Geoff Pfeifer
@gdpfeifer.bsky.social
Associate professor of philosophy and global studies at WPI. Critical Theory, climate politics, global justice, pedagogy, antifascist, father, public transit-pilled Boston (JP) bike/train commuter. He/him. Views my own.
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Geoff Pfeifer
@gdpfeifer.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Ok. Gonna try this space for a bit. Hi folks!
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The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Reminder that punching Nazis is still morally correct as it always has been.
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reminder that punching Nazis is still morally correct as it always has been.
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JD Vance is jealous because Trump has never given him the look of love like he did with Zohran Mamdani!! 😂
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
JD Vance is jealous because Trump has never given him the look of love like he did with Zohran Mamdani!! 😂
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Best bike commutes are getting off the train from Boston and riding through a post-apocalyptic downtown Worcester set up that way for filming the Walking Dead. No pictures unfortunately but was pretty great.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Best bike commutes are getting off the train from Boston and riding through a post-apocalyptic downtown Worcester set up that way for filming the Walking Dead. No pictures unfortunately but was pretty great.
Massachusetts folks: call/email your state reps and tell them to vote no on the climate rollback bill. Great toolkit for this here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ACTION TOOLKIT: House Climate Rollback Bill
TOOLKIT: Mass Power Forward Action on Cusack’s Costly Climate Rollback Bill, H.4744 Table of Contents Background How to Fight Back Core Messaging from which all communications flow Crafting Your...
docs.google.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Massachusetts folks: call/email your state reps and tell them to vote no on the climate rollback bill. Great toolkit for this here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/traffic-deaths-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero-los-angeles-dot-nhtsa/
t.co
November 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
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2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
Flurries on the Worcester side of my commute today have me excited about winter and looking forward to putting the studded tires back on the Brompton.
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Flurries on the Worcester side of my commute today have me excited about winter and looking forward to putting the studded tires back on the Brompton.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
Croc charms are nothing but a recipe for kid sadness.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Croc charms are nothing but a recipe for kid sadness.
Hell yes. The yankees still suck though.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hell yes. The yankees still suck though.
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
When we start doing college tours for my oldest this year, my first question is going to be about whether the college Admin is pushing AI use on faculty for teaching and students as personal chatbots. If so, they are off the list.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
When we start doing college tours for my oldest this year, my first question is going to be about whether the college Admin is pushing AI use on faculty for teaching and students as personal chatbots. If so, they are off the list.
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"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
CFA for this year’s SPCW conference. Excellent theme.
“Responding to the Contemporary World:
Wrong Answers Only”
Abstracts due Feb. 5.
More info below. Please share.
spcw.org/calls-for-pa...
“Responding to the Contemporary World:
Wrong Answers Only”
Abstracts due Feb. 5.
More info below. Please share.
spcw.org/calls-for-pa...
CFPs — The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
spcw.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
CFA for this year’s SPCW conference. Excellent theme.
“Responding to the Contemporary World:
Wrong Answers Only”
Abstracts due Feb. 5.
More info below. Please share.
spcw.org/calls-for-pa...
“Responding to the Contemporary World:
Wrong Answers Only”
Abstracts due Feb. 5.
More info below. Please share.
spcw.org/calls-for-pa...
This city does not tolerate chuds.
Outpouring of support for Roslindale drag brunches against protesters who never showed up
Supporters of drag brunches and the LGBTQ community showed up en masse outside the Substation in Roslindale this morning to protest a planned outcry against its fourth monthly drag brunch by a hate gr...
www.universalhub.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This city does not tolerate chuds.
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Yet *another* reason to just say no (to genAI)
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Yet *another* reason to just say no (to genAI)
Books the Boston Institute for Social Theory has read:
Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Táíwò, Elite Capture
Wark, Capital is Dead
Han, The Burnout Society
Hui, Post-Europe.
Next up: Seymour, Disaster Nationalism.
In Boston? get in touch if you want to join!
Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Táíwò, Elite Capture
Wark, Capital is Dead
Han, The Burnout Society
Hui, Post-Europe.
Next up: Seymour, Disaster Nationalism.
In Boston? get in touch if you want to join!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Books the Boston Institute for Social Theory has read:
Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Táíwò, Elite Capture
Wark, Capital is Dead
Han, The Burnout Society
Hui, Post-Europe.
Next up: Seymour, Disaster Nationalism.
In Boston? get in touch if you want to join!
Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Táíwò, Elite Capture
Wark, Capital is Dead
Han, The Burnout Society
Hui, Post-Europe.
Next up: Seymour, Disaster Nationalism.
In Boston? get in touch if you want to join!
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
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1. Yesterday, millions showed up to the No Kings Rally.
Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however.
Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers.
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Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however.
Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Anti-Trans Democrat Seth Moulton Booed At Boston No Kings Rally After Sen. Markey Wears Trans Flag
Representative Moulton is challenging Senator Markey for his senate seat in 2026.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1. Yesterday, millions showed up to the No Kings Rally.
Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however.
Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however.
Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.