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Sergio Tenenbaum

@sergioten.bsky.social
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Philosophy Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto Opinions expressed here are actually knowledge. he/him/his except within US jurisdiction or anywhere else where such pronouns are void.

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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Incredibly sad election results in Brazil. Flavio Bolsonaro did not win, but he is the front-runner for the runoff. And Bolsonarismo had huge wins both in Congress and in state races. Brazilian democracy survived four years of Bolsonaro and a coup attempt, but this will be a more serious challenge.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can't wait to see this! www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/30/k...
theartnewspaper.com
Kent Monkman’s first public sculpture is a condominium for beavers on Toronto’s waterfront
The permanent commission for the new Lassonde Art Trail reflects on the past, present and future of North America with Monkman’s characteristic quirky twists
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had to unsubscribe to NDPR because it was bombarding me with reviews (there were about 45 news one that came in within a one hour period). Is this just me or were other people experiencing the same thing?
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And here we go: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...
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Donate to Help Us Rebuild and Secure Sons of Jacob Synagogue, organized by Hadas Brajtman
We need your help to raise $90,000 to make Sons of Jacob Synagogue s… Hadas Brajtman needs your support for Help Us Rebuild and Secure Sons of Jacob Synagogue
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I should be more specific: the email was 100% AI written.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Even the emails Provost Schnell wrote explaining his use of AI were AI written. I feel ashamed that I am composing this post wthout any AI help: www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Relieved to learn that Bari Weiss's rag is safe from Trump's attacks on the first amendment.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To show my confidence that the robots will not destroy us, I am willing to bet anything under any odds that human beings will not be extinct within five years.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think some of the issue is compounded by the fact that Canada post is unreliable enough that I'd hesitate to send original documents by mail. The Toronto consulate does reasonably well with anything that does not involve in person visits.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am allowed to do so, except for the fact that when you try to set an appointment you get a message saying that there are no appointments available and no estimate about when we will be be able to get one.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have been for about a month trying to renew my passport. After much begging and nagging I finally got to the stage that I am allowed to set an appointment to go to the consulate and submit my documents...
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I feel like there should be an expat competition to see which country has the most Kafkaesque consular bureaucracy. I would be very surprised if anyone can beat the Brazilians...
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had a similar experience (not a negative review, but thoughtful comments); hard to grasp what happened here. In a FB post, some of the Ethics editors expressed concern about it, including one of them expressing great embarrassment that it passed peer review and apologizing to Wills.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not quite as high as I thought, but still close to half. I wonder how this compares with proportion of other hiring in these universities.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
a small correction: The Goldenberg Chairs are not for foreign academics, but for academics employed outside of Canada. Of the six chairs that U of T announced, four are returning Canadians. The one announced in Waterloo in my area was also Canadian. This might be true of most of them.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Americans kids can still do well in Geography class
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes I have no problem with "good roots" or "being in good health" (for a living being)
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Or that the prescription is fixed by the X so that when I say "good toaster" or "good mousetrap" what I am prescribing is different due to the different contexts fixed by "toaster" and "mousetrap".
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think it is easier in the case of "good toaster" than in the case of "good oak tree" (but I am dubious that there is a straightforward meaning of the latter anyway)
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't think so. Just as when I say "Hire this person!" at the end of my letter recommendation, I am not ascribing the property of the student being someone who I recommend people hire.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
(we could raise the bar for non-defective but it seems to me that we would then restore the Yikes effect when we transfer to 'man')
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
But would this be enough to deliver the non-Yikes verdict? Would it really explain the low bar? A good X doesn't seem to me merely non-defective. If I say this is a good chair and you sit down and it's pretty uncomfortable after a while, I think what I said is false, even if it's not broken, etc.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
First bullying FIFA to get their player back in the match, and now Ghent to get their racist back in academia
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Obviously asking for science (IFLS!), not from a potential personal stake in the matter.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you volunteered for a soul crushing activity in the expectation that no one will want you to do it, is your obligation less stringent if you end up being asked to do it? Please note that arguments for "yes" would be significantly more interesting as the case for "no" is pretty obvious.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Moving interview with Avishai Margalit, my beloved undergraduate teacher. I don't only still remember listening to his lectures in awe as a youngster, but the feeling seems to be still there in my mind. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel's leading philosopher on manipulation, morality and the future of Zionism
For decades, Avishai Margalit was the intellectual who explained Israel to the world. At 87, one of the country's greatest philosophers reflects on justice, the price of freedom, nationalism and the u...
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
People make fun of Chris Alexander's Barbaric Cultural Practices call centre, but imagine how many cappuccinos in the afternoon could have been prevented it the tip line had been implemented.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Even Messi must think they don’t deserve it
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Also great to see that you can always count on Piers Morgan insightful commentary no matter what the subject matter is.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nice of England to give up on the game after the first goal so I could keep my perfect 0/17,834 record.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reasons for Argentina to be optimistic tomorrow: 3. VAR 2. Messi 1. I'm picking England to win
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But a bit of judgment would have gone a long way here.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tbf, refs hesitate to call simulation in run of play; it is hard to be confident that the person didn't just trip. In principle, it is easier to make the call if VAR calls you back (which could only happen if the other player drew a yellow card, or if it was called a penalty or something like that.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Definitely not a foul, but the idea that this was simulation seems insane to me. Why would Embolo dive there?
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Well, I can't tell you about whether I know how to do this, because I am one of these people who should keep mum about it.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Unfortunately, being the only God capable of appreciating football makes him the wisest God
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
😢
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The fact that the World Cup always end up having only one champion is a major argument against the effectiveness of prayer.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Very disappointing to see Hoffman endorsing this nonsense.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Between Brazil's loss and FIFA just taking orders from Trump, this might be the most depressing day in the history of World Cup. Oh, except for something that happened in 2014 that I barely remembered.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Going for cheap.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I heard it was recorded as an own goal so some tiny consolation there.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If Argentina had any sense of sportsmanship they would at least take Messi out of the game.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Well, he is not technically my cousin, but my sister hangs out at times with someone who is a friend, possibly a close friend, of his Mom. Basically the same thing.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
With all this excitement about the World Cup, let's not forget to shed a tear for my cousin who lost today at Wimbledon. But I still think the future holds great things for Fonseca
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Power failure during the world cup is the kind of thing that should land a politician in the Hague.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They really should be disqualified for excessive talent.
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Here is the team playing the most beautiful football you've seen for decades. Here is the team that from time to time kicks a ball forward and prays that it'll go in the right direction. I am rooting for the second one"
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Such a major effort of the will to root against France in this World Cup.
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