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I need everyone in marketing and branding to understand that no one gives a shit about their corporate updates. This is the actual title of an email I got today.

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Have you tried topping up an existing gift card?

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Oh, nevermind. Looks like many sites have minimum amounts for a gift card.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15/05/2026

Buy a gift card for the exact amount on a site where you'll spend money anyway.

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annals of book research, part one no amount of prior experience in child development can prepare you for this insane 1998 bill from the State of Florida, which REQUIRES state-funded daycares to PLAY CLASSICAL MUSIC TO INFANTS because they have ONE HUNDRED BILLION BRAIN CELLS

Florida Senate - 1998 SB 660
By Senator Turner
36-628-98
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to education; providing that
3 state-funded education and care programs for
4 infants and toddlers must foster brain
5 development; requiring an evaluation and a
6 report; providing an effective date.
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8 WHEREAS, at birth, a child has one hundred billion
9 brain cells that will be developed by the experiences of life,
10 and
11 WHEREAS, the stimulation that causes brain development
12 can be positive, such as conversation, music, and parental
13 love, or it can be negative, such as neglect or emotional and
14 physical abuse, and
15 WHEREAS, during the first year of a child's life the
16 connections between the cells, the synapses, increase
17 twenty-fold, making the first year a crucial time for brain
18 development, and
19 WHEREAS, infants develop synapses when they listen to
20 language and music, see colors and shapes, and feel and handle
21 objects of different sizes, shapes, and textures, and
22 WHEREAS, there is no other time in a child's life as
23 productive for brain development as the first year, NOW
24 THEREFORE,

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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28 Section 1. Each state-funded education and care
29 program for children from birth to 5 years of age must provide
30 activities to foster brain development in infants and
31 toddlers. A program must provide an environment rich in
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CODING:Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.
Florida Senate - 1998 SB 660
36-628-98
1 language and music and filled with objects of various colors,
2 shapes, textures, and sizes to stimulate visual, tactile,
3 auditory, and linguistic senses in the children and must
4 include classical music and at least 30 minutes of reading to
5 the children each day. A program may be offered through an
6 existing early childhood program such as Healthy Start, the
7 Title I program, subsidized child care, the prekindergarten
8 early-intervention program, Florida First Start, the Head
9 Start program, or a private childcare program. A program must
10 provide training for the infants' and toddlers' parents
11 including direct dialogue and interaction between teachers and
12 parents demonstrating the urgency of brain development in the
13 first year of a child's life.

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Matthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve been quiet on social media lately, but today I’m launching Audit Clinical Evidence (ACE), an initiative I’ve been developing over the past year. Take a look: AuditClinicalEvidence.org

auditclinicalevidence.org

ACE

Independent audits of published clinical research for statistical errors, data inconsistencies, and research integrity violations.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 12/09/2026

My version: 1. Reply to post 2. See their reply to my reply 3. Like their reply. 4. Upon seeing the thread, realize I didn't like the first post and hurriedly like it to not seem rude.

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At a basic level, I think this depends on what you care about. If you want quick pubs for a grade or a promotion, just do t-tests. If you are interested in your data, learn how to fit and interpret ordinal models.

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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🚨Preprint Alert🚨and Thread 🧵 The Visual Imagery Visually Anchored Scale (VIVAS) reveals dissociable perceptual dimensions and category-specific structure: osf.io/preprints/ps... Authors: @heidasigurdar.bsky.social, Árnason, Mäekalle, Vésteinsdóttir, @arnig.bsky.social 1/9

Photo of an eye by Beel coor on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-black-eye-illustration-1AIHIjtuNCI

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 09/09/2026

Another example: "while the p-value was way above 0.05, we found that..."

Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 09/09/2026

It's a type of bullshit I call "acknowledge but ignore". This is the kind of phrasing used when someone wants to acknowledge that they only have non-directional correlation data but also ignore that limitation and jump just straight to a specific causal story.

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A recent paper argued that there is no visual binding problem. I disagree, and wrote a response... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Related demonstrations can be found here... staff.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqdarnol/JS...

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 06/09/2026

Can't stand olives. But I generally don't like fermented or vinegary foods. I wonder if introduction to vinegar in food at a age impacts preference for/against it.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 05/09/2026

I've had a sudden uptick in this too, mostly via LinkedIn. And the messages all seem like an LLM wrote them. I block and move on, but it's very annoying.

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I sort of agree. Ideally, you try to design an experiment so that any outcome is informative. But sometimes, the outcome is just too noisy to say anything. And that's case where you haven't produced knowledge (or at least, you produced far less knowledge than you hoped).

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"This critical issue is explained by one easily visualized casue" is very easy to communicate and appreciate. VS "This issue is weakly impacted by an interaction of 3 different variables, but there are probably other variables we don't know about, and some of the causality might be reversed." Ugh!

Every time manipulated or fabricated data is discovered, I think of all the studies I ran that could have told an incredibly compelling story if only the results were different. It's also why I've grown skeptical of people described as good "storytellers".

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Ugh! I've encountered exactly this so many times! People have sworn they only want exploratory descriptive results and used that as the excuse for running a poorly thought-out underpowered study, and then they ask "is this difference statistically significant?".

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Haha, I feel exactly the opposite: open-ended registrations are way more useful. But the (fixable) reason is that forms don't allow rich text and images, making it difficult to explain visual stimuli. I guess that's difficulty of making a platform for all fields. Example: osf.io/vhgdn/files/...

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Fair point. That's where things differ between fields, as non-medical fields don't have the same standardized terminology that would make search valuable. In cognition and perception, I never found the OSF searching to be useful, as it missed critical things and turned up lots of false positives.

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I defined that criteria as having a unique ID and being searchable by author/project name rather than all content and metadata being searchable. The scenario I set up was: if an author registered multiple possible plans and deleted all but one, would there be some evidence of the deletion?