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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 15/10/2026

Taking notes helps you to organise your thoughts, which has been shown to air comprehension and later recall *even if you don’t actually look at the notes afterwards*. Using an #AI device to do this for you provides none of those benefits. 🤷 #AIHype #Deskilling #CognitiveScience

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 14/10/2026

i realize it’s v much a dorky philosophy person thing to say, but we all gotta practice being careful with our intellectual shorthands, and not confusing words with reality. Such has it always been, yes, but a “partly digital world of instant communication” has made the need even greater

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Neil Levy @neillevy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think this discussion focuses on the wrong institutional function of publications. Weisberg points out you don't need journals to write, publish or discuss philosophy. What do we lose? Just 'bean counting' for deans and CV heuristics. Maybe we don't need these things, but we need institutions.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Have the courage to be bad at what you’re doing because that’s how you get good at what you’re doing. AI is fool’s gold because it promises you the ability to produce something good without getting good. You don’t believe in getting good at this thing. That’s why people don’t respect your output.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/10/2026

If your menu is slop, I'm gonna assume from here on out that your food is, too.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Drat,” said Toad.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/10/2026

“The AI Pascal’s Wager” ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.h… > On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".

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The AI Pascal’s Wager

The AI Pascal’s Wager par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fucking barbaric. If I didn't already oppose the death penalty on grounds there is no way to make the process equitable and error-free, I would oppose it on grounds of it being state-backed torture.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

startribune.com

Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unbeknownst to Smith, Jones brought iced coffee to the interview

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My department is hiring for a TT position in philosophy of technology! The job ad is pretty self-explanatory, but I will emphasis that this need not mean working on ai, we’re very open to other kinds of tech! I am also happy to answer any questions anyone might have! philjobs.org/job/show/32281

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Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology, San Jose State University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026

May all scammers of every variety, targeting any and all demographics of creator, go to hell at once and be boiled in a large vat :) then eaten by demons :) with oyster crackers :)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's academic job posting bugaboo: your job posting should list the actual salary range, in numbers (even if it sucks) and the actual teaching load, in numbers (even if it is heavy).

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe not my finest quality, but I take more than a little offense at the whole "i respect scientific but not philosophical expertise". I do judge you for thinking that, tbh

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Brian Irvine @brianirvine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Meltdown golden rule DO NOT ADD ANY FURTHER STIMULI

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 05/09/2026

A fan-favorite part of the Munchkin Monthly newsletter returns soon! Be sure you're subscribed so you don't miss the special feature every time you open an issue! bit.ly/munchkinmont... #boardgames #playmunchkin #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

A pile of gold and treasure against a teal-and-yellow backdrop. Text reads "A Fan-Favorite Returns! Munchkin Monthly - Coming September 2026"

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I genuinely think this is an attempt not to pay people - they know damn well we're international so deliberately designing this form to be exclusionary so we have to do more work is a choice.

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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 04/09/2026

If you're at Dragon Con this weekend, stop by the Chicagoland Games booth to meet and get an autograph from Steve Jackson! #dragoncon #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

Text reads "Meet Steve Jackson at Dragon Con," followed by a round photo of Steve Jackson's smiling face. Text below lists the dates: "Saturday, September 5, 4pm - 5pm. Sunday, September 6, 2pm - 3pm, Chicagoland Games Booth."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok, all experiencing major issues today. And if that could go on for just like, 13 more weeks, I think we'd all benefit immensely.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I do just, in fact, think that if you are jumping at the opportunity to make it easier for LLMs to write philosophy papers or teach philosophy classes, you hate everything I love about this discipline and want to destroy it. I get you might not agree, but that also doesn't mean I have to like you

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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Send good thoughts to my great friend Scott Olman, who the Dork Tower character Igor is based on. Following his leg amputation, he's undergoing hip replacement today. And if you could share (or even donate to) his GoFundMe, that would truly be worthy of a "HUZZAH!" www.gofundme.com/f/help-scott...

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Donate to Help Scott "Igor" Olman Following His Leg Amputation, organized by John Kovalic

I'm John Kovalic, the cartoonist behind the Dork Tower comic, a stri… John Kovalic needs your support for Help Scott "Igor" Olman Following His Leg Amputation

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh. my. god. The biggest scientific publishers are collecting nearly $4 BILLION A YEAR in author fees. This is absurd. We've got to break free of this system. If everyone would just agree to it, we could just post all our new papers on bsky and it wouldn't cost anything. Or something. But not this.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just imagine: social media used to be this smart and fun all the time.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/08/2026

If you are upset about 1password and planning to drop it, you need to treat Substack with the same gravity, for example.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 31/08/2026

I appreciate their honesty but because I don't have the energy to do a deep dive and figure out how much of this game was built with tools trained on our stolen work, it is where we part ways. Hopefully ethical models will become a norm some day so we won't have to do this every time.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am an incredibly sex+ person - both in my personal belief system and in my approach to violence prevention work. I've literally taught consent in kink spaces. But we really gotta address the mainstreaming of "choking" because it's really dangerous & more & more often seen as "normal" by youth.

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Police investigate death of teenage girl two days after alleged ‘sexual choking’ act in Sydney

Paramedics called to northern beaches home on Sunday evening before 16-year-old dies in hospital on Tuesday night after sexual strangulation act

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

Think about the number of actual human & civil rights & safety nets & regulations that were previously considered enshrined that are either lost, being rolled back or are in jeopardy today because we didn’t treat Just Asking Questions & Silly Little Stunts as the deadly serious threats they were.

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Hazelnoot @hazelnoot.dev · 29/08/2026

I asked my psychiatrist (who specializes in autism) if I should work on getting a formal diagnosis, and he *immediately* shook his head and said "not in the current climate". And that was six months ago - things have only gotten worse since then.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

requiring a doctor’s note for excused absences is crazy to me. “a student maybe lies about why they didn’t show up” vs. “a student brings an illness into class” seems like a pretty obvious trade-off!

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elliot @elliotcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Analytic philosophy is leftist in the sense that it is off-putting to normies but conservative in the sense that it is bad at comedy

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a very potent example of how ableism tends to follow patterns. Not sophisticated ones! Just patterns. Nondisabled person: “jokingly” refers to disabled person as something generally accepted as bad Disabled person: can you not Discourse: wow can you believe people are so sensitive

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In today's Daily Illuminator, the lovely and talented @stevenmarsh.bsky.social notes the GURPS is older than the World Wide Web, dating it to 1993. Well, wouldn't you just know that GURPS itself addresses that event in passing. Pedantic yet self promotional thread!

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Daily Illuminator: GURPS Is Older Than The Web

GURPS Line Editor Sean Punch recently had a touching tribute to the 40th anniversary of GURPS. On the more practical side of things, while I was cleaning up and making additions to the web page of the...

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just don’t think, in society atm, it’s epistemically responsible take things at face value anymore and that feels like quite a big loss actually, and I think I feel actual grief about it

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

You would be surprised how rarely you fall for AI slop if you simply do not engage at all with images that lack alt text.

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