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Philosopher in Glasgow, working on laws of nature, physics, and artificial intelligence. Researching bullshit but not a bullshitter.
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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New letter to the Editors:
Christian Loew & Siegfried Jaag
On Laws and Counterfactuals: A Response to Lange
Read it here: www.thebsps.org/letters/loew...
#philsci #philsky
Christian Loew & Siegfried Jaag
On Laws and Counterfactuals: A Response to Lange
Read it here: www.thebsps.org/letters/loew...
#philsci #philsky
On Laws and Counterfactuals | BJPS Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Christian Loew and Siegfried Jaag on Lange
www.thebsps.org
February 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM
New letter to the Editors:
Christian Loew & Siegfried Jaag
On Laws and Counterfactuals: A Response to Lange
Read it here: www.thebsps.org/letters/loew...
#philsci #philsky
Christian Loew & Siegfried Jaag
On Laws and Counterfactuals: A Response to Lange
Read it here: www.thebsps.org/letters/loew...
#philsci #philsky
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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PSA: You don’t have to shame people into voting for a hypothetical future nominee in a general election that is two and a half years from now
February 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM
PSA: You don’t have to shame people into voting for a hypothetical future nominee in a general election that is two and a half years from now
Honestly this is exactly the attitude that would lead you to two dimensional semantics, a research program built in accepting the twin earth intuitions but making sure we learn nothing deep about semantics as a result.
Recently I saw Chalmers say something like that he's an internalist "except for twin Earth situations" and I thought, that's a nice way to just ignore a whole chunk of arguments and move on with your life.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Honestly this is exactly the attitude that would lead you to two dimensional semantics, a research program built in accepting the twin earth intuitions but making sure we learn nothing deep about semantics as a result.
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UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.
Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.
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My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Change in Headline
February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Change in Headline
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Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
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i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL
bad news y'all it's a long winter
February 2, 2026 at 12:40 PM
bad news y'all it's a long winter
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February 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Unpaid "invisible labor" of poor women around them
Multiple leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, men angry at Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, their billionaires
Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos article by Lindy West asking to “mock this fat feminist”
Multiple leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, men angry at Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, their billionaires
Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos article by Lindy West asking to “mock this fat feminist”
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Unpaid "invisible labor" of poor women around them
Multiple leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, men angry at Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, their billionaires
Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos article by Lindy West asking to “mock this fat feminist”
Multiple leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, men angry at Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, their billionaires
Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos article by Lindy West asking to “mock this fat feminist”
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wow this blew my mind🤯🤯
February 2, 2026 at 7:23 AM
wow this blew my mind🤯🤯
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You know the people who go went after their own undergrads and faculty for denouncing the genocide committed by Israel. All working with a pedophile.
This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
February 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
You know the people who go went after their own undergrads and faculty for denouncing the genocide committed by Israel. All working with a pedophile.
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34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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we have reporting, per our sources, in here on what Trump’s intel community (yes Intel community) and federal law enforcement have been probing since last year, which led to this raid, and boy is it wild… I know we’ve come to expect this from this gang, but it’s basically Trump’s feds and spooks…
new details in here with @justinglawe.bsky.social, who I’ve had the privilege of reporting with at the daily beast, rolling stone, and now at @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/trump-geor...
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Trump’s Plot to Rig the Midterms Has Kicked Off in Georgia
Donald Trump’s administration raided an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia. It’s a preview of how he could try to interfere in the midterm elections.
zeteo.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:10 PM
we have reporting, per our sources, in here on what Trump’s intel community (yes Intel community) and federal law enforcement have been probing since last year, which led to this raid, and boy is it wild… I know we’ve come to expect this from this gang, but it’s basically Trump’s feds and spooks…
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If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
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I just see “federal agents” and notes that federal judges rejected requests for a warrant at two levels
January 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I just see “federal agents” and notes that federal judges rejected requests for a warrant at two levels
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system