Jordi Cat
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science, philosophy, history, politics, art and so much else
#Appeal: A new international appeal calls for connected, joint action in support of science and its contribution to global wellbeing. https://appealforscience.com/
Wrote a little piece on why subsidiarity for AI is a great idea...
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 5d agoPope Leo is drawing on a 95-year-old Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity’ to argue that AI should be governed by the people most affected by it, not concentrated in the hands of a few powerful corporations. theconversation.com/the-catholic...
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Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · last wk.The Seventh AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 21-25, 2027. Supplementary travel funding provided. The call for submissions is now open and closes November 15. Details here: www.aip.org/history/earl...
Excellent piece by @alondra.bsky.social on algorithmic agnotology: "the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability, selective transparency & the deliberate framing of the AI stack as too complex to interrogate or govern." limn.press/article/plat...
Platform Obscurantism - Limn
ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...
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The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic...
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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World-class philosophy of science monographs published Open Access at no cost to authors: a collaboration between the BSPS and University of Calgary Press.
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My latest, with Cerin Lindgrensavage, on a little-known law signed by President Trump that makes it unlawful to pay the salaries of any OMB or agency official who implements funding cuts that the President proposed but Congress rejected. Alas, lots of that is happening. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
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A T. rex just sold for a record $50.1 million 🦖 To collectors, it's a trophy. To scientists, it's an irreplaceable archive of Earth's history that shouldn't disappear from public access into a rich person’s private collection. theconversation.com/what-science...
“good science journalism, Vergano says, requires good science journalists.” Amen to that. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...
Scientific American and the Collapse of Science Journalism — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, JULY 13, 2026. I shouldn’t write a eulogy for something that’s not dead. But I fear for the future of Scientific American --and science journalism as a whole. Attention must be paid. On Ju...
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Yesterday, AAAS submitted a comment on the OMB proposed rule on federal grantmaking, highlighting an overemphasis on political objectives in scientific priority setting & deprioritization of scientific opportunity, peer review, and the needs of Americans. Read the full comment https://bit.ly/4w6O8PE
Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4w agoThe comment count as of Sunday July 11, 2026 1:05pm ET.
This to me is one of the most worrisome elements: even though recursive training mitigates some of this, the process is exponentially more computationally expensive than a marginally more time-consuming approach that involves human intelligence working in tandem. It’s aggressively inefficient.
Jimmy Eat Arby's@dankpasta.bsky.social · 4w agoAn LLM is an N-dimensional cloud of data points fed into matrix algebra and crunched by GPUs on steroids redlined to 100%. It also needs to regenerate its output at every prompt, meaning it's doing the same math repeatedly plus the processing on the new data points. Shit's incredibly wasteful.
lot of people in the replies doing the usual doomposting about stock market crashes, financialization, whatever. as if none of those apply to fucking home prices lmao. but perhaps more importantly: "your house is your wealth" is actually a pretty fucked up political economy!
NIMBYism Is Segregation Persisting
In a hot convention hall in Philadelphia in 1788, the last member of the Constitutional Convention set his pen to the page and sealed in ink slavery as one of America’s foundational institutions. On C...
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This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others
Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy
Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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Proposed rule OMB-2026–0034 will devastate US science and destroy the scientific talent pipeline in the country. Here is the comment I submitted about the rule: medium.com/data-feminis... You can make public comments until Mon, Jul 13th. Please do it and reach out to your colleagues to do the same!
Stop the Attack on US Science: Comment to the OMB about proposed rule OMB-2026–0034
The US government is attempting to modify how it allocates federal research dollars through a new proposed rule: “Regulation for Federal…
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Andrew Ushenko's perspectival, objective relativism in Powers and Events remains much neglected.
Why does it matter what term we use? Because diagnoses imply remedies. If the problem is polarization, the solution is civility. Dialogue. Lowering the temperature. Finding common ground. Compromise. But what if the problem is right-wing radicalization?
And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci
Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences
This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.
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Many research disciplines will require more institutional robustness to survive. Some through re-institutionalization, others through extra-institutionalization, especially outside universities, all while preserving educational "pipelines."
“We are patriots not because America or American science are perfect, but because we share the founders’ aspirations for something even greater, and we have the agency to make it so. The story of America and American science is still being written and may it always be.” https://bit.ly/4f0MLuz
American Science’s Role in Securing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Science and technology have been an essential component of the American political experiment since the beginning.
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The humanities are keen to direct scientific research on ethical and methodological matters, but not so much their own research.
Two dominating trends impacting science facilitated by government interventions: denialism and privatization.
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Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy
We are seeking a candidate for a full-time permanent position as Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Lund University. Workplace and academic environment The Depa
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Extreme heat like the weather sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up energy demands for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.
Heat adds to strains on areas with data centers, raising the temperature on AI debates
Extreme heat like the weather sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up energy demands for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.
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The diversity of positions and the size difference between sides on SCOTUS decisions make the interpretations and decisions of any single lower court judge look like the outcome of a population study with a test population of size 1.
