OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

The Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation this week. Comments by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Caitlin Mace & Adina Roskies, and Oron Shagrir. philosophyofbrains.com/2026/01/12/f...

At least one person gets it. A victory.

In case you had questions about the difference between US news outlets and others around the world, here is a story in @theguardian.com about Gramsci and contemporary politics. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

UPDATE: Hegseth has included VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on a list of schools off limits for tuition assistance for military officers as part of his campaign against schools he describes as “biased” against the US military.🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

Perfect.

Stanford CS researchers just got a huge payday for promising AI agents that can simulate the real world. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I wrote about these researcher's vision. Screen shotting quite a lengthy part of our paper, because we spent A LOT of time thinking about the paucity of this promise

Later this month in Berlin, with @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @davidcolaco.bsky.social www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026

Brian was my PhD advisor. He was, as Melanie says, a wonderful human. I am very sad to miss this.

“The reason Trump didn’t apologize for the Obama post is because he is a small, petty, fragile man who cannot take responsibility for his own actions. And the second reason, frankly, is because he is a racist.”

Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!

New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now. cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

Talking shit about Chomsky before it was cool…

tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Clarificatory question: does being California Sober count as doing Dry January?

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

📢 Call for Posters XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Adaptations across different timescales May 21–24, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia 📝 Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2026 More info: ducog.cecog.eu #CognitiveScience #EmbodiedCognition #ConferenceCFP

"Ecological psychology and the mirror of nature" is now open access. (by @tonychemero.bsky.social and yours truly) www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...

😒 this article is trying to frame the dislike for AI as irrational rather than telling the truth that people hate AI because its obvious that companies would rather burn trillions of dollars on a solution looking for a problem than pay people better wages all while selling bullshit.

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Ohio friends: The Ohio EPA is planning to allow data centers dump wastewater directly into rivers and lakes. There is an opportunity for the public to comment linked below. You know what to do. ohioepa.commentinput.com?id=csDN8pRrg

Great opportunity here.

World Cup Boycott? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

Excellent popular article by Anna Ciaunica (@annaciaunica.bsky.social). Along with reader-friendly prose, Anna digs deep into the nature of the self. Highly recommended.

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published link.springer.com/collections/...

Philosophy at Cincinnati has a new NEH-funded research center on AI and humanities. Honored to be among the speakers at the upcoming inaugural conference. Of note to early career folks, there is funding to subsidize travel!

Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share! uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe. Here is the piece and an extract. davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...

New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women. Gun violence & partner violence are related. All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Failed country.

Ok, so this is multiply nerdy and maybe I am insane, but… in chapter 18 of his new book ”Shadow Ticket”, Thomas Pynchon seems to have a song about the Heaviside step function.

@edbaggs.bsky.social, @valtour.bsky.social, Sarah Bro Trasmundi, and yours truly teach a Ph.D. course on Cognitive Processes in Social Settings - at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, January 7-9, 2026.

@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this doi.org/10.1007/s112...

New paper out today with Zach Peck, “A radical embodied account of responsibility”. Not open access alas. Hit me up if you want a copy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yesterday was an inspiring day in the US, the best of the year. Today is also good: a new Juana Molina album came out.

I would love to be a subscriber to Teen Rogue.

You heard me

For months now, @teenvogue.com has been our media’s greatest caller of bullshit. Apparently this is over.

A short essay following up on the recently rediscovered poem by Adrienne Rich, titled "Artificial Intelligence", and written in 1961. I do what she suggested back then. I forced AI systems to write some poems. rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-...

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

Looking forward to this! #philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026 @tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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