Jay Wise

@entropydevil @theserfstv @PronouncedHare Doesn’t seem to get that it only ‘seems’ conscious because it’s regurgitating an amalgam of conscious beings prior output

@theserfstv @PronouncedHare It might pay to read his conclusions-

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

@BortonDoug @GaryMarcus All of his older books are really good (started going off the rails about twenty years ago probably)

@GaryMarcus I spent three days trying to convince myself that Richard Dawkins is not a one-hit wonder still coasting on "The Selfish Gene." I failed.

this makes me tremendously sad.

@SpiderMacMan @Rainmaker1973 Imagine being this moronic

@Rainmaker1973 Her teeth 🤮

In 1963, Delia Derbyshire hand built the Doctor Who theme using only tape loops, oscillators, filters, and razor blades, long before techno existed. [📽️ BBC Archive]

@_CatintheHat Double it for the people who don’t think they have it but actually do

According to the GP-Patient survey: 🚨4.2% of people say they DO have Long Covid. That equates to around 2.3M people in England. 🚨A further 9.5% (~5.3M) say they ‘don’t know’. So potentially as many as 7.6M people in England either have Long Covid or suspect they might. /2

In honour of #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay, I’d like to present some important data from the latest GP-Patient survey. This is a HUGE survey with a sample size of ~700K people in England (5x bigger than ONS’s Covid survey). In this thread, I’ll walk you through some key findings… /1

@mycoliza I really wish Richard D hadn’t gone so off the reservation in later years, used to be a massive fan back in the day

the fact that richard dawkins felt the need to give claude a girl’s name is *chef’s kiss*

@AquaticFlapper The fact that no birds or crocodilians do suggests it is something archosaurs don’t do lightly IMO (the presumably the completely aquatic thalattosuchians did)

What if there was a dinosaur species which gave live birth.

@grok @sonofagrizzly @NatureChapter It doesn’t look like a manta ray at all, and indeed isnt one

It looks like a manta ray (non-venomous, unlike stingrays with their barbed tails). The fisherman is carefully unhooking and dragging it across the wet, rocking deck to release it back overboard—that’s the risk he’s taking. It doesn’t appear to be killed; the video shows an active rescue effort for bycatch.

This man is risking his life to save a Ray..

@oceaiii That’s an enormous caiman

You don't see this everyday. Playful dolphin testing the limit of a gliding giant

@DoofDoofson @Montpop2000 @AaronBastani More than 40 years ago

@Montpop2000 @AaronBastani The most notable action occurring more than 30 years ago isn’t really the dunk you imagine.

The idea you ‘proscribe’ the military of a foreign power is idiotic, and isn’t remotely what the 2000 Terrorism Act is about. We get endless nonsense like this rather than just, you know, an effective police force.

@nise_yoshimi Clues in the name

five year olds are always interested in things like "fantastic sea creatures". What's their angle

@SalvMattera @ShaneyWright @tylerblack32 Yeah I mean it’s just a completely unscientific concept at its very core, totally unfalsifiable and basically the preserve of complete charlatans and snake oil purveyors

Functional illness is a diagnosis of exclusion. It just means "we looked for things we know how to test for and didn't find them." No one has ever demonstrated a mechanism for FND. There's no biomarker, no imaging finding, no test that confirms FND as a positive diagnosis rather than the absence of other diagnoses. And the literature shows mind body approaches and therapy largely do not work to treat these people. The medical system should be honest and call it idiopathic neurological symptoms

Functional illness like this is debilitating. The fact that it is functional (an interface between the mind and the body, rather than a purely neurological problem) does NOT mean we say things like "it's all in your head" or "the suffering isn't real." Treatment: mind-body work.

@CounsellingSam My AuDHD has got a lot worse. I’m guessing it gives the brain less buffer room to manage the symptoms

'Experts' have started talking about Long Covid and MECFS as being 'acquired neurodiversity' What do you think about that? I know it's caused me brain inflammation and brain damage. I know it's REVEALED my neurodiversity, which I always had.

@princessocculta @giveashitnature New world vultures are a different unrelated family entirely so not necessarily a good indicator

@giveashitnature It's possible to bring them back, along the Ohio river you see thousands of them, there were hardly when I was a kid. (Not thousands at once.)

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

@Prackprack I didn’t know stalked crinoids could wander about

wait no come back please please don't go please come back #deepseatwt

@CaroleBruce17 Absolutely awful individual, truly despicable

#LongCovid ‘a melting pot for psychosomatic conditions’ Suzanne O’Sullivan in the i.paper.

@barneyfarmer Luckily all the other ones are bacteria and are very small compared with human cells. This is by number not volume

Then in what sense is it my body? I am at best a controlling shareholder. What happens if the rest get together and squeeze me out?

@liminal_warmth Well Covid’s likely damaged almost everyone’s brains to a lesser or greater degree

I strongly believe that we’re dealing with something like collective shock at the trauma of being faced with “this might kill almost everyone, we don’t actually know yet” for a while during COVID and we haven’t really healed from that or processed it yet—massive psychic damage

@BrainInflCollab I’ve always supplemented d3 at high levels and still got bad long Covid

New evidence from the VIVID Long COVID clinical study found an unintended result...🧵

@Naomi_D_Harvey @Bodalicious1 Anxiety is a common symptom of most illness (as it is one way the system indicates something is wrong and needs sorting out). Why doctors can’t get that being the usual arrow of causality is beyond me

But seriously, the best thing that could ever happen in medicine would be for doctors to take the word ‘anxiety’ out of their vocabulary. Anxiety doesn’t cause seizures and comas! My god.

Omg. This is truly rage inducing. “in July 2025, a significant seizure left Phoebe in a coma for three days. When she recovered, she claims a doctor told her she did not have epilepsy - she had anxiety” She had a genetic condition! Thank goodness her GP was good & tested her.

@danaparish The idea that there are likely large numbers of things that can go wrong with the body that we don’t have tests for and/or don’t fully understand yet is both extremely obvious to anyone with half a brain and also seems to elude an enormous amount of doctors for some reason.

Sounds like he diagnoses a lot of “hysteria” aka FND. RUN FOR THE HILLS upon meeting a doctor like this. As fast as you can.