Make visual metaphors subtle again

Donald Trump's approval rating always seems to be at a record low and always seems to be at 37-38%

Academic conferences should have a shot clock during the Q&A. If you don't get your question off in 3 minutes, you lose possession.

Live your life in such a way that you never feel obliged to say that you think Donald Trump could beat you up as a partisan signal

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Amazing lineup for the @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge conference this summer @floresophize.bsky.social @rbnmckenna.bsky.social @elisewoodard.bsky.social #philsky

Late-stage academia is reviewing an obviously AI-generated paper about how bad AI is.

There should be a German word for the feeling you have when you've been enjoying an informational podcast for a while but then they do an episode on a topic you're very familiar with and you realize that they don't know what they're talking about

Difficult to tell if this is more offensive to Christians or to atheists

Epistemologists, start your engines www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

You should have to have a license to be allowed to talk about quantum mechanics in a book www.currentaffairs.org/news/ross-do...

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #philsky

This president doesn't have policies so much as a series of harebrained schemes

philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/... deadline extended until April 14 #philsky

An underrecognized AI risk is the proliferation of AI-supported April Fool's Day jokes.

New (open access!) paper out today on what I take to be a neglected factor in many real-world cases of evidence resistance. #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HARERA-6

open.spotify.com/episode/7EQe... Great case study in epistemic trespassing

The President getting intelligence via a sizzle reel of explosions is pretty grim

YTD up to 24. Take a breather, everyone.

New record! (Invited to review the same paper twice in one day)

🚨 New Episode OUT NOW! The AGI Question (with Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social & Simon Rippon) What does it really mean to create a machine that thinks? Join us as we explore the concept of AGI — what it is, whether it exists, and whether it ever could. 🎧️ buff.ly/8ZQotRN #Philsky #AGI #podcast

Huge W for all my students who inexplicably called Mill "Mills"

OSSOFF: Your statement says that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: Yes O: The WH stated war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat' G: The only person who can determine what's an imminent threat is POTUS O: False

"Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real and the Good" - Cathy Mason (Central European University) open.substack.com/pub/newworki...

"more than a month" seems like a low bar

I have no idea why but this album is the secret sauce for writing productivity

📢 New Publication! Postdoc, Keith Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social ( @univie.ac.at ) recently published 'Epistemic Magnetism' in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social 👉️ Read the paper here: buff.ly/5rA1MyF #research #philpaper #epistemology #philsky

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's THE knowledge conference of 2026! @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeconference.at

The perfect crime

15 referee requests so far this year. Everyone please stop writing papers for a while. #academicsky

Ossoff coming out as a signaling theorist

Hard to find an email that better distills Epstein's blend of being a creep and being a pseudoscience aficionado than this one:

Unser Dokufilm #Blame kommt jetzt ins Kino, so vielleicht ist es ein guter Zeitpunkt mal ein paar Termine hier zu posten. Der Film wird von "Rise and Shine Cinema" vertrieben und es gibt alle Info auf deren Webseite: riseandshine-cinema.de/portfolio/bl... Okay, so hier ein paar infos: 1/

Doing my part for All Epistemic Everything with a new (open access!) paper on "Epistemic Magnetism" The gist is that agents' local epistemic environments are pervasively shaped by properties of agents that, on the surface, have nothing to do with epistemology #philsky philpapers.org/rec/HAREMJ

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2 1/2

Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Cops in Portland, Maine are livid at the “bush league policing” on display from ICE, already speaking out. What is a right wing coalition that doesn’t include the police? Video: MWTW TV via X (@WMTWTV) x.com/WMTWTV/statu...

Difficult to see this as anything but an execution by a death squad in broad daylight. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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