Well, that's me and (the safety of) vaccines, and (the reality of) climate change, and various other things. I think we'll need some details here ...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.

Los Angeles 2025

Wtf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On hunger as a weapon of war, a murderous attack on a Jewish museum - and the blindness of hatred. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Data centers in the US used somewhere around 200 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, roughly what it takes to power Thailand for a year.” A quarter to a third of which is due to #AI. #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

lol humans

No woke mind virus in Lincolnshire. It’s mostly peas.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

Big sky at West Wittering.

Classic 'illiberal democracy' playbook a la Orban and Erdogan.

New season of Black Mirror is out, so it's time to share the tweet:

The 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award goes to...

Definitely the plan!

Today is American Liquidation Day

This should be etched on the DOGE letterhead

This story is amazing (& the first in which I see a friend’s name, Leon Peshkin. No doubt not the last.) A top scientist, she avoided all protest in the US. She only was a dissident in and of her native country — Russia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russian, Chinese and North Korean state-sponsored hackers being issued redundancy notices.

Sophie Keeling - 'Standpoints, Knowledge, and Power: Introducing Standpoint Epistocracy', available open-access:

Thoughts too cheap to matter.

I’ve been looking at some biographical material of the founders of modern physics and it’s striking how much attention they paid to philosophy: Bohr was obsessed with Kierkegaard and his followers, Einstein read Kant. Heisenberg read Plato's Timaeus.

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Otomi textiles originate from the indigenous people of eastern Mexico, an ancient craft using hand embroidering techniques. Otomi textiles, known as tenangos, incorporate colourful images of plants, animals, people and activities #WomensArt

Please share widely!

i suppose all we on the outside can do now is hope that the americans' sincere collective passion for litigation is stronger than their death drive

Musk lies and people lose their jobs; welcome to 2025

OMFG AI FTW (slightly NSFW).

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATION AND PHILOSOPHY chng.it/cCD8XDtYvH

*taps the sign* #MuskCoup #Technofascism

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

If you think the NSF is a waste of government money, you should stop using any technology created using NSF-funded research. Like cell phones. Or the Internet

The one thing that has made my university experience a good one is the staff on the philosophy team. The lecturers and staff at the university ARE WHAT MAKE THE UNIVERSITY. Their plans to cut over 50% of staff are morally horrendous and will lead to the downfall of the university as a whole

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over, and if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools. —Ray Bradbury

someday we will have the technology to turn the plastic accumulating in each of our brains into a personalized McDonald’s happy meal toy but until then we must continue gathering

Please support our colleagues in Philosophy at Cardiff University #philsky #philosophy

If only all that compute had been used to predict protein folding, design high-temperature superconductors or neutron shields for fusion reactors rather than just ... dodging copywright laws ...

Today is the first lecture of my First Year Ethics class, also known as the day I walk across campus carrying a giant inflatable crocodile. Crocrates the Philosophical Crocodile is ready for the new semester!

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

Important point ...

ChatGPT fails the Turing Test because it sounds too clever.

What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds