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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 8h

Edward Said was a wiser activist than most...

Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 11h

My first neuroscience internship, in 2015, was an optogenetics study. Discovering the existence of this truly science-fiction level biotechnology, let alone having the opportunity to experiment with it myself, absolutely blew my mind. Great to see this Nobel go to all three phases of its development

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 12h

"Allons enfants de la Patrie" 🫤 A 15 year old has lost a hand from the explosion of a dispersion grenade. Two other teenagers have lost eyes. Police brutality in France has been out of control for years, and the rest of the EU don't make them nearly ashamed enough of it.

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They Use Ai @they-use-ai.bsky.social · 14h

[TheyUseAi] Quand Attal fait campagne, on est pas en capacité de savoir pour quel pays il candidate tellement rien ne ressemble à rien

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 16h

Why stop at lunch? Why not, oh I dunno, Christmas dinner? 🙃

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It would be better for everyone if resolutions saying “Zionism is racism” also said, for example, “Hindutva is racism” and “Sinhala Buddhist nationalism is racism.” It might make Jews feel less singled out, but it would also force pro-Israel people to defend their ideology on its own terms.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"...tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country...many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the US" Timely documentary about a phenomenon that resonated (and resonates) all too well with the DNA of the US.

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Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

YouTube video by PBS America

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taking scientific production as an end-in-itself is disastrous in an env where AI can amplify prod. beyond all capacity for social cognitive digestion. If the end of science isn't the improvement of all individual human experience & if the enriching of cognition isn't part of that, what use is it?

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Zack Polanski has quit the racist propaganda platform X" is the urgent motion needed from the Greens, not this.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Slop-as-evidence" rears its head again. The only societally and individually intelligent act to be carried out regarding the entire range of publicly available genAIs is to unplug them. #refuseresist #AIslop

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An interesting exchange on how to react to Slop-as-evidence at the Oireachtas. Oireachtas committees hear from people with all sorts of views, and by definition, many of them diverge from each other. But they are actually their views. The people who come in expressed them.

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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Je crois qu'il est plus que temps de mettre la pression sur ceux qui restent encore sur X.... On est à 8 mois d'une élection majeure pour notre pays.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 03/10/2026

I think this is a great and really important point. The entire marketing effort for AI is built around the promise of what's coming. And it has been for years now. The only way to avoid buying in to this incredibly destructive marketing scheme is to talk only about what is, not what might be.

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For my anglophone audience : the president of my university invited the police on campus (they must have her permission to intervene) to dismantle students peacefully occupying a building and organizing to support the ongoing high school movement in France. The police were extremely violent.

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Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Presumably the OP knows Putnam's caricaturizing quip about functionalism ("We could be made of Swiss cheese and it wouldn't matter [to the nature of mind]"), but it's precisely the kind of thing I have in mind when I say having a qualification in phil doesn't mean anything: only doing good phil does

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Dans notre lycée de 2 000 élèves, il n'y a qu'une toilette pour les filles. [..] on se retient toute la journée et on attend d’être chez soi." "Il y a des coupures d’électricité en permanence" "Je n’ai pas de prof de maths depuis la rentrée" Prenez le temps de lire ces voix poignantes 👇

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Wcrt L @l-wcrdt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Les étudiants bloquent leurs lycées pour demander plus de professeurs. Le gouvernement répond par la répression et annonce la suppression de plus de 1.500 postes d'enseignants... Ce gouvernement crache à la figure de la jeunesse.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026

Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws. Everyone at CU Student Government public comment has been fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust and societal impact. So energizing.

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 01/10/2026

Des échanges sur la messagerie Messenger, des mails et de nombreux entretiens : Mediapart démontre dans une vidéo de 9 minutes comment nos journalistes ont enquêté sur les écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella 👉‍ l.mediapart.fr/3aK

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seriously, researchers vaunting LLMs for what they can do on a purely local level to putatively improve analysis & publication pipelines, where is it ye see society as a whole (that thing we mention in article intros) going if genAI achieves the saturation level necessary for it to not go bankrupt?

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Les propos du Bardella adulte ne sont pas moins problématiques que les propos du Bardella jeune. Le premier livre que Fayard lui a attribué regorgent d'extraits rigoureusement xénophobes et racistes.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since my partner has her own great biological bake-off going on at the mo (yes, 2nd bun is in oven; yes, this is how I announce it), we spent many evenings while back home in Ireland last month just watching TV with me mam... otherwise I wouldn't know just how hilariously accurate this is 👌

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fellow @zotero.org users who are updated to versions 9.0+, is it just me or has the 'Retrieve metadata' option disappeared from the parent item right-click menu..?

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Allan Barte @allanbarte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Affaire Jordan Bardella : le Président du parti fondé par des collabo et des waffen SS est donc antisémite. Une incroyable surprise pour absolument personne.

Dessin d'actu d'Allan Barte.

Titre : Écrits antisémites : Bardella contre-attaque et accuse !

Jordan Bardella fâché, mains sur les hanches, face à des journalistes hors champ :
- Je crois qu’on sait tous de quoi il s’agit !

Et il ajoute devant une Marine Le Pen atterrée :
- C’est un complot judéo-maçonnique !

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Il n'y aura pas de meilleure blague sur les excuses invraisemblables de Jordan que celle-ci 👌😅

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm never sure which of these two elements I identify with more, but I'll happily have a lively and erudite debate about it 🙃

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Nicolas Hervieu @nicolas.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

« Un journal n’accuse pas, il rapporte des faits et révèle des informations d’intérêt général dont il doit pouvoir répondre devant les tribunaux, en vertu de la loi de 1881 sur la liberté de la presse ». Simple. Basique.

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All else aside (unreliability, cognitive off-loading, etc., etc., etc.), promoting any of these companies' products as useful parts of any scientific research pipeline seems quite short-sighted.

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Jules @juleswp.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

L'article #Wikipédia consacré à @mediapart.fr a dû être semi-protégé en raison de vandalismes consécutifs à l'enquête parue sur l'antisémitisme de Jordan Bardella. w.wiki/Vm2S

Modification de l'intro de l'article Wikipédia :

'''''Mediapart''''' est un un outil de manipulation d'opinion sous couvert d'être un [[Journal|quotidien]] de gauche voire d'extrême gauche de [[presse en ligne]] français souvent calomnieux et infondé qui a été fondé en 2007 par un groupe de journalistes dont [[Edwy Plenel]] et présidé depuis 2024 par [[Carine Fouteau]].

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'''''Mediapart''''' est un [[Journal|quotidien]] de gauche voire d'extrême gauche de [[presse en ligne]], souvent calomnieux fondé en 2007 par un groupe de journalistes dont [[Edwy Plenel]] et présidé depuis 2024 par [[Carine Fouteau]].

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In an intelligent society, in light of Irish universities being €300m/annum underfunded, a proposition like this from an education minister would be a sackable offence. Naturally, in an intelligent society, nobody who would propose such a thing could ever become a minister in the first place either.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

I made a video to promote the Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition MA programme at UCD, of which I’m the Director. (Also, apparently this is what I look like now! 😳) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudT... #PhilMind #EmbodiedCognition

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MA in Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition- UCD School of Philosophy

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Un film qui parvient magistralement à faire vivre une expérience profondément humaine à un public qui n'aura très probablement jamais le malheur de la vivre directement. Un film donc, au sens pragmatiste, profondément sympathique. Un très grand bravo à Abou Sangaré et à Boris Lojkine 🙏

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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Touchant: le monsieur de "Marianne" a confectionné un petit mot d’excuse pour le parti cofondé par des SS.

Jean Quatremer@quatremer
Le RN ferme sa gueule sur Gaza au moins

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"starting with volume 17, all new articles will be published open access—doing so without imposing burdensome costs on authors who lack institutional support to pay them" 🙏

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