Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 30/05/2026"I asked him whether he would rather stop writing than stop using AI in his writing process. “Yeah,” he answered." JFC just stop writing then. 130
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Called itnytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 3334
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake. 19646298
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 02/05/2026Richard Dawkins right now 172304519
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Montrealers! Are you interested in the connection between self-transformation and political transformation? Come to our round table for Daniel Wyche's wonderful book "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other". We'll be talking about Hadot, George Friedman, Foucault, King Jr. and Audre Lorde 010
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026There's a restaurant in Halifax called Mirchi tandoor that has the most incredible chicken Lababdar I've ever tasted. I tried every Lababdar from Montreal to Toronto and I haven't tasted anything even close. I'm desperately trying to convince my partner to bring me back some when she goes to Hali 030
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This is honestly such a great idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvT...youtube.comMore ‘clanker' balls installed on Delaware roadsYouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia 010
Reposted by Muhammad Veljiaunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026For the final iftar, here are some fruits & veggies in all of the languages we teach at McGil’s Institute of Islamic Studies: Urdu-Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Swahili. Yes, I say “nimbū” in Urdu. Fight me 😤🍋 295
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiDe Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Call for Chapters 📢 👉For an edited volume on Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, to be published online first in Works of Philosophy and Their Reception. ℹ️More details: philevents.org/event/show/1... 📕Read from the volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/database/wpr... #PhilSky #CfP 058
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiEric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Famous critical race theorist, Ernest Renan 093
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiAndrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Don’t waste your time on this interview, she doesn’t actually explain shit. It’s just pure fantasy that AI will magically organize all public projects. 081
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I love "Death in Paradise" so much. They always do this: cold open, Inspector Patterson informs a lady of a grizzly murder, we get a close up of said murder, then hard cut into the cheery reggae of the opening theme. Incredibly jarring and amazing. 130
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiRandall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 16/12/2025What a time to be alive. Blue books "may not be the foolproof way to prevent AI-assisted cheating that faculty are looking for: Meta now offers Ray-Ban glasses with a built-in AI assistant that sees what the wearer sees and can communicate silently and privately via an in-lens display."insidehighered.comYou Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead.Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI. 382
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I absolutely hate workday it's always so much worse than what replaced it. Why do schools keep moving to it?? 030
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 09/12/2025media.tenor.coma man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at itALT: a man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at it 020
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Bubble? What bubble?! arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/m...arstechnica.comMicrosoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotasReport: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying. 1256
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m... 1033741782
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiAndrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This is how I think about it too. The big question is does it matter that a tech that does things a lot faster makes a lot of mistakes it’s hard to catch, and the answer is obviously yes but not to people who have others to clean up after them 052
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiGhoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.” 2095212600
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/11/2025oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh 351658352
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22/11/2025You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again. Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students. #Critical_AI_Literacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...youtube.comHoward University AI PanelYouTube video by Tiera Tanksley 9218105
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025My students have an assignment due tomorrow, if cloudflare could stay down for another 24 hours that would be great, thanks. 2735
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Congratulations to Ross Douthat for learning the material for week one of a political science PhD seminar. Too bad he didn’t stick around for the rest of the semester, when we learn all the ways the median voter theorem is wrong. 1018421
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025@maevemckeown.bsky.social does and as a person on the job market she's a real one for doing it "The current conditions in academia are preventing many people from achieving their full potential. I wrote this book in spite of not because of, the institutional frameworks in which I have been working." 020
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction 191407274
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Blue Jays win, Leafs win, over at a good time. Definitely a good night 121
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Look, I'm not saying I told you so, but I was rightthegamer.comEA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their MistakesA new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it. 11430126
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”theguardian.comUS student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearmBaltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious 27679286
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/10/2025Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukLargest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territoryAn intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC 20663380
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Are you interested in affordances? What about Iris Marion Young's "Throwing Like a Girl"? What about autonomy? I'm super happy to have this paper accepted by Ergo. It's sort of the centre piece in the new direction my work is headed philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2philpapers.orgMuhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapersCatriona Mackenzie in a recent essay, Relational Equality and the Debate Between Externalists and Internalist Theories of Relational Autonomy (2022), takes a look back at an intractable debate within ... 1183
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Close to a perfect song. I pretty much put it on whenever it rains. RIP D'Angelo www.youtube.com/watch?v=clXS...youtube.comSpanish JointYouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic 010
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025good kid maad city at 12, biggie doesn't break the top 10, illmatic at 5? The pitchfork top 100 rap albums list is a joke 000
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/10/2025"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.comblogs.lse.ac.ukIslamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosityAre Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity. 66523
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I like how Southwestern is pretending in its commercials like paying for assigned seating is a good thing. Just the enshitiffication of everything sigh 010
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Every time my partner says she's off to the gym I always say, "Guym, what's a guym?" Reading it really doesn't do this joke justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFrP...youtube.comWhat's a GYM? - The SimpsonsYouTube video by MartianBoy87 050
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 23/09/2025It feels like Cass Sunstein of all people should have seen coming how Chotiner "nudged" him into this embarrassing reaction to being asked why he's friends with Kissinger. 111
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiPeter Sterne @petersterne.com · 23/09/2025More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41% 821717364
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiTransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 20/09/2025“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.” 323780
Reposted by Muhammad Velji🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2025you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩 5228611021
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I've seen more jobs in Continental philosophy posted by the first week of Sept than all of last year... what's going on?? (I'm not complaining, more please!) 010
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I will never stop banging on about this proposal by Jennifer Whittig. Tenure should be based on your 4 best pieces of writing. This would focus on quality not quantity also help solve the journal crisis and publishing arms war for junior scholars that fuels the crisis. dailynous.com/2015/12/31/a...dailynous.comA Modest Proposal: Slow Philosophy (guest post by Jennifer Whiting) - Daily NousThe following is a guest post* by Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh). A Modest Proposal: Slow Philosophy by Jennifer Whiting In his review of Moral Prejudices by Annette Baier, Colin McGinn claimed that Ba... 060
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Stephane Pallage, vocal advocate of the CAQ government gutting funding to other universities that attract international students: I never thought the face-eating leopards party... www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...lapresse.caLimite du nombre d’étudiants étrangers | « On demande l’abolition des quotas », dit le recteur de l’UQAML’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) a enregistré une chute « dramatique » des demandes d’admission provenant de l’international cet automne. Elle demande l’abolition des quotas mis en place par l... 1123
Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 03/09/2025"A law that changes every day is worse than no law at all." - Lon Fuller 020
Reposted by Muhammad VeljiMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc... 2390126