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riseup?

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk

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RIP Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) 💔

Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net), professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

5 years ago every LinkedIn Dude was posting pictures of Greta Thunberg with hollow 'inspiring' messages of action on climate change and fawning about her bravery

As soon as she took up the cause of Palestinians being killed they stopped

You don't have to obey anyone's framing. Calling them British Petroleum. Call it a chatbot instead of "artificial intelligence". Use real emissions, not adjusted for offsets or certificates. It's all allowed!!!

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Michael Friedman, Suppes Professor of Philosophy of Science, Stanford University (1947-2025)

I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci

Demythologizing quantum history Celebrating the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics in 2025 without providing appropriate context risks reinforcing a long legacy of hagiography and hero worship.

The United Nations has proclaimed this year the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology because it is, allegedly, the 100th anniversary of the development of modern quantum mechanics.

But what actually happened in 1925? /1

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#histsci #quantum2025 #histSTM

Never Trust Any Work of History Over the Age of Fifty!: Or, Please Stop Citing Edward Gibbon to Try to Win Arguments on the Internet When I first began marking undergraduate essays, I noticed a curious phenomenon in the footnotes. In place of the cutting-edge reading list that I had painstakingly assembled, all accessible either…

This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia

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The fetishisation of Magna Carta is bad. But the notion that the rule of law on its own is going to save you is worse. Roman Empire and medieval polities had elaborate legal systems allowing them to exploit large swathes of the population. Modern arrogance about the historical context is stunning.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.

Is everyone huffing paint?

Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

Theory-freedom is an incoherent ideal for scientific objectivity and one which harms the integrity of science.

Let's debunk this whole "space is hard" mantra.

Looking at all NASA-led missions launched since 2000, only 4 out of ~60 missions experienced total failures.

Two of these were due to issues with the commercial launch vehicle, & two were spacecraft issues.

That is a *93% success rate.* (1/n)

Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press Probabilistic generalizations based on internet content are not steps toward algorithmic moral personhood, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

Some AI enthusiasts fantasize about chatbots' potential future suffering. But David McNeill and Emily Tucker say there are many good reasons to reject the claim that contemporary AI research is on its way toward creating genuinely intelligent, much less conscious, machines.

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat passed away today at the age of 101. She was one of the pioneers of mathematical general relativity.🧪

There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years It’s better than regular jet fuel, but beware the hype.

There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
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Unrest in Carbon Country How agricultural interests are teaming up with big oil to take advantage of tax credits meant to fight climate change—and what the backlash can tell us about the future of climate politics.

in August, i went to two meetings in Iowa—one headed by the Sierra Club, one emceed by disgraced congressman Steve King—both in opposition to the same project: a proposed carbon-capture pipeline.

for Drilled, my longread on the pipeline & what it says about the future of climate politics:

January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.

This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....

Causation in Physics Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Causation in Physics

Very happy to share the newest entry in the Elements in Philosophy of Physics series: Causation in Physics, by Christopher Weaver. This one is permanently open access, courtesy of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.

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still can’t believe that if i want my story to exist, i have to be the one that writes it

absolutely unbelievable, if you ask me

Philosopher of physics Larry Sklar, who famously challenged "canonical" example of thermodynamics reducing to stastical mechanics has passed away. ⚛️ #philsci

Micheux's work is indeed really flimsy, but I can't say I find the attitude of "what we're currently doing is the only way we can do things" any more convincing. Seems to me a different version of pessimism.

There's a classic #philsci paper by Deborah Mayo (1994) on need for metascientific approach to recognizing cancer risk of formaldehyde, how DuPont studies were misleading in concl no increased risk, & how risk assessment shouldn't be separate from risk management
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Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.

It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know Philosophy has not given some of these exceptional women the attention and admiration they deserve. It’s time to remedy that!

5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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A feminist Newtonian Any major new scientific theory experiences a period of reception after publication in which it is examined, questioned, subject to criticism and put to the test. During this period, which can and …

Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, who translated Principia into French, was born 17 December 1706 #histsci
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Why is it bad for Coca Cola to fund and share independent, high quality research on exercise and dietary disease?

In our new *Industrial Distraction* - forthcoming in Philosophy of Science - we use causal models to show how distraction techniques can mislead even rational learners #philsci