Hello I regret to inform you that this has not been true of philosophy since at least the 1960s Do you know when the first large scale generative algorithmic syndicated photo service debuted? The 1970s. Textual illusions aren’t meaningfully different from visual illusions.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't understand what is confusing about this. Until recently, you could look at computers and say "Look, they're nothing like us, they're calculators, we can complete many intellectual tasks they never could." Easy, practical distinction in capabilities. Now it's getting much harder to say that.

personally I find the human chain protecting the kennedy center & celebrities showing up almost repulsive actually. hey guys maybe we do this for people and not for buildings? hey guys! literally use any of this energy for trans people or immigrants or muslims for five fucking seconds

Christ, the anti-piracy frames on Hulu, Netflix, even Kanopy are obnoxious as hell

I'm assuming that most of them meant "a durable pro-us administration whose continued survival required absolutely zero investment of US resources to remain stable and in power" to which the appropriate response would be "...what color do you want your dragon to be?"

You can make that argument that a lot of Syrian civil war death tolls are the result of Obama NOT joining the war

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We do not apply this reasoning - that you are responsible when your enemy in a war decides to kill civilians (which is not just some, but most of the deaths totaled here) - to any other war. People have agency and are responsible for their choices, including groups and countries other than the USA.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3w ago

The U.S. "War on Terror" death toll is at least 4,500,000

The truth: He’s got the juice!

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2w ago

Netanyahu says he will use UN address to ‘tell the truth about’ New York mayor

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I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

I would advise against viewing this particular cultic milieu as some new emergence of the modern era and, instead, for seeing it as the inevitable and historically consistent outcome of people being seduced by the allure of shallow gnosis.

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Susan Collins is out here taking literal bribes for government contracts but you know what the real story is? gossip from a few salty Troy Jackson staffers! this is some axios-level nonsense. the only thing it’s missing is an “anonymous” quote from Josh Gottheimer complaining about progressives

Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago

investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

"Do the reading" from a prof (or lecturer 🙃) is really "there are relevant ideas and information that you should know if you want to talk about this" not "shut up until you get a degree"

it's not 'gatekeeping' to say that an uninformed, overconfident averment is uninformed and overconfident

To complain you’re politically homeless to genocide denying Free Press is also a choice.

I keep an eye on Twitter to see what the far right are up to and to keep track of LA politics since local commentators, for whatever reason, still post about it there. But there is no “cultural conversation.” Musk is a straight up Nazi and the site is a fascist cesspool.

Like a very fundamental concept you should keep in your head is that the open rate for letters is something like 3%.

Unironically, we need more polling asking liberals what kind of vengeance they both want and just how far the state could go for it to be acceptable.

They could have avoided the Hugging Face exploit by adding one line of code: don't hack the sandbox. The reason it hacked the sandbox isn't because it's intelligent, it's because it's NOT intelligent. It does what you tell it to do and if you're not careful, it will do something bad. 2/x

serious question whether noah could even identify the text of the 14th amendment or name a single provision of the CRA.

I think Will Stancil basically has oppositional defiance poster’s disorder and that it’s a condemnation of this website that this has led to him in the last several years into assuming a ton of plainly just rational and correct positions

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 3w ago

you do have to respect will stancil's utterly dogged determination to teach philosophy of mind 101 to bluesky

"We asked 683 Democratic voters who they might support in the presidential primary that seems set to start any month now, whether Democratic senators should end the filibuster, and how they would feel if Trump died overnight, plus dozens of other questions." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...

What Are Democrats Thinking?

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

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This is an amazing and powerful essay. What I am moved by is the number of people who are trying to do the right thing within a public school system that is hard to change.

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

if you are a Dem who for whatever reason does not feel comfortable actively defending trans rights (which you should) you have two good response options: 1. ignore it! just keep running ads about the economy 2. “I am focused on your pocketbook, my opponent is focused on children’s genitals”

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?

Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory

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Engage in any discussion about fast fashion/clothing prices and you can see this real quick. "Worker solidarity" disappears real quick when you point out that in an ethical system, we the consumers would and should be buying less clothing at higher prices.

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 3w ago

Americans would NOT pay more to bring jobs back to America if it increased their household costs