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Muhammad Velji

@myhamismad.bsky.social
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Philosophy PhD, McGill Teaching at Western University in London... not that London Political philosophy, Decolonial feminism, starting to write a book on Abolition muhammadvelji.com

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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.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Called it
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Monthly 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.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins right now
Geordie Laforge agreeing with the god delusion and disagreeing with the Claude delusion
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Montrealers! 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
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There'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
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is honestly such a great idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvT...
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More ‘clanker' balls installed on Delaware roads
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For 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 😤🍋
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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Call 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
Alt text: Graphic for a Call for Chapters for Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Dunn. The design features a navy blue and beige background with a graphic element from the De Gruyter Brill logo. On the left is the cover for the online resource “Works of Philosophy and Their Reception” with an abstract image of stacked books. At the bottom, the text states: “Submit your proposal until 1 April 2026”
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Famous critical race theorist, Ernest Renan
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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Don’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.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I 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.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
uh-oh...
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
What 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.com
You 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.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I absolutely hate workday it's always so much worse than what replaced it. Why do schools keep moving to it??
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at it
ALT: a man is holding a lit match in his hand and looking at it
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Bubble? What bubble?! arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/m...
arstechnica.com
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The 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...
Number of SNAP recipients
Amazon	2,456
Walmart	2,318
Uber	1,799
DoorDash	1,462
Tempus Unlimited	1,425
Stop & Shop	989
Mass General Brigham	956
Dollar Tree	952
Albertsons Companies, Inc.	896
Bayada Home Health	887
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This 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
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025
Handing 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.”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Derby Days
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
You 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...
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Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My students have an assignment due tomorrow, if cloudflare could stay down for another 24 hours that would be great, thanks.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Congratulations 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.
By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist
The most obvious thing in politics is often the hardest to admit: If you lose an election, the best thing that you can do to make sure you win the next one is to find a message that puts you closer to the median voter than you were the last time around.
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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."
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction
BIB L I OGRAPH Y 
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO 
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.) 
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876. 
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky. 
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. 
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic . 
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc· 
tion. 
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee. 
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana. 
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. 
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907. 
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina. 
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina. 
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 . 
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas . 
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850. 
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War. 
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas . 
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald 
Dunning. 
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson. 
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips. 
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith. 
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd. 
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de 
Roulhac Hamilton. 
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis. 
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson. 
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley. 
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction. 
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872. 
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Blue Jays win, Leafs win, over at a good time. Definitely a good night
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Look, I'm not saying I told you so, but I was right
thegamer.com
EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes
A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.
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Julia 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.com
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23/10/2025
Largest 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.uk
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Are 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-2
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Muhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapers
Catriona 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 ...
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Close to a perfect song. I pretty much put it on whenever it rains. RIP D'Angelo www.youtube.com/watch?v=clXS...
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Spanish Joint
YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
good 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
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Tim 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.com
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity
Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I like how Southwestern is pretending in its commercials like paying for assigned seating is a good thing. Just the enshitiffication of everything sigh
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Every 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.com
What's a GYM? - The Simpsons
YouTube video by MartianBoy87
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It 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.
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 23/09/2025
More 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%
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TransitCenter @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.”
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying "I don't know" to even 30% of queries
- a conservative estimate based on the paper's analysis of factual uncertainty in training data. Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly.
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I'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!)
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I 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...
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A Modest Proposal: Slow Philosophy (guest post by Jennifer Whiting) - Daily Nous
The 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...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Stephane 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...
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Limite du nombre d’étudiants étrangers | « On demande l’abolition des quotas », dit le recteur de l’UQAM
L’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...
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Muhammad Velji @myhamismad.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"A law that changes every day is worse than no law at all." - Lon Fuller
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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