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30 days of version history: SonaFact restores the transcript from before any edit made in that time (Starter and up).
https://sonafact.com/whats-new/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=bs16#undo-and-version-history
November 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
olivia.science
Also if people want a tangent to calculators, that's what I accidentally deleted. Sorry.

More here: Guest, O. (2026). What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?. Behavioral Sciences. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
Analysing these ancestral forms of computers as AI per Figure 1 brings to light aspects that are central to understanding cognitive labour. They all function as aids, especially in the case of the abacus, and as perhaps something more independent in the cases of the calculator and Turing-complete electromechanical and electrical digital computers. For the abacus versus mental arithmetic AI relationship (see column 1, Figure 2), we—surprisingly or not depending on our familiarity with abacus use—see a marked benefit to mental arithmetic and an unambiguous development of a new skill (Lima-Silva et al., 2021; Lu et al., 2023; Wang, 2020; Xie et al., 2024). Importantly, the examples in Figure 2 have been chosen, inter alia, because we can keep row h constant: all three have the same desired output in these cases. An interesting highlight is row g: the abacus is completely unable to perform any arithmetic operation without the abacist. If you forget how to manipulate the beads, the abacus is merely decorative. This is very different to the electronic calculator (see column 2, Figure 2) where one need not be familiar with the operation of the calculator at all: you only need to recall the symbols that represent numbers and functions. Not knowing how to use a calculator is nigh on impossible in the modern world, even without having ever used one, since the prerequisite knowledge is reading and button affordances; no specific training is needed. To forget how to use a calculator is to suffer significant cognitive impairment beyond being rusty moving beads around; one would need to lose the ability to read numbers and press buttons—highly unusual. And the opposite, using a calculator can harm children’s ability to accomplish basic numeracy, and so we proscribe its use in primary schools for this reason. In the general case, once mental arithmetic is mastered, the AI relationship between calculator and human is overall neutral without offering any new skills but also providin…
November 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
carlodeangelo.bsky.social
Discover on Sparked: Softbox vs ring light for talking-head videos
https://sparked.buzz/story/softbox-vs-ring-light-for-talking-head-videos?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ace&utm_content=bs16
Softbox vs ring light for talking-head videos
# Softbox vs ring light for talking-head videos
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October 25, 2026 at 4:06 AM
lizdowthwaite.bsky.social
After A LOT of reviewer wrangling by the first author, our paper on Trust and Mental Health apps is finally available! doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Emma is an absolute hero for sticking with this. It was a fun project from #TrustworthyAutonomousSystems.
October 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
postboxmap.bsky.social
A King George V Type B Pillar Box in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/BS16-358 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #KingGeorgeV #PillarBox #TypeB #StandardRed #StapleHill
Postbox in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire. PostboxMap.co.uk
October 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
olivia.science
🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science?

What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
October 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM
jamiemadigan.bsky.social
Conceptual paper proposes 5 mechanisms (narrative distance, psychological safety, intrinsic motivation, identity exploration, emotional regulation) for why Dungeons & Dragons might help kids with early anxiety at school. No data yet, but a research agenda. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
Abstract
October 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
countrysidejobs.bsky.social
@forestryengland.bsky.social is recruiting for a Forest Resilience Skills and Capability Lead. 37 hours per week. Fixed Term Appointment, until 31/03/2029 (possibility of extension / permanency). National Office, 620 Bristol Business Park, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ c-js.uk/4dSJpK8
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September 24, 2026 at 1:04 PM
jamiemadigan.bsky.social
Six Twitch Partners on being an accidental mental-health resource for their communities: real benefits, real strain, and monetization complicating their own coping strategies. Small qualitative study, but a first look at this angle. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
September 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM
missingpetsgb.bsky.social
🐕‍🦺#URGENT MISSING #ELDERLY #WHIPPET

PURDOWN/EASTVILLE
#BRISTOL #BS16

SPIDER went missing 19 September 2026 after being spooked by a loud noise around the Custard castle/Dower House/ Stoke Park area

She is walked regularly around Eastville & may have headed that way. www.doglost.co.uk/dog/205070
September 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM
rentrepaymentorder.bsky.social
Newly published RRO decision:
https://www.gov.uk/residential-property-tribunal-decisions/1-manor-road-fishponds-bristol-bs16-2jd-hav-slash-00hb-slash-hmf-slash-2025-slash-0637
September 21, 2026 at 7:43 PM
olivia.science
INB4: why do you ignore other things they are attacking. I do not, please see:
Guest, O. (2026). What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?. Behavioral Sciences. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jul 29
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
table 2 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960 table 3 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960 table 4 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
September 14, 2026 at 8:50 AM
olivia.science
More relevant extracts!

doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
There it is a definite social relation between [people], that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things. In order, therefore, to find an analogy, we must have recourse to the mist-enveloped regions of the religious world. In that world the productions of the human brain appear as independent beings endowed with life, and entering into relation both with one another and the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of [people]’s hands. (Marx, 1867) The reasoning problems become evermore severe in our misunderstandings of these most modern machines (Guest & Martin, 2023). As Taina Bucher (2018, p. 50) explains: “When a machine runs smoothly, nobody pays much attention, and the actors and work required to make it run smoothly disappear from view (Latour, 1999).” A next step in this devolution and devaluation of cognitive labour is that now the user too, deskilled and displaced, also disappears from view. What voice does the human, now reduced to only a user, have if their verbal (column 1, Figure 4) and visual (column 2) expressions are just the copy-pasted output of a device that performs patchwor
September 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
olivia.science
@peebeejaybee.bsky.social inspired me to remember this other example that's fascist-aligned too — I do think often (maybe always) fascists: hate the past and want to remove it or distort it so they can pretend to want to return to a fake past (image from doi.org/10.3390/bs16... also see thread)...
Relatedly, we can grant AI a (pre)history, allowing us to include the Antikythera mechanism (Freeth et al., 2021), astrolabes, sextants, abacuses, and more in the timeline of AI (e.g., Erscoi et al., 2023; Mayor, 2018). We can uncondense time— allowing us to slow down and giving us back our history—which is centrally relevant for understanding our present or possible futures (Hamilton, 1998; Stengers, 2018). As mentioned, this is something of a phobia, notably: In English, the use of the word cybernetics raises no difficulties. Frenchmen with sufficient curiosity, however, were surprised to find it in Littre and Larousse; and the forgotten writings of Ampere were exhumed. When someone eventually turned up the new term in Plato, some of the experts rose in horror, declaring that kybernitiki should on no account be translated ‘cybernetics’. (Guilbaud, 1960) Taken together, these properties and by-products of Figure 1 allow us to perform transcendental as well as immanent analyses of AI, such that we can pick out more than ar- tificial neural networks, or specifically large language models, or such that we can perform
September 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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September 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM
mykolas-deikus.bsky.social
A bibliometric review of 397 Scopus papers maps research on discrimination in sport: media bias, leadership barriers, harassment, safeguarding & athlete well-being. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
May 13, 2026 at 5:29 AM
skoojala.bsky.social
#BristolCityCouncil still ignoring van dwelling issues in BS16! Check out the number of reports residents have made along this street in #Fishponds ranging from burned-out vans, faeces, fly-tipping and street drug dealing by the van dwellers.
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@kerrymp.bsky.social
An image of a map showing reports on the fix my street app for Goodneston Road in Bristol
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
aclassdriving.bsky.social
We currently have space for automatic lessons in and around the Kingswood test area. So BS2, BS5, BS7, BS15, BS16 and BS34 postcodes. Contact Richard Miller on +447799486717.
He's also accepting intensive course inquires too.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
trystanloustau.bsky.social
How do political deviants maintain positive self-views amid ingroup rejection?

Check out more in my recently published article on Republicans for Harris: doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
April 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
jolita-vveinhardt.bsky.social
Our new study maps 397 Scopus-indexed publications (1995–2026) on discrimination against women in sport. Findings show rising research attention to leadership exclusion, media representation, harassment, safeguarding, inclusion & athlete well-being. doi.org/10.3390/bs16...
May 13, 2026 at 4:54 AM
timw069.bsky.social
Thunder ⛈️ 🌩 has arrived #bs16 #bristol #thunderstorm #heatwave my arse 😆 🤣
June 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
timw069.bsky.social
Lots of police around here tonight heavy police presence on stoke lane I presume they have started their christmas 🎄 drink drive campaign... that's how it looked and felt anyway. #Bristol #BS16 #stapleton #dontdrinkanddrive #christmas #police
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
timw069.bsky.social
Tomorrow I hope to Enjoy a free event to celebrate #stgeorgesday in nearby #fishponds #Bs16
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM