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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For a while, a common dilemma in video game RPGs was "Who do you support, the problematic hypernationalists or the rootless cosmopolitan hypocrites?" and I think it aged poorly seeing how the past decade has pretty conclusively proven the correct answer is "sign up with RCH and get over yourself."

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Proof of a literacy crisis: pundit Derek Thompson can't read the studies he quotes. This is about "self-published genre fiction ... primarily sold on Amazon" and not “the book industry.” Imagine looking at TikTok slop and declaring “the film industry” is being replaced by AI actors and directors.

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Of the many, many books that predicted some dystopian effects of AI, few or none of them, to my knowledge, predicted that one of AI's first major effects would be to disrupt the book industry itself.

But that's exactly what seems to be happening.

- The number of AI-written books with any sales has grown by a factor of *19* since 2003
- Books with “substantial AI text” are making more money with every passing year
- Authors who don’t write with AI are earning less per book in almost every genre

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The upshot: either Chang's account implies that we can't make mistakes -- which I at least take to be a reductio -- or it has no real advantage over more traditional accounts.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have a new paper out at Philosophy of Science. (Open access link below.) Briefly: Hasok Chang's main argument for his account of truth is that it makes truth "verifiable" in practice. I show that if that's right, errors are impossible. doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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What use the Realist for a Theory of Truth? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

What use the Realist for a Theory of Truth?

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is very cool -- it's a good video! on an important subject! -- but does make me question what it is I'm doing when my turnaround is longer for something that would have looked worse and that (massively) fewer people would have seen.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

But then @hankgreen.bsky.social made a (very good) video about why said video was bad. It has 500,000 views in less than 24 hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...

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A Masterclass in Manipulation

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I saw a very bad video on climate graphs a couple days ago, and since that's something I work on, thought that I should ... I don't know, make a blog post that maybe 20 people would see finals once were over?

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Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We just published a paper in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals available on our Skeptical Science homepage - a technically challenging research with some nuanced, complex results. sks.to/sksexperiment (1/n)

Screenshot of our paper published in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals on our Skeptical Science homepage.

https://sks.to/sksexperiment

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My go-to example when talking to non-philosophers is: there are no such things as tables and chairs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026

if someone is confused about trans rights or Pratchett’s support thereof, tell them to READ THEORY

Cover of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Writing the "response to reviewers" is the process of traversing from 1 to 2.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I think the year should either be the year of decision or year of submission, but mixing the two seems bad. So either: 1. accepted in 2025 / [total decisions in 2025] -- i.e., (c) 2. submitted in 2025 and eventually acceptaced / submitted in 2025. I'd prefer 2 because it avoids double counting.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We're hiring! Lecturer in Philosophy, AOS/AOC open, but should be able to teach courses titled "Logic and Critical Thinking" and "Science and Values." Applications due Mar. 30. philjobs.org/job/show/31125

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Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer in Philosophy, Clemson University

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Brief pitch: The students are good, you can commute to Clemson from Greenville pretty easily (and Greenville's nice), and other than me the faculty are lovely.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We're hiring: 3-year VAP, AOS Phil Law, 3/3 load, application date Mar. 23. We're also searching for a lecturer who can teach logic and a research ethics-type class. I'll update when that ad is posted. philjobs.org/job/show/30989

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University - PhilJobs:JFP Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson University

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

OutKast, Tribe, Aesop Rock, Saul Williams, Gorrillaz. If you tell me that that's what an AI predicted, I will not believe you.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I can hear this in William Shatner's voice.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 28/01/2026

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/01/2026

The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With

The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I also enjoyed Outer Worlds. But also: I enjoyed *Starfield* (well, at least until I did all the wandering I wanted to do and started actually working on the main quest), so I recognize that the bar for me is *very* low.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I feel like Fallout 4 was the point where I came to terms with the fact that I don't actually need these games to be *good* to enjoy them.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I mean, I gave up on that game because I found the stories tiresome regardless of them coming together or not, so take anything I have to say about it with a grain of salt, but also isn't there a "true ending" that does "bring them together"?

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I pulled a "say what you will about [blank], but at least it's an ethos" on my students the other day and just moved on knowing none of them would pick up on it.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

When it comes to confirmation, what matters for robustness can be boiled down to: 1. Does the hypothesis predict robustness? 2. Do the alternatives predict not robustness? If you answer yes to both, then you've got confirmation! It's that simple. (2/2)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Another of my papers, "Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming" is now online. This one gets in the weeds of the last decade-ish of research on the human contribution to warming to motivate a simple philosophical claim ... (1/2) doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

So this is obviously almost unbelievably stupid. But also, prediction: yes it will, it will just only approve those by companies that Trump likes. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...

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Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects

The president's comment comes after the administration tightened federal permitting for renewables last month.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

And you can find the code for our R package on my GitHub. This doesn't have all the pretty graphs, but does all the actual calculating you could want for any of the standard tests. github.com/coreydethier...

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GitHub - coreydethier/Severity: Files for the Severity R package

Files for the Severity R package. Contribute to coreydethier/Severity development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you had any of these questions, you can now find out! Sam Fletcher, Nada Mohamed, and myself have put together a Shiny app (severity.shinyapps.io/severity/) that illustrates our work, motivates it with examples, and explains the theoretical backing.

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Severity Testing

Click 'Calculate' to run the analysis and 'Refresh' to reset the values.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wondering what I've been working on for the last couple years? (Probably not.) Wondering what philosophers of statistics even do? (I'm betting no.) Were you thinking to yourself: how would Deborah Mayo's project function outside a Neyman-Pearson setting? (Lol)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

FWIW: the *more* substantive issue is that they take "model report" to refer to "a proposition about what the model entails" (p. 46) while I take it to be a proposition about the model's target. As such, I think their criticisms simply don't land. But it's possible that I'm mistaken about that.

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Ultimately, this doesn't matter much to the argument -- the substantive disagreements are more important. But it's certainly the kind of thing you'd have hoped that the referees would catch!

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

*That* assertion is pretty clearly wrong. I make *exactly* the same qualification in the paragraph immediately preceding the one they cite. I then explicitly say that the qualifications are the same in the footnote attached to said sentence!

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

What's more notable is their assertion that I qualify my claim that models provide evidence in a way that I don't qualify the claim that experiments do (the image is from page 46 of their paper).

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Brian McLoone, Steven Orzack, and Elliot Sober have a new paper out in which they argue (among other things) that I'm wrong about robustness. I think *they're* wrong, of course -- indeed, I think I addressed all their arguments already in the paper they cite. Unsurprisingly, they disagree!

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So I asked it to write the intro to an ethics paper in my style, since I've never published anything in ethics. The thesis it came up with? All injustice is ultimately epistemic injustice. So now I know what it is like to be roasted by an LLM. (3/3)

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Corey Dethier @cdethier.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I mention this here because ChatGPT -- without being asked -- described my style using exactly those elements that I *aim* for. That was both flattering and slightly worrying. It then rewrote the intro to one of my published papers. Boring. (2/3)

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