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I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
Clayton Littlejohn, Disinformation is for Degrading the Value of Information, not Confirming Falsehoods - PhilPapers
According to a recent account of disinformation, disinformation is content that “generates ignorance” (Simion 2024a; 2024b). The view improves upon previous accounts that focused upon the potential fo...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I have news. Wonderful news.
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
New paper on #disinformation. The title is the thesis. Think of disinformation as content that functions to optimise the decisions of the audience for the disinformant. This doesn't require deception or content that induces false belief.
philpapers.org/rec/LITDIF
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.*
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
What Can Politics Make of Nature?
Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.*
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
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Squaring the circle of "how do you protect everyone without immiserating* some" is a maybe impossible task but I view it as anchoring to universal human dignity rather than inevitable trespass against that dignity.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Squaring the circle of "how do you protect everyone without immiserating* some" is a maybe impossible task but I view it as anchoring to universal human dignity rather than inevitable trespass against that dignity.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
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I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
We love Zadie Smith, don’t we folks? They’re saying she’s unafraid of either nuance or clarity, like people have never seen before. Spritely!That’s what they say about her tone. These people come up to me and say sir,
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We love Zadie Smith, don’t we folks? They’re saying she’s unafraid of either nuance or clarity, like people have never seen before. Spritely!That’s what they say about her tone. These people come up to me and say sir,
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"President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins." press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins." press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
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can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
One reason that people perceive LLMs as conscious is that the total phenomenological structure of a functioning LLM includes many conscious subparts acting with intentionality—the humans responsible for the countless judgment calls in fine-tuning and training.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
One reason that people perceive LLMs as conscious is that the total phenomenological structure of a functioning LLM includes many conscious subparts acting with intentionality—the humans responsible for the countless judgment calls in fine-tuning and training.
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Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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Words to live by tbh
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Words to live by tbh
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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The core skill of successful punditry is identifying a viewpoint that powerful and influential people already subscribe to, and then providing an endless, and endlessly flexible, stream of rationalizations of why that viewpoint is correct, regardless of real-world outcomes.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The core skill of successful punditry is identifying a viewpoint that powerful and influential people already subscribe to, and then providing an endless, and endlessly flexible, stream of rationalizations of why that viewpoint is correct, regardless of real-world outcomes.
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Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
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The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
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on the one hand recognition only matters from someone who might decline to give it. on the other, them declining to give it is an outcome you want to avoid. so you generate these simulacra of genuine human connection, the *appearance* of the possibility of rejection with the reality of its absence
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
on the one hand recognition only matters from someone who might decline to give it. on the other, them declining to give it is an outcome you want to avoid. so you generate these simulacra of genuine human connection, the *appearance* of the possibility of rejection with the reality of its absence
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When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool