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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 · 1d
2025 update from our cat Georgia
An orange cat in front of a Christmas tree

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Sam Kamin, Simon Lester

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 1d
I’m asking questions to learn more. It’s something I work on every day.

But Few want to discuss ways to solve problems on here. They want to virtue signal
aaronblackshear.bsky.social Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d
Mark you literally ran a TV show encouraging people to think big and solve problems, and here you are whining “it’s too hard! How could we do it?!”

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d
one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.

Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Screenshot from a Canadian TV broadcast of a censored 60 Minutes episode with a segment called Inside CECOT

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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.snep//INFECTION @fm-synth.bsky.social · 3d
Simply

Having

A wonderful
Christmas Slime A dragon quest slime is wearing a Christmas hat in a field of snow

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

wolvendamien.bsky.social
Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Reposted by John McLaren, Robert W. Wallace, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 5d
Once again, hes on it
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleve...
mathstodon.xyz

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d
I got this comment in response to a post on X and it just made me think that a lot of these reactionaries just have no idea about even the basics of American history, and have been fed a false and rosy nostalgic view of things in the honestly recent past.

/also the comment about China is dumb.
Punished Ulyx @john14234561304 No actually we want a cohesive nation state and national solidarity. We had this until about 40 years ago, which is coincidentally when everything started going to shit and we got surpassed by a much more homogenous China because homogeneity = dynamism.

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Rebecca Tushnet

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.

If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 13 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 7d
That Compact essay is very easily picked a part with actual data/evidence, but what has become clear is there is very little will to do so as its dubious claims confirm a deeply held grievance amongst an apparently large % of our white colleagues that they are the victims of rampant discrimination.

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Andrew L. Whitehead, Eric D. Knowles , and 3 more

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8d
ICYMI, I wrote about Yglesias making common cause with the right-wing moral panic over critical race theory. His supposed defense of liberalism is deeply illiberal. @liberalcurrents.com
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, David Darmofal

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d
“The research collectively suggests that America is becoming more anti-Semitic because its young people are becoming more anti-Semitic."
‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’
Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.
www.theatlantic.com

philosobobby.bsky.social
Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 8d
Scary. I teach a 400-level contemporary analytic metaphysics class, like “do tables *really* exist or is it just particles arranged table-wise?” stuff. I have a unit on social metaphysics with a focus on race and gender. What I KNOW is important recent work would be seen as woke indoctrination.
stephaniemlee.bsky.social Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Robert W. Wallace, Philip N. Cohen , and 2 more

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce, Alan Richardson , and 1 more

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8d
Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.
O'Neill: Some people are reading this as being an attack or being petty. Anderson: If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it, and make them look better than they look?

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"

philosobobby.bsky.social
Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 8d
The USAID cuts should have been the end of this administration, maybe the end of a lot of things, and I’m going to spend the rest of my life grappling with the fact that it wasn’t.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d
he sure loves his lil outfits
dmihalopoulos.bsky.social Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 8d
Bovino back in a familiar hunting ground – the Uber lot at O’Hare.
Bovino

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8d
Ah I think it's a bit worse than I said! My take was that the bit re the failure of the meritocracy when it turns on these people didn't seem well supported by argument. Having read this I now think it's even more substantially just false, incorrect.

www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 8d
Guys, victimhood culture is alpha now

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d
insurance companies literally kill people
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Henry Jones

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 8d
I think this is useful to read the whole way through to see just how Internet-poisoned right wing billionaires are. This guy is insane nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...
John Catsimatidis on Donald Trump, Immigration, and New York Republicans
The New York Editorial Board's interview with businessman John Catsimatidis.
nyeditorialboard.substack.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Elizabeth Saunders, John McLaren , and 7 more

propublica.org
ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Shannon Vallor, Paul Glasziou , and 20 more

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 9d
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, A. E. Dessler, Brendan Nyhan , and 19 more

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9d
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 9d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, David S. Cohen

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 9d
Just say women. This is taking forever.

philosobobby.bsky.social
Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 9d
I tell my undergrads who want to pursue PhDs that academia is just like most things in life. You can’t ensure the outcome, you can only put yourself in the best position you can to get lucky. But academia is NOT like most things in life too. Comparatively few best-positioned people get lucky.