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Excited to officially announce my new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, out in March (UK) and May (US) and available now to pre-order: proof.kucharski.io

It digs into the ideas we can use to weigh evidence and converge on truth under pressure - and what happens when they fail... 1/

Do you know your 'Gish gallop' from your 'motte-and-bailey'? Or the difference between 'sea lioning' and 'well poisoning'?

New post on the bad faith argument playbook - and what we can do about it: https://blog.kucharski.io/?toxic-tactics

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@picardtips Thanks to AI it is now capable of doing neither. 👍
New post on mpox, outlining how we got here – and where we might be going next: https://blog.kucharski.io/?how-we-got-here-with-mpox
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Microsoft's new Windows 11 Recall is a privacy nightmare

Microsoft's announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking that it has created massive privacy risks and a new attack vector that threat actors can exploit to steal data.

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"sales are up over 300% and growing exponentially"

Remember how a few weeks of lockdown in 2020 made people lose their collective shit, and revealed people you thought you knew as anti-masking, anti-vax mouth-frothers?

Now imagine wanting to be stuck with them in a bunker behind blast-doors.

#doomsday #apocalypse #preppers #bunker #COVID #facepalm

https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/06/doomsday-community-wants-people-live-575-bunkers-19932385/

Doomsday community wants people to live in 575 bunkers

'When everyone else is scrambling for a solution, our members will journey to their designated shelter, joined by hundreds of like-minded people, all prepared to lock the blast door and ride out whatever threats may be going on above.'

Metro.co.uk

Just checking in on the first #caturday of meteorological winter...

Yep, Kissinger is still dead.

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I've taken some time off to recenter myself, and now I'm officially re-entering the job market.

If you're in need of a technical editor, writer, or manager of either, or if you know someone who'd be interested, let's talk.

I've worked on tutorials for DigitalOcean, books for O'Reilly and Pragmatic, and other stuff besides.

Boosts for reach are appreciated.

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