OllyFS🧠

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at KatLab - @ucl ➡️ I study the sense of reality, presence and virtual worlds 🧠🖥️

[OllyFS🧠 @olly3661]

Is the "Sense of Reality" in the physical world actually different from the "Sense of Presence" in VR? 🧠🥽

I’m thrilled to announce my first lead-author, theoretical paper is out now in Perspectives in Psychological Science!

We argue: No. Presence IS Reality.

A thread 🧵👇

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Why did the Tories die?

Partly because they spent 14 years trying to destroy anyone who, sociologically speaking, might vote for them in the future.

That’s right. They purposefully tried to stop the re-production of the middle class.

[Mint (lapis) @mormonmommyuwu]

would like to share my andy burnham approval rating prediction

[OllyFS🧠 @olly3661]

Burnham will become PM

Steam ahead with all the VPN banning and digital ID nonsense because some civil servant from the Department of Science tells him its popular (neglects to mention you couldn't say no to the survey)

Crash out to Reform in 2 years time

[Caleb @Calebej37]

Andy Burnham will become PM and Labour will recover in the polls for all of 15 minutes before he is unable or unwilling to address the multitude of crises that face the UK and polling collapses again.

[JUICE @juice8882]

If you were to listen to the BBC over the past couple of days you would think the only opposition to Internet Age Checking is Disgruntled Teenagers and Parents who Think It Won't Work. Not a single opinion has been expressed on why age checking entire population is a Bad Thing

[DJ BBQ @stepheniscowboy]

bring it on

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

This translates to: "I feel very comfortable about this invasion of my privacy because of the current political climate."

The definition of 'hate speech' can change from one government to the next.

[Zoe Strimpel @realzoestrimpel]

The social media ban is utterly, utterly disgusting. not because it 'doesn't go far enough' or 'won't keep kids safe' or whatever other 'reason' is given that translates to MORE BANNING PLEASE, but because it is a heinous jackboot in the face of the idea that children are human beings. It is extremely dangerous in itself, cutting off lifelines of all kinds, narrowing their worlds, and massively decreasing knowledge and learning (and its potential) and increasing loneliness. the idea that our kids, banned from even Youtube, which is basically knowledge itself, and the most democratically available, will end up being able to vaguely compete on the world stage with peers who have not been cast back into the iron age by an insane, madly illogical government is preposterous and one of the saddest aspects of this.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Ironic yet somehow perfectly apt that Starmer's big legacy measure - the under-16 social media ban - is something he didn't actually believe in and resisted pretty forcefully.

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

The UK government has announced plans to introduce a social media ban for under-16s by spring 2027.

Professor @Sander_vdLinden shares his reaction to today's news, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions.

Learn more about his proposal for social media passports 👉 https://t.co/jqdggjan0E

Professor Sander van der Linden is the Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory and a Professorial Fellow of @ChurchillCol.

#SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Very much worth listening to an expert and watching this in full.

Perhaps most notable is this:

‘I’ve told the government this over the last year. I know they have heard this from other influential academics and charities that the evidence base just isn’t there to support bans. But politically it’s popular because it seems like an easy solution, but it is not the nuanced one.’

So the government are acutely aware that the precedent in other countries illustrates that a wholesale ban doesn’t work and that the experts advise against it from a child safety and wellbeing standpoint. And yet they still went ahead with it.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

The people smugly gloating that young people will just have to 'find something else to do' in response to the social media bans are usually the exact same people who seethe with anger and make reports about 'loitering' whenever they have to share public spaces with teenagers.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

the labour party effectively ending online anonymity just before they hand over everything on a silver platter to reform continues the long tradition of liberals working in lockstep with fascists.

[OllyFS🧠 @olly3661]

A screenshot from the survey data used to support the law on the social media ban. There is no way to say "No, I would not support this".

@SciTechgovuk you would be laughed out of academia for this.

[Mrs Millicent: Witchy Lesbianism ✝️♿ 🏳️‍🌈 @MillieCheesey]

"90% support it"

Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol

[danny @danxcix]

> Give 16 year olds the vote because they are historically Labour supporting
> Absolutely nuke any chances of them ever voting for Labour

Masterful gambit Sir Keir

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

It went from “porn” to everything like we all predicted

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I’m not a tech person so maybe this is dumb but isnt it easier to create a “children’s phone” at point of sale so you get a phone with built-in restrictions rather than asking every single person in the country whether they are over 16 or not through hackable digital ID software?

[Zak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇲🇽🇧🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇴 @ZG1999_]

What’s the point being young in this country? Genuinely, what’s the point?

[OllyFS🧠 @olly3661]

So 16 year olds are mature enough to vote, but not mature enough to use social media at night? Is the Labour government using a Random Policy Generator?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban

[@thetimes]

[Frank Moon @TruedawnFm]

One thing I do think Marx genuinely underestimated was just how fake the economy could get without fully collapsing