Reposted by SudipPeter Bjorndahl Sorensen @bjorndahl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't own a copy yet, but a friend found it for me in the Cambridge University Press shop in Cambridge. 042
Reposted by SudipPeter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hey #HoPWaG fans, don't forget to check out our new spinoff podcast on cross-cultural philology! It launched a few days ago with three initial episodes, on philology and science; the Cain and Abel story; and the ancient language Aramaic! pagesofhistorypodcast.net #podcast #philology 24213
Reposted by Sudipelisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case you are interested in my latest book (on Veṅkaṭanātha's "revolution" within Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, on doing Sanskrit philosophy based on individual authors and on doing history of philosophy outside of Europe in general), here is a discount code fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...fdslive.oup.com 014
Reposted by Sudipelisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A conference on perception in Vienna next week: www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranst... (zoom participation is possible) #philsky #Sanskritoeaw.ac.atWhat do we perceive? Direct realism, representationalism, idealism and illusionism in South Asian philosophyInternational Symposium 0133
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tbh Catholic phenomenology had a renaissance in the 2000s/2010s so it is kind of no surprise that the Pope has a more robust philosophical account of AI than tech bros do, sounds like he is working from that tradition… 15310
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“slop assumes a different kind of relationship between general and particular than is assumed in most of the political philosophy grounding US law” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/10/slop...its-her-factory.comSlop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide 198
Reposted by SudipZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026taking a cue from @kimtallbear.bsky.social, I've started to move towards native+tribal instead of "Indigenous" in various contexts in my fish work, precisely because 'Indigenous' is becoming an empty signifier in environmental discourses. Whose specific tribe/people/government is the issue tied to? 1121
Reposted by SudipZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026regarding frauds who speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples at the UN level: "Because the U.N. system relies heavily on NGO credentials and self-identification, it inadvertently creates a pathway to undeserved international legitimacy." This happens in Canada with 'environmental' research grants too 182
Reposted by SudipZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026about to read this piece by Tristan Ahtone on revelations of a pretendian in the high level international climate/environmental advocacy world -- maybe you want to as well. grist.org/indigenous/t...grist.orgThe climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations. 192
Reposted by SudipZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026grist.org/indigenous/5...grist.org5 takeaways from our investigation into the 'ghost' tribe that got millions in climate fundingIn 2017, Juan Mancias, the chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, traveled to France to help pressure two of the country’s largest banks into divesting from oil and gas projects in South Te... 021
Reposted by SudipZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.cafreshwaterfishfutures.caUNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge. 02216
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the first time I've heard someone use the "anti-life" framing for this moment, but it's another good sign that The Genealogy of Morals is actually the text we need to be reading to understand the present moment, philosophically 37810
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026does anyone have access to this article? dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...dissentmagazine.orgThe Painter of the Right - Dissent MagazineThomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won. 203
Reposted by SudipMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.”thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born TetrisBehind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power. 1249
Reposted by SudipLaine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the free market is an efficient distributor of talent and quality 🥴 0144
Reposted by SudipLaine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still getting mad about this every time I remember that Levy also LITERALLY INVENTED the idea of the "hacker" as a technoclass with a collective meaningful ideology, rather than, let's say, a bunch of guys doing a programmer's version of shitposting 1327
Reposted by SudipLaine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...wired.comWar Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon ValleySome say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument. 515344
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is why tbh existentialism is actually the most helpful theory for AI: there are no universal objective differences between people thinking and robot 'thinking', you just have to arbitrarily make a line between whom you are obligated to and whom you aren't, and take responsibility for that 0132
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the question of "are you alive?" is ultimately a political question about "are you someone to whom I am obligated?" 1189
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I mean if you are a philosopher worth your salt you know the thinking/consciousness question is just a deflection that tries to frame a political question of personhood as a metaphysical question of the philosophy of mind 15115
Reposted by SudipRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also worth noting given the pop music discourse today that I already identified the divergence between the charts/mainstream and critical taste, two months ago www.its-her-factory.com/2026/08/slop...its-her-factory.comSlop-doom-ism: a new era for pop music & criticism 1202
Reposted by SudipMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/09/2026“Ordinary slop is a strategy for developing licensable audio IP for use on platforms like Instagram or TikTok—generic sounds optimized for algorithmic personalization … so generic or indeterminate that they can fit many different determinate contexts…” 3196
Reposted by SudipAda Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thank heavens that Queens of the Stone Age have a massive discography because that is apparently the only music I can progress my writing to (everyone welcome to the goth manuscript factory) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOI...youtube.comQueens of The Stone Age - "Where The Goth Girls At?" (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age 001
Reposted by SudipAda Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I lived in New York City so I get to say this: SNL in an English accent sounds WEIRD (also, as a Pole, Ania Magliano being consistently called Anja is sending me) 021
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This is big, and it took the global publicity that was warranted by the BBC to get them to *finally* take cognisance of Meta's continuous flagrant disregard for community guidelines and takedown requests. 011
