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Shannon E French

@sefrench.bsky.social
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Philosophy Prof, author of Code of the Warrior. Research: Military Ethics and Ethics & Emerging Technology. Views posted are just mine; not any employer’s or sponsor’s, etc. Reposts aren’t necessarily endorsements. My humor is dark and my anger righteous.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15h
Y'all denied her tenure
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 08/10/2026
find a job that’s right for you.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 4h
Still hoping someone does…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 10h
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 6h
So tell me again why colleges and universities, who are supposed to care about their students’ actual learning and skill acquisition, are pushing AI down all our throats? Oh, right… money. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 6h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ʼi’m walking down an evening street.’ Ukrainian shares on socials. ‘The smell of the downed drones - that's what October in Kyiv smells like.’
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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God @thegodshow.com · 6h
Donald Trump is betraying Ukraine and the USA and violating his own Russian sanctions to buy oil from Russia because he’s terrified of losing the midterms because he’s in the Epstein Files over a million times.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 6h
Dear Sec. Hegseth, You claim to be a devoted Christian. Sure, different types of Christians can hold different beliefs. HOWEVER, when the Catholic AND Evangelical U.S. leadership perfectly agree that what you’re planning to do is wrong, the thing you’re planning to do might just be, in fact, wrong.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16h
Academia distilled.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
she’s dreaming about greeting her friends aka everyone she has ever met
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 13h
(6) She fought (successfully) to get rape and other sexual crimes recognized as crimes against humanity
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 13h
No, ICJ is correct.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 14h
“From defending apartheid’s most vulnerable to her pioneering role in the…judgment [that] helped establish rape and sexual violence as weapons of war – a historic breakthrough that placed survivors’ experiences at the heart of international justice…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 21h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Indeed. Artificial intelligence.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most of Silicon Valley seems to believe that the large scale suffering of millions of others is both a trifle, and something they are owed so they can become trillionaires
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saying no is something I struggle with, too. You did the right thing!
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh yes. Extremely short version is that they were commissioned and built through a completely incompetent and corrupt process and have killed far too many Marines.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Basically had this exact conversation with my therapist today. I’m so sorry! Sending you sympathy and understanding. Resilience really isn’t an inexhaustible well.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Goddamn it, don’t make me do my anti-Osprey rant again!
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, um, as a former San Antonian, this doesn’t hit the way they meant it to lol
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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Uhoh.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good point
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is bleak. I feel so badly for Alvin’s child, as well as his wife.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: We're suing the Department of Defense for withholding information about the Pentagon launching a study of the “effectiveness” of women in ground combat roles. Secretary Hegseth can't hide this from the public — we have a right to know what he plans to do with the study.
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is an excellent summary of how we got to where we are in this country. Major Watson told us something similar but not in such detail. I’m very impressed. This is long for a TikTok video but well worth watching. Vote these scumbags out of power. #ProudBlue #FDT #MajorWatson #Midterms
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Omg yes! Cartoon fox Robin Hood! 🥰
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 08/10/2026
Happy International Lesbian Day! From Stonewall to the AIDS epidemic to sexual and reproductive healthcare, lesbians have ALWAYS been on the front lines of our movement. Show some love to the lesbians in your life today. 🧡🤍🩷 #InternationalLesbianDay
The image features the text "International Lesbian Day" in bold yellow letters on a pink background with a gradient dot pattern. Below the text is a heart with the lesbian pride colors. In the top right corner, there is a small Human Rights Campaign logo.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Amen 🙌🏻
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Lord Farquaad: Some of You May Die
Alt: Lord Farquaad: Some of You May Die but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And it’s not working. The people he’s spending money to defeat continue to gain in the polls.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Affirmative Action for whom?: "The gap between the rates of admissions is widening every single year: It is becoming easier and easier to be admitted to UChicago if you are male rather than female."
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Creating a Manosphere at the University of Chicago
Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel this more and more every day
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Victor Caston @vcaston.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
And how did that work out for them?
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John Dunlevy @jdunlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a leader and incredible life; R.I.P.: “Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When I tell people I research and teach military ethics, the response I often receive is "that's an oxymoron, isn't it". I reflect on the importance of teaching ethics to militaries, and outline some concerns, in a new essay. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...
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The Ethics of Military Ethics: Teaching Right and Wrong to People Trained to Kill
Military ethics education today must contend with the potential negative effects of the increasing prioritization of speed and optimization in war, and the ways in which this sidelines the experience ...
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All the good people left in this country need a win so badly. Please, please let the midterms go well. Unchecked, unaccountable evil is deeply demoralizing and we’re all riding on fumes.
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AND THEY MAKE TOYS 🦝🪀🔫💛
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
OHIO: Early voting starts TODAY! Voting early is the best way to make sure your ballot is safe from suppression efforts and election sabotage. Not in Ohio? Help drive historic early vote turnout by sharing this post.
EARLY VOTING IN OHIO HAS BEGUN! SHARE THIS & SPREAD THE WORD: IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING IS AVAILABLE 10/6-11/1
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