Prof. Felipe Gusmão
@fgusmao.bsky.social
"A minor marginalised philosopher writing in the early twenty-first century"
Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP
I was once suspended from Twitter for defending animal rights...
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and I love cats...
Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP
I was once suspended from Twitter for defending animal rights...
Ⓐ 🇦🇺 🇧🇷
and I love cats...
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In an ideal society the leaders would be the wisest and most virtuous of people.
In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance.
In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".
In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance.
In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In an ideal society the leaders would be the wisest and most virtuous of people.
In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance.
In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".
In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance.
In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".
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By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon.
www.thecanary.co/discovery/en...
COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon.
www.thecanary.co/discovery/en...
COP30 Brazil: a climate summit tainted by oil and deforestation
COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon
www.thecanary.co
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon.
www.thecanary.co/discovery/en...
COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon.
www.thecanary.co/discovery/en...
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If only the public understood what Brazil’s agribusiness, the “ruralistas”, really stands for: profits for the elite, industrial-scale farming that crushes small farmers, destroys the environment, and serves exports over people.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If only the public understood what Brazil’s agribusiness, the “ruralistas”, really stands for: profits for the elite, industrial-scale farming that crushes small farmers, destroys the environment, and serves exports over people.
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Teaching an octopus to play piano
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
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November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Teaching an octopus to play piano
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
#animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science
youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
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"I think instinctively we know that's bullshit."
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"I think instinctively we know that's bullshit."
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"Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world."
fivebooks.com/best-books/d...
fivebooks.com/best-books/d...
Ethical Problems
Given the choice between allowing five people to die, and killing one person, what would you do? The best books on these and other 'ethical problems.'
fivebooks.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world."
fivebooks.com/best-books/d...
fivebooks.com/best-books/d...
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boosting this one again because I'm not seeing enough Bertrand Russell hate on the TL
New (anti Bertrand Russell) newsletter just dropped
wellreadherring.substack.com/p/the-timeli...
wellreadherring.substack.com/p/the-timeli...
The Timeliness of Bergson
Undoing pervasive misconceptions about Bergson's philosophy (I'm looking at you Bertrand Russell)
wellreadherring.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
boosting this one again because I'm not seeing enough Bertrand Russell hate on the TL
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Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
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I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)
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Forests purify and cool air for the world’s physical health, store carbon, and cache water, interdependent systems we cannot afford to let decline.
Sovereign forests
We are not free until every living thing is free.
theecologist.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Forests purify and cool air for the world’s physical health, store carbon, and cache water, interdependent systems we cannot afford to let decline.
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bp progresses plans for the significant Bumerangue discovery, offshore Brazil
More fossil fuels ahead of #COP30
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
More fossil fuels ahead of #COP30
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
bp progresses plans for the significant Bumerangue discovery, offshore Brazil | News and insights | Home
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October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
bp progresses plans for the significant Bumerangue discovery, offshore Brazil
More fossil fuels ahead of #COP30
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
More fossil fuels ahead of #COP30
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
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The Republican-controlled US Senate voted to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling. The final vote on the resolution was 52-45, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. Fetterman was the only Democrat to join Republicans.
Senate Republicans Vote to Gut Arctic Protections
This comes after Trump’s Interior Department wrenched open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Republican-controlled US Senate voted to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling. The final vote on the resolution was 52-45, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. Fetterman was the only Democrat to join Republicans.
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They call it the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), but it looks more like a Wall Street land grab. Turning forests into profit machines won’t save them, it just hands power to the same banks that helped destroy them! #COP30 #Brazil
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Inside private sector plans to shape the TFFF
The TFFF will channel climate finance into global markets to turn profit. Can the same financial actors driving deforestation be trusted to save our rainforests?
globalwitness.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
They call it the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), but it looks more like a Wall Street land grab. Turning forests into profit machines won’t save them, it just hands power to the same banks that helped destroy them! #COP30 #Brazil
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Drastic emissions reduction is not only needed now “as soon as possible,” but this year. This month. Every single one of us needs to make cuts wile those of us working on systemic change get a move on, faster and more urgently. And that means legal+mindset change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Drastic emissions reduction is not only needed now “as soon as possible,” but this year. This month. Every single one of us needs to make cuts wile those of us working on systemic change get a move on, faster and more urgently. And that means legal+mindset change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wetlands offer some of the best natural solutions to modern crises.
