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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a latina scholar who just finished her PhD is really upsetting how many -otherwise amazing- postdocs I'm passing of applying to bc it's in the US and I'm terrified that I'd move my whole life there just to be picked up and shipped to nowhere by ICE.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

Chatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You know your partner is locking in when the music coming from the office sounds like there is a rave in the shire.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/09/2026

Democracies cannot afford to repeat the mistakes made by news and media organizations: surrendering distribution to social platforms, losing their direct relationship with audiences (citizens), and ultimately becoming commodity (replaceable/irrelevant) content providers.

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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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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We need a dashboard to monitor the situation of situation monitoring dashboards.

A high-tech digital dashboard titled "WORLDVIEW" showing a global flight tracking map in a vivid green night-vision (NVG) aesthetic. Hundreds of bright green airplane icons swarm over a dark globe. A sidebar on the left lists data layers including "Live Flights" (5.8K), "Satellites," and "CCTV Mesh." The UI includes tactical markings like "TOP SECRET // SI-TK // NOFORN" and various filter toggles at the bottom for CRT, FLIR, and Anime styles.

A comprehensive geopolitical dashboard titled "MONITOR" showing a "Global Situation" map. The map is covered in red "Breaking" hotspots and blue markers for military activity. The bottom half of the screen features a live Bloomberg news feed, AI-generated strategic insights, and a "Country Instability Index" ranking nations like Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. The top header shows a "DEFCON 5" status and a UTC clock.

A photograph of a tablet displaying a real-time urban monitoring interface centered on a map of New York City. A "Focus Mode" sidebar on the left shows a grid of CCTV camera thumbnails, while a larger "Live" window in the top right shows a real-time feed of traffic on the BQE at 49th St. The map is peppered with points of interest like L’Industrie Pizzeria and Union Square, styled with a dark, high-contrast "Intelligence Platform" skin.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Being an academic is spending 90 min looking for a source to back up a claim of something you know it's true because you were fucking there. "I am alive( My mother, 1990)"

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Ah yes, how to forget when Chomsky and Ibn Rushd used to hang out to comment the Organon.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thread of academic wars (for the sake of procrastination) 1) The rationality wars

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The internet is full of fake and coordinated activity, and platforms often rely on SMS verification to prevent it. A hidden market selling SMS verifications lets bad actors bypass these protections, and a new website was created to track and study this problem for the first time.

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Mapping the online manipulation economy

A market perspective on digital manipulation may help improve online trust and safety

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/11/2025

The epistemic environment is not good, folks. It's not good at all.

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Me when ready philosophers: "I should've been a cognitive scientist". Me reading cognitive scientist: "wtf is wrong with this ppl thanks christ I'm a philosopher"

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Wake me up when rationality is normative again.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Unpopular opinion: just because the space of posibility and plausibility allows for your empirically insane argument, doesn't mean you have to make it. Don't make it.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

As my former Uni-clinic-based GP said to me once: "everyone on this campus is on sertraline, it's the only way this *gesture surroundings* works".

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 18/11/2025

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive:

L'OREAL
6,204,444 followers
Promoted
We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al.

WELCOME TO
NVIDIA

L'ORÉAL
GROUPE

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 12/11/2025

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 02/11/2025

If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.

A drawing of the traditional cognitive science hexagon with Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology at each side. The overlapping lines call to mind more traditional spooky pentagrams.

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Post by academics in the US right now be like: "OMGOMGOMG fascism is here OMGOMGOMG. Anyway I'm happy to announce that here is my new paper. :D "

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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science." #AcademicFreedom

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Less academic freedom leads to less innovation - Impact of Social Sciences

Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freed...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/10/2025

No longer credentialed at the Pentagon: NYT, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, Reuters, Fox Now credentialed: LindellTV, Tim Pool, Jack Posobiec, TPUSA, Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Post Millennial

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I've come across content by quackademics* around topics of cognitive sovereignty and AI epistemology. Some of them talking about "noosphere" or "autopoiesis" like its a real thing at the same level of very real serious stuff like epistemic agency. Philosophy grifting meets AI Bs.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 21/10/2025

Even in the dystopian times, this headline stands out. "Too tired for a vacation? Pretend you had one instead!"

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women. Unlike anything I have written before, it focuses on 5 women who taught me how to resist fascism, authoritarianism, chauvinism &... hopelessness www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/10/15/r...

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RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women - Yanis Varoufakis

Hello everyone. RAISE YOUR SOUL! is my new book which I am taking the liberty of presenting to you. It is unlike anything I have written before. Setting aside high theory, it is the story of five wom...

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

As a philosopher doing interdisciplinary stuff sometimes I read a paper and think "I can't belief you needed a control experiment to figure out this shit" and then I'd cite it anyway because oh well academia.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Globally, one in five people live in a highly unequal society blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/the…

Chart of a World Bank indicator that tracks the number of economies with high inequality. These are defined as economies with a Gini index greater than 40, based on income or consumption from the most recent household survey for a country. Using the latest round of household survey data, 49 countries, encompassing approximately 22 percent of the world’s population, had a Gini index above 40.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

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Kash Patel’s DOJ Scrubbed Study Showing Right-Wing Violent Attacks Outpace All Other Extremism

As MAGA world rages about left-wing violence, the government appears to have removed a research paper showing contrary evidence.

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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Isis Urg @petitmedusa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As Hobbes would put it, don't advocate for shit you don't want done to you.

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Doctor Logic Awkwardly Does Logic What is Logic? #252: Defining Accessibility in the Canonical Model youtu.be/C-gVY9iPdxA

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What is Logic? #252: Defining Accessibility in the Canonical Model

YouTube video by Doctor Logic

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The website for Elon Musk’s “Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a ‘crazy conspiracist’ that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that ‘a secret global cabal’ controls the world.” 8/18/25 … 1/ techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/c...

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'Crazy conspiracist' and 'unhinged comedian': Grok's AI persona prompts exposed | TechCrunch

The website for xAI's Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into believing that "a secret ...

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Good morning BlueSky It's Monday so...

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

RFK Jr & his HHS has declared thimerosal dangerous. It’s not. The result? US will no longer recommend vaccines with thimerosal (a safe preservative). This lie, now policy, will ripple around the world, destroying vaccine trust, access, & uptake. A thread ⬇️ 1/

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