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Andrew Lopez

@andrulus.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State. Views my own, etc. Animal Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · May 24

I have a new paper coming out in Ergo on what I think is the relevance and usefulness of Mexican philosopher Jorge Portilla for thinking about politics and social dynamics on the internet. Linked here: A short thread: philpapers.org/rec/LOPIJA

Andrew Lopez, It's Just a Joke: Thinking Online Politics with Jorge Portilla - PhilPapers

I argue that the philosophy of Jorge Portilla can help us understand the current social and political conditions of the United States. In particular, I draw from Portilla's account of relajo ...

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know. Plausible. My claim isn't about all derogatory terms for AI, but about terms that we have good reason to think are modified from slurs for people. Like wireback.

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 1d

not sure I see reason for taking that as decisive. I don't think it would excuse an unobservant person if they began using a term for AI created by adding a prefix to the n-word. Or, at least, not their continued use of the term after it was pointed out to them because they "don't mean it that way"

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 1d

I think the claim is charitably that these terms are modeled after existing slurs, that there's something objectionable about taking the slur "wetback" and modifying it to "wireback". It doesn't make you an "anti-computer racist", but why are you modeling your language off anti-Mexican slurs.

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 3d

The mimoids are ai hallucinations of real babies

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 7d

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics, making them even more beautiful than before. Here’s a fine example in our favourite local Japanese restaurant.

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 6d

"AMPA receptor (AMPAR)"

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog

Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 8d

Mildly confused about this, people keep noting that no one clapped, but why would we expect military top leadership to clap. I believe I've seen clips of meetings like this before (nowhere near this scale) and they never clap. Especially since they were called to attention right after.

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 10d

youtu.be/e5BLqK_xgGk?...

im latina so i just want to have fun

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 12d

Re: the former, dudes are #1

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 12d

Running????? This is the time to squat heavier

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

it occurs to me that I should ask a version of this separately for sprinters / people that do speed work (including strides I guess but anything 400m pace or quicker)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

Bluesky runners: winter is coming. how do yall keep consistent with your miles? do you migrate to indoor tracks, just pray there's no ice, moderate your speed when it has snowed, switch to running on road, make peace with the treadmill?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 14d

Normally not nosey like this, but someone had ChatGPT open on their phone screen on the bus and I looked long enough to see their query:

"when is [our university's] Thanksgiving break?"

There is a webpage dedicated to displaying every important date on our academic calendar, come on

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 14d

Have often seen people reference this but has anyone looked into whether this is specific to American Gen Z or the anglosphere?

French 75 Apologist🚰 @handle.invalid · 15d

A TikTok from this film industry account was posted about how an industry survey of Gen Z media consumers found that a near supermajority of young people thought television and cinema had too much sexual content. These were the comments.

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 16d

I haven't read the brief, but while the alchemists didn't figure out a way to do this, it is actually possible since we figured out atoms are not indivisible and can undergo radioactive decay or be smashed together in accelerators to change their atomic number, so what's that do to this argument

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 16d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 17d

something about being in the rightwing conspiracy hellhole makes you talk like sephiroth

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17d

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at the Kirk memorial: “You have no idea the dragon you have awakaned.

“We will save this civilization and the West.”

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 17d

And now it means you got a few bucks to buy your buddy Andrew a beer

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18d

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and:

1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character

2) we should make more actors do this

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 19d

re: Francione, you can find posts by him 1) insisting that hormones naturally make "biological males" more aggressive so of course trans women are a danger to cis women; and 2) complaining that pitbulls are maligned as naturally more aggressive and violent when really its abuse & socialization

Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 19d

Francione's turn towards culture war shit has been a while in the making, but it's still weird to see people like him and Diamond lean so hard into this stuff

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 21d

That is nonsense.

It's not the same moon. Everyone who has ever been wary of things in the sky knows that it's never the same two nights in a row. We have good reason to believe that there are likely indefinitely many moons killing people.

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 21d

Poutine, nanaimo bars, butter tarts,fish and brewis, the whole tim hortons menu... Canada's got it all

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 23d

Also, the question was about political science. I don't know how many effective altruists there are in polisci, but the mention of critical theory is lol given how marginal political theorists are in north american polisci departments

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23d

one funny thing about the 'universities are hostile to debate' thing is, if you try to effect the sort of political debate that is banal in a university setting, in more or less any other social setting, people will react like you are being an antisocial weirdo

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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 25d

"and advocates" ah but yea white supremacist shootings are not of broader concern, just isolated weirdos

New York Post @nypost.com · 25d

Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates

The assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk marks the latest example of a growing wave of murders and other shootings committed by transgender people and others advocating for their rights.

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