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Javi Lopez Frias
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Associate Professor.
Kinesiology and Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State (will join Utah State in Fall 2025).
President of the Spanish Association for the Philosophy of Sport.
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Universities allow DHS to surveil football games along with campus protests. This is a (sadly a bit badly written) story about a hugely important topic. Faculty governance must request information on these collaborations on their campus.

www.404media.co/dhs-is-deplo...
DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games
Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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sydney-bauer.com
Guess that the IOC is going to ban transgender women from sport before LA 2028 based on a wholesale scientific review which seems to just be from things that are not in the public domain:
Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male
www.thetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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farenet.bsky.social
UK 🇬🇧

The Guardian newspaper highlights football’s power to unite UK communities. From lifelong friendships in Merthyr and Wigan to inclusive fan groups in Birmingham, supporters describe football as a source of healing and shared identity beyond match results.
‘We could be winning or losing – it doesn’t matter as long as we’re together’: the friendships forged on football terraces
It starts with singing, banter or enthusiastic goal celebrations – and leads to so much more. Six groups of fan friends share how they met
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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philippeauclair.bsky.social
Turkish sports betting scandal: 17 referees were arrested on Friday, as well as Eyüpspor president Murat Özkaya, under suspicion of illegal betting linked to match-fixing.
www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/inter...
Sigue el escándalo en Turquía: ¡17 árbitros detenidos!
Un total de 19 personas, 17 de ellas árbitros de fútbol, han sido arrestadas este viernes en Turquía como sospechosos de haber participado en apuestas que pueden estar
www.mundodeportivo.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
javierlopez.bsky.social
Les invitamos al I Congreso Internacional de Filosofía de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y el Juego, que se celebrará en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte de la Universitat de València, del 27 al 29 de mayo de 2026:
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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adamleventhal.bsky.social
🏴‍☠️ Out tomorrow - Sunday ...

The Underground World of Illegal Streaming.

The latest special episode of The Athletic FC podcast.

Download in all your usual podcast places from 0600 UK.

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November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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theatlantic.com
“I’ve seen parents running to their kids, lovers sprinting toward a kiss, and friends handing a runner a beer so they can shotgun it together.” Mariana Labbate on how marathons have gathered strangers for more than a century in Time-Travel Thursdays:
The Wonder of Watching People Run
Marathons have gathered strangers for more than a century now.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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newyorker.com
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits came out against legalized sports betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7tQVbk
Is Gambling Really Threatening the Integrity of Sports?
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits have come out against legalized betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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lsephilosophy.bsky.social
📣Save the date for the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta!

🗓️ Friday 28 November, 6pm (London time)
📍 LSE campus and online

More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta
www.lse.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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illinoispress.bsky.social
Today is American Football Day! 🏈

In recognition, learn more about "Concussion's Past," a special issue of @journsporthist.bsky.social.

📙@projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/53464
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cc: @nassh1972.bsky.social
Cover of Journal of Sport History, Volume 50, Number 2, Background image of yellow metal stadium seats
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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apaphilosophy.bsky.social
The 2026 Eastern Division meeting will take place January 7–10 in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit the meeting page to register, download the program, make hotel reservations, and more! www.apaonline.org/mpage/2025ea...
2026 APA Eastern Division Meeting, January 7-10, Baltimore, Maryland
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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liberalcurrents.com
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 is a paradigm example of Anton Jäger’s concept of ‘hyperpolitics’: a heightened emotional response to momentary moral panics, fads, ‘a form of politicisation without any clear political consequences.’" www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
"The War on Science," ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary war on science from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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anitaleirfall.bsky.social
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities.’ x.com/anitaleirfal... #AI #criticalthinking #philosophysky #philsky
Anita Leirfall on X: "‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities.’ https://t.co/C0NlvIS00Z #AI #academia #criticalthinking" / X
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities.’ https://t.co/C0NlvIS00Z #AI #academia #criticalthinking
x.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
javierlopez.bsky.social
Después de los tres partidos que lleva Jude Bellingham, me gustaría que salgan esos que aseguraban que su presencia el la plantilla iba a ser un problema para Xabi Alonso porque, supuestamente, no tenía encaje ninguno en el equipo #RealMadrid
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?

Justin Smith-Ruiu: Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?
www.newstatesman.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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etvpod.bsky.social
As Elizabeth Anderson points out, a major consequence of the Conservative Protestant Work Ethic is the belief that it is better for 1000 deserving people to go without aid than for a single undeserving person to receive it.
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11d
Are you people fucking kidding me with this shit @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
At the same time, there are legitimate debates about the best ways to feed the needy, how many should qualify and how much they should get. In the 1970s, 1 in 50 Americans received food stamps. Now, 1 in 8 do. On average, these households get $322 a month. Are 42 million Americans really in such danger of suffering malnutrition that the federal government should spend about $100 billion every year Certainly, many need the help. The American Enterprise Institute's Kevin Corinth estimates that 2.9 million individuals willbe pushed into poverty if SNAP benefits are not paid in November, including 1.1 million children, 1.3 million working-age adults and about 500,000 seniors. But no one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts. The program could certainly be designed better to not discourage work. Ultimately, the best way to help over the long run is to grow the economy, which leads to job creation and rising wages.
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Great situation our business and political leaders have gotten us into.
Boom and bust can feel like two sides of the same coin: Consider also that if AI companies deliver on their massive investments, it would likely mean producing a technology so capable and revolutionary that it wipes out countless jobs and sends an unprecedented shock wave through the global economy before humans have time to adapt. (Perhaps we will be unable to adapt at all.) If they fail, there will likely be unprecedented financial turmoil as well. The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs, and largely, they’ve won. The data-center build-out is the ultimate culmination of that chase: the pursuit of scale for scale itself. In all scenarios, the outcome seems only to be real, painful disruption for the rest of us
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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theathletic.com
The NBA allows teams to exceed the salary cap.

But spend too much for too long, and the consequences are so severe that front offices are breaking up teams rather than facing them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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drelizabethmac1.bsky.social
‘The heart will break and yet brokenly live on.’ Byron. #Frankenstein is breathtaking & brilliant & del Toro is a gift to us all. If you can, you need to see this in the cinema. A film for now as we have to all think hard about labelling monsters and being human #filmsky
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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newyorker.com
One of our writers shares his biggest grammatical pet peeve: a confounding sentence structure that used to be rare, and now seems to be everywhere. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/OqTzda
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law.

This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️

#PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

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Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“TASSEL”): Findings from an intrastate legal mapping study
Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, i…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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bonniehonig.bsky.social
An awesome telling of the story of last night: “managerial machinations that involved emptying both bullpens.. telling tomorrow's grand plans to piss off because tomorrow is for suckers..it gave us, and we'll give you a moment here to lie to yourselves and imagine you knew who this was, Will Klein”
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Endless growth on a planet with finite resources and increasing wealth inequality isn't sustainable. Rather than work towards bettering humanity the answer came in the form of AI: replace workers with slop.

Billions of dollars and nothing to show for it later it now props up 35% of the US economy
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14d
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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theatlantic.com
“Sports betting is now legal everywhere—even in the states where it isn’t,” Marc Novicoff writes:
The Company Making a Mockery of State Gambling Bans
Thanks to Kalshi, a so-called prediction market, sports betting is now legal everywhere—even where it isn’t.
bit.ly
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM