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Robert Wallace

@philosobobby.bsky.social

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Philosophy Prof. @ Cal Poly, Free Will + Moral Responsibility but interested in everything.

https://www.roberthwallace.com/

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 4h

I did not know about all this history until I started teaching Language, Truth, and Logic to undergrads and it completely changed my view of the whole movement.

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 1d

And *poetry* my God we can’t even have tender, beautiful, artistic horrible gender nonsense

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 1d

At least Mishima made his own art all we get is tweets and AI bullshit

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

Can I steal this for teaching please

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

It would be impossible to overstate how deranged and fascistic the US government’s social media accounts have become. Protect “the west” against Spanish speaking Catholics?

SEPARTNEAS
U.s.
Department of Homeland Sec... & is in United States o.... • Follow
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Answer the call.
Protect The West
JOIN. ICE. GOV

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 3d

As a philosopher I come from a rich tradition of being annoying af

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Abolish Border Patrol.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3d

Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 4d

You should ask them if they had the machine "look" at your slides instead of actually looking at them again themselves! I have had students just upload my study guide and the slides. (Of course, the CSU system gave all the students access to ChatGPT so many of them do not realize this is a problem.)

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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.bsky.social · 4d

Every time Nazis try to use Tolkien to justify white supremacy, I like to float this 1941 letter in which Tolkien called Hitler a "ruddy little ignoramus" and accused him of "ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed" the spirit of the cultures upon which he based his works.

A screenshot of text reading: I have spent most of my life, since I was your age, studying Germanic matters (in the general sense that includes England and Scandinavia). There is a great deal more force (and truth) than ignorant people imagine in the 'Germanic' ideal. I was much attracted by it as an undergraduate (when Hitler was, I suppose, dabbling in paint, and had not heard of it), in reaction against the
'Classics'. You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. But no one ever calls on me to 'broadcast', or do a postscript! Yet I suppose I know better than most what is the truth about this 'Nordic' nonsense. Anyway, I have in this War a burning private grudge - which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light. Nowhere, incidentally, was it nobler than in England, nor more early sanctified and Christianized

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 4d

This has happened to me with in person exams - the students def use ChatGPT to study all the time. I had good luck having in-class discussions about studying with it and doing demos where we’d ask it study guide questions and work through its answers together.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility

Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.

southsideweekly.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d

There are no words for how evil this is

In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight."
But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 4d

And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

YouTube video by The New Yorker

www.youtube.com

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Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social · 5d

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.

Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

www.newyorker.com

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 5d

Just look at this nonsense!! Why didn’t anyone tell me this!!! It makes so much sense!!! I found these demonstrations while trying to teach Plato!!!!

a person is holding a circle with a triangle in the middle

Alt: A clever visualization of the Pythagorean Theorem, where a central triangle (lengths a, b, and c) is attached to three square-shaped water tanks while on a rotating wheel. There is just enough fluid such that the two squares of a and b, and when you rotate the wheel so the square of c is at the bottom, the water drains to fill that tank, showing how a squared and b squared equal c squared.

media.tenor.com

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 5d

When I teach Plato I do a whole bit about how I’d didn’t realize that when you square a number you are like, literally taking a line of that number in length and making a square out them *until I had a doctorate in the humanities*, and how “not being a math person” is bullshit that holds us back

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 5d

Again: what cruelty animates this action; even if it were legal, why would you do something this inhumane?

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.

www.politico.com

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts. n.pr/4ombzk8

They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.

n.pr

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

I genuinely wonder if anyone on the NYT editorial team looks at the Mamdani coverage in total and thinks "yeah, we got this one right"
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"

No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...

Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern

www.nytimes.com

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 8d

Is this real? It’s one of the most offensive things to my faith I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s All Soul’s Day FFS. We’re supposed to walk the extra fucking mile and turn the other fucking cheek. What the fuck is this sacrilegious war porn??

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8d

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 8d

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

www.ncronline.org

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 8d

If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.

A drawing of the traditional cognitive science hexagon with Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology at each side. The overlapping lines call to mind more traditional spooky pentagrams.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8d

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9d

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

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do lions bleet of electric sheep @talkinglion.bsky.social · 10d

Ghosts say “boo!” because they’re moral emotivists

Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 10d

“Artificial intelligence, in particular, with its technical, cold and standardized knowledge, can further cut off students who are already isolated, giving them the illusion that they do not need others or, worse still, the feeling that they are not worthy of them.”

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo to Educators: “Today, in our educational contexts, it is worrying to see the increasing symptoms of widespread inner fragility, at all ages. We cannot close our eyes to these silent cries for help; we must strive to identify their underlying causes.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11d

These posters evoke not the New Deal but another thing that starts with N www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

What We Choose to Nazi

The Department of Labor is posting Heroic Realism propaganda. What, exactly, are they telling us?

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