I spoke with Canada's National Observer about whether Canadian MPs should still be on X. We discussed the non-consensual deepfakes generated with Grok, the ethical case for elected officials leaving the platform, and whether we can imagine a radically different social media ecosystem.

"Building Trust and Safety Across Sectors" 🗣 @etiennebrown.bsky.social 🎧 Trust in Tech (Olivia Conti) www.integrityinstitute.org/podcast/buil...

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

Our next online PhilMod.org talk will be held this Thursday at 12:30 pm ET. I'm delighted that we'll be hosting Hannah McHugh from Utrecht University for a presentation titled "Empire for Rent: Kantian Republicanism and the Market for Digital Domination." Registration via our website.

The first PhilMod talk for 2026 will focus on the epistemology of posting and reposting! Our guest will be Neri Marsili, Associate Professor in philosophy at the University of Turin. Link to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philmod-ta...

Yesterday UCM Philosophy hosted @etiennebrown.bsky.social (San José State) for his talk "Recommended Selves: Authenticity and Algorithmic Filtering" #philsky #philsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYz...

Time for an emergency session of Intro to Early Modern Philosophy?

Nuanced, cool-headed take on recent content moderation changes at Meta by the inimitable Jeff Howard.

I don't mind being rejected by a journal. What I resent is being rejected for good reasons.

Thanks again to @beaudoin.social for this essential thread. For me, the worry with decentralization is not that it will lead to echo chambers but that it will make it harder to curb the circulation of dangerous speech.

There is so much opacity about moderation and algo. recommendation that it’s hard to overstate how important this is.

There is an interesting tension in the philosophy of moderation between decentralization (i.e. customize your own personal public sphere) and democratization (same speech rules for everyone, but made democratically). This thread about decentralization is informative!

"Bluesky moderation lists create echo chambers." A short thread about decentralized moderation on Bluesky and why it changes everything.* 🧵 *Based on nearly a thousand hours spent exploring the platform's code.

I’m still as amazed as I was six years ago (when I started) by my chair who collects scheduling preferences from all faculty members every semester before building the course schedule.

Instagram begins randomly showing users AI-generated images of themselves 🔗 www.404media.co/instagram-be...

The best place to develop your toddler's fine motor skills is the taqueria.

Ma réflexion ce matin dans Le Devoir sur ce qui m'inquiète le plus dans les changements à la modération des contenus chez Meta.

New G.A. Cohen book is out: “If you care about the environmental impact of AI, how come you fly to the APA twice per year.”

Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

how did this one not get more attention youtu.be/XraQIvx5q0g?...

Unfortunately, Elise won’t be able to make it, but come hang out!

23e titre de la collection PolitiqueS que je co-dirige avec ma collègue de Sciences Po/Paris, Julie Saada. À paraitre fin février. classiques-garnier.com/politiques.h...

APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI Anthropic created an AI jailbreaking algorithm that keeps tweaking prompts until it gets a harmful response. 🔗 www.404media.co/apparently-t...

Our Christmas Eve present from @oxunipress.bsky.social: proofs of our forthcoming Handbook! 50 newly commissioned chapters on #19thCentury #women in #philosophy from logicians to social theorists to utilitarians to pacifists. I guess I know what will be first on my to-do list in 2025! #philsky

I hadn't used chatGPT for a while and was surprised to find that it now answers every question in the style of a middling and tedious student essay.

Outstanding investigation from @lizpelly.bsky.social into how Spotify is relentlessly replacing artist-driven music on its most popular playlists with anonymous Muzak harpers.org/archive/2025...

The final paper from my late colleague Anand Vaidya has just been published. I miss him dearly. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Isn’t it disappointing that philosophers, who claim to think about life’s great questions, have written so little about parenting, which gives meaning to the lives of most humans?

Is there any good way to avoid this? I frequently suspect AI plagiarism without being able to investigate. I'm very tempted to retreat to "all evals in the classroom," but that would also be bad for reasons pointed below.

I will jingle for half the way. Final offer.

Job at Bristol that could be for a philosopher. From advert: We’d like to add to expertise in areas such as AI & ethics, phil of AI & philosophical foundations of ML, creative industries, creative tech, digital hums, game studies, screen studies, digital heritage & interactive storytelling.

It's official! The Public Philosophy Network is accepting proposals for its eighth conference, to be held October 17th-19th, 2025 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, sponsored by The/La Collaborative. The theme is Public Philosophy and Social Change: Legacies, Grassroots, and New Directions.

Cheers!

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

I’d be excited to read some takes on the PGR that come from ESL speakers who work outside ranked programs. I’m wondering if most these takes will be negative.

People often ask me what I think about the philosophical gourmet report (the most well-known ranking of philosophy departments). So, I thought it might be worthwhile to put together some thoughts on it. tldr: They are on the whole negative, but I think some positives get overlooked.

“Why does my toddler has such irrational fears?” I whisper to myself, wittingly ignoring the fact that I made my brother sleep in my room for a year so that he could protect me from cows.

@caseynewton.bsky.social Why is everyone freaking out about paper clips when pro wrestling has taught us that thumbtacks are much more dangerous?

Thank you and goodbye, Purdue Philosophy! We’ll keep sending you our best.

9 days left to submit to the Philosophy of Content Moderation conference (April 12-15, in Asilomar, California)! www.philmod.org/conference

Who else is here because they're scared of LinkedIn?

Hello, philosophy BSKY! I'm organizing a conference on the Philosophy of Content Moderation. Check it out: www.philmod.org/conference Abstracts due December 15

Step 1. Get on Bluesky. Step 2. Find enlightenment. Step. 3. Profit.