificial people with no rights. From their point of view, when you have a legion of eternal slaves, regular people become unwanted for anything.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I suspect these aren't courses but tests. Harvard must think if someone signs up for 699, they clearly don't know anything about economics, let alone understand that they fell for a basic pricing strategy.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The sheer, insane number of questions you answer during your AMA episodes makes me suspect you are already an AI.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Well, if Everett was right he was already sent, and not.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sorry for the off-topic, but your website seems to be down: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

preposterousuniverse.com

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How dare you photographically suggest (or should I say, 'thumbnailly' suggest) the use of the diabolic cotton swab? Since you guys have immense credibility in my mind, I foresee that you will discourage such an atrocity in the podcast episode. Looking forward to listen to the episode!

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes, that is correct, except for the final part, which is written in the third-person narrator's voice: "That cap gave him a new idea. He started sketching like a madman."

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

That's the ultimate natural unit: The Universe is 1 mole of stars.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

That's the ultimate natural unit: The Universe is 1 mole of stars.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

... and in the full interview (to answer your question), Yuval says it could be more than 50%. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB5U...

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Yuval Noah Harari on Israel, AI, and the Future | Unholy Live in London

YouTube video by Unholy Podcast

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

According to Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli society is going bananas, in the sense of radicalizing to a very dangerous level. From this short clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp-g...

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Israeli historian Yuval Harari warns of a ‘spiritual catastrophe’ for Judaism

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's insane; but at the same time, it's never a surprise when you find Thiel and the Kremlin behind something. I wonder if @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu knew when she appeared on the show, and what she thinks about it.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Wow, that's a good one! Steve is great! I look forward to watch it.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Many centrists turn out to be 'far-centrists,' framing issues in ways that reject left-wing proposals as 'too extreme' while treating right-wing ideas as a reasonable baseline. They are always biased toward favoring conservative or libertarian positions.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

You should print all Mindscape episode transcripts.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We would greatly enjoy reading a short text (say, half a page to a page long) about the core substance of the week's Mindscape episode.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It has been a very interesting conversation. Having already read your book about Humboldt, I am now considering the one about Forster.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is one of the very best science books ever written.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If the Higgs is exactly what the Standard Model predicts, then what?

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Imagine it is the wormhole machine in Contact.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It looks as if some Russians are starting to see the FO part coming. They should thank their leader for initiating the FA in the first place. I hope the civilian population can get rid of him soon.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sean, it would be nice to know what do you use AI for.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My cousin came out as a Tau neutrino. We were supportive, but honestly nobody has detected them since.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I’d be more suspicious of the spinning wheels, not only the bicycles in front, but also one’s own front wheel.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Are you saying it is the best sport in this Universe or in the Multiverse?

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'd rather classify Isaacman as a gas dwarf.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Steve, if you ever have the time, I think it would be a nice surprise for your audience if you recommended some movies about Russia that you consider good.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

You were born a journalist, Steve. I wish the profession had more like you. I hope we can benefit from your great work for many decades to come.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

No, because population in Africa is going up like crazy. By 2100, Nigeria will become the most populated country on Earth, surpassing China.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you adjust for population growth and look at the percentage of people living in poverty, the graph looks even better. Let’s keep pushing to reduce it further and, hopefully, solve the recent quasi-plateau.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You no longer disrespect old people nor their remains?

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I had already done that, and the links you mention are of the same small size.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I sense a little discontent in the media, which in Russia only represents the part of the iceberg that sticks out of the water. Let's hope the underwater part ends up sinking Putin.

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

That's nice, but don't you guys have a larger image size?

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not telling us what these features are until the end of the article constitutes a 5th feature, you monsters. bsky.app/profile/npr....

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not telling us what these features are until the end of the article constitutes a 5th feature, you monsters. bsky.app/profile/npr....

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If they can't handle this world, how anyone expects them to be able to handle the many-worlds?

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Professor Ivy Leek PhD @professorleek.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What is this white paper rectangle on his gums?

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