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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Endless corruption.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MARLON BRANDO explains to Dick Cavett why rejected his Best Actor Oscar for THE GODFATHER (1972)

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We must end the ploutocracy

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Identity - New SEP entry plato.stanford.edu/entries/iden... #philsky

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Identity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I reply to Moti Mizrahi's generous review of my book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*, here: social-epistemology.com/2026/10/02/r... Thanks to the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective for hosting this back-and-forth! #AIEthics #philosophy

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Leon’s Existential Cafe @leonscafe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jonathan Shedler astutely wrote, “Guilt is self-referential. It’s one part of the personality attacking another. The hurt person is secondary.” Moral perfectionism is founded on shame, which results from the sense of one’s tainted essence. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf...

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Moral Perfectionism and the Selfishness of Shame

Moral perfectionism is associated with excessive pride, which often blinds us from others' needs while making us falsely believe that we're good and thoughtful people.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

cf pardons and commutations for Blagojevich, Santos, Cuellar, Collins, Hunter-- some of them Democrats, most not particularly connected to Trump.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate

A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To me, tired is what you feel when you haven't slept enough or well (you feel drowsy and sleepy), or what you feel when you worked a lot either mentally or physically (low energy)

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is there any philosophy (or medicine) paper on what we mean by fatigue and tiredness?

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re hiring! Please share widely. The PC philosophy department is hiring for a TT position with an AOS in Philosophy of AI and an AOC in the History of Philosophy. Link in comments. I’m not on the hiring committee but I am happy to answer any questions you may have. #philsky #philosophy

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Physics and biology, irrevocably joined at the hip, yet intrinsically incompatible. We can explain solids, liquids, and gases — but how nonliving matter self-assembles into life remains one of science’s great mysteries. Is Life Itself a State of Matter?🧪 thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-itse...

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Is Life Itself a State of Matter?

We can explain solids, liquids, and gases — but how nonliving matter self-assembles into life remains one of science’s great mysteries.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not that "making sense" is a major feature ot Trump's mouth noises, but is there any particular sense behind the "super intelligence" thing, beyond "now this important thing has a name Trump has bestowed on it"? What interest does replacing "artificial" with "super" serve?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

related: bsky.app/profile/apne...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/09/2026

I’m so confused: the Strait is closed, America is trying to open the Strait, America is in total control of the Strait, Iran wants to open the Strait, America is keeping the Strait closed, oil is coming out of the closed Strait. Trump has no idea what‘s happening.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/09/2026

One could almost believe that the AfD are sympathetic towards the Nazis.

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People Get Paid for Blood, Plasma, and Drug Trials—Why Not Kidneys Too? Instead of kidney waitlists that kill thousands of people a year, let people get paid for kidney transplants, argues Caleb Pettit. #philsky #bioethics #ethics #organdonation

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People get paid for blood, plasma, and drug trials—why not kidneys too?

Instead of kidney waitlists that kill thousands of people a year, let people get paid for kidney transplants.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i don't understand how people think we can effectively regulate AI when it's been known for 25 years that Agent Smith can inhabit and overwrite the simulated body of any human wired into the Matrix

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽

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preston lennon @jplennon630.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

new paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: How Seriously Should We Take AI Welfare? Constraints from the Epistemology of Consciousness philpapers.org/rec/LENHSS

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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People get paid for blood, plasma, and drug trials—why not kidneys too?

Instead of kidney waitlists that kill thousands of people a year, let people get paid for kidney transplants.

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Article is here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism (link in comments) #philsky #Ai #consciousness #naturalism

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so we just nearly started a war with china (a nuclear state) because of genAI use

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode.
According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 19/09/2026

“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn’t advance, it grows dreadfully boring…” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism (link in comments) #philsky #Ai #consciousness #naturalism

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.

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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#philsky #philosophy Formerly called 'Special Issues', JOAP now publishes 'Symposia' on a dedicated space on our website. These curated collections of papers offer focused dialogue on diverse topics. See our published collections here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/topic/vi-cat...

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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What a difference 12 years makes. #trump #obama #media #whitehouse

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