They can clean water by filtering pollutants, displace floodwater, shelter wildlife, improve our mental and physical wellbeing & capture climate-changing amounts of carbon.
We need wetlands now more than ever!
They can clean water by filtering pollutants, displace floodwater, shelter wildlife, improve our mental and physical wellbeing & capture climate-changing amounts of carbon.
We need wetlands now more than ever!
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Wetlands offer some of the best natural solutions to modern crises.
They can clean water by filtering pollutants, displace floodwater, shelter wildlife, improve our mental and physical wellbeing & capture climate-changing amounts of carbon.
We need wetlands now more than ever!
They can clean water by filtering pollutants, displace floodwater, shelter wildlife, improve our mental and physical wellbeing & capture climate-changing amounts of carbon.
We need wetlands now more than ever!
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Recommended listen: The latest episode of the @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast discussed how the animal agriculture industry has – and still does – “obstruct…climate policy”.
S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Recommended listen: The latest episode of the @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast discussed how the animal agriculture industry has – and still does – “obstruct…climate policy”.
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Zoos call it conservation. We call it captivity.
Breeding animals who will never be free doesn’t protect species, it protects the business model.
📢 Share if you agree that freedom, not captivity, is real conservation.
#TruthAboutZoos #FreedomForAnimals
Breeding animals who will never be free doesn’t protect species, it protects the business model.
📢 Share if you agree that freedom, not captivity, is real conservation.
#TruthAboutZoos #FreedomForAnimals
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Zoos call it conservation. We call it captivity.
Breeding animals who will never be free doesn’t protect species, it protects the business model.
📢 Share if you agree that freedom, not captivity, is real conservation.
#TruthAboutZoos #FreedomForAnimals
Breeding animals who will never be free doesn’t protect species, it protects the business model.
📢 Share if you agree that freedom, not captivity, is real conservation.
#TruthAboutZoos #FreedomForAnimals
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“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
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"Sycophancy", the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users.
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
arxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Sycophancy", the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture is celebrating the export of live native birds to the UAE, for “ornamental purposes” and zoo displays, as “economic diversification.”
Exploiting wildlife isn’t diversification, it’s
commodifying Brazil’s biodiversity!
go.shr.lc/3WhxI6T
Exploiting wildlife isn’t diversification, it’s
commodifying Brazil’s biodiversity!
go.shr.lc/3WhxI6T
Área ambiental soube pelo noticiário da exportação de aves silvestres vivas - ((o))eco
Fontes avaliam que o inusitado acordo aumenta os riscos de impactos ambientais e de retrocessos na proteção da fauna
go.shr.lc
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture is celebrating the export of live native birds to the UAE, for “ornamental purposes” and zoo displays, as “economic diversification.”
Exploiting wildlife isn’t diversification, it’s
commodifying Brazil’s biodiversity!
go.shr.lc/3WhxI6T
Exploiting wildlife isn’t diversification, it’s
commodifying Brazil’s biodiversity!
go.shr.lc/3WhxI6T
Why we are getting more stupid.
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek
Why we are getting more stupid | Slavoj Žižek FULL INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why we are getting more stupid.
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek
"People & Power tells the story of how a single group of chemicals poisoned the entire planet, and meets the men and women fighting to bring those responsible to justice"
youtu.be/JPTk6YxZolA
youtu.be/JPTk6YxZolA
PFAS: The toxin inside us all | People & Power Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"People & Power tells the story of how a single group of chemicals poisoned the entire planet, and meets the men and women fighting to bring those responsible to justice"
youtu.be/JPTk6YxZolA
youtu.be/JPTk6YxZolA
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Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere🔓One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere
Plastics interact with microorganisms in ways that can profoundly affect ecosystems
and human health. Despite their global atmospheric presence, microplastic-microbe
interactions in air and their plan...
www.cell.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere🔓One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...