I tried it on a couple things that are controversial or problematic in the literature and its about what I expected. It parrots the literature, for better or worse. Which means it’s great at getting an overview of the literature and finding citations and stuff. But it’s not gonna magically figure out which papers are quality and which ones are rubbish. It’ll just parrot all of them, even if they contradict each other. Very interesting, and possibly quite a useful tool. But I really wouldn’t use it as an arbiter of truth.

Also today:

UK Government Rejects Public Call for Inquiry Into Israeli Influence

Social pressure is the most effective enforcement mechanism we have.

Rules and punishment not only create hierarchy but are surprisingly ineffective.

you get a lot of really passionate advocates for safety once one of their loved ones dies because of a safety incident. And assuming they don’t live under capitalism and thus have freedom of work, they can choose to dedicate their life to advocating for this safety issue.

hahah same for psychology

Or they might be betting that the vast majority of people applying for their jobs in 2026 have barely even thought about unions, and so mentioning it would be a net negative as it would put it on their radar.

Nah the government made getting PIP far harder all future claimants this will lead to an estimated 1 million less PIP claims by 2030. And slashed the UC health top up for new claimants (nearly removed 2000£ / per year).

Please don‘t fucking minimise how awful this is many disabled people are already barely surviving this will absolutely lead to excess deaths. I say this as someone on Disability income myself.

Official estimates by the government itself estimate this will lead to an additional 150‘000 working age people being in poverty.

Yeah look at disability income as an example. No one thought labour would actually cut it since a majority of labour members were against cutting before the election.

But Starmer and the rest of Tory Lite made the MPs toe the line.

But 👺Alternative Vote👺 is slightly confusing for the plebs! Impossible. We must keep this simple system that disenfranchises basically everyone.

123 out of 205 NHS hospital trusts have already adopted Palantir’s data system.

The only thing Orwell was wrong about was the dates.

International Space Station

Thinking about it this isn’t necessarily true in that moving the FOCAL relatively little could yield new things to observe (even microarcseconds). So you wouldn’t need a new FOCAL to measure each new thing. However each FOCAL would be measuring a miniscule bit of space over its lifetime. Which means for each distinct object that isn’t basically a neighbour in angular terms to a FOCAL sent you’d need a new FOCAL probably. Unless our long term energy generation/harvesting and propulsion in deep space significantly improves technology wise.

FOCAL would be able to observe only objects that are right behind the Sun from its point of view, which means that for every observed object a new telescope would have to be made.[3]: 33 [5]

Ah….

Sometimes the Fishies get their Revenge

Happy cake day :)

I’ve been unable to speak for a couple years due to illness.

Do not recommend.

Ever since I became chronically ill I feel like I dream way more and my dreams are less comfortable…

Nah you can still dream. It just means your brain is less active than if you didn’t take the benzo. But some benzos and especially benzo-like drugs can actually give you weird hallucination-type dreams. Specifically thinking of Z-drugs.

Those aren‘t just anxiety drugs. Lorazepam is a literal Benzo. Which means it literally depresses (ie. makes less active) your CNS (brain).

These drugs are highly addictive and tolerance forming. They‘re often prescribed for insomnia since they inhibit brain signalling.

Once your brain forms tolerance it increases excitatory signalling to „counter“ the drug. Which means if you abruptly stop, you get withdrawal. Your brain is „overactive“ you have seizures, loads of horrible symptoms, in some cases people die.

(Not trying to scare people, short term or sporadic use is actually decently safe, it‘s long term high dose use which is dangerous. But basically my point is „anxiety drug“ is underselling what this is.)

A lot of people do believe it unfortunately.