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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know who's doing the marketing for them, but I'm pretty sure they're not getting payed enough

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 6d

A triangle that says "pick two" with "Democracy," "Attention economy," and "Anyone can make a realistic deepfake" at its points.

Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 7d

So the thing that everyone has been warning us about for over a decade just happened

michael veale @michae.lv · 7d

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 13d

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 15d

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 15d

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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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 15d

This whole document is just so cringe on so many levels

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 15d

Also, I did not have Peter Carruthers and Timothy Williamson on my anti-trans academics bingo card, but I guess that's what you get when you go knowledge first...

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 15d

Anti-trans philosophers:

Our laws should respect the distinctions between real kinds in nature!

Nature:

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/13/s...

Ant queen gives birth to two different species | CNN

An Iberian harvester ant queen was observed reproducing two different species of male ant.

edition.cnn.com

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 15d

just want to add that even if Tylenol did cause autism that wouldn't be a big deal because being autistic isn't a bad thing

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 15d

turns out that was a generous take 🤯

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 17d

To know him is to love him

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 18d

Here is a summary of our contribution to www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

by @marielgoddu.bsky.social

#cogsky #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience 🧠🧪

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 18d

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 22d

Though Furby did give us one great thing, Furby Noise Cafe in Tokyo, which as an anarchist run bar\independent record label who's owner collects modified Furbies

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 22d

The fact that the word Furby does not appear even once in this 'article' blows my mind. This is just another iteration of a very dated idea and it's obvious that Grem is heading in the same direction as all its previous versions - into the trash pile.

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Bartosz Radomski @bartoszradomski.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

Basic Principles of Cognition

1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.

basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 28d

Cognition rears its ugly head during a meeting of psychophysicists

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 28d

I think I'm gonna read Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth because everyday I think we have reached the bottom and everyday I realize we are still digging deeper

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · Sep 7

As much as I love the meme, epistemic\weak emergence is very different and much more honest about what it is than metaphysical\strong emergence. There is nothing wrong with saying "hey, we couldn't predict this behavior from what we know about the organization and the behavior of the components"

Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nice!

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was dealing with the Germans!

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh no, I didn't know you’d be there as well!

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · Sep 4

Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take.

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · Sep 4

My bad, I misremembered a conversation in one of the meetings!

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