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Supplementary Material 53

00:23 Introduction: Matthew the Succulent's Post-Holiday Report

02:15 Pickle Ball Injuries & Bouldering Curses

07:40 They Won't Let You Talk about Middle-Aged Sports Injuries

08:37 New AI Models

09:31 Cory Doctorow, Trevor Noah, and Confirmation Bias

23:45 The Glorious Past and the Terrible Present

28:28 The Horror of Tinned Asparagus

30:26 The Collapse of Industries & Stores

36:16 Negativity Bias

37:11 AI Prompting 101

44:30 AI and Research Applications

50:28 Nigel Farage vs Count Binface

59:10 Nigel Farage Knighted on Russia Today

01:02:53 Hasan's Advice for Ukrainians

01:07:51 Russian Apologetics

01:13:32 Vlad Vexler and soft Anti-Vaxx rhetoric

01:19:35 Guru Red Flags

01:23:48 Bret Weinstein in 2020 on Vaccines

01:28:53 Gary vs Piers Morgan

01:30:58 Piers Morgan being a blustering idiot about Elon Musk

01:36:55 Gary's Pitch

01:41:55 Alternative Tax Proposals

01:46:18 Matt and Chris' Economics

01:47:22 Gary's Wealth

01:52:07 Piers the sleazy liar

01:55:25 Gary is the best inequality economist in the UK

01:57:08 Gary's Predictions

02:00:40 Gary is Very Tired

02:07:14 A message from anyone else to finish?

02:14:25 Final Takeaways

02:16:55 Matt attempts to wrangle another holiday

Links

• The Verge: China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
• What Now? with Trevor Noah: Why Google, Apple & Big Tech Keep Making Everything Worse — Cory Doctorow and Trevor Noah
• Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of general psychology, 5(4), 323-370.
• Count Binface on BBC Morning Live — full interview
• Count Binface on Newsnight
• Hasan offers Ukraine his advice to “give peace a try”
• Report on polling from Ukraine in 2025 that does not show what Hasan claims
• Report on more recent polling that still does not show what Hasan claims
• Vlad Vexler tweets about vaccines
• Bret’s Tweets in 2020 on Vaccines (and here)
• Chris noting Bret’s anti-vaccine rhetoric in 2020 (see the comments under the tweet)
• Kyiv International Institute of Sociology: Ukrainian views on exchanging Donbas for security guarantees
• Decoding Academia 34: Matt and Chris’ Economics
• Piers Morgan Uncensored: “I’m QUITTING!” Gary Stevenson vs Piers Morgan on Wealth, Economic Growth & Elon Musk