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William E. S. McNeill @wesmcneill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Well, that's me and (the safety of) vaccines, and (the reality of) climate change, and various other things. I think we'll need some details here ...

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Los Angeles 2025

Seagull proudly perched on a "no seagulls" sign

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/05/2025

Wtf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 21/05/2025

“Data centers in the US used somewhere around 200 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, roughly what it takes to power Thailand for a year.” A quarter to a third of which is due to #AI. #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

lol humans

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

No woke mind virus in Lincolnshire. It’s mostly peas.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

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Rachael Talibart @rachaeltalibart.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Big sky at West Wittering.

A landscape photo of a heavy sky with mammatus cloud formations looming over a sandy beach with pools of blue water.

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William E. S. McNeill @wesmcneill.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Classic 'illiberal democracy' playbook a la Orban and Erdogan.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Today is American Liquidation Day

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This should be etched on the DOGE letterhead

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This story is amazing (& the first in which I see a friend’s name, Leon Peshkin. No doubt not the last.) A top scientist, she avoided all protest in the US. She only was a dissident in and of her native country — Russia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport

Kseniia Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her visa and detained her

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Russian, Chinese and North Korean state-sponsored hackers being issued redundancy notices.

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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thoughts too cheap to matter.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I’ve been looking at some biographical material of the founders of modern physics and it’s striking how much attention they paid to philosophy: Bohr was obsessed with Kierkegaard and his followers, Einstein read Kant. Heisenberg read Plato's Timaeus.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Otomi textiles originate from the indigenous people of eastern Mexico, an ancient craft using hand embroidering techniques. Otomi textiles, known as tenangos, incorporate colourful images of plants, animals, people and activities #WomensArt

Circular embroidery textile with animal bird and plant motifs in many colours on a white background

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Fiona Woollard @fionawoollard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Please share widely!

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

i suppose all we on the outside can do now is hope that the americans' sincere collective passion for litigation is stronger than their death drive

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Musk lies and people lose their jobs; welcome to 2025

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

OMFG AI FTW (slightly NSFW).

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Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY chng.it/cCD8XDtYvH

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Sign the Petition

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 06/02/2025

*taps the sign* #MuskCoup #Technofascism

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If you think the NSF is a waste of government money, you should stop using any technology created using NSF-funded research. Like cell phones. Or the Internet

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Jules 💛 @julesinthetardis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The one thing that has made my university experience a good one is the staff on the philosophy team. The lecturers and staff at the university ARE WHAT MAKE THE UNIVERSITY. Their plans to cut over 50% of staff are morally horrendous and will lead to the downfall of the university as a whole

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over, and if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools. —Ray Bradbury

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ditchpony @ditchpony.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

someday we will have the technology to turn the plastic accumulating in each of our brains into a personalized McDonald’s happy meal toy but until then we must continue gathering

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Yuri Cath @ywcath.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Please support our colleagues in Philosophy at Cardiff University #philsky #philosophy

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William E. S. McNeill @wesmcneill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If only all that compute had been used to predict protein folding, design high-temperature superconductors or neutron shields for fusion reactors rather than just ... dodging copywright laws ...

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Fiona Woollard @fionawoollard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today is the first lecture of my First Year Ethics class, also known as the day I walk across campus carrying a giant inflatable crocodile. Crocrates the Philosophical Crocodile is ready for the new semester!

A photo of a large inflatable crocodile sitting on a chair.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

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We Can Make an Impact.

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

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William E. S. McNeill @wesmcneill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

ChatGPT fails the Turing Test because it sounds too clever.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds

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