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Alex Madva
@madva.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy @ Cal Poly Pomona | Director of CA Center for Ethics & Policy | Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium | Co-Author of Somebody Should Do Something
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The full interview with the amazing V. Spehar

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Somebody Should Do Something
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February 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
On Community, No Mud No Lotus, and Shout Out to V's Biggest Fan: www.youtube.com/shorts/900LA...
Community and the 'No Mud, No Lotus' Ethos #substack #shorts
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
On Experimental Mindsets, Curiosity, and Cross Stich: www.youtube.com/shorts/er0mf...
Try Stuff — Stop Waiting to Know It Works #substack #shorts
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Building from Small Actions to Big Changes: www.youtube.com/shorts/PNdcs...
Small Actions, Big Momentum #substack #shorts
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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Small Acts Can Trigger Tipping Points #substack #shorts
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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🎧 Tap in, listen up, and rethink how humans shape machines.

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#BOBintheBlackBox #Episode10 #AIandSociety #LLMs #HumanInTheLoop #StudentVoices #TechTalk #DigitalEthics #FutureOfAI
Insert AI-Generated Title, Episode 9 - Deep Fakes
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February 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Actually they mention the duck-rabbit too! Anybody out there who has the hard copy or the Kindle version etc, I'm dying to know who they cite for these passages... Bout ready to go full troll over here...
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Listening to audiobook for "It's On You". They compare "i-frame" and "s-frame" to the 2 ways of seeing Necker cube.

Funny: we've been comparing them to the 2 ways of seeing the duck-rabbit since "Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change". I wonder if they cite us... Hard copy's in the mail
January 28, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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@timharford.ft.com I actually think "It's on You" could become a cautionary tale! (One of my fave podcasts, btw; I listen with my kids.) The either/or systems-or-individuals framing misses crucial ways individuals and systems interact, as we argue in the book @madva.bsky.social linked to above.
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Just listened to an awesome interview of Chater on "Keen on America"

I so appreciated Keen's persistence in pressing Chater to explain what he thinks we should do. (After having done a few interviews myself, I would *love* to get grilled like this someday...)

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The Myth of Willpower: It's not YOU. It's THEM
Episode 2775: Nick Chater on How the Rich and Powerful Have Convinced Us that We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems
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January 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Chater & Loewenstein contrast the "i-frame" focused on individual solutions with the "s-frame" focused on system change. Would it be self-aggrandizing to say that our work represents a Hegelian synthesis of that confused dichotomy? Read the two for yourself and find out just who's got that Geist...!
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 PM
If you like their book, check out "Somebody Should Do Something." We discuss many of the same case studies but reach different (we hope more actionable) conclusions. You can also check out our comment on C&L's BBS paper or our earlier work. More links in the next post www.somebody-book.com
Somebody Should Do Something
A new book about how individual people, working together, can create systemic social change Where to find it... MIT Press Penguin Bookshop Amazon Porchlight Books Greenlight Books Montclair Book ...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Liked this but also felt triggered. Just finished a certain Apple TV show last night and was disturbed to discover its creator is planning 3 more seasons... Somehow expected it to be a limited series that would wrap after one binge. Late 2027 for the next installment! We will all be Indiana by then.
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM