iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A wonderful thread about the Norman fleet’s journey across the channel in 1066

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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 27/09/2026

Schaut mal, wie schön der Otto Wagner Pavillon am Karlsplatz nach der Renovierung glänzt!

Foto: Otto Wagner Pavillon am Karlsplatz

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ingredients for a lovely lunch: omelette, salad, fruit, what could be better? Also liking paper stops for bottle & jug. From Carlo Magini, whose day is today.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Braverman will surely be horrified when she finds out that she was Home Secretary when her fellow Refukker 'Honest' Bob introduced the plan to house asylum seekers in disused military bases.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes but They ‘d rather keep in the news because #AIBubble As I told NBC this past weekend: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes." m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAH... Via @timcrane.bsky.social

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Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock

YouTube video by NBC News

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
now

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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time to block. I really tried productive engagement. Not necessarily for him, but for others to see what could be going wrong (and for me to learn as well). But I won’t tolerate this kind of comment.

A post from Will Stancil in which he says “it’s like you gave yourself actual brain damage with your philosophy degree”

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 23/09/2026

Hungary has taken important steps to strengthen the rule of law and protect the Union’s financial interests. And reforms deliver results. Today, we are proposing to unlock €4.2 billion and reopen the doors of Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe to Hungarian students and researchers.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 23/09/2026

Right now, this is useless. OpenAI makes zero profit. We should wait for them to make a profit so we can learn any lessons from what they do. Part of the fault of their not making a profit is the extremely inefficient way of making software. They want to "export" this way of making software.

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Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory

A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

💥 Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social joins Dessy Gavrilova at the Vienna Humanities Festival in a conversation about "The Problems of Consciousness". ⏱️ 26.09 @ 17:00 📍 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Join us this Saturday! buff.ly/rcmGFKA #VHF26 #philsky @iwm.at #viennaevent

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VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...

Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my top writing tips (which I'm sure one of you gave me) is to have a separate document called "cuts" for the bits that don't quite work, so that you can fool yourself that you're not DELETING them you're simply MOVING them.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

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Stadt Wien @wien.gv.at · 20/09/2026

Ab 1. Oktober gelten neue Regeln für E-Mopeds: Sie werden als Kraftfahrzeuge eingestuft und dürfen damit nicht mehr auf Radwegen fahren. Für die Fahrzeuge und Lenker*innen gelten dann dieselben Pflichten wie für Mopeds.

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the point really. @lastpositivist.bsky.social nails it. Time to move on.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Delighted to be speaking at the @iwm.at Vienna Humanities Festival, on consciousness, on September 26 www.humanitiesfestival.at/crane

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Latest in @theatlantic.com . What we are seeing now is US weakness across the board. The American Age is over. What comes next will be very different. Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The End of the American Age

The Iran war marks the conclusion of eight decades of global dominance.

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A striking moment in Frege's 1918 essay, 'The Thought', when he postulates the 'third realm'

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just in case you missed it, here is Melanie Mitchell's lucid and wise assessment of the recent 'rogue AI' hype @melaniemitchell.bsky.social aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eastern origin and three-millennia persistence of a founding grapevine lineage in Iberian viticulture 𝐃𝐍𝐀 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 - thank you, @rogueclassicist.bsky.social www.cell.com/action/showP...

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Bence Nanay @bencenanay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My new book, Robert Musil: Philosophy without Qualities, now exists in physical form. Always downloadable for free from the OUP website as well.

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🔥 Bettina Bussmann hat zusammen mit Co-Autor Stefan Pitzer ein neues Buch veröffentlicht: „Methodische Konzepte für den Philosophie- und Ethikunterricht – Eine empirische Analyse zum Theorie-Praxis-Transfer“ Congratulations! Mehr dazu: buff.ly/6mltBOC #philsky #openaccess #theoriepraxis

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Methodische Konzepte für den Philosophie- und Ethikunterricht

Die empirische Open-Access-Studie untersucht erstmals systematisch, wie zentrale Ansätze der Philosophiedidaktik im Unterricht tatsächlich wirksam werden.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking of the size of the oven in which this baguette was baked. French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026

the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people

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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In The House of Guardaboschi (1912), Gustav Klimt transforms travel into a motif. By flattening the landscape, he creates a shimmering mosaic where garden and architecture merge into a dense tapestry of color.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have a new paper with @susanamonso.com and @kristinandrews.bsky.social. This one is intended to be a short guide for ECRs interested in doing some philosophy of comparative psychology, and wondering how to approach it. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Philosophy of Comparative Psychology

The philosophy of comparative psychology investigates a range of issues connected to the study of animal minds. These include first-order questions about the nature of certain cognitive traits, the c...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The reason why I say it is about Brexit is that in my view, what BBC News' senior leadership internalised during that time is that if you make every policy issue about horse races, then the stakeholders get less angry.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Source: William the Conqueror pub, Rye.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 06/09/2026

And overseas authors also have to deal with 30% withholding tax, unless they fill in a W-8BEN form. On top of this, they're likely to send a goddamned cheque, which will take weeks to clear *and* cost money to process.

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this blog article "What we train need not be the same as what we assess: AI damage limitation in higher education" key researcher, Anca Gheaus (@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social ), writes about the damaging effects of using AI in higher education. Read it 👇️ and offer your opinion! #philsky #AI #LLM

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What we train need not be the same as what we assess: AI damage limitation in higher education

The introduction of ChatGPT poses significant challenges for higher education by potentially encouraging cheating and hindering the development of essential writing and thinking skills. Studies ind…

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TODAY at 16:45! Associate Researcher Julian Reiss ( @jku.at ) gives a plenary lecture on "Scientific Objectivity: A Virtue-Theoretic Conception" at the at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/yMmZscT #philsky #SOPhiA2026

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Scientific Objectivity: A Virtue-Theoretic Conception

Julian Reiss Johannes Kepler University Linz The concept of scientific objectivity has long been central to the philosophy of science. However, in recent times traditional accounts, such as the val…

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

👉️ Today at 16:00! Eric Wallace ( @univie.ac.at ) presents "Davidson’s Method of Truth in Metaphysics: The Problem of Exotic Commitments" at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/QOdSV2U #philsky #SOPhiA2026 #metaphysics

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Davidson’s Method of Truth in Metaphysics: The Problem of Exotic Commitments

Eric Wallace University of Vienna Davidson’s method of truth, which is widely used in Natural Language Ontology (NLO), resolves metaphysical questions by appealing to the truth conditions of …

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today Tim Crane laces up for the European Forum Alpbach Hike, "Will Artificial Intelligence Create Winners and Losers?" Over 3 hours participants walk and talk with Tim and 3 other speakers, exploring who benefits and who is left behind, as AI transforms labor markets. More👇️ #philsky #AI #EFA26

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Hike | Will Artificial Intelligence Create Winners and Losers?

The European Forum Alpbach is an inspirational place that opens minds and souls for Europeʼs future. A forum that generates ideas and sparks action.

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@timcrane.bsky.social is joined by: Mario Nava, Director-General DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion European Commission, Anja Meierkord, PIAAC Analyst, Adult Skills Expert OECD, Paulina Parvanov, Project Lead Austrian Music Export and moderated by Paula-Marie Pucker, Journalist trend.

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CEU Philosophy Department @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last month, Professor Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social appeared on ABC Radio national in Australia, discussing "How smart are machines, anyway?" with David Rutledge on The Philosopher's Zone! 🔈Listen below #philsky #radionational #machines #AI

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@theguardian.com photo editors on top of their game again

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