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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I were facing adverse legal consequences in a court of law that severely frowns upon the use of genAI, I would simply not use genAI to produce documents that I then submit to the court. But that's just me.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/09/2026

Why do the avatars on the Meta Pervert Pendant look like characters from a 2011 Dutch children’s TV show whose title translates to “Happy Penis Man Friends and Mister BumBum”

Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy dressed as a 2008 hipster (from the Fleet Foxes “everyone in Silverlake is pretending they like roughing it in the great outdoors now” era) by way of Michael Cera (got the outfit but couldn’t grow the beard). The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.

Mark Zuckerberg announcing a lil penis guy themed like Turtle from “Entourage.” The penis guy lives in your cleavage and spies on everything you do.

Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil penis guy with a short shaft and an oversized head, as an effort to make dudes with fucked up lil dicks (including many of Zuck’s friends, like Elon Musk) feel represented in his product. Zuck himself is a nevernude who has a perfectly smooth patch of skin where his genitalia should be, like a Ken doll, so he doesn’t really know what a penis is supposed to look like.

Mark Zuckerberg introducing a lil happy butt guy. He is countering accusations of his VR glasses being “for perverts” with this new proposal that you should wear a lil butt guy on your chest and let it spy on everyone.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪

skeptic.org.uk

Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic

"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.

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Australasian Association of Philosophy @aaphilosophy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congratulations Bhanuraj Kashyap, Macquarie University, Winner of the 2026 AAP Media Prize for the SBS podcast series "Rethinking South Asian Philosophy" aap.org.au/Media-Prize sbs.com.au/audio/podcast/rethinking-south-asian-philosophy #aaphilosophy #philsky

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

drunk girls when you have to go home early and work in the morning

NYT opinion focus group with little drawing of all their dipshit faces:

Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service
Bad.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
Amoral.

Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail
Disgusting.

Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources
Two words: morally corrupt.

Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work
Disgusting.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nice postdoc opportunity with Neri Marsili in beautiful Turin www.nerimarsili.com/uploads/2/5/...

nerimarsili.com

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I didn't think we'd decarbonize through a very incompetent president making oil the price of diamonds but whatever it takes I guess

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ironically, Trump's idiotic war of choice seems to be hastening the energy transition.

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Blather Wince Repeat @blatherwincerepeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My night terrors now include sponsored ads.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 A La Trobe PhD scholarship attached to the ARC Discovery grant I lead is now open for expressions of interest. #philsky Details in link below, scroll down to'PRO-2414109 - Virtual Reality and Knowing What It Is Like', and more info in 🧵... www.latrobe.edu.au/research/gra...

latrobe.edu.au

Project-based graduate research scholarships

project-based scholarships page

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 07/09/2026

Threatening to rename New Mexico, like the other stupid renaming things he's done, illustrates how Trump's concept of the presidency is largely centered on being an annoying bitch online

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We are approaching the point in the discourse where someone insists that Socrates wasn't a philosopher because he knew nothing and wrote nothing

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The most influential poster

An illustration of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the church door

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Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 05/09/2026

"have you asked chatgpt ?' no mf, I conferred with Zoltar

Zoltar, the arcade fortune teller featured in Big (198x, Tom Hanks, Robert Loggia)

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Equal Earth projection is nice. But the UN rejected an alternative proposal from the New Zealand delegation, the Middle-earth projection:

A map projection centered on New Zealand. It's Middle-earth, get it?

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel

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Lizzlepants 🐒 @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

for fuck’s sake I just said a swear word I didn’t kick your baby

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The eagle is also smoking a cigarette.

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Shawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As with @ethanlandes.bsky.social, and anyone working in formal stuff, I have also been asked a lot how my work is philosophy. The most amusing time was when someone aggressively asked me “how is the liar paradox philosophy?” Im not sure what his conception of philosophy was that ruled the liar out.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think you became the scapegoat because you created "the jason arday affair" out of whole cloth www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do I really need to fight philosophical racists again? What is wrong with you people?

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trump is constantly talking about how under threat he is from antifa or whatever, and meanwhile he's just letting some weird lady sleep in a crawl space directly above his head and then spend her days trying to clone him from scraps of his diarrhea.

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Is there spreadsheet discourse because I just want to chime in and say excel is not a statistics program

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

On the one hand, plagiarism is bad and wrong. On the other hand, bullying plagiarists into committing suicide is also bad and wrong.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If I were obviously in the wrong and everyone knew it, I would simply not double or triple or quadruple down. But maybe I’m different

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I guess, on balance, its good that the philosophy sex pest is wasting their time writing pseudonymous blog posts rather than wasting peer reviewers’ precious time trying to publish self-congratulatory drivel in our journals

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

congrats to Adam Piovarchy and Dan Weijers. I'm happy to play a supporting role in this project, which turns out (like much of the stuff that I get myself into) to be timely www.notredame.edu.au/news-items/d...

notredame.edu.au

Dr Adam Piovarchy secures PPE Research Consortium grant to explore prediction market ethics

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

establish dominance in the workplace by writing your name on all of the lunches in the fridge

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Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

if you live in a reasonably constructed house, you can really just go ham with the stone throwing

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
The call, during which the company asked for more proof and more time before being linked to the outbreak, illustrates how one of the country’s largest produce suppliers sought to limit its exposure to a public-relations nightmare, while grappling with a costly and complicated recall. Over the past several weeks, health officials have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of cyclospora, which can cause explosive diarrhea. Some current and former government officials have criticized the handling of the outbreak, both by the administration and Taylor Farms.

Federal health authorities were preparing late last week to link Taylor Farms to a multistate parasitic infection that has sickened thousands. The company wanted to see more evidence, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House asked officials from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating growing cases of cyclosporiasis, to join the call with Taylor Farms, which the government maintains is the source of the multistate outbreak. During the discussion, Taylor Farms raised concerns that the government had no positive laboratory tests linking its product to the outbreak and that it was overstating the company’s culpability, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Taylor Farms sought out the White House after company executives felt they hadn’t gotten enough clarity from the FDA on the evidence behind a potential recall and the scope of it, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said the FDA presented Taylor Farms with substantial evidence connecting its products to the outbreak and engaged in extensive discussions with the company.

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I refuse to believe that Jimothy is a milkshake duck

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026

a parable against hardening your heart to suffering

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