Nick Wise
@nhwise.bsky.social
Interested in research integrity, fluid dynamics, and much other nonsense.
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
A minute's inciting racial hatred
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A minute's inciting racial hatred
No, that's too Guardian
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
No, that's too Guardian
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There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
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It’s really awful that the Byzantines would ritually mutilate former rulers to keep them from taking the throne again but on the other hand this did mean no one had to suffer through episodes of the Nikephoros Bryennios Podcast Hour.
Liz Truss, who served 44 days as UK prime minister, goes full Curtis Yarvin.
Interviewing Yarvin on her new podcast, she calls for overhauling UK government to fit his vision.
“I agree with you, having spent 10 years in the system, you need to start from scratch,” Truss tells Yarvin.
Interviewing Yarvin on her new podcast, she calls for overhauling UK government to fit his vision.
“I agree with you, having spent 10 years in the system, you need to start from scratch,” Truss tells Yarvin.
December 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It’s really awful that the Byzantines would ritually mutilate former rulers to keep them from taking the throne again but on the other hand this did mean no one had to suffer through episodes of the Nikephoros Bryennios Podcast Hour.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Must not eat the chocolate nuclear submarine
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Must not eat the chocolate nuclear submarine
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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I think the plural is Chocolates Orange, it’s a possessive noun, like Attorneys General.
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I think the plural is Chocolates Orange, it’s a possessive noun, like Attorneys General.
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I'm going to crack an egg in my bath tonight as a tribute.
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I'm going to crack an egg in my bath tonight as a tribute.
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
I'm curious to know if the 42 papers all cite the same thing, or have they been assumed to be citing the same thing by Google Scholar.
These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm curious to know if the 42 papers all cite the same thing, or have they been assumed to be citing the same thing by Google Scholar.
Just been shared this cursed quiz program. In tribute to Diana, 100 multiple choice questions on her life.
youtu.be/7_Zsw6e-TGc?...
youtu.be/7_Zsw6e-TGc?...
100 percent: Diana Princess of Wales Tribute Special
YouTube video by Up The Archives - The VHS Vault UK
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just been shared this cursed quiz program. In tribute to Diana, 100 multiple choice questions on her life.
youtu.be/7_Zsw6e-TGc?...
youtu.be/7_Zsw6e-TGc?...
So much of what I know of history comes from strategy games.
Also geography,not much better for familiarising yourself with a region than trying to conquer it.
Also geography,not much better for familiarising yourself with a region than trying to conquer it.
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So much of what I know of history comes from strategy games.
Also geography,not much better for familiarising yourself with a region than trying to conquer it.
Also geography,not much better for familiarising yourself with a region than trying to conquer it.
Big news I've not seen reported elsewhere:
Mr Blobby joined Spotify on the 1st of Dec, so you can now listen to the UK Christmas no. 1 for 1993
open.spotify.com/artist/6990P...
Mr Blobby joined Spotify on the 1st of Dec, so you can now listen to the UK Christmas no. 1 for 1993
open.spotify.com/artist/6990P...
Mr Blobby
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Big news I've not seen reported elsewhere:
Mr Blobby joined Spotify on the 1st of Dec, so you can now listen to the UK Christmas no. 1 for 1993
open.spotify.com/artist/6990P...
Mr Blobby joined Spotify on the 1st of Dec, so you can now listen to the UK Christmas no. 1 for 1993
open.spotify.com/artist/6990P...
Guessing no Irish people were involved in naming this EU sexual health project?
share.google/ivvblu2oua7B...
share.google/ivvblu2oua7B...
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Guessing no Irish people were involved in naming this EU sexual health project?
share.google/ivvblu2oua7B...
share.google/ivvblu2oua7B...
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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ONS is so bad. (This is about specifically British nationals.) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
ONS is so bad. (This is about specifically British nationals.) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
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Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai
