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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 18h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 18h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 21h

“Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.”

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 1d

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 1d

#Philjobs #philsci #philtech

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 1d

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

jobs.sjsu.edu

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 2d

The AI revolution going exactly as expected

Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 2d

Techmeme front page:

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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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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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly!

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

The secret is that almost all American Catholics, so almost all the rightCaths, including even the integralists, have an essentially Protestant understanding of religion as a category. Ironically, they cannot submit to the authority of the Church *in the name of the authority of the Church*.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a phd student? Are you in the vicinity of one and want to help them with their bad life choices? Then this is for you! #philsci

Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 2d

✨Don't forget✨ PSA Office Hours are back! Join us this Thursday, October 9 at 12 PM EST with S. Andrew Schroeder. Sign up at the link below to save your spot!

www.philsci.org/psa_...

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

Cool! That makes sense.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

Also introducing bias should produce variance so long as the bias isn’t systematic in the data set, right? (Seriously asking this is not an AOS for me lol)

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I think so. I don’t use the example to teach the details though, but to help students cope with being unsettled by the “biased” course material. I explain that my undergrad prof once told me: “in philosophy, you know more by knowing less”, then I complain about the phrase, and then unpack it.

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Robert Wallace @philosobobby.bsky.social · 2d

I love teaching the difference between accuracy and precision for this reason. If your shots are precise but inaccurate, you can sometimes become more accurate—have more shots on target— by having less tight groupings of shots.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that we need to confront is that a lot of institutions folded to Trump without a fight because people with power were sympathetic to Trump. The institutional rot runs deep. As we rebuild, we need to build new media and societal institutions, not just retrofit the broken ones.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2d

Amplifying this because I don't think many people are aware that activists in Chicago are extremely angry at Pritzker right now. He is doing a lot of public bluster but calling ISP to aid ICE against activists on the ground. People need to cool it with the Great Khan stuff until he repents

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 3d

You give us empty rhetoric. You give Trump’s invading forces an Illinois State Police escort. We know which side you’re on.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d

"the number of the stars in the whole of the two million nebulae is such that if stars were grains of sand, the grains would cover the whole of England hundreds of yards deep. Our earth is one millionth part of one such grain, and we bother ourselves over questions of social rank"

Leonard Hill 1930

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 3d

Trump is federalizing the National Guard in Illinois against our will—

An affront to American values and an extreme abuse of our military.

He’s terrorizing citizens in attempt to expand his power and punish opponents.

That’s just not who we are.

It’s authoritarian.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

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