Alan Richardson

@alanrichardson.bsky.social

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Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science

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Karl Schafer @karlschafer.bsky.social · 2h

happy comically small royalty statement from academic publisher season to all who celebrate

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

I remember something somewhere about government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed…..

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3h

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

I am boycotting the opera because the lyrics are very often not in English! #BadPuccini

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3h

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

In a letter Friday to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, the Federal Judicial Center said it had "omitted" the climate science chapter from its latest
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The removal marks a significant victory for Republican efforts to thwart a raft of climate lawsuits that the fossil fuel industry has warned could cost it billions of dollars. On Friday, the Republican Attorneys General Association congratulated its members on X, writing that the "Federal Judicial Center has announced they are removing ridiculous WOKE climate science from judicial
manuals."

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 3h

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 4h

The real realignment is going to come from the fact that human-friendly tech innovation and real honest to god higher education is moving to China, India, Singapore, etc.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

Mark Carney may be right that "the old order is not coming back," but the new one, a decade from now, may look a lot like the old, as we've seen at regular intervals since at least Nixon brought down Bretton Woods & everyone began predicting the End Of All Things. Per @gideonrachman.bsky.social:

A post-Trump restoration is still possible

His presidency may eventually be seen as an aberration rather than a permanent shift

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 4h

Ghislaine Maxwell should be sent back to a maximum-security prison until she’s ready to publicly answer questions and name names under oath to Congress.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

A post-Trump restoration is still possible

His presidency may eventually be seen as an aberration rather than a permanent shift

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident

The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.

www.detroitnews.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

Brendan Carr is also very excited for more local broadcast TV consolidation at the hands of the right wing!

You know, to improve competition, something Carr (who has rubber stamped every desire media and telecom giants have ever had) genuinely cares about

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike.

6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks to the ever-courageous @LINDSEY VONN for showing yet another domain of courage: "As a ski racer, I've seen firsthand what global warming has done...[M]ost of the glaciers that I used to ski on are pretty much gone."
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Olympic athletes protest big oil

Several athletes are objecting to the International Olympic Committee over sponsorship of the Games by major oil companies. They say fossil fuel use threatens winter conditions needed for snow sports.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

President Trump called U.S. Olympic skier Hunter Hess a "loser" after Hess voiced concern about political turmoil in the U.S. Gold medal U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn says she's faced online hate and threats after advocating for LGBTQ rights. n.pr/4qqjrRQ

As US Olympians call for tolerance and LGBTQ rights, some face Trump attacks and online hate

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 5h

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 7h

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l

Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining

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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y
X
@elonmusk
For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

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VA-AAUP @aaupvirginia.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Speaker Scott, Delegate Torian, and VA House Democrats...
THIS IS WHY HIGHER ED WORKERS NEED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING! @donscott757.bsky.social

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 18h

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.