David Koepsell

@drkoepsell.bsky.social

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Philosopher. Unabashedly liberal, anti-fascist, defender of democracy. http://davidkoepsell.com All views expressed are my personal views alone.

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David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. He was a visiting professor of research ethics at National Autonomous University of Mexico, director of research and strategic initiatives at Comisión Nacional de Bioética (CONBIOETICA) Mexico, an adjunct professor at University at Buffalo and a senior fellow and education director of the Center for Inquiry Transnational, based in Amherst, New York. Currently, he is an instructional assistant professor at Texas A&M University. .. more

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David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Dec 27

As part of my book, A Structural Ontology of the Law, forthcoming from Palgrave, I created several repos, webpages, and apps, including one that implements my ontology as a legal reasoning and contradiction-finding engine. I call it IRACplus davidkoepsell.com/IRACplus/

IRAC+ | Structural Legal Issue Analyzer

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David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 1d

We are witnessing the dismantling of the Republic because you couldn't vote for the black woman prosecutor over the rapist convicted felon.

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, if you haven't yet, please check out realmofeverdice.com especially if you either are D&D-curious, or relatively experienced #DnD I appreciate your feedback!

Everdice - Fantasy RPG Companion

Create characters, manage campaigns, and roll dice with our AI-powered tabletop RPG companion. SRD 5.1 compatible.

realmofeverdice.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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Amy Raven - Happy New Queer - Testicles Are Extra @somethingamyss.bsky.social · 12d

So I saw a review of Starfleet Academy complaining that there hasn't been any optimistic Trek since Enterprise. And I contest that the post 9-11 Enterprise was optimistic, but...SA seems incredibly optimistic. They're rebuilding the Federation after the Burn (ugh)

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 13d

Fellow D&D nerds, I made this app to help my kids learn D&D and so we can play together in table-top fashion when I am working in Texas. Please check it out and give me your opinions. I keep making iterative improvements so if you tried it before it may have changed. realmofeverdice.com

Everdice - Fantasy RPG Companion

Create characters, manage campaigns, and roll dice with our AI-powered tabletop RPG companion. SRD 5.1 compatible.

realmofeverdice.com

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 22d

Defund and disband ICE

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us-tx-nb.bsky.social @us-tx-nb.bsky.social · 23d

Texas A&M Bans Plato – Daily Nous

https://www.newsbeep.com/us-tx/113711/

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course.…

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous - Texas News Beep

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide.

www.newsbeep.com

Reposted by Charles West, David Koepsell, Simon Lester , and 2 more Charles West, David Koepsell, Simon Lester, Klaus Oschema, Farah Mendlesohn

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23d

FYI:

In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 23d

Blatantly unconstitutional prior restraint on protected speech

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 25d

I've been working on that mix my interests in ontology/standards and Dungeons & Dragons:

I made substantial improvements to my D&D companion app: everdice-realm-davidkoepsell.replit.app

I also developed a standard for adventure building and sharing for any tabletop game github.com/dkoepsell/CA...

Everdice - Fantasy RPG Companion

Create characters, manage campaigns, and roll dice with our AI-powered D&D companion app.

everdice-realm-davidkoepsell.replit.app

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · 27d

I’m old enough to remember when the Iraq War was criticized by those in power as unjustified and illegal. If indeed the USA has invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader, then we have become a rogue state, anathema to all international norms and laws. It’s shameful.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Dec 25

Sending three ghosts tonight to fuck up Stephen Miller.

Reposted by John F. McCarthy, Steve Peers, Bruce D. Baker , and 5 more John F. McCarthy, Steve Peers, Bruce D. Baker, Robert C. Richards, Adrian Daub, Gerald Friedman, David Koepsell, Kathleen Kennedy

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Dec 23

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Dec 22

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

www.muellershewrote.com

Reposted by W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, David Koepsell

Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · Dec 9

Release the Epstein files.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Dec 8

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore.
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Reposted by Mary Corcoran, John Foot, David Koepsell , and 1 more Mary Corcoran, John Foot, David Koepsell, Olivier Mannoni

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · Dec 7

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A screenshot of a social media post from a parody account styled as a governor’s press office. The post uses all caps and mocks a political figure by describing a fake award in exaggerated, insulting language. Below it is another post sharing a short video clip from a televised event at the Kennedy Center. In the video still a man in a suit is being given a large decorative medal by another man while cameras and a news chyron run along the bottom. The scene takes place on a stage with a blurred backdrop.

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Dec 6

Grover Norquist used to say that government should be so small you could drown it in a bathtub. Trump's innovation is making it so stupid the rest of us would want to.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Nov 29

Lindsey Graham sponsored the Afghan Adjustment Act: “This is the right thing to do. The people who were there with us in the fight who are here in America need to stay. This will be their new home. We have a moral obligation to these people and they will make great citizens.”

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Nov 23

In case you're looking for Christmas presents:
ethicspress.com/collections/...

The Geometry of The Good: Ethics in a Relational Field

Title: The Geometry of The Good Subtitle: Ethics in a Relational Field Subject Classification: Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Morals BIC Classification: HPQ, UYQ BISAC Classification: PHI0050...

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Reposted by Diane Ravitch, David Koepsell, Manisha Sinha , and 2 more Diane Ravitch, David Koepsell, Manisha Sinha, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Nov 14

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Nov 13

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street.

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Nov 10

For the life of me, I will always get Alan Cummings, Michael Sheen, Martin Freeman, and Steve Coogan confused. They all somehow seem like the same actor, but I always enjoy his performances.

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Nov 7

In Frank Miller's Elektra Assassin, illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, the Antichrist is elected president and he apparently smells so rotten that people get nauseous and pass out in his presence. I think of that book a lot these days.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Nov 7

We just wanted to say thank you to everyone! ICE agents keep lying under oath, and you’re the reason the truth is coming out.

Your videos and documentation have been crucial in revealing the truth behind those claims.

David Koepsell @drkoepsell.bsky.social · Nov 6

I'm not broken up about Mamdani's unremarkable win in solid blue NYC. I am saddened that once again, several leftists couldn't help but out themselves as antisemites on my FB post when I noted that normie Dems had a far better night than the DSA. They can't help themselves.

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · Nov 5

The Trump Epstein Shutdown is the longest Government Shutdown in history having just surpassed the Trump Stormy Shutdown during Fatsolinni’s first term.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Nov 5

“We want to turn the page past the divisiveness, the angriness, and just focus on brass tacks, good policy, and governance"
That was how @abigailspanberger.com began her campaign. From last year:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...