Some thoughts on the ceuta ‘incident’ www.hauntologies.net/p/on-ceuta
On Ceuta
Reflections on the ‘incident’
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Ezekiel Djeribi Ó Stiofáin
@fourmilier.bsky.social
A student of History & Philosophy of Science 🐞📡 Climate Physics, Sound experiments, Radio Transmissions, Noise. He/Him.
The last three months have averaged the highest global mean sea surface temperature on record relative to any other April-May-June period (since at least 1854)... 🌊 Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...
This is the dirtiest type of research. Princeton scientists took $15 million from BP and shaped their research on carbon capture in consultation with the oil company: www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
“We already know the AMOC plays a critical role in regulating climate and sustaining marine ecosystems, and there is growing evidence that it may be weakening." Uncertainty around its future is precisely why long-term monitoring is more vital than ever. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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Machine, Organism and Language: A Comparative Epistemology of AI Models. My new essay for AI & Society with a delirious diagram to trace such a complex genealogy. Proudly propelled by @erc-aimodels.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Machine, organism and language: a comparative epistemology of AI models - AI & SOCIETY
Inspired by Ernst Cassirer and Michel Foucault, this essay proposes a comparative epistemology of three paradigms central to the making of modern science, the humanities, and more recently AI: machine, organism, and language. These paradigms have influenced one another and recombined into complex analogies. Whereas the philosophy of science has often emphasised the organism-machine analogy from early modern mechanicism to cybernetics, this essay extends the inquiry to the language-machine analogy of late modernity, which runs from the telegraph and the Turing machine to information theory and Large Language Models. The rise of AI is thus framed as the confluence of these three paradigms, read not from an internalist perspective but from an externalist one, as mirrors of the social order. Against the dominant view of AI as a purely mathematical achievement or an imitation of biological intelligence, the essay argues that what AI systems automate are the relational structures sedimented in human cooperation, the division of labour, and culture at large—making AI, in effect, a model of the social manifold.
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Hey all, my friends and I, dubbed by Crane as the “critical science studies crew,” return once more, but this time to talk about Peter Damerow; cognitive structures; and how you should learn everything. Reflective abstractions > real abstractions. www.patreon.com/posts/158226...
Episode 19: Peter Damerow and the Ontogeny of Thinking | Critical Theory Working Group
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What the Israeli drone sounds like over Beirut today Via @justinsalhani.bsky.social
ong's book "orality and literacy" points out that when people talk about "primitive" societies what they are really talking about in almost every case is just oral societies. strikes me as a much better and less normative framework
After months of verification and mapping, the archive now includes 248 confirmed white phosphorus strikes across South Lebanon (2023-2024). Only incidents with visual evidence were used, then geolocated, verified, and cross-checked with satellite imagery Part of my PhD research at TU Delft.
WhitePhosphorus.info@whitephosphorus.info · 9mo agoNEW: We’ve added 53 more white phosphorus strikes to our archive whitephosphorus.info, bringing the total to 248 verified and geolocated incidents across South #Lebanon (2023–2024). The IDF says these were used as smokescreens, away from civilians. Our findings show otherwise. 🧵
OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization. 1/
Theoretical biologist Meyer-Abich argued that biological laws are more fundamental than physical laws His example: we can't deduce how a cat falls from how a stone falls. But we can say that a stone falls like a dead cat Given a biological law, by abstracting from life, we obtain the physical law
The World Algorithm Knowledge and Power in the New Global Order Symposium, 2-3 February 2026, Venice Call for papers: unive.it/worldalgorithm
Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online! This Wednesday! sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/s...
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Back to 80s energy scenarios at the Nationaal Archief where letters offer a good reminder of serious ’computing costs’. Modeling futures demanded time, energy and digital infrastructure.
Ten years ago, François Dagognet died. A philosopher of science and technology, Dagognet extended the work of Gaston Bachelard by turning attention to the material traces and inscriptions produced by scientific instruments. 1/
On this day in 1924, Gilbert Simondon was born. A pioneering French philosopher of technology, Simondon challenged us to see machines not as passive tools but as entities with their own modes of existence. 1/
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Navigated by Captain Muhammad Kuchuktigin, the Mikeno ship broke the blockade of Gaza earlier this morning, bypassing the occupation's naval forces and entering Palestinian territorial waters.
My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal - Erkenntnis
This paper contends with the notion that the methods of machine learning (ML) are unique among the tools of science in enabling a form of theory-free inductive inference. I challenge these assertions of epistemic distinctness, attributing the prevalence of these views to an untenable conception of scientific objectivity: what I term a theory-free ideal, in homage to its normative counterpart. ML, as a formal method of induction, must rely on conceptual or theoretical resources to get inference off the ground. By means of two case studies, I argue that this theory-free ideal has a deleterious effect on the epistemic standing of ML-involving science.
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The Human Rights Council of the United Nations: The genocide in Gaza persists because it is profitable. The special commission has meticulously documented the corporations heavily invested in the continuation of this human rights atrocity.
Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
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I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy
Toward a Metaphilosophy of Science - PhilSci-Archive
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Our special issue of Marine Policy on coastal communities and their local knowledges is now out. You can read our introductory essay below. Many thanks to my wonderful colleagues Abbe Brown and Marcel Jaspars for the collaboration and to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for support.
What role for local knowledge in ocean governance?
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Lewis Fry Richardson as a pacifist, deeply aware of the connections between meteorological research and war.
Israel killed five journalists when they bombed the surgical building of the Yasser Hospital in Khan Yunis yesterday. A tragic photograph depicting epistemicide - a camera lens stained with its owner’s blood.
Online Seminar Series on Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change, organized by @juliejebeile.bsky.social & others ⤵️ femphiloclimate.ch/events/ #philsci ⚒️
