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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite analogous to using the n word against a fictional character, as some have mentioned. Insisting it's not a slur sounds a bit pedantic, even if it's true... But people don't seem to really disagree on anything in this thread

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 5d

Henry’s thesis is on: “Developing a Naturalistic Metaphysics for Biological Agency”. His goal (our goal in working together) was to show that there’s nothing unscientific or supernatural about ideas of agency, mental causation, and free will. ⬇️ (1/n)

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 6d

Huge congratulations to Dr. Henry Potter!!! 😊👏🎉🍾

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 6d

The new Cambridge Element on Philosophy of Cosmology by Siska de Baerdemaeker is available for free download until Friday, October 3.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

De Baerdemaeker's article in #HOPOS on the history of cosmology can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

www.cambridge.org

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 6d

"Having long had one foot in philosophy of science and the other in foundations of statistics, I will zero in on the central philosophical issues that lie below the surface of today’s raging debates."

Deborah Mayo with excerpts from her 2018 book "Statistical Inference as Severe Testing"

#PhilSci

October 2025 – Error Statistics Philosophy

1 post published by Mayo during October 2025

errorstatistics.com

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 15d

They seem to ignore that the names for animal parts do not translate exactly from one language to another because people don't carve animals the same