#Trumpland #USCorruption

“I don’t see why a man should take thirty pages to describe how he turns over in his bed before he goes to sleep.” A publisher rejecting Proust. Every academic - “Can you really do that properly in a mere 30 pages?”

If you’re fighting the anti-fascists then you’re either a fascist or in league with them. #Trumpland #USFascism

Switching 2p from National Insurance to Income Tax would bring the rate of tax paid by pensioners closer to that paid by working-age people. Even so, pensioners with incomes below £40,000 would still be better off next year than this year, due to upcoming increases to the state pension age ⤵️

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Yes. Same for academic work. No (other than marketing) use for saying one is working on (the x of) AI. (Lots of use for the x of „AI“

‘AI’ is a marketing term, pure and simple. It’s like saying “Contains silicon!” on anything that has a microprocessor, “Now with optical brighteners!” on laundry detergent. Intended to dazzle and impress as opposed to saying anything meaningful about the product. #AIHype #JustSayNo

I can see why the Trojans were confused. On the one hand, one shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. On the other, beware of Greeks bearing gifts. The rules of etiquette simply did not prepare them for the historic moment. 🐴

Just bring back freedom of movement for all UK and EU citizens. #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU apple.news/Ad00JQF6DQdi...

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

California court fines attorney $10,000 for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by #ChatGPT. #AIEthics #slopification (via @norombasic.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) calmatters.org/economy/tech...

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

There’s a new #philosophy feed in town! 📣 #PhilosophySky combines the best philosophical discussion via the #PhilSky and area-specific hashtags with announcements from 250+ philosophy-related accounts making it the most comprehensive feed for academic philosophy on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/did:...

#PhilosophySky 🥳

There’s a new #philosophy feed in town! 📣 #PhilosophySky combines the best philosophical discussion via the #PhilSky and area-specific hashtags with announcements from 250+ philosophy-related accounts making it the most comprehensive feed for academic philosophy on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/did:...

YES. 🥮

This Pride in Place story is much more important for any Labour recovery imo than ID and ought to form a central part of its focus: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Analytic philosophers often suppose that a training in logic makes people better able to think in other domains – a plausible-sounding idea for which there nevertheless appears to be no evidence' Nice remark from @schuringa.bsky.social 'A social history of analytic philosophy'

How the government's new digital ID will work… and why I’ve changed my mind on ID cards (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

What a state the US is in, in so many ways. "The top 10% of earners account for almost half of consumer spending – the highest level since the late 1980s." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I’m going to stick my neck and out sat Digital ID—essentially a unified login for government services—is kind of a no-brainer. What will make or break the scheme is the privacy and security of the data. But this has little or nothing to do with controlling immigration. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Apple has simply contested every little bit of the #DMA since its entry into application,” said Regnier… There is “nothing in the DMA that requires companies to lower their privacy standards, their security standards”. #Apple #DMA www.macrumors.com/2025/09/25/e...

#Trumpland #USFascism

Tylenol: an idiot speaks.

Big day for me. A box I've been saving for over 3 years was just perfect for something

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter. Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Daleks:

*taps sign*

Buckle up everybody -- we could be heading for another spot of turbulence. And get the sick bags ready.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

#BrexitReality #REFUK

Some things never change.

Automating an experiment is possible, automating science is not - there is no scientific “super-intelligence” to train on the methods of science given no one can agree exactly what science is. It’s modern myth making to assume otherwise.

Say it louder so they can hear it at the back bit.ly/4nl5AeS

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)

Reminder: you can keep up to date with the latest philosophy discussion and announcements on Bluesky by pinning/saving one or more of my #philosophy feeds. The general feed (bsky.app/profile/did:...) shows all #PhilSky posts plus related hashtags from ~2,500 philosophy-related accounts…

This is wild. Police conducted controlled explosions of hand grenades in #Oslo after an apparent showdown between criminals.

“Even for Donald Trump, this was not normal. It was not normal for the UN General Assembly. It was not usual for any world leader, elected or not – dictators usually take decades to lose contact with reality in the way Trump appeared to have done today.”

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Rule of thumb: if a user action could equally be triggered by a ✔️ or a ❌ icon, then neither is an appropriate symbol for that action. #ux

“The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million”. I hope the beavers were appropriately compensated! 🦫 🪵

Danish police are now labeling the drone incident at Copenhagen Airport as “an attack.” The UAVs were guided by a “capable operator” showcasing specific capabilities, approached from multiple directions, lights intermittently switching on and off before ultimately vanishing after several hours.

Even a stopped clock… #Trumpland #PresidentStupid

#Trumpland #USCorruption

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...