When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

The Swedish director of the V-Dem institute, which measures democracy, states that the US no longer qualifies as a democracy. "The USA no longer qualifies as a democracy. Many researchers agree on this."

Hans Adolfsson från SUHF kommenterar också: "Dagens konstruktion bygger på att staten är god. Att staten förstår vikten av att värna den akademiska friheten, och att värna den institutionella autonomin för lärosätena. Men den dag staten inte är god ... vad händer då?"

Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg pekar på en intressant paradox i synen på universitetens organisationsform. S ser staten som bästa garant för akademisk frihet. SD vill kunna styra – bort från "woke" etc. Båda landar i samma organisationsform och ser inget behov av utredning. Ur senaste Universitetsläraren.

Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg pekar på en intressant paradox i synen på universitetens organisationsform. S ser staten som bästa garant för akademisk frihet. SD vill kunna styra – bort från "woke" etc. Båda landar i samma organisationsform och ser inget behov av utredning. Ur senaste Universitetsläraren.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

"According to Erika Kirk, her beloved grandfather immigrated to the United States from Sweden and then fought for his new homeland in World War II. After that, according to her testimony, he was knighted by the King of Sweden. But by that time, nobility had long ceased to exist in Sweden."

Love these kinds of databases. "The accompanying database provides descriptions for all 102 U-Turn episodes from 1900 to 2023, differentiating between three types: authoritarian manipulation, democratic reaction, and international intervention."

Love these kinds of databases. "The accompanying database provides descriptions for all 102 U-Turn episodes from 1900 to 2023, differentiating between three types: authoritarian manipulation, democratic reaction, and international intervention."

the history will continue until morale improves

Medical misogyny & racism – but automated "The findings by researchers at leading US and UK universities suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less 'empathy' towards Black and Asian ones."

New research on defense willingness in Sweden by Ralph Sundberg & Gina Gustafsson: Positive link to national attachment, cultural national pride, and civic conception of nationhood. An ethnic conception of nationhood shows no significant effect, and uncritical patriotism has a negative effect.

Polen just last week. Now Estonian airspace. "Nato responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft."

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

New research finds that #longCOVID may affect women’s menstrual cycles – and that their periods may in turn affect their long COVID symptoms.

Good news that the government is now opening up to treating nuclear and wind power equally. This means there can be state support for offshore wind power. No concrete commitment from all political parties – but still a better outcome than focusing just on nuclear.

Mina kollegor som driver Queerseminariet vid Stockholms universitet har bjudit in Sam Hultin för en stadsvandring i Eva-Lisas spår – imorgon kl 17.30. Registrering här för att delta: www.su.se/institutione...

If you're on academia/.edu, there’s a nice workaround for deleting your account in this thread below.

The Royal Society is finally discussing whether to expel Elon Musk.

Åsa Wikforss idag. Extra obehagligt att Busch och Teodorescu Måwe menar att "Sverige är under en värderingsattack" pga "den radikala" palestinarörelsen. Vad är ens en värderingsattack? www.dn.se/kultur/asa-w...

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

I'll do references when I am done writing. Me doing references:

Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...

When Kafkaesque is an understatement.

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

New article, ‘Tense Concepts: Obstetric Violence, Structural Injustice and Moral Injury’ published online today in ‘Gender and Justice’ ➡️➡️ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

At the Villa Malcontenta this morning

Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

Kulldorff och den amerikanska vaccinstriden ikväll i Agenda.

Saturday in the woods 🌞 Tyresta National Park, +18°C

Intressant text av Stefan Svallfors som väver samman Max Webers patrimonialism, Hochschilds deep story, med Curtis Yarvin och libertianismens attack på staten.

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lovely portrait by James McIntosh Patrick: Dorothea Hannah (1928).

"she has captured the passage of time in the snare of sugar; she has put life in jars." - Beauvoir

My mom’s fridge gave out, so I spent part of my Friday making raspberry jam. The kitchen smells amazing – a sweeter way to start the weekend in a messy world

📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

Measles can kill years after infection. A child in LA just died from SSPE, a progressive brain disorder linked to measles. As the virus spreads, such tragedies will only increase.

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French feminist, slavery abolistionist, writer of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) due to the French revolutionary goverments failure to include women in its calls for liberty & freedom. She was guillotined in 1793 for political criticisim #WomensArt

Swedish Covid Association: "Including long-term consequences, as the Communicable Diseases Act states, should be an obvious and important part of a pandemic plan. The European Commission also states this in its resolution The Covid-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future."

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal & logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the J of the American Philosophical Assoc. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity & open-mindedness theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philsky

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Converting a manuscript from US to UK English makes one thing clear: "emphasize" is haunting every other sentence. Nothing like a wall of -ize’s staring back at you.

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

More and more evidence links chronic diseases to viral infections. Latest example: a new study suggests that Sjögren’s disease may be triggered by a Vientovirus – its "capsid protein mimics autoantigens and contributes to autoimmunity."

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in, yes, the mid 1990s. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...