The eager and naive stupidity with which culture broadly (businesses, schools, universities, people in their private lives) is adopting AI is shocking.

Kafka. He would have *loved* this

So much of the internet (while not great before) begins to read like badly written first year or high school student essays. People are using AI more and more. I cannot read about gardening, or hi-fi systems, or movies, or *anything* now, without listening to a machine. Have you all gone insane.

The rise of Trump/MAGA in the US, Reform UK in Britain, AfD in Germany, RN in France, I could go on… 😭 Is the number of bastards in the world increasing… or is that number stable throughout the ages, and they’re just showing themselves again, out in the open?

I so wish this were true. But unfortunately Tiananmen Square happened, and then there were 35 more years of tyranny. I wish Georgia all the best. Perhaps the conditions for Democrat are better there than in China.

Science 😍

👍 Replace “country case study” with “case” or “instance”, and *generalized actor/institution* with “drug/principle/cause…”

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Today's South Africa unfortunately needs to introduce a new category of 'struggle hero', of those who died fighting the corrupt African National Congress 😕 mg.co.za/editorial/20...

I’m a strong advocate of ancient languages, but it seems dangerous to overpromise…

If social media are the new town square or commons, then like town squares or commons they must be under public, not private, control. Let’s have *public* social media

Yes, yes. And no. We’ve been promised “the greatest Presidential scandal in history” with the Russia investigation. It fizzled out. I fully expect the Epstein scandal to fizzle out, too, because people in power will protect other people in power.

Am I the only one out there judging people by their dumb tattoos?

Standards are falling everywhere. I recently came across an article in Synthese, a previously highly respectable journal in analytic philosophy, with an abstract so ungrammatical, it was barely intelligible. No competent English speaker had proofread it.. I wonder what the ultimate cause is of this

I think I agree. The Americans have somehow lost it with respect to social media, privacy, the internet, and democracy. Maybe they never had it... Europeans are now on their own to defend the liberal democracy they invented.

5 October 1923 | A Pole, Edward Galiński, was born in Więckowice. In #Auschwitz from 14 June 1940. No. 531 On 24 July 1944, he escaped with Male Zimetbaum. They were captured, tortured and finally executed publicly. --- The first transport of Poles to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/kKOZLEUo2QM

She’s French, no papers…

The U.S. is hitting the self-destruct button. It's not a bomb, more of a slow burn... Who would have thunk.

One thing is for sure: humans will have to focus on their strengths in the future, which is creativity, in other words free will. One thing LLMs aren't very good at by design is saying something no one has ever said before.

"i just use it to generate ideas"

I *still* cannot believe that Americans elected a man for president, twice, who communicates like a thug. I *still* believe, or want to believe, that this was some sort of collective cognitive & moral failure, a mistake, a one-off...

Reminds me of the Catholic church’s past mental gymnastics, according to which being a homosexual isn’t sinful, only homosexual behaviour is 😅

Really good news. Moldova self-evidently belongs in the EU. So does Serbia, if one day it can liberate itself from Russian influence and hegemonic cravings.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

I have never sent AI-generated content to anyone pretending it is mine, and never will. It has never even occurred to me. Apparently, many do. What is wrong with people ??? 🤷‍♂️

A weakness that the US inherited from Britain is its over-reliance in crucial aspects of the constitutional order on unwritten 'norms' and 'traditions'. Those, it turns out, can easily be violated if cultural conditions are right. You cannot trust 'culture' even if you're *so* very proud of yours...

My favourite abstract painter. Don't know why he is the best. But he is.

I'm sometimes moved to tears thinking about how, like, 'physician' or 'satirist' as continuous institutions have outlasted empires

Of course, academia has been awash with copycat papers written by authors themselves ever since quantity of publications has become the main criterion of promotion/advancement. AI now simply helps to automate the process... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Glad to be getting more attention to our work on redundant publications!! @nature.com #metascience #academicsky

I usually don't re-distribute AI art. I'll make an exception 😆

Displacement and Solidarity: Reflections on African Phenomenology, Interview with Abraham Olivier www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUw... #africanphilosophy #phenomenology #displacement #Positionality #community #communality #Ubuntu #liberation #solidarity #colonialism #Apartheid #epistemicide

It almost seems as if Trump believes, and repeats, whatever was said to him last. Usually, one of the symptoms of low IQ. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

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This👇! "What these people do, is that they search, they find one paper or two papers that make an outlandish claim based on bad data that hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of other papers refute." Claim Covid vaccines persist is ‘absolutely impossible’ www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

'"When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren't guided by strategy, but by 'fomo'". For 'companies', read 'universities'.

Shout out to @olivia.science and other colleagues for resisting and exposing AI hype creeping into our education systems

People ask, does he really believe this stuff? But that question is not relevant. To Trump, words are not "true" or "false" - he doesn't believe or not believe in their veracity. Words only "help Trump" or "harm Trump". So, what he believes is that saying this will benefit him. And that's far worse.

This is exactly how the "bien-pensant" German middle-class and bourgeoisie received Hitler and all of his NSDAP goons... they were all just outrageously inappropriate in so many ways. It didn't stop them from gaining power, and keeping it.

The next stepby all UN members must be to revoke recognition of Israel as a state, for as long as Israel denies statehood to Palestine, a recognized state partially co-extensive with itself.

There is no mistake, no confusion, and no forgetting anything: corporations squeeze the human beings who make them rich ever more rapaciously, because they can, and nothing is preventing them.

Some (many?) artists, creative writing teachers, etc. seem to believe that it is possible to act creatively, while using AI, without damage to their creative muscle. I'm skeptical. What I do know is that it absolutely does not work in philosophy.

One of the most profound contributions of social media and the internet to human progress may might turn out to be the ultimate demonstration of why "do your own research" doesn't work. In other words, of the need for *traditional* education.

Someone has "done their own research" again

... like the people running workshops on AI use in university and "assessment integrity". I wonder if an artificially intelligent Mephistopheles visited them in their chamber, and offered a deal.

Some folks seem to think it is possible to have a pact with the devil and use it to teach about ethical AI.