Andrew D Wilson
@adw.bsky.social
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
I had never heard about Makaton - this is an interesting read. Some interesting connections to language/thought debates too (ie does the restricted Makaton sign vocab restrict the users?)
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I had never heard about Makaton - this is an interesting read. Some interesting connections to language/thought debates too (ie does the restricted Makaton sign vocab restrict the users?)
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
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Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
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Me: Obviously Lois Lane would be Miss Piggy in Muppet Superman. Kermit should be Clark Kent but *NOT* Superman. Superman is Henry Cavill and looking like a frog is just him acting meek
Fellow Bunker Resident: (glances at screen counting down “Safe Surface Radiation Level 37.6 years”) Ugh
Fellow Bunker Resident: (glances at screen counting down “Safe Surface Radiation Level 37.6 years”) Ugh
December 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Me: Obviously Lois Lane would be Miss Piggy in Muppet Superman. Kermit should be Clark Kent but *NOT* Superman. Superman is Henry Cavill and looking like a frog is just him acting meek
Fellow Bunker Resident: (glances at screen counting down “Safe Surface Radiation Level 37.6 years”) Ugh
Fellow Bunker Resident: (glances at screen counting down “Safe Surface Radiation Level 37.6 years”) Ugh
Some good news
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Some good news
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Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
This is a great idea - it’s like when I write in a group writing session vs by myself, I simply get so much done and feel so much better while doing it
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is a great idea - it’s like when I write in a group writing session vs by myself, I simply get so much done and feel so much better while doing it
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I have so many issues with this podcast with @earlkmiller.bsky.social . I think that this podcast nicely shows why I have trouble with such approaches. Lets go through some of the claims.
Giant Shoulders podcast: Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Proving Brainwaves are the Secret to Consciousness.
youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw
#neuroscience
youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw
#neuroscience
Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Proving Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness
YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I have so many issues with this podcast with @earlkmiller.bsky.social . I think that this podcast nicely shows why I have trouble with such approaches. Lets go through some of the claims.
This is an interesting thread critiquing some strong claims, and well worth a read. I’ll note for the record that this post is true of basically all neuroscience right now, but only because it caught my eye :)
The jump from “there are waves” to “therefore evolution pushes those waves around to create volition” is pure teleological storytelling. There is no explanatory bridge from wave patterns to agency here, just a metaphor upgraded to mechanism.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is an interesting thread critiquing some strong claims, and well worth a read. I’ll note for the record that this post is true of basically all neuroscience right now, but only because it caught my eye :)
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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
I blogged a more detailed review of this paper. Overall I like the approach, but the paper needs to take care not to oversell what it is currently capable of doing (it IS reformulating memory in an ecologically tractable way, but it is NOT currently a demonstrated viable alternative)
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I blogged a more detailed review of this paper. Overall I like the approach, but the paper needs to take care not to oversell what it is currently capable of doing (it IS reformulating memory in an ecologically tractable way, but it is NOT currently a demonstrated viable alternative)
Live footage of me about to go for a run this morning and then realising how cold it still is and going for a shower instead
an octopus is swimming in the ocean with the words `` nope nope nope nope '' .
ALT: an octopus is swimming in the ocean with the words `` nope nope nope nope '' .
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Live footage of me about to go for a run this morning and then realising how cold it still is and going for a shower instead
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now
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I just realized I don’t like the phrase “as far as I knew” because it implies how much you actually don’t know. I’m not going to stop using it, but. I don’t like it as much anymore.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I just realized I don’t like the phrase “as far as I knew” because it implies how much you actually don’t know. I’m not going to stop using it, but. I don’t like it as much anymore.
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
This seems bad on like 15 different fronts
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 9:59 PM
This seems bad on like 15 different fronts
The next politician who says that UK HE is a jewel in the crown and the best in the world gets fucking slapped with a wet fish. None of this utter bullshit is necessary, not is any of it a good idea. You want HE to be great? Stop making this seem like a good idea
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The next politician who says that UK HE is a jewel in the crown and the best in the world gets fucking slapped with a wet fish. None of this utter bullshit is necessary, not is any of it a good idea. You want HE to be great? Stop making this seem like a good idea
Just rewatched The Search for Spock. Star Trek at its best - just imagine having friends like the Enterprise crew
The self destruct sequence also still hits hard ❤️
The self destruct sequence also still hits hard ❤️
a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` my god bones '' written on the bottom .
ALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` my god bones '' written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just rewatched The Search for Spock. Star Trek at its best - just imagine having friends like the Enterprise crew
The self destruct sequence also still hits hard ❤️
The self destruct sequence also still hits hard ❤️
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.