In Australia, you'd only see someone described on a chryon as an "OK Senator" if it was a satirical show, and the Senator was completely useless.

This was the single lowest month of homicides in New York City on record...ever.

Deadline extended to February 15th! Please share widely.

knowledge norm of assertion in the wild

Glad to share a new paper with Ivan Boldyrev and Bob Sugden, written for the 75th anniversary of the famous 1952 Paris conference on risk. We reconstruct the rich discussions at the meeting and address the “sleeping beauty puzzle” linked to ideas presented there by Allais and Arrow. bit.ly/4rkZqNn

This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system! @theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale. Now over to the library community to support it.

Minneapolis is a place that means a lot to me, so I wrote a short Substack about the city, its people, and what we all owe them. benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...

Lots of Dems want to find their version of early 90s Paul Keating, who did all these things perfectly, and won the longest of long shot elections. Then they have to hope their candidate doesn’t turn into mid 90s Paul Keating who stepped on every rake he could see.

I thought that I’d never seen even a precinct this lopsided. Then I remembered that the last state election was just after Roe was overturned, and abortion rights were the biggest issue. The in on campus voting center ended up about 98-2. Still, getting this across a whole district is something.

As a philosophy major son of a philosopher games obsessive, it's kind of hard to think of somebody this is more for and it's somehow overdelivered and I'm very excited to read the book.

If you’re looking for a little respite from the insanity and depravity of the news, I really enjoyed this #WITHPod convo on the philosophy of games with @add-hawk.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

It's not just Teams and Zoom which LaSuite is offering an alternative for: but also GMail, Google Docs, WhatsApp, etc. Feeling quite patriotic today I must confess. lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

I think this is a good policy even though I also think it will make some of the comments worse. Writing a paragraph or two that's clear, to the point, and polite, is really in the sweet spot for things Claude does well. Many DailyNous comments would be improved by Claude editing.

My book on relevant logics will be available mid-2026

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

Humean job applicant explaining their track record cannot prove anything about their future

I won't be in Dublin for this, but might be interesting to folks in open access publishing. www.openlibhums.org/news/859/

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Some quality content from my better half #philsci #history #philsky

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Cannot recommend this book highly enough. Excited to talk to C Thi Nguyen today for #WITHPod bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Raised his daughter right: "On one occasion his daughter Irene horse-whipped Gestapo agents arresting a Jew.[16]"

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

Always a good sign when you find yourself interrupting your reading to share a nugget with those around you. A rare thing when the author @add-hawk.bsky.social is a philosopher! Thanks to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social for alerting me. Great book!

CMU's Philosophy department is doing a search for a new department head. If you are interested, definitely apply. ALSO, if you know anyone that we should consider, please let me know. I'm happy to reach out to anyone who might be interested. (Please repost for reach!) www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...

Rest in peace to the folk legend Tucker Zimmerman, Big Thief cohort and would-be member of the Grateful Dead. “I believe, when you’ve got something going, go all the way through," he told Andy in a 2024 interview. "Go to the end, see what happens.” 🌈 🙏

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

Here's a fun pattern in the philosophy journal citation data: papers with short titles get more citations than papers with longer titles. brian.weatherson.org/quarto/blog/...

My forthcoming book now has a webpage at the publisher www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

Not really, Google.

Out now officially in Philosophy Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Let me know if you need access to the official published pdf!

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Philosophers keep treating the murderer at the door example as an absurd hypothetical. What's happening in Minnesota is, I think, the kind of thing Constant wanted to focus on with the example.

at last we have created computers that get stressed about the news

A natural way to regulate sports betting is to ban prop bets. Unfortunately, the main kind of bet that people make on football and basketball games is a prop bet. That's why the recurring scandals are point-shaving not match-fixing.

It's good to be perfect.

A new piece with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – abstract in the ALT text. #philsci #sts #philtech

obit that reads like excerpts from a thriller

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

yes, this is a really great paper, showing how AI can enhance individual science but narrow the general scope.

Thanks to claude code, I wrote my first iphone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/time-... It's what I have always wanted for a talk timer (as both a speaker and a chair). It's very minimal, designed to be read from across the room, and make it clear when you're running out of time.

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.