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Books on my bookshelf do not constitute endorsements.

I teach and research philosophy (mainly metaethics and philosophy of perception) at Hebrew University and […]

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ruxotves.hed.im.ap.brid.gy
[תגובות למסרים… יותר קונטרוברסליים, מהיום]

לירי בורק שביט:
https://x.com/lirishavit/status/1936026071494713381
https://x.com/lirishavit/status/1936022115490161135

נאווה רוזוליו:
https://x.com/rozolyo/status/1936027131051491421

משנים כיוון […]
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hed.im
June 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
pjw.fediphilosophy.org.ap.brid.gy
"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war."
June 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
[griping about 3.5% rule discourse, actually looking at the dataset from the book]

getting annoyed at the "3.5%" rule discourse i'm seeing mostly on bsky that's like "governments never survive when 3.5% of people protest."

the original ted talk claim was […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]
figure 2.1 from "Why civil resistance works" "The effect of participation on the probability of campaign success" on the x axis is "participants per capita, logged" and y axis is probability of success. it's a sigmoid rising from ~15% at 0.5, inflection point at 50% with 1.1 participants per capita, and starts to approach 100% with the maximum point at 1.65 for some reason the plot is a series of dots??? presumably representing the individual movements??? but they are plotted with some vertical jitter against the curve of the logistic regression sigmoid? like how does a discrete event (whether a movement succeeded or failed) have a probability of success? logistic regression plot (the actual predicted values, rather than the cases) with the full range of the data, showing a rise almost too narrow to see from ~25% at the intercept, plateuing through 0.75 at ~5% and max ~80 at 30%. below it is a dot plot showing the actual instances themselves, successful in a filled circle and unsuccessful in an unfilled circle. At the lowest range, again too smashed to see anything, there are an equal number of successes and failures. the next bin is at 1%, with ~5 failures and ~10 successes, and from there through the rest of the scale up to 30% are sparse outlier examples of successes that are logged as having 10-30% of all people involved in them
June 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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ml.mitexleo.one.ap.brid.gy
🇧🇩 Amid escalating Israel-Iran conflict, Bangladesh has set up emergency hotlines for citizens in Iran and their families:
📞 Tehran: +989908577368 / +989122065745
📞 Dhaka: +8801712012847

Bangladeshis in Lebanon are also urged to stay cautious and indoors at night.
📞 Beirut hotline: 70635278 […]
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mitexleo.one
June 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
pjw.fediphilosophy.org.ap.brid.gy
Hi all!
My server, fediphilosophy, is sadly shutting down. So I have to migrate. Any server suggestions?
I'm a philosopher, academic, leftist, living in Israel/Palestine (but American)

I post a lot of Israel/Palestine politics from a left/not-anarchist-but-adjacent angle, but also some academic […]
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fediphilosophy.org
June 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy
"A busy, busy day at the airport."
A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book.
June 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
pjw.fediphilosophy.org.ap.brid.gy
I have a question for the philosophers, ethicists, and adjacent people reading this.
Suppose you discovered that all of the people you most ethically admire in the world shared the same metaethical view.
Would you take this as a reason, even a small one, in favor of that metaethical view?
If yes […]
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fediphilosophy.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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etp.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Anybody know of maps that reconstruct land use patterns in Europe over the past 1000 years or so?

Boosts welcome.

#askfedi #geography #environment
June 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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zvinj.tooot.im.ap.brid.gy
כבוד לספיר סלוצקר עמראן ן"באות למפציצים" שגם היום עמדו מול בסיס ח"א (חצרים) עם תמונות של #מעורבים_בעל_כורחם כדי שהטייסים יצטרכו להתמודד עם תוצאות מעשיהם
(נכתב בלשון זכר אך מתייחס גם לרוצחות)
יש לכם אינסטוש? פרגנו להן
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKWo0HcJ7ZQ/
#תסרבו
June 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Hallucinating #goldstandard science

"The #maha Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist."
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

"Health Secretary #rfkjr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science […]
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May 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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opendemocracy.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy
As US role in Gaza intensifies, expect violent responses in the West: Terror attacks in Europe over past 20 years should offer stark warning as US aids Israel in displacing Palestinians […]

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May 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy
2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones
2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated

*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*
*Concentrated*

They are ANNOUNCING concentration camps

archive.is/Q7klW
"75% of Gaza to Be Occupied in Two Months; 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones"
May 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Wow. Doing everything they can to boot progressive voices that threaten the stagnant status quo.

"The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to void the results of the internal party vote that made David Hogg a party vice chair, ruling that the election had […]
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mstdn.social
May 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy
For everyone in the #usa who can contact a member of congress:

Please contact your member and remind them that Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency and the president does not have authority over it.

DOGE is trying to pull something regarding the Copyright Office […]
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fedihum.org
May 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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ayoub.spore.social.ap.brid.gy
Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!

In Episode 1, @leilashami and I go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?

Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128666665

Part of From The Periphery Media Collective
Illustration by Hisham Rifai. It shows a couple from the back with protesters in the background.
May 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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engagedharma.leftodon.social.ap.brid.gy
ביום שבת הבא נצא לעבוד עם שותפינו מדיר אסתיא. נבדוק ביחד את התפיסות שלנו ואת המציאות. נבטא סולידריות ביחד.

ניפגש בשעה 7:00 בתחנת הרכבת של ראש העין צפון.
אחרי הסברים ובניית התכוונות ניסע לכפר.
נהיה בחזרה בראש העין עד השעה 16:00.

מידע מלא (כולל לגבי טרמפ במידת הצורך) נשלח למי שיירשמו דרך הקישור […]
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leftodon.social
May 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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veggies.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
#radicalroutes 'Co-op Principles' tea towels are once again in stock.

Get them at this weekend's RR gathering at Highbury Farm or email publicity@radicalroutes.org.uk for wholesale or mail order prices.

Also available from Veggies online store, at the […]

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Text printed on Tea Towel As a co-op we follow the Seven Co-operative Principles A co-op is a group of people that gets together to organise collectively for their mutual benefit. Work, housing, services, pubs and social centres can all be co-operatively owned and managed. Homes without landlords. Work without bosses. Society without exploitation. Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, social responsibility, openness and caring for others. 1. Coop membership is open and voluntary. 2. Co-ops are controlled only by their members, who each have equal control. 3. All members have a fair stake in the co-op. Investment does not give control and gives only a small return. 4. Co-ops are autonomous and independent self-help organisations. 5. We educate and train members so they can contribute to the co-op. We also inform the public about the benefits of co-operation. 6. Co-operation among co-ops benefits members and the wider co-op movement. 7. We act with concern for the wider community. For more info about co-ops contact: Radical Routes a network of radical housing co-ops, worker co-ops and social centres committed to positive social change: www.radicalroutes.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
pjw.fediphilosophy.org.ap.brid.gy
This past Tuesday was the 20th Annual Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, presented by Combatants for Peace. Along with the ceremony, they hosted screenings across Israel/Palestine as well as in various cities across the world. (You can watch the ceremony recording here […]
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fediphilosophy.org
May 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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dailynous.com
Updated with a response from the publisher...
A Mysterious Publication (updates, incl. response from publisher) - Daily Nous
(Temporarily moved to the top of the homepage in light of response from Springer; see Update 5, below.) An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers. Remember t...
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May 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
pjw.fediphilosophy.org.ap.brid.gy
I feel like educators around my generation (I'm 41) are still trying to impress the youths with what we take to be 'cool' technology. But the younger generation now is in a moment of backlash against at least much tech that is more flash than substance.
Case in point: With my lectures, I […]
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fediphilosophy.org
April 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime. Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.
April 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Saying he has lost journalistic independence, the executive producer of 60 Minutes is resigning. (Full disclosure: I appeared recently on the CBS program along with VOA colleague Patsy Widakuswara) […]
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journa.host
April 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM