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Álvaro Ceballos

@aceballos.bsky.social
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Prof. de literatura en Université de Liège (Bélgica). Edad de Plata. Recepción empírica. Últimos libros: «La lectura salvaje» (Alianza), «La Edad de Tiza» (Alfaguara), «Las letras de la República» (La Oveja Roja).

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/09/2026
This is 5 months old now, but I read it carefully for the first time today, and it's impressive. They find structural fingerprints of human vs AI authorship w/ 93.2% macro-F1, and more surprisingly (for me) are able to use these structural—not stylistic—features to say *which model* wrote a story.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Geht doch!
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026
We need an updated version of this Breen post. Something that starts by acknowledging the concern many profs feel about AI and learning, but then shows what it feels like to find that AI is empowering new projects and motivating you to learn new things. +
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The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Estudio bastante flipante. Parten de un corpus de 14.419 ebooks autopublicados en Amazon, determinan el % de texto generado con IA (habría deseado más precisiones sobre cómo hacen esto) y comentan las consecuencias para la industria editorial. 1/2
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JonSarean @jonsarean.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
En cienciaxxi.es/blog/leer-si...
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Luminoso @tedunderwood.com: los modelos de IA generativa confirman las tesis de la teoría cultural: los enunciados lingüísticos no son la expresión de sujetos autónomos, sino un repertorio en el que la intención comunicativa es una función pragmática inferible. critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/29/t...
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The Empirical Triumph of Theory
Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindicati…
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2026
We need a term for the rhetorical practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person who would be harmed by a broadly-beneficial policy that you dislike because it would inconvenience you.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
«Parece que, aunque las habilidades iniciales importan, el entorno y las intervenciones desempeñan un papel clave en las trayectorias lectoras»: una interesante síntesis de la revisión bibliográfica de 2014 sobre diferencias en la adquisición de la lectura y hábito lector.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This morning at #SHARPIES2026, Aakriti Mandhwani talked about her research on Everyday readers in post-independence India. Fabulous research which luckily is available at our @ubleiden.bsky.social #readers #BookHistory www.umasspress.com/978162534790...
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Everyday Reading
Finalist for the 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially ...
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ayer mismo alguien me preguntó en un club de lectura si algún día daremos con lectores que prefieren la literatura generada con IA. Pues bien, según este artículo, resulta que ese día también fue ayer mismo. (Por así decir).
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.
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AI FICTION IN THE WILD Neel Gupta  Maria Antoniak  Melanie Walsh

Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (Zhao et al.), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation—including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. This AI-generated fiction is notably dominated by power users. We identify common fiction generation patterns and profiles among these users, including what we call infinite story demanders, who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time. We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica, and that they are broadly drawn to generic forms, repetition, immediacy, and niche combinations of story elements. Our findings motivate two theoretical provocations. First, we argue that AI technologies may lead to a shift in the conventional relationship between the author and reader, potentially producing what we call a solipsistic reader-writer, who both generates and consumes fiction within a closed conversational loop, interacting with a machine rather than a human other. Second, we note that LLMs enable interactivity, play, and permutation in ways that are seemingly pleasurable for users, raising questions about where AI will fit into contemporary storytelling and entertainment ecosystems. We situate these developments within broader transformations in literature and media, including self-publishing, fanfiction, and pornography, and suggest that AI-generated fiction shares structural affinities with on-demand, personalized, and repetitive cultural forms.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/06/2026
Have been telling friends about this since the talk version blew my mind. See e.g. this recurring story about Meredith Lexington, an editor who wants to go back in time to change history. Appropriately enough the prompt writer goes back (in time??) to edit Meredith's prompt — more than 30 times.
Same user iterating on "Meredith Lexington" story

added = inserted vs. previous prompt
removed = removed vs. previous prompt

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Make a story about Meredith Lexington, a news editor from Los Angeles, California, who wants to end her parents' forced marriage, and Andrew Bennett, a journalist from Brooklyn, New York, who wants to solve a murder mystery. They wanted to go back in time, so they changed history. They were strangers. Meredith bought scarf from the market then she wore it. Andrew was driving a car when he saw a woman walking through a tunnel and tried to stop the automobile, but it was out of control. The vehicle then came to a stop. Meredith was there. Meredith and Andrew were transported to the 1994 (1990s). Meredith became a teenage girl studying at Laurel Springs School.

