On the Celebrity Traitors, twenty celebrities tried to work out which three of them were lying. Here's what I, an epistemologist, have to tell you about what this game tells us about evidence, knowledge, and the human condition

Question for Emile Durkheim: is it good if a million people are expressing suicidal thoughts to a chatbot?

Scorekeeping in a food fight

How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin

Incredible sentence for social ontologists

Aura farming (submitting papers to highly ranked philosophy journals)

The epistemology of ‘why can’t I fucking do anything’ is a bastard

Post-covid symptoms are dead weird. Energy has come back fine four weeks out, but word recall is still fucked! I had to ask students today to help me find the word 'obsolete'

Mamdani's speech is going straight into my 10am lecture about work

ushering in an era of bold socialist leaders who support trans rights and make really great font choices

it's nice to sometimes just feel happy about something

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

regardless of what else they convey in a specific image, image generators offer images that tell those people who want to hear it that "effort/craft is a sham and a waste of time"

But by zooming in on things that AGI has in common with genuine conspiracies, I think we can [...] reveal it for what it is: a techno-utopian (or techno-dystopian—pick your pill) fever dream that got its hooks into some pretty deep-seated beliefs www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Missed this but we can now add aesthetic crimes to the JCI’s rap sheet

Reading this charitably (derogatory)

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

This is terrible. Teen Vogue were a vital source of political critique and social commentary.

Sliding past all the stuff about charismatic leaders on the left (which is halfway to left populism), the Mamdani campaign seems like evidence that focused affordability+community rhetoric works

M-A-M-D-A-N-I

I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

I've been trying to get deskilling into AI ethics for probably five years, and this Appiah essay trying to do this is a total mess www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Someone in the Zohran Mamdani campaign has got the instagram algorithm Figured Out

In the middle of four crises, the last two weeks of uk news have been overwhelmed by learning how many fancy names members of the Windsor family have

The Phil-Sci Archive at Pitt is now pushing papers out on Bluesky. Follow the account below to see them @philsci-archive.bsky.social

I don't want to put particular people on blast, but saying that we've had a functioning public sphere since the 17th or 18th century, and things just got messed up since the turn of the century is a sign that you have read fuck all about the public sphere

'Staff at the University of Nottingham are preparing to strike for the second time this term, announcing a further 22 days of action before Christmas, in addition to the 20 days already taken.' Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Leicester, and Edinburgh also striking.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Finally decided who my philosophy nemesis is

French alternative music radio is much weirder than six music. I've just listened to a chanson, an extract from the Asterix and Cleopatra film, and standard sad indie pop

It's funny to me that this has basically led to a search for "is there a culture group that does not do this?" and so far the answer seems genuinely to be "no".

I just checked HTDTWW and Austin is on it on this point! I think that the fault lies with Hollywood marriage ceremonies

Occasional reminder for philosophers teaching speech act theory that the standard Christian view is NOT that a priest marries a couple: either they do it, or God does

I came so close to calling a view of knowledge-how 'the erotetic capacity view' and Katherine Hawley was like NO

Every time discover a new piece on the dangers of LLMs, particularly for research and teaching, I add it to a Zotero library. I figure that I might as well share it, so here's my library of Cautionary AI Tales: www.zotero.org/groups/62758...

Whatever you think about a PR being the AI critic who gets media coverage, it sure would be a lot more fun if Hubert Dreyfus (aka Hubert Farnsworth) was the big critic of the AI industry www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

Meanwhile, in philosophy

Final exam question on a first year logic course. Formalise this video in first order quantified logic:

Has anyone written a sensible response to this James Marriot ‘oh no, no one can read!’ Substack essay?

Gone down a youtube rabbit hole of contemporary Serpent music

Incredible article about unconscious bias in the Traitora from BBC Bitesize (educational resource) that mentions race zero times in a series where the first two people voted off were Black www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...

Got hit by the COVID sniper, had a month of (really) bad fatigue which seems to have been shifted by getting vaccinated (get vaccinated)

I'm so glad the tech influence on science funding beat is getting hit!

Tour de France femmes 2026 : la Suisse, un contre-la-montre et le Ventoux au menu ➡️ bit.ly/4oC7Yy8

Does it look like this video was made by someone on Cuomo’s campaign or is it a fan made and shared video like the Trump ones?