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Clayton Littlejohn
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Melbourne based philosopher. Dianoia RIP. Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. Epistemology and ethics. #philsky #melbourne #democrats It ain't easy being blue .. more

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 12h
Odd. You'd think ICE would have much stronger evidence that Elon Musk is in the country illegally than the people they round up. And yet, it's on nobody's radar that he's at risk of being detained. Also more confident he's broken laws than a typical ICE detainee.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report
Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views
www.theguardian.com

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d
True, but only just

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d
I miss the days when you’d be accused of Trump Derangment Syndrome for predicting things far less extreme than what we are seeing in year one. And, not be paranoid, there might be k worse things we don’t see or haven’t see yet

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 11d
Should I feel weird that I'm not eternally grateful my parents had sex in highschool? I've not once thanked God that the second fastest sperm wasn't wiggling to the best of its ability that fateful afternoon and I hope I don't have to answer for that later.
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Mike Johnson: "I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe. A lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just take care of that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life."

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 11d
I'm loving this controversy. It's very much a page out of Charles Travis's book.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Mike Johnson: "I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe. A lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just take care of that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life."

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 14d
We'll be lucky if there are scholars centuries from now

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 14d
You can't put a price on being respected internationally again
justinwolfers.bsky.social Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15d
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 14d
Feel like we're going to need UN peacekeepers to step in soon to help restore order in the US

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15d
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Merijn Chamon, Clayton Littlejohn , and 7 more

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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠 @getmoresmarter.com · 15d
Important perspective from Greenland.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 17d
I don't know if it's fair to say that William F Buckley and his ilk built the house that Trump moved into, but I don't know that it's unfair. The main difference between Buckley and Trump seems to either be impulse control or a difference in belief about the strategic value of civility

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 19d
Trump contemplating the use of the military to protect protestors against armed repression wasn't really what I expected to read about this morning.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 22d
Fwiw, I'm petitioning my university to follow suit and, fingers crossed, they will. Hoping that that's the next wedge. Universities can't be on the child porn site.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 22d
Cautiously optimistic that there might be movement here.
cmlittlejohn.bsky.social Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
I have sent the first email in the campaign to get my university to leave Twitter/X. It is not in keeping with an institution committed to respect for the dignity of persons to use a site that's generating sexualised images of minors.

www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Clayton Littlejohn, Elisa Freschi

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Tyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 22d
How improper grammar can get you killed!

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
I have sent the first email in the campaign to get my university to leave Twitter/X. It is not in keeping with an institution committed to respect for the dignity of persons to use a site that's generating sexualised images of minors.

www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Michael A. Clemens, Brian Weatherson , and 2 more

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 23d
We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | LinkedIn
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Journal of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, published by University of Chicago Press | Founded in 1950, the B...
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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
You'd think the Nazification of the place would have done it, but now that Grok is cranking out sexualised pics of children that would be the straw, but nah.

www.wired.com/story/x-didn...
X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.
www.wired.com

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
ACU's Plunkett Centre for Ethics (but it isn't clear that there are any posts) x.com/PlunkettCentre

And, disappointingly, the NTEU is still there: x.com/NTEUnion
x.com

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
So far as I can tell, ACU is maintaining an account (albeit one that hasn't posted since September of last year):

x.com/ACUmedia

Melbourne school of Continental Philosophy hosting a Heidegger conference (sort of fitting, I guess): x.com/MSCPhilosoph...

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
It's incredible to me how many Australian academics are still using twitter.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 23d
ACU is hiring. We have four positions (for this one, think core analytic). I'd love some more wonderful colleagues and can say that Australia is a great place to live, the pay is good, and the workload leaves lots of time for research and travel.

philjobs.org/job/show/304...
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Epistemology/Language/Mind, Australian Catholic University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Epistemology/Language/Mind, Australian Catholic University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 26d
Got a sort of strange comment saying that my account of disinformation implied that salespeople give customers disinformation. As it should? I'm lost.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · Jan 1
I was thinking about this about reading on FB someone who had a policy of automatic failure if a student used AI in any form. I had no idea whether Microsoft products (e.g.) were using AI to check grammar, spelling, etc.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jan 1
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · Jan 1
Anyway, thanks to ChatGPT or Claude for recommending R&R.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · Jan 1
To celebrate the new year, I'm reading the referee report that just hit my inbox that, it seems, is at least partially generated by AI. I think it was more helpful and charitable than the one that seems to have been authored by a human, but there were some telltale signs that were quite amusing.

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · Dec 30
Btw, if you want a copy...

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2swfq...
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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · Dec 29
My new years resolution is that facebook stops recommending as friends people you had one bad Hinge date with