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Make a story about Meredith Lexington, a news editor from Los Angeles, California, who wants to end her parents' forced marriage, and Andrew Bennett, a journalist from Brooklyn, New York, who wants to solve a murder mystery. They wanted to go back in time, so they changed history. They were strangers. Meredith bought magical scarf from the market then she wore it. Andrew was driving a car when he saw a woman walking through a tunnel and tried to stop the automobile, but it was out of control. The vehicle then came to a stop. Meredith was there. Meredith and Andrew were transported to the 1994 (1990s). Meredith became a teenage girl studying at Laurel Springs School, where her mother Maureen attended. She wished to prevent her mother's forced marriage. Meredith noticed her mother at school, and she appears to…
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Tres meses después, la única noticia que, al parecer, no pasa de moda. Esto hace tiempo que empezó a dar vergüenza ajena...
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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 02/01/2026
Analytic philosophy can be distinguished from literary criticism with 90-95% accuracy via syntax alone. Moreover, a classifier trained to separate them in early C20 does better predicting future separations than a C21 one predicts past ones, suggesting philosophy syntax narrows/specializes in ~C21.
A four-panel figure showing the probability of predicting articles from The Journal of Philosophy versus PMLA using quarter-century models. Each panel represents a different training period (1925-1950, 1950-1975, 1975-2000, 2000-2025). Gray shaded regions indicate training periods. The model trained on early C21 philosophy vs literature cannot accurately distinguish early C20 philosophy vs literature, but the reverse is not true.Hierarchical cluster of syntactic features predicting philosophy (blue) vs criticism (red).Top 2 distinctive features for Philosophy vs Criticism.An example of the importance of the "marker" feature in philosophy.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Un libro del momento, sobre el humor como instrumento de resistencia política... Pero también, a veces, de opresión. (Y que incluye una definición sagaz del humor conservador).
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This database is like if Goodreads existed between 1450 and 1945. "I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman" www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading...
Screenshot of a database entry titled 'Reading Experience.' The 'Evidence' field, highlighted in blue, contains a quotation: 'I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea-table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.' Metadata fields below list — Century: 1900–1945; Date: 31 Jan 1938; Country: Yemen; Time: n/a; Place: city of Huraidha, county of Hadhramaut; Type of Experience (Reader): silent aloud unknown, solitary in company unknown, single serial unknown; Type of Experience (Listener): solitary in company unknown, single serial unknown."
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Próximamente: jornada en la Universidad de Lieja sobre los usos ordinarios de la literatura. www.traverses.uliege.be/cms/c_129090...
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Rebeca Martín @rebecaml.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Del manual de lectura de Johann Adam Berkg (1799).
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Para quienes, ante la "amenaza rusa", piensan que el pacifismo es una ingenuidad y que es inevitable dilapidar fondos públicos en armamento: esta página actualiza lo que los países europeos vienen pagando a Rusia desde 2022 a cambio de energía fósil: beyondfossilfuels.org/russian-foss...
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EU member state spending on Russian fossil fuels
How many millions of euros from the EU is being spent on Russian fossil fuels since the war on Ukraine began on 24 February?
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Soberbio artículo sobre el nuevo orden informático en el que vivimos. NYT
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Librerías de España: la mitad de los títulos que tienen disponibles no vende nada. (Dato a contextualizar: ¿cuántos son ejemplares de fondo, clásicos o ediciones del año anterior que contribuyen a la bibliodiversidad del establecimiento?) elpais.com/cultura/2026...
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El dato que alarma a las librerías de España: la mitad de los títulos que tienen disponibles no vende nada
La multiplicación de novedades, la concentración en grandes grupos y los riesgos para la bibliodiversidad preocupan a Cegal, la confederación del sector, cuyo estudio más reciente concluye que solo el...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/04/2026
Seems increasingly likely that the humanities will specialize in an approach to culture that requires in-person presence and revels in the physicality of paper &c. Not the main thing I do, but—it seems healthy? Likely good to have a space free of screens. Also it’s not bad to take pride
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Entre varios colegas hispanistas hemos sacado este librillo sobre versiones, intertextualidades y recepción ordinaria de clásicos literarios hispánicos. Ya se puede comprar como PDF o _print on demand_. ¡Pronto en _open access_ gracias a las Presses Univ. de Namur! www.pun.be/book/?gcoi=9...
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
«Vivía en el eterno presente de su hambre y su fuerza, sintiendo tan solo el crudo instinto territorial que más pronto o más tarde se convertiría en una carnicería». ¿A cuántos líderes actuales puede aplicarse esta frase con la que el escritor Clive Barker describe a un monstruo del inframundo?
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Mal está cruzar la calle mirando el móvil, pero ¿cuántos de cada tres CONDUCTORES conducen mirando el móvil? Y en coches cada vez más grandes, pesados y potentes. Pongamos la carga de la responsabilidad donde corresponde.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
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Patrick Breitenbach @patrickbreitenbach.de · 03/03/2026
Merz sitzt wie ein Schuljunge grinsend neben dem Mafia-Boss, der ihn lobt, was für ein toller Laufbursche er doch ist und er das Merkel Gegenteil sei, während er zugleich europäische Nachbarn (Spanien, UK) bestrafen will, weil sie ihm nicht gehorsam genug sind. Deutsche Außenpolitik im Jahr 2026. 😵‍💫
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📌Watching Spain tell Trump to go fuck himself is giving me energy.
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Trump denounces UK, Spain over Iran stance
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Britain and Spain for not fully backing his attack on Iran, as he threatened to end "all trade" with Spain.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Y unos minutos después Claude me ha echado este piropo: "Estás pensando exactamente como una investigadora computacional".
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Acabo de entender qué son los _embeddings_ contextuales y me siento como enamorado...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 26/02/2026
We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.
Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
¿Por qué cada vez que uno quiere consultar el significado de una palabra en el diccionario OFICIAL de la lengua española debe enfrentarse al retrato gigante de este señor, que por un motivo u otro siempre parece lo más interesante que la @rae.es puede ofrecer?
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Lecturas y relecturas políticas y nacionales del _Capitán Alatriste_ según su autor. Hoy en @elpais.com.
Lecturas y relecturas políticas y nacionales del _Capitán Alatriste_, según su autor. 
Hoy en @elpais.
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ERI Lectura @erilectura.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ya podéis acceder a la Newsletter semestral de la ERI-Lectura: nuevas incorporaciones, promociones, tesis defendidas, actividades científicas, actividades de formación y transferencia, investigadores visitantes... ¡Esperemos que os resulte interesante! www.uv.es/lectura/News...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 19/02/2026
This is a solid hypothesis. I'd even say that the prompt that produced good AI writing would almost definitionally have to be longer than the output. Making it shorter and more precise is what "writing energy" gets spent on.
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La Marea @lamarea.com · 18/02/2026
La ultraderecha ya no es una corriente marginal. La apoyan «hombres y mujeres con apariencia normal, que no están en el Parlamento ni en los platós, sino en tu trabajo, en la puerta del colegio, en la casa de tu padre y de tu madre». ✍️ Un artículo de @patriciasimon.bsky.social
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Del miedo a "los otros" al miedo "a los nuestros" | lamarea.com
El ascenso de la ultraderecha da más miedo aún al constatar que sus votantes están entre nosotros, en nuestra familia, en nuestro trabajo.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Lovro Škopljanac and his colleagues at the University of Zagreb have just published the proceedings of the ‘ERoL’ Conference, a thrilling collection of empirical studies on reader-response. #OpenAccess openbooks.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/FF...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/02/2026
Claude Code is the stone in Stone Soup. It does everything for you— except sure, the soup will be better if you understand statistics, and also tastier if you check the code, and … But a stone that reduces the initial barrier to making soup at all is, in fact, pedagogical magic.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Un artículo muy interesante sobre (entre otras cosas) la influencia de personajes de ficción en la imagen corporativa, en este caso de la policía. Es, junto con el ejército, uno de los campos en los que más plausible y conscientemente se usa la ficción para modelar la percepción de la realidad.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Mi tía ha descubierto en un cajón este papel, escrito hace cuarenta años. Contiene una sórdida revelación: el turbio origen de mi carrera de escritorzuelo sin escrúpulos.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 31/01/2026
Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Way to go. @universitedeliege.bsky.social
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
La misma idea, en un periódico español de gran tirada. (Que el fútbol profesional aparcase su codicia y se alinease con una causa justa sería una sorpresa capaz de devolverme la fe en la humanidad).
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Álvaro Ceballos @aceballos.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Coincido. Este artículo es un vibrante alegato por la investigación cualitativa (y los "mixed methods") en ciencias humanas y sociales, y el último clavo en el ataúd de la autoevaluación con escalas de Likert. Mucho de lo que dice se puede aplicar también a estudios de estética empírica.
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Leave X @leavexnow.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
X es una red social que está produciendo pornografía infantil y violencia contra las mujeres a través de su IA, Grok. Un aparato tecnológico al servicio del Trumpismo. Pedro Sánchez debe abandonar X. El Gobierno debe abandonar X.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Jorge Ginés 🎃👻🇪🇺 🌍🛰️ @lithospheric.jorgegines.com · 06/01/2026
La UE debería montar un servidor público en Bluesky o Mastodon e ilegalizar X en el continente. No hay más. ATPC.
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