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Mark Alfano

@markalfano.bsky.social
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Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17h
I hate how good this is.
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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 20h
it’s important to know your worth in an economy that values nothing
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
still one of my best work
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit
an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some reflections on Ed Sheeran, JK Rowling, and fandom lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026...
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Guilty pleasures: Is it ever OK to separate art from the artist?
Guilty pleasures: Is it ever OK to separate art from the artist?
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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.” 🧪
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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/...
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In case anyone thinks the xphi wars are still on, this should set your mind to rest. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Lindauer, Matthew. The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts. Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 232. $99.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 137, No 1
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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...
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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 Scary 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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ghost malone ergo propter bones @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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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Read the DataColada piece on Ariely after Yuzi sent it to me - pretty damning, smoking gun stuff here I think. datacolada.org/138
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[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The eagle is also smoking a cigarette.
Text image with a checkered background. The text reads, "We ran out of AI prompt credits, but imagine this is a picture of a bald eagle holding a golden sign that says 'Low Prices & Prosperity'." At the bottom, there is an "INFOWARS" logo.
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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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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is probably the most bonkers paper I've ever written, and that is saying something. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Political kayfabe, affect, and epistemic vice
Political kayfabe, affect, and epistemic vice Georgia A. Bramley1, Bhanuraj Kashyap4, Mark Alfano1, Marc Cheong2, Marinus Ferreira1, Colin Klein3 1 Discipline of Philosophy, Macquarie University 2 M...
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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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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
At the rate things are going, there's going to be nothing left to eat EXCEPT for the rich.
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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know but I won’t reveal it
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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 · 21/08/2026
Perfect poast. No notes
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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 · 11/08/2026
What does Sergeant Slaughter have to do with social epistemology? Have I got news for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8z...
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Kayfabe, Emotion, and Epistemic Vice – Georgia A. Bramley & Mark Alfano @CogPhi Workshop July 2026
YouTube video by Melina Tsapos
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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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What’s the over under on them having fewer than five solo-authored publications
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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...
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Dr Adam Piovarchy secures PPE Research Consortium grant to explore prediction market ethics
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