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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/

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h
The Trump administration, back turned and eyes averted from the truth about Epstein.

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 21h
The APA board of officers has endorsed @penamerica.bsky.social’s letter calling on Texas A&M to rescind its censorship policies. pen.org/pen-america-...
PEN America, 36 Organizational Partners, Call on Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies
On February 10, 2026, PEN America, joined by a broad group of 36 organizational partners, wrote to the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University to request that they rescind two policies, passed in…
pen.org

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h
the problem with AI “journalism” is that, as I discussed in this piece, LLMs eventually come up against the constraint that they know only what is legible to the digital. vast swaths of global happenings aren’t digitally legible and will remain so. only human reporters can describe those events.
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Tom Griffin

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21h
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, David Darmofal

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h
"In 2023, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs. This is a story about an economy getting throttled by one man and his capricious, destructive governance."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden’s Economy
Here’s what they’re worried about.
open.substack.com

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 1d
My wife works at the U of M & said this job is getting ready to be posted. The range is going to be 230-250k for the chief of staff of the provost. Insane.

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Kyle Climans @kclimans.bsky.social · 1d
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Edgar Morgenroth, David R. Miller , and 2 more

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
a society losing the plot in real time

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
hi, church boy here. this isn't funny, Christians only do this when they're in extreme distress
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d
HOOOOOO boy.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"

Lyons: "Yes ma'am."

McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d
A very basic test of U.S. historical literacy is “which side of the slave/free divide in America’s founding wanted slaves to count as a whole person and why” and yet I see it being failed so consistently

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d
Margin solidarity!

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Fabián Muniesa, David Murakami Wood

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 2d
These guys are so normal.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2d
When I saw the Bad Bunny show I didn't freak out, I enjoyed it, reveled in the majesty of the performance, the rich subtext of history being showcased, and the sheer talent of everyone involved. I want to be in a world where everything isn't for *me* but instead invites me to learn and grow.

Reposted by Thomas Backhaus, Robert W. Wallace, Smith , and 7 more

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2d
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 4d
“People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”
You can always count on @barackobama.bsky.social to give us an honest #CupOfJoe. I miss that.

The world is watching, & and the straws are adding up.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, David R. Miller

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NPR @npr.org · 4d
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
n.pr

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 5d
The big consciousness conference in Tucson/Arizona is cancelled. Philosophy & Cognitive Science are fields long known to be largely inside-handshake dudebro clubs, something which I said out loud (it's not that they'd hired me), and now revealed to be disproportionally present in the Epstein files.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5d
And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d
@grundrza.bsky.social goes into detail about censors avoiding putting directives in writing, making accountability harder to accomplish.
Each university, as in most states, has a Board of Trustees. The Board of Governors sometimes gives directives to the Board of Trustees, who then give directives to campuses. In this case, what's happening is that staffers for the Board of Governors, not the board members themselves, but staffers for the Board of Governors, will call provosts. I emphasize call. Written directives never come; they are always oral directives. They're issued to provosts, and then provosts call, not put in writing, department chairs, and then department chairs call the individual instructors teaching a given class.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 6d
He has said this about every election since 2016, has always been heavy-handed in implying he will under no circumstances concede. An aspiring dictator from the beginning, he hardly ever pretended to believe in democracy. I’ll never understand why so many people averted their eyes from the obvious.

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Evan Roberts

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 6d
Two epistemologists who keep coming up with reasons that undermine one another's claims know only one thing: their love for one another.

Defeated rivalry
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d
at a caber-tossing competition, two kilted competitors close the distance between each other

Yeeted Rivalry.
older.bsky.social Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 6d
The two savviest fuel-gatherers in Scotland desperate to warm each other up:
Peated Rivalry

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7d
like, this was last night. you are not "seeing vampires and galactic parasites" you are schizophrenic. today i got one proving that the feds were collaborating with Yugoslavia(?) to 'gangstalk' a person. thousands of likes!
woman sitting on a lounge chair with the caption "me after I casually drop the part of my lore where my 'Connecticut hedge fund wife' lifestyle collapsed after I started seeing vampires and galactic parasites with my clairvoyance" profile page of that woman showing, uh, craszyshit

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 7d
“For what”
JD Vance looking smug after being asked whether he would apologize to the family of Alex Pretti.

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C.M. Lewis @thehousered.bsky.social · 8d
regardless of your view of legacy media, billionaires buying up respected outlets and then censoring and gutting reporting is a part of the fascist playbook. the only way to fight back is through newsroom unions.

back the @wbng.org WaPo staff facing down layoffs actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
Help us save The Washington Post
Hundreds of workers at The Washington Post stand to lose their jobs in layoffs, which could render The Post unrecognizable amid some of the most severe staff cuts the newspaper has ever seen. The Po...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 8d
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.