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The pronoun practice we will have in queer utopia is *obviously* referring to everyone as "comrade"

Just realized analytic philosophy is not actually hard to define. It’s basically a specific set of dry geeky lore: fake barns, brains in vats, cleverly disguised zebras, swampmen, blockheads, a scientist who never saw red, etc. and then we write fanfic.

The Far Right’s Mission of ‘Protecting Minors’ From Online Porn Broke the Internet A new censorship infrastructure is being built right out in public.

"Advocates such as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt—who submitted an amicus brief supporting Texas’s law—have called for broad bans on social media use by minors, policies already adopted in countries like Australia." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-far-righ...

Conference 2026 Three days of the latest in social epistemology. In the heart of Vienna.

Excited to be part of this snazzy line-up! (and to go to Vienna in July - haven’t visited before) www.knowledgeconference.at

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external shaming is even more important when internal shame fails

It’s not even 9am and I have managed to use the university printers. I am invincible

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Falei com o Expresso para este artigo para defender a nostalgia outra vez

This looks like truly fantastic work.

My pet theory of "why do people think the economy is doing poorly despite unprecedented levels of wealth?" is because everyone knows they're getting shorted.

Where Does Politics Take Place? | The Point Magazine The starkest, most disquieting scene from the film was printed on postcards and handed out at the door. We picked up our postcards as we […]

New online, a web supplement to our issue 36 forum on the left and the good life: Ege Yumuşak on making space for political engagement in everyday life.

My new paper is out!

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Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.

#philsci #racism #health

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).

They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

If you were to create a philosophy of LLM course, what kinds of things would you cover?

My thoughts in thread, but eager to hear what others would do

The correct attitude that one should take toward AI is as a left technocrat. Be relentlessly empirical about the powers and pitfalls of the technology, but do not forget the contingent material circumstances that shape its deployments.

Incidentally, I am a left technocrat.

This is happening on Thursday! Do come along if you’re interested!

Say goodbye to seeing your life as a big narrative and embrace the wisdom of thinking of life as a bunch of experimental eras!

Absolutely loved this piece.

Sorry to the haters, “Wuthering Heights” was a pure camp softcore hyperpop delight. My only complaint is that *obviously* Heathcliff should have been a butch dyke.

Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us” This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...

I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

i'm sure nobody will misunderstand this post

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My Prompt: "Write an article in the style of Tyler Austin Harper for The Atlantic on the Mellon Foundation, complete with headline and subhead." Claude: "The Mellon Foundation's Billion-Dollar Bet on Who Gets to Interpret America The nation's wealthiest humanities funder is reshaping higher education. But is it promoting genuine pluralism—or just a new orthodoxy? By Tyler Austin Harper There's a particular species of institutional power that operates best when it remains invisible. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with its $8 billion endowment and status as the nation's largest funder of the humanities, has perfected this art. While culture warriors fixate on tenured radicals and DEI administrators, Mellon quietly directs hundreds of millions of dollars toward reshaping who studies the past, who interprets literature, and ultimately, who gets to define American culture. The foundation's recent trajectory reads like a case study in how progressive institutional capture actually works—not through dramatic confrontation, but through the patient accumulation of grants, fellowships, and faculty positions. Since 2020, Mellon has poured some $250 million into diversifying the humanities, funding everything from graduate fellowships for underrepresented minorities to initiatives demanding that museums "recontextualize" their collections. The explicit goal: to transform who holds authority in America's cultural institutions."

Unlike some liberals on Bluesky, I do think LLMs can be useful and will take over some white collar jobs.

I mean, just look at this Tyler Austin Harper-style Atlantic article I can generate in a second with a naive prompt on the free tier of Claude!

I also feel extremely thankful to be part of the special issue that this paper introduces. Because of that I got to discuss these topics with some of the scholars I most admire.

I can’t overstate how much I learned from those discussions.

Pedir o cartão à porta das redes sociais não vai acabar com o que nos preocupa Um pouco por todo o mundo, tem-se discutido a proibição das redes sociais a menores de 16 anos. Agora que o assunto chegou a Portugal, Marta G. Franco e Carolina Flores mostram como esta não é a soluç...

Contra o pânico moral de banir os jovens das redes sociais, hoje em português no @shifter.pt

(bónus: informação embaraçosa sobre como o PSD escreve projetos de lei) shifter.pt/2026/02/pedi...

So good at projecting an authoritative, distant, professorial image that after one class students are already replying to my emails with 🥰🥰 emojis

Male refugees stigmatised across Europe: ‘This kind of stuff really hurts’ Several men who made dangerous journeys alone tell Al Jazeera they have faced suspicion, hatred and homelessness.

“In the asylum system, men transition from 17yo ‘vulnerable boy’ to 18yo ‘threatening man’ on their 18th birthday. This means: No housing, few support services & a perception—from everyone, even humanitarian workers—that ‘he’ll be fine on the street for a bit, he’s a man.’ He won’t be fine.”

I decided to start an open @semble.so collection to curate more examples/inspiration for "extreme citizen science": semble.so/profile/joel...

cc @ronentk.me

Queer Aɸ 2026 Queer Aɸ Conference Keynote: Rowan Bell (University of Guelph)  Public Events: TBA Organizers: Lauren Lyons, Erin Beeghly, Joshua Kramer. Local Contacts: Lauren Lyons, Nico Orlandi and Sara Berns...

The second edition of the Queer Analytic Philosophy conference will be in June in Santa Cruz, CA, right before SF Pride! Call for submissions (of pitches, papers, to chair or comment...) here!
#philsky