Mark Alfano
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Nemo me impune lacessit.
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facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts
about 2 months ago
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They're really going to go full Horst Wessel, aren't they?
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CHOAM Nomsky
8 days ago
I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination
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Ian Hussey
8 days ago
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
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merry as-many-citations-this-year-as-all-of-last-year day to all those who celebrate
8 days ago
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Ryan Boyd
8 days ago
Cool how the Vice President (not a real job) has the time to livestream (also not a job) threats to destroy the lives of people with actual jobs
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I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
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PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust
This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply/scholarship-opportunities/scholarship-search/phd-on-the-philosophy-of-networks-of-trust
16 days ago
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at least two of these things are true
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25 days ago
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Daniel Carlson
26 days ago
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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fighting words are not protected speech
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25 days ago
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
25 days ago
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹
25 days ago
if it happens, we all know jd vance is a suspect here considering what happened to pope francis
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Michael Prinzing
26 days ago
I had a great chat about how studying philosophy can make people better thinkers with
@mvazquez.bsky.social
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@markalfano.bsky.social
, Deborah Mower, and Heather Battaly. Thanks to
@apaphilosophy.bsky.social
for hosting and making the recording available!
www.apaonline.org/mpage/benefi...
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Benefits of Studying Philosophy | APA On DemandAPA Mission - The American Philosophical Association
To activate captions, click on the CC icon at the bottom of the video, then select English from the menu.
https://www.apaonline.org/mpage/benefitsphilosophy
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There's a reason NWA never recorded a song titled "Fuck the Fire Department"
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27 days ago
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Cracker Barrel? I hardly know her.
28 days ago
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Roxane Gay
28 days ago
Isn’t Cracker Barrel’s real problem that they serve bad food?
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Dead Inside™️
28 days ago
Doctor: You’ve got moxie, kid. Me: Aww, thanks doc! Doctor: And also gonorrhoea.
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Kendra, regular version
29 days ago
It's actually so funny that you have a cloth mother and I have a wire mother. No im like not even mad it's literally just funny. No like I love her cold metal frame. Yeah I got used to it really quick and actually I like it even better than I would like cloth mother I think. No like actually
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Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with Thomas Kinkade .gif
29 days ago
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American Philosophical Association
about 1 month ago
Are you a faculty member trying to convince university administrators that philosophy is important? Or a student wondering about the benefits of taking philosophy courses? Join us for “Benefits of Studying Philosophy” on August 27. Registration is open to all:
www.apaonline.org/events/Event...
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alexis simpson
about 1 month ago
when i was a kid, we went to Hershey Park and my friend kicked a giant Reese's peanut butter cup right in the butt, and i bring that up because i think it should be legal to do that to cops
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Andrew Lawrence
about 1 month ago
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
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Dak
about 1 month ago
I love grocery store self-checkout. It makes me feel like a thief, a cashier, and a magician with trust issues all at once.
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I finally found a good use for chatGPT
about 1 month ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
Question for the lawyers: Is it legal to shout "I'M SORRY ABOUT WHATEVER WENT WRONG WITH YOUR PENIS" at the masked federal agents occupying our streets?
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I just received an application to do a masters degree on the ethics of AI. According to gptzero, about 60% of the application was generated by AI.
about 1 month ago
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Helen Kennedy
about 1 month ago
Sing now of the heros of the people
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Free meals for life at the prytaneion for DC sandwich guy seems like an appropriate punishment
about 1 month ago
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The Cola Corporation
about 1 month ago
Thank you brother
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Julia Carrie Wong
about 1 month ago
I feel like hitting a cop in riot gear with a floppy subway sandwich is a speech act
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But doctor, these are my monkeys, and this is my circus!
about 1 month ago
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Thinking back to that magical moment when Steven Pinker paid his grad student to block the social media accounts of everyone who clowned on him when was revealed he was in Epstein's inner circle and rode the Lolita Express. My offense was referring to him as "Peven Stinker." Halcyon days.
about 1 month ago
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Aseeyeomanaseetomanoyo Hat
about 1 month ago
I THREW THE SANDWICH But I did not throw the panini
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Punish the Villains
about 1 month ago
What are they teaching in schools these days. Are they still saying that the government has three branches and all that
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Clare Moriarty
about 1 month ago
Another thought on this thread is the importance of good science journalism and popular writing on new science. Responsible internal mechanisms governing scientific expertise are great, but if scientists' results are exaggerated or misinterpreted in pop press, public trust can still be broken.
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I'm sandwich boy, and so is my wife!
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about 1 month ago
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Surprised Face Guy
about 1 month ago
Eve: “God, you made us always too cold or too hot!” Adam: “well, not me. I feel fine” Eve: “WHAT THE FUCK”
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Raphaël Millière
about 1 month ago
Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9
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I ran my usual "what would you want people to say about you at your funeral?" exercise at a talk recently and someone actually said "punctual." Respect.
about 2 months ago
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facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts
about 2 months ago
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slopaganda in the news
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/29/n...
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A.I. approved this message: how 2026 may be the first election where artificially generated content is inescapable - The Boston Globe
In 2024, A.I. became more common in political ads and attacks. In 2026, it could be everywhere.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/29/nation/ai-approved-this-message-how-2026-may-be-first-election-where-artificially-generated-content-is-inescapable/
about 2 months ago
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born miserable
2 months ago
🎶 just sit right back and you'll hear a tale / a tale between two pedophiles / one is dead and the other wants to fuck his oldest daughter / here on Epstein's Isle 🎶
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Do you have a promising student who might want to work on trust and mistrust, especially when it comes to climate stuff? Mix of philosophy, data science, and trying to keep us all alive.
dailynous.com/2025/07/10/p...
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Philosophers Among Recent ARC Grant Winners - Daily Nous
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of large grants, and a few philosophers are among them. These are ARC's "Future Fellowships", which support proje...
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/10/philosophers-among-recent-arc-grant-winners/
3 months ago
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Faine Greenwood
3 months ago
I do think us millennials who wanted to purse non-evil career paths have the right to be a little salty right now
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
If you could go back in time would you kill Baby Grok?
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hi, no thanks
3 months ago
if you wanna know what caused grok to start spitting out pro hitler/antisemitic replies, it's that grok had its filters loosened to include jack posobiec & breitbart as reliable twitter/news sources (respectively) - you can see here it removed them with a new update after 5pm
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NY Times Pitchbot
3 months ago
Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 months ago
After an AI was trained to be anti-woke and within hours it became MechaHitler.
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alber
3 months ago
clocking in at my job stealing content and feeding it to the robot and teaching it how to ask for human verification before allowing someone to download the stolen content
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Jeff Yang
3 months ago
I have been looking for an app that allows me to bitch at random people over Bluetooth my entire life, thank you Jack Dorsey for making me whole <taps earpiece> Hold on, I’m being told that I’m mispronouncing the name of this app
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Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat | TechCrunch
Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in an X post on Sunday night that he spent his weekend creating an app called Bitchat (presumably a
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