Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

QED rewatch: Cognitive Biases (2017)

Cognitive biases are so natural that it is difficult to avoid succumbing even when we are aware of them. Benefitting from an authority bias on this panel from QED 2017 were Carol Tavris, Richard Wiseman, Chris French, and chair Deborah Hyde.

Tickets for QED 2023 are still available, priced £149 for the weekend, or just £39 for the live stream.

https://qedcon.org/news/2023/rewatch-cognitive-biases?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=Biases

Northern Pluto https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230818.html #APOD

The Monterey Bay Aquarium have announced their departure from Twitter with this.

Via Keith Boykin, for those who like to keep score:

91 criminal charges
26 sexual assault allegations
6 bankruptcies
5 draft deferments
4 indictments
2 impeachments
1 convicted company
1 fake university shut down
1 fake charity shut down
$25 million fraud settlement
$5 million sexual abuse verdict
$2 million charity abuse judgment

#Trump

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Patch submitted to the #Linux kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠

Roger Waters said it all about warmongers.

On that story about scientists leaving X and coming here. Please, please lean into the feature of hashtag following and tag your stuff. A lot of us would love to find you and hashtag discovery is the easiest way here.

#scientists #scientist #mastodon #followers #discovery #news

#ClimateChange #Environment

Taunt a German butcher by saying "Do your wurst!"

Conspiracy theorist RFK, Jr. spread a dangerous and racist claim about susceptibility to COVID. Here's some history & biology & epidemiology to explain why he is, AGAIN, wrong and dangerous https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

Two of my interests combined in one nerd joke. 👍