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Cameron Buckner

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I read somewhere a comment from a Japanese business person asking why the UK insists on running its universities like corporations when its universities are great and its corporations are terrible. But I guess Thames Water is the model for everything in post-Thatcher Britain.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2026
Illinois earned its 12th credit rating upgrade since I took office. It’s a victory for every Illinoisan that puts money back in their pockets.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Weiss *personally ordered* the ridiculous framing of the tweet!
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's on. Thanks to Greg for serious poster game.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
"This is a paradigm shift. It’s like Plato’s cave. You sit in a dark room, watch images projected on a screen, and then stay there and enjoy more images. That’s what Plato’s cave is all about. At least, that’s what I’ve gathered from the modules." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
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Our University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge
“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20/08/2026
Earlier: In an attempt to overcomply with Texas law, the University of Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum. It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans.
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University of Houston Is Gutting Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas' Crusade Against Higher Ed.
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I found the perfect pedagogical use of this meme...
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
substack.com/@newsgirls/n...
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The Fired 60 Minutes Team Is Building a $50 Million Rival Show
Scott Pelley, Bill Owens and other journalists pushed out of CBS could reunite for a new investigative newsmagazine—and honestly, it may be more 60 Minutes than the show CBS will air this fall.
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.
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The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience
Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 01/08/2026
"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Heading out for sea for a few days without email contact. Don't do the Singularity while I'm gone.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Communing with a corvid at Skilak Lake
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sometimes you just need to go to Alaska and run on the beach.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Do world models emerge in neural networks trained for prediction? Generative Adversarial Collaboration (GAC) at #CCN2026
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Philosophy editors: Both NeurIPS and ICML have adopted a "dual policy" approach to AI-generated submissions. You can submit/review under either a conservative (AI banned) or a liberal policy. They find almost no difference in rates of acceptance or reviewer ratings across policies.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 16/07/2026
Even the teleprompter guy is corrupt. The #Trump season 2 writers are now just phoning it in… #Trumpland #USCorruption
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
At a time when organisations say that what they desperately need isn't more coders or exam takers but young people with critical thinking and independent reasoning skills, it's a profound injury to the future to allow the closure of Philosophy programmes across the UK and US, including Dundee's.
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Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I did not pay DE Shaw & Co to advertise my #ICML talk but I'm grateful to them.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/06/2026
Yikes: "We have a fentanyl vaccine, and we lost funding for the Phase I clinical trial because of the current administration’s misalignment on vaccines. […] Now we have a bunch of very expensive vials that are just sitting there, ready to go in somebody’s arm."
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aaron @hillenjoyer.myatproto.social · 26/06/2026
anyone caught reflecting will be beaten and a bag placed over their head
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 26/06/2026
Democrats notice a “platform” that is “resonating” with “voters,” take immediate, decisive action to quash it before anything “good” happens
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Very pleased to be doing a session on my book at Pusan National University next month.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is one of the funniest AI-search snafus (snorfus?) I've seen yet: they've accused some random nice lady from Carmel of being the kimu-eating beast from Pietroski's classic thought experiment...
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jesus, this is dark. It's worth checking in once in a while to see just how far they're going.
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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 10/06/2026
evidence that a book will exist www.routledge.com/Introducing-...
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Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today
This coursebook introduces philosophy of mind as it is practiced in the third decade of the 21st century to a wide range of readers. It provides any interested student, researcher, or general reader--...
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The next Philosophy Compass article with Raphaël Millière on language models is out now, open access. We review basic philosophical questions about language models and research on them thus far. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Philosophy of Language Models
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human-like linguistic and ...
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
American pragmatists come in "yee haw" and "aw shucks I'm just a simple country lawyer" varieties
sepia photo of William James wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses and posing with his hands in his pocketsmonochrome photo of John Dewey wearing tweed and sitting in a chair looking pensive
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I think there’s something kinda late Soviet about how America just doesn’t believe in its own political project anymore.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Interesting background on the event at Berkeley... artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/promine...
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At least some good people live a long time...
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The extremely rare catcopus.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very pleased to be heading to UC Berkeley tomorrow for a workshop on the foundations of AI with Dave Chalmers, Rosa Cao, and Jonathan Simon.
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A fairy gets its wings every time a graduate student turns in a term paper early.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
AT THE HEART OF MODERN CULTURE, A NIGHTMARISH VOID Me, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
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Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pride and Prejudice as if Jane Austen were a mech interp researcher
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Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
arxiv.org/html/2603.05...
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Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Philosophy program at the CUNY GC is hiring a logician at the Associate level. Please share! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
You get used to it, but it was a shock to the system at first. “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four half-written features, two ‘quick fixes’ that spawned rabbit holes, and a growing sense that I’m losing the plot entirely.”
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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themsel...
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