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I'm putting together a database of indigenous initiatives that have been using AI for different use cases here: chivalrous-carpet-76a.notion.site/47e033ca4c5a... please do let me know if you have recommendations for initiatives for inclusion!chivalrous-carpet-76a.notion.siteIndigenous Initiatives Using AI | NotionThis is a database of indigenous initiatives using AI for their own communities: please drop me a note at padmini@designbeku.org if you have suggestions for resources to be included, comments or amend... 096
Reposted by SudipOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024the Niger Delta already knows the answer to this question unfortunately - would be nice to have a political movement capable of forcing a different one 317048
Reposted by Sudipkalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It is publication month for Devika Shankar's pathbreaking book An Encroaching Sea, bringing legal history, environmental history and histories of infrastructure - read the glowing endorsements from Debjani Bhattacharyya and Sunil Amrith! #History #LegalHistory www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...cambridge.orgAn Encroaching SeaCambridge Core - Asian Studies - An Encroaching Sea 1147
Reposted by SudipGaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 13/12/2024And here is my piece for @niemanreports.org on the ethical imperative to report it in first person: niemanreports.org/geopolitics-...niemanreports.orgGeopolitics, in First Person - Nieman ReportsWhen The New York Times sent me to report on a transformative oil discovery in my birthplace, Guyana, they asked for, and got, a first-person narrative. The opening scene places me at the gates of an ... 022
Reposted by SudipGaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Ravi Ragbir, the Trinidad-born director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, is among several immigrant rights activists put in deportation proceedings under the last Trump presidency. Supporters are calling for a presidential pardon before Biden leaves office. secure.ngpvan.com/QWikiDar30OW...secure.ngpvan.com 043
Reposted by SudipGaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Shameful, Jeff Bezos. Shameful. Teaching my students about the United Farm Workers boycott of grapes to protest the use of pesticides. A boycott seems an appropriate exercise of personal liberty… and of the free market. 041
Reposted by SudipLongtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Feed: "NYT > Books > Book Review" By: Gaiutra Bahadur on Thursday, August 7, 2025nytimes.comBook Review: ‘Indian Country,’ by Shobha RaoShobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America. 012
Reposted by SudipGaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The most recent issue of the literary magazine Drunken Boat, devoted to statelessness, features fiction by me, the short story The Stained Veil. You can find it under "Biharis." dtc-wsuv.org/mgable25/db-... 022
Reposted by SudipDurba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduThe Future That WasHow Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present 114452
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026...and I've literally just stumbled on an article published today by prof. of cognitive and computational neuroscience @anilseth.bsky.social which makes a very similar point! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comOnce again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil SethDespite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu... 021
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just finished reading @randomwalker.bsky.social 's brilliant & sensible talk (here: www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...) where he talks about human creativity as evidence of superintelligence that can be possibly enhanced by AI, but poorly emulated by it.cs.princeton.eduWhat will be left for us to work on?ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University. 111
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 19/09/20263. What is the point of scanning content that is often out of date as well as semantically archaic to teach machines? (I do have an understanding of why this might be, but it strikes me as a particularly odd use of resources) Internet, do your thing pls: get this to reach booksellers & librarians. 442
Reposted by SudipPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 19/09/20261. A lot of these books are out of print, and public domain - many are on the internet archive - why bother buying physical versions of books you can scan online for free? 2. Why *these* particular titles over others? Can bookshops that have been approached share the titles that have been ordered? 142
Reposted by SudipAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17886390
Reposted by SudipShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026☝️ 40+ librarians, archivists, herbarium curators, graduate students, artists, designers, city planners, bookshop managers, and community center directors contributed to these projects! 0144
Reposted by SudipShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On Tues evening we launched our first two Cross-Reference Coalition publications at the Ctr for Bklyn History 🥰 Anyone can download digital copies — libraries (we’ll prioritize Metro members) can request FREE print copies — via the pubs’ respective pages! crc.metro.org/projects/ (📸 by Mina Leazer) 13513
Reposted by SudipC. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026*reducible to a relation among _presently_ existing things. Your vartamāna point. 021
Reposted by SudipC. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So, i'm wondering how to make sense of this. Is something's being dharma reducible to a relation among existing things (agents, desires, objects)? Is there some imperceptible but real quality of the world that amounts to a thing's "to-be-done-ness," like some think a Stoic lekton has? 131
Reposted by SudipC. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is exactly what I'm puzzling over. And, restricting discussion to Kumārila's text, I am thinking of CDS 13–14. Dharma is definitely not perceptible. But substances, actions, and qualities are dharma, not in their ordinary perceptible nature but "as a means to accomplish the highest goal." 111
Reposted by Sudipelisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026—dharma does not exist in the vartamāna, unlike trees etc. (which are clearly bāhyārthas) 112
Reposted by Sudipelisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thanks for pressing me on that. I will check again on the terminological use in ŚV nirālambana and śūnya. Let's see if we agree about the concepts, though. —dharma exists as dharma only as something sādhya and is therefore not sth identifiable out there in the world 1/ 121
Reposted by SudipC. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Would something’s being *a thing that is to be done* be excluded from being bāhyārtha in your view? (This seems connected to what the truthmakers are for injunctions, so I am curious given your work in this area. Is there to-be-done-ness in the world thar we can cognise?) 111
Reposted by SudipC. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am thinking about its use in the nirālambanavāda, which is where it appears most often. It seems to be a term used in relation to cognitions (buddhi, jñāna, etc.) So yes, subject-independent, but I am not sure about “siddha.” How do you understand siddha here? (ctd) 111
Reposted by Sudipelisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thanks for explaining. I am not sure that bāhyārtha is used as "external to the cognition". My impression is that it is used as "subject-independent+siddha". I will keep an eye on it. 121
