Nice harm. Let me guess, epistemic?

@udelphilosophy.bsky.social is home to an unbelievable number of events.

Any other Carls out there?

Tomorrow at @udelaware.bsky.social

From the Yale Report: “Faculty … worry that the wrong book on a syllabus or the wrong idea expressed on social media may damage their careers or get them fired. [They endure] pressures to conform to campus opinion, especially on matters involving race, gender, and sexuality.”

Everyone has this right. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Green and Maroon, 1953 #americanart #rothko

Reminder: On Saturday, April 18, the University of Delaware is hosting the 36th annual GPPC Undergraduate Conference w/ talks by students from 12 colleges/universities. Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers) will deliver a keynote. Attendance is free and open to the public. #philsky

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This is an insane policy on the part of TT.

France is considering a new bill that would expand its incitement to terror and glorification of terror offenses, as well as criminalize calls for the "destruction of a state recognised by the French Republic." That would included slogans like "from the river to the sea."

“It would have been nice if at least someone had been willing to stand up for academic freedom and publicly say that we find the policy problematic. But no single person, department head, dean, or provost, has done so.” https://chroni.cl/4cliCou

Remember when Mellon gave some philosophers who had led the insane attacks on Rebecca Tuvel a grant to study "research ethics." Good times.

awesome!

The philosopher who was told by Texas A&M administrators to remove a text by Plato from his course is the second philosopher this term to decide to leave the university owing to its academic freedom failures. dailynous.com/2026/04/09/p...

gramsci: i won’t let prison & poor health stop me from writing a masterpiece me: i’m not doing shit before my hands are warm

Happy 9th anniversary to the publication of "In Defense of Transracialism" and the start of the Tuvel Affair. ’Twas then that I realized how broken philosophy had become. Though we never had the proper reckoning with the shameful behavior exhibited by the mob, philosophy is (slowly) on the mend.

must read about experimental philosophy

Happy 9th anniversary to the publication of "In Defense of Transracialism" and the start of the Tuvel Affair. ’Twas then that I realized how broken philosophy had become. Though we never had the proper reckoning with the shameful behavior exhibited by the mob, philosophy is (slowly) on the mend.

"As I say in the review, this and other errors make Gender Identity 'a troubling failure of academic publishing.' Given OUP's laggardly response, make that a double failure." x.com/byrne_a/stat...

excellent topic

The Turkish government is planning to require social media users to register accounts under their real names with the goal of ending anon accounts. I really fear we are not understanding the cliff we're approaching around the world re: online anonymity. www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-acts...

Now published: a seven-pronged no-go result for quantum mechanics (QM). Seven classically accepted theses about physical reality are jointly inconsistent with QM. Any six are consistent. Different interpretations of QM can be classified in terms of which theses they give up and which they retain.

Struck by this, which lays out the problem-solution-problem cycle of AI. Outsource feedback to the chatbot and the students will write to "please" the chatbot and then you have that problem to deal with (which could be solved by giving feedback yourself if you had time which is the real problem)

Lucky to see Calidore String Quartet today with Richard Morales on clarinet.

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes. Read the letter here: www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...

Temple University's Beardsley Lecture is fast approaching. The 2026 Beardsley Lecture, presented by Thi Nguyen, will be at TU’s Center City campus, 2nd floor at 5pm on April 10. See attachment for more information. #philsky

"People haven't fallen out of love with social media, I think they've just become a lot more intentional about how they show up on it." This is appalling. We need a Campaign for Real Shitposting to preserve traditional online ways of life before they vanish completely www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Describe what I was doing when the program crashed? I was living my best life. Giving 110% every day and putting myself first for once.

👀 ”Yes, yes, I will be there,” I hear you say. Good, then, I will expect you, and then my clock will be wound as well.

Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in @thetls.bsky.social @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

If DFW had not checked out when he did, he would have by now.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Per the National Literacy Institute, - 21% of adults in the US were illiterate in 2024. - 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). - The US ranks 36th in literacy. www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

I have experienced similar pile-ons when my summary of a court's holding was mistaken for my personal view on the matter. This insistence on stripping a post of context then imputing bad faith is making BlueSky unusable for legal reporting. Today's incident shows that the problem is getting worse.

Carolina Sartorio will give the keynote.

For all of the "where are academic freedom/free speech warriors now" crowd - Robinson is being represented by FIRE in his lawsuit. www.texastribune.org/wp-content/u...

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