Check out Quillette's latest video, "What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?" | Maarten Boudry

"What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?" | Maarten Boudry

On 7 October, writer Najma Sharif posted seven mocking words that racked up tens of thousands of likes: what did people think decolonisation meant, if not this? Maarten Boudry was exactly who she was mocking. The academic who assumed decolonisation was just papers, essays, and well-meaning proposals to diversify the curriculum. That day he learned how wrong he had been. Full narration on the Quillette channel. Link in bio. . . . #Quillette #MaartenBoudry #Decolonisation #Antisemitism #Academia #Philosophy #October7 #FreeSpeech #Universities

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Good news! For the first time in at least 25 years, more than half of global billionaire wealth is now held by self-made entrepreneurs who earned their fortunes through competitive market activities, i.e. the rest of us buying their products. No inherited dynasties, plunder or expropriation.

This is the best piece yet written on the Jason Arday affair. Finally, someone else is suitably outraged by the disgraceful behaviour of Arday and his defenders at Cambridge and beyond

Rory Waterman@rorywaterman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some notes by little me on recent, hugely damaging, shamefully shameless events at Cambridge University. rorywaterman.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-cambridge-debacle If you read only one article about what has happened, try the new piece by Lanre Bakare in the Guardian, linked in my blog post.

Some academics seem to be committed to proving that conservative enemies of academia are entirely right about it. I still think they aren't and that most scholars just want to ignore this shit to stay out of trouble, but that there are professional academics defending obvious plagiarism is shocking

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 2w ago

Disgusted with @thetimes for presenting this non-story. If it has to be covered at all it should be framed as Discredited Racist Smears Black Cambridge Professor in Sustained Campaign to Undermine Him. Arday quoted & cited sources appropriately. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Check out Quillette's latest video, Maarten Boudry: October 7 Changed My Mind

Spot on... deze brief van filosoof @maartenboudry.bsky.social

What Does AI Want? (Spoiler: nothing much) Many AI doom scenarios smuggle in one huge assumption: that AIs have "goals" like evolved creatures do — autonomous, context-invariant, self-preserving. They don't. maartenboudry.substack.com/p/what-does-... via Postbro

What Does AI Want?

(Spoiler: nothing much)

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What Did You Think It Meant? Decolonization from Seminar Room to Massacre. A new video essay for Quillette (recorded by me, edited by them). www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_pZ... via Postbro

I hit 100 paid subscribers today! The growth chart looks like a staircase drawn by a toddler who's never seen stairs, but I'll take it. (See if you can spot which jumps are which hit pieces.) Thanks for subscribing, my triple-digit crowd! substacktools.com/sharex/es27Y... via Postbro

Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose. While Jews and Muslim dissidents face real physical threats, non-Jewish academics and public intellectuals fear social and professional consequences. By @maartenboudry.bsky.social

What Are You Afraid Of?

Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose.

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What Are You Afraid Of? Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose. maartenboudry.substack.com/p/what-are-y... via Postbro

What Are You Afraid Of?

Jews and Muslim dissidents have real reasons to be afraid. The rest of us mostly have friends and careers to lose.

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Domesticated, not feral: Why evolvable AI is not yet a Darwinian threat. My new commentary in PNAS, in reponse to the paper by three heavyweights in AI and evolutionary biology. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... via Postbro

How the deadliest thing (not just disease) in human history could've been destroyed seven decades ago, mostly with the help of a miracle chemical called DDT. Unfortunately, Africa was left out of the plan. Fantastically well-executed & informative video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYf... via Postbro

I always enjoy a good debunking of nostalgia for a "Golden Age". This one I actually lived through! I can attest that kids in the 80s-90s watched tons of TV. At home, we only had a lousy black-and-white set with no cable, and screen time was rationed. But I made up for it at my friends' houses. 😉

From today, I identify as Māori. I've always felt that I was a Māori trapped in a Caucasian body. If you refuse to accept that my ethnic identity doesn't align with my race assigned at birth (RAAB), you're engaging in a form of "existential denial"—and I will sue you for symbolic genocide. /1

Even though I've only ever read one book by Dickens, I was completely absorbed by this essay by George Orwell. It is highly critical, but written from a place of deep admiration & affection. With some brilliant analyses of social problems and different solutions. telelib.com/authors/O/Or...

Heating air is easy; humans have been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years. But extracting heat from the air and expelling it elsewhere is a far more ingenious feat. A/C is one of those techs that seems almost magical once you stop taking it for granted. substacktools.com/sharex/13Rjp...

Een verhit TV-debat over airco (in een lekker gekoelde studio) maartenboudry.be/2026/07/een-...

European ethicists identify a terrifying threat from across the Atlantic: cars that learn not to crash. It's scandalous our that precious road data is exploited by Musk to make cars safer — enriching him with sensitive data of what roundabouts looks like. Won't someone think of the data sovereignty?

De Gruyter (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social) is about to publish a new volume on war & bioethics. Meet their editor: - "Long live Hamas" - Jews are "parasites" who "steal organs" I'm sure this will be a scrupulously even-handed & rigorous contribution to war ethics—setting a gold standard for the field.

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

Never deleting this app. 🍿😅

How could they possibly have known that, out of all the people with Nazi tattoos on their chest, Platner was the one bad apple? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's not just the Left that's suffering from cognitive dissonance about heat waves. The Right can't seem to make up their minds either. You can't have it both ways: ➡️Pooh-pooh extreme heat: "Don't be so alarmist, chill out and go for a swim!" ➡️Blame anti-A/C Greens for thousands of heat deaths.

20,000+ heat deaths because Europe refused to install A/C. But think about all the future lives saved! The more seniors die now, the less A/C our grandkids will need. It's intergenerational solidarity: the old sacrificing for the unborn. Europe is leading the world, one sweltering bedroom at a time.

#Terrorists who kill #Jews are not ‘ #journalists’... It turns out the ‘reporters’ killed by the IDF really were #jihadists after all.... Maarten Boudry

Terrorists who kill Jews are not ‘journalists’

It turns out the ‘reporters’ killed by the IDF really were jihadists after all.

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The World Cup should be held every year. It's living proof that a majority of humanity is actually decent, sane, and appreciates joy and community.

Everyone in Europe could have life-saving A/C with zero carbon emissions if we had simply done what China did over the past decade: double our nuclear capacity. Instead, Europe shut down its nuclear power plants—and then lectured people for using too much energy, even as thousands died from heat.

Wat een achterbakse leugen: ik heb @brechtje.eurosky.social helemaal niet geblokt, zij heeft MIJ geblokt (nog nooit enige interactie mee gehad). Dat is juist waarom ik een screenshot moet posten, want citeren kan niet meer. Ik block hier niemand. Hoe komen mensen erbij om zo schaamteloos te liegen?

Wacht, misschien vind ik #Dikketruiendag tóch niet zo'n gek idee. 😜