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Jordi Cat
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science, philosophy, history, politics, art and so much else

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 6h
What significant aspects of it will be declared automatable and be automated?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 16h
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 1d
Policing and pugilistic models of philosophy are still prevalent around me both in practice and education. In line with the new social mores.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 1d
Participants in private scientific and technological collaborations? Or more indirectly in philanthropic institutions indirectly funded through industry profit?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 1d
Can science study fields –e.g., history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology of science– only survive attached to privatized science and technology research?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 1d
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 5d
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 6d
Participation correcting representation. Only up to a point? We'll see. The large-scale situation is not fluid, but it's sludgy enough to destabilize projects and projections. Expect interventions from all sides. It's still a war.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 6d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dick Cheney’s role in ‘war on terror’ may have paved way for Trumpism
Former US vice-president a key figure in expanding White House’s power and ‘corrupting the intelligence-policy relationship’ to sell Iraq war
www.theguardian.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 6d
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo
Joseph Wright of Derby’s vivid paintings depicted Enlightenment thinking and illumination amid the dark. So why are they so terrifying?
www.theguardian.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 7d
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 9d
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe?
An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.
www.bbc.com

Reposted by Michela Massimi, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Jordi Cat

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · 21d
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Oct 9
I wonder how Kraznahorkai's and Fosse's one-sentence novels fare in audiobook format.

Reposted by James Goodwin, Andréas Nilsson, David Murakami Wood , and 1 more

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · Oct 6
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Oct 5
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942

Reposted by Jordi Cat

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Sep 29
The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..

It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.

A legal scholar explains the line:
How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.
buff.ly

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 28
well, it is now.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 28
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 27
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.

Reposted by Steven French, Alan Richardson, Jordi Cat

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Sep 25
#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 24
Both the Huntington and pancreatic cancer results are promising. Now, these are corporate early announcements; let's hope published articles on larger trials show similar effects!

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 20
It's a great doc series.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 19
by making certain "every inhabitant of our country has the same chance of survival." (...) Only a monarchic political structure would excuse an arrangement that has for its citizens no civil defense.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 19
'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 19
Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 18
www.tatler.com/gallery/all-...
All the esteemed guests at the state banquet for President Trump
Senior royals were joined by politicians and some of the world’s biggest business men and women for the event at Windsor Castle
www.tatler.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 17
So are cross-dressers.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 17
'True of the original discovery of CPR, so too of the ongoing refinement of our understanding of the conditions under which it best works requires huge investments of intellectual work'

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 17
'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)