David Hardman

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Senior Research Analyst at Rail Safety & Standards Board. TSSA health & safety rep. OPINIONS HERE ARE MY OWN.
An exile from academia, I'm the author of 'Judgment and Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives'.
Potential followers, please note I post about various things, mainly: transport, psychology, politics, film, literature
#Gallup are the latest company to buckle in the face of Trump’s fascist administration. Pathetic and shameful.
#Trump #voting
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting thi…

The Hill
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent

Financial Times
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.

Mission Local
How many of those now trying to waive away the documented links between #Trump & #Epstein were happy to promote the entirely fictitious #Pizzagate conspiracy?
Private Eye are smashing it with their cover today!
#Trump #Reform #PrivateEye #BBC #Badenoch #Farage
RSSB has published a review paper (authored by me): Neurodiversity in Employment: Selection, Training, and Support (S393). Available here (free registration needed):
https://www.rssb.co.uk/research-catalogue/CatalogueItem/S393
#neurodiversity #autism #ADHD
Neurodiversity in employment: recruitment, training, and support (S393)

Insights into neurodiversity and options for supporting job candidates and staff.

My hobbies include rejecting cookies and seeing how fast I can hit the ‘skip’ button when adverts interrupt YouTube videos.
Apparently #Meta is going to keep shovelling unwanted adverts for #MS365 #Copilot towards me on #Facebook, even after I checked the box to ‘see fewer adverts like this’. Fuck all of these shitty companies.
#tech
NEWS! 'It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they're less than 1% of the Parliamentary population' confirms public https://newsthump.com/2025/10/28/it-drives-us-mad-when-tv-screens-are-full-of-reform-mps-when-theyre-less-than-1-of-the-parliamentary-population-confirms-public/
Great article from Brian Merchant explaining why the AI bubble IS a bubble.
#tech #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

WIRED