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Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!!

@lsephilosophy.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...

Sending care and my best wishes for their safety 🙏🏻

Thank you!

U.S. Bishops Take On Trump At the Supreme Court: “Protect God-Given Human Dignity” The U.S. bishops have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court calling Trump’s birthright citizenship order “immoral” and unconstitutional — a consequential legal action without recent parallel.

In a historic legal intervention, America’s Catholic bishops have asked the Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship — calling it an attack on “God-given human dignity.”

The brief caps a year of escalating conflict between Pope Leo and the White House.

All done with the quilt top! This is a free pattern by Bari J, called Stars Over Fairview Avenue. She also designed these fabrics. 10/10 recommend! #quiltsky

I've read a lot of infuriating things over the past year or so, but this lede is up there. This man spent a year being abused and tortured before being killed by this government. Totally unconscionable.

…systematically parsing through the goals of people who are bullshitting, we should use other terms. Persuasion, spectacle, ignorance, deception, love of lying, irony, joking… these are a lot more precise. Bullshit can just mean too many things. It’s still a great catch-all in everyday usage though.

Here’s a hot take: I don’t think the term “bullshit” in philosophy a la Frankfurt is all that helpful of a term because it’s not a narrow or precise enough term. In colloquial usage it can mean anything from meaningless fluff to a lie that stinks to high heaven. Instead, when we are systematically

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"We must reject political violence of any kind," says Trump, who pardoned hundreds of violent rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired.

Catholic Bishops Warn Trump: Mass Deportations “Detrimental to Human Rights” Hours before President Trump’s State of the Union, 18 Catholic bishops — many from border states — issued a rare public plea urging him to reverse course on immigration.

NEW: Echoing Pope Leo XIV, U.S. Catholic bishops confront Trump ahead of his State of the Union — urging an end to family separations and mass raids.

So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!

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Call for participants! I’m interested in ho therapists make complex decisions on ethical issues and what guides them.
I’d be really grateful if counsellors, psychotherapists or trainees (UK based) out there would fill out this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste... #TherapistsConnect

This is also a tax on women who are judged much more harshly for their appearance.

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kash patel trump kids book

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its another day to remind people that the reason kash patel is fbi director is because he wrote trump fan fiction, not because he knows jack about law enforcement. and nearly every republican in the senate approved his nomination. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

#gestalt

Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

Sometimes it do be like that

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Quilt in progress

america is a place where the president illegally demolishes the economy for a year before the wizard council decides he wasn’t supposed to do that

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalist Dreams Come True at the Pentagon Do not forget what he stands for

Important reflection from @sarahstankorb.bsky.social, who knows the danger of Doug Wilson & has been trying to warn people for years: sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/doug-wilso...

American civil rights activists

Also relevant is Washington's warning against the rise of a despotic leader
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

It is custom in some circles to read Washington's Farewell Address today. One thing that caught my eye this time, for no reason at all, is GW's reference to "those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty."
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

The Mount Riboudet in Rouen at Spring - 1872
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7792

As a pale, strawberry blonde descendant of a fair amount of generations of white immigrants in America, I can say that I have no defined ties to a specifically English, Irish, or Scottish culture. I think I’m mostly genetically German, and second place prob goes to my Italian ancestry. #meltingpot