Robert Wallace
@philosobobby.bsky.social
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Philosophy Prof. @ Cal Poly, Free Will + Moral Responsibility but interested in everything. https://www.roberthwallace.com/ Views my own etc.

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dragoman.bsky.social
"Faith without works is dead" really is the vibe and while this is just one example I found it a particularly striking rebuke of the idea that you can be Spiritually supportive of the poor or whatever while doing fuck-all
obdurodon.bsky.social
Counterpoint: *segregation* might not be enough for them.
passantino.bsky.social
CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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philosobobby.bsky.social
“Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.”
flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
audreytruschke.bsky.social
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com

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shannonvallor.bsky.social
The AI revolution going exactly as expected

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andrulus.bsky.social
the fact that there's an energy source responsible for life on earth that will just keep stably emitting tons of energy for another five billion years and that the most powerful country in the world has an administration that wants to wholly reject harnessing it is crazy
adapalmer.bsky.social
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

philosobobby.bsky.social
The secret is that almost all American Catholics, so almost all the rightCaths, including even the integralists, have an essentially Protestant understanding of religion as a category. Ironically, they cannot submit to the authority of the Church *in the name of the authority of the Church*.

philosobobby.bsky.social
Also introducing bias should produce variance so long as the bias isn’t systematic in the data set, right? (Seriously asking this is not an AOS for me lol)

philosobobby.bsky.social
Yeah, I think so. I don’t use the example to teach the details though, but to help students cope with being unsettled by the “biased” course material. I explain that my undergrad prof once told me: “in philosophy, you know more by knowing less”, then I complain about the phrase, and then unpack it.

philosobobby.bsky.social
I love teaching the difference between accuracy and precision for this reason. If your shots are precise but inaccurate, you can sometimes become more accurate—have more shots on target— by having less tight groupings of shots.
philsci.bsky.social
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seantcollins.com
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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jecboyle.bsky.social
You give us empty rhetoric. You give Trump’s invading forces an Illinois State Police escort. We know which side you’re on.
govpritzker.illinois.gov
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
atrupar.com
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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jowolff.bsky.social
"the number of the stars in the whole of the two million nebulae is such that if stars were grains of sand, the grains would cover the whole of England hundreds of yards deep. Our earth is one millionth part of one such grain, and we bother ourselves over questions of social rank"

Leonard Hill 1930

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duckworth.senate.gov
Trump is federalizing the National Guard in Illinois against our will—

An affront to American values and an extreme abuse of our military.

He’s terrorizing citizens in attempt to expand his power and punish opponents.

That’s just not who we are.

It’s authoritarian.
dhnexon.bsky.social
🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇
jonmladd.bsky.social
The Declaration of Independence says the foundation of US government is the idea that all people are created equal by God. Their rights are “inalienable.” Our Constitution gives, at a minimum, all humans born on US soil citizenship. No person needs to express gratitude. Their rights are not a favor.