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Jacket design for new book The Man Who Broke Reality (US edition).

OK, I have a US jacket design now. I think it looks rather handsome.
The book is published in the autumn, in both the UK (Little Brown) and US (University of Chicago Press).

found some old drilosophers posts in my files. i've contributed something good to this world, i think

#academicsky #sts

Looks like a new funded studentship is out to curate & preserve UK space history: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Jon, Doug & Lucie were my old supervisors, I would highly recommend applying for this studentship. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of applying :)

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Open Lecturer in Planetary Science position at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory (Dorking) The successful applicant will be expected to perform research using data from the Rosalind Franklin Mission, but also other planetary bodies, such as the Moon and the Outer Planets icy moons. ☄️🔭🧪

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

#amreading #booksky

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn. Thought provoking critique of what a reward/punishment framework does to social relations.

And nobody is accusing me of having dehumidifier psychosis (so far) because having a dehumidifier has not yet become a major flashpoint in the culture wars.

(My dehumidifer does have colour changing LEDs in it though for some reason so maybe that lands me in hot water idk)

Here's my $0.02 on the Claude Corner:

The Claude Corner is *also* human users eliciting behaviour from an LLM wrapped in an agentic harness.

Also, it's cute and humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise things. My friend calls his roomba his dipshit son, I call my dehumidifier my swampy son.

These are the people on the other end of online scams and the text scams that you get on your phone.

I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)!

How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science.

Open to technical and social science backgrounds.

roughly 2000-2000,000 AU from the sun lies a theoretical cloud of billions of denim particles. this is known as the Joort Cloud

yes, many people dislike him

Awkward when a pain flare makes it difficult to write.

“In short, we should expect the level of scrutiny on papers to change dramatically. Most reviewers are not incentivized to look carefully at materials the authors submit beyond the paper text itself.”

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/23/l...

Can we normalize pondering your orb?

ORDER Therefore, based on the foregoing, and on all the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS ORDERED THAT effective March 1, 2026, Petitioner Fernando T.'s Motion for an Order to Show Cause and Request for Compensatory Sanctions [ECF No. 15] is GRANTED as follows: Respondents are found in civil contempt of this Court's January 20, 2026 Order; Compensatory civil contempt sanctions are awarded in favor of Petitioner in the amount of $568.29, representing Petitioner's documented travel expenses incurred as a direct result of Respondents' violation of the January 20, 2026 Order; and Respondents shall pay the sum of $568.29 to Petitioner (or to Petitioner's counsel if payment was advanced by counsel) on or before April 1, 2026. Dated: February 23, 2026 s/ Eric C. Tostrud Eric C. Tostrud United States District Court

NEW: Judge Eric Tostrud, a Trump appointee, issued civil contempt sanctions against DOJ today for moving a man out of Minnesota against an order, not releasing him under the timeline ordered, and not returning him to Minnesota.

[h/t @kyledcheney.bsky.social ]

The internet has Zack Polanski Derangement Syndrome and it grinds my gears.

I'm genuinely surprised by this, I find the group DM feature janky as hell

I still tend to write out plans by hand to help me refine my thinking and stop getting distracted by the side quests

And this is why we don't let the linear algebra machine play outside the sandbox.

One unabashed generational prejudice that I do have is against zoomer TikTok euphemism speak. ‘Unalive’, ‘SAed’, and ‘grape’. Fuck you. Talk like a goddamn adult.

Thank you!!

The question may not be "why are British students taking so many useless degrees?" so much as "why can't the British economy generate enough graduate vacancies?"

Aw commiserations. D: hope your break is restorative

Photo of Brewster Kahle speaking.

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📣 Co-create #DWebCamp 2026 in #Berlin next week!

Join the Unconference + Meetup exploring #decentralization & the future of public knowledge in Europe. Meetup features a live fireside chat with Brewster Kahle.

📅 Feb 28, 2026
📍c-base in Berlin
🎟️🆓 dwebcamp.org/berlin-2026/

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A taxonomy of bad science I have been reading the excellent Ben Recht on scientific waste. He writes: No one likes to admit it, but we need bad science to do good science. This is beautiful rhetoric, but not all kinds of ba…

thinking out loud re taxonomies of bad science #amwriting osnatkatz.com/2026/02/13/a...

A blunt reminder to document the truth while you can. Memories fade. Records don’t.

The more I think about the dunk economy the more I realise:
- I hate it
- I have cogent critiques of it