Simon Perry

I freeride ski, rock climb & fell run. I like to argue with quacks and pseudo-economists.

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

A badly needed feature in @WhatsApp is the ability to set your app to refuse voice notes. If someone tries to send one, it just says "sorry, this user doesn't receive voice notes".

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@fesshole This was @AdamRutherford

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@Psythor Gemini on Android is similar. It doesn't do any of the useful things that the Google assistant did - ask it to set a timer and it hasn't got access to the app, so it sets a web based one, which then closes automatically once set and the timer is never seen or heard again.

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@paullewismoney Just like every other business passed on after death - it makes no sense to exclude farming from tax. The new way is fairer.

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

How my friend @Simon_Perry and his colleagues built a tool for spotting medical misinformation - and discovered that 97% (!!) of alternative therapists make misleading claims on their websites.

https://t.co/y0DWEOLKDc

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

Excited to announce we finally published this paper!

[David Colquhoun on Bluesky 🇺🇦 💙 @david_colquhoun]

#AI identified 23,307 false or misleading claims by practitioners registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council #CNHC. 97% of them make false/misleading claims.
Regulator fails to protect the public.
https://t.co/Sicm8OEKkr

[David Colquhoun on Bluesky 🇺🇦 💙 @david_colquhoun]

#AI identified 23,307 false or misleading claims by practitioners registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council #CNHC. 97% of them make false/misleading claims.
Regulator fails to protect the public.
https://t.co/Sicm8OEKkr

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@mattyglesias But also the way things are meant to work is that you keep quiet about this 🤣

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

One major advantage of an 'Abundance Agenda' approach to economic policy is that it gets Democrats and 🇺🇸 away from zero-sum thinking. We are not each other’s enemies. We are all on Team 🇺🇸. The enemy is instead a series of invisible graveyards. @ATabarrok 1/6

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This video is everything. We are not going back.

[WePlanet @weplanetint]

More food and nature?! Costa Rica's incredible land sparing policy.

One country has managed to increase wild nature and food production. That country is Costa Rica.

WePlaneteer Hidde (@Hiddemhigh) explains how they achieved this with a policy of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES).

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@Rainmaker1973 I much prefer this one.

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

Today, Russians dropped a bomb on a hypermarket in Kharkiv. It's a Saturday. There was a huge number of people there.

My friend, who lives in Kharkiv, posted this photo and wrote: "At such moments, I feel that our international partners have betrayed us."

I don't understand why, when Russian planes drop bombs on peaceful cities, our international partners forbid us to use the weapons they gave us to hit military airfields in Russia.

How else can we protect people? How many more civilians have to die for the international partners to change their minds?

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@adamvaughan_uk I think if the goal is energy abundance, then solar increase is a useful measure. For climate change mitigation, fossil fuel reduction is more useful. Both are noble goals.

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@Psythor I think that about basically every AI story. It's weirdly ignored in the news.

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

Let’s me remind you. Surrender means Russian occupation. Russian occupation means torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, denial of your identity, forcible adoption of your own children, filtration camps, and mass graves.
Occupation is just another form of the war.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

And lest you forget, I’m an open borders guy! https://t.co/A2vU4Ulu4h

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@jimmneal @anon_opin Of course he does. Everyone knows to use the flap while walking around the local shopping centre.

[Simon Perry @Simon_Perry]

@HelenLewisBCP @AECCUniversityC @AvonbourneUL @officialtbowa @0to19BCPSchools Science uses RCTs and assesses evidence. Chiropractic ideas were dictated to Palmer by a ghost. Science it ain't. https://t.co/oHEFtU1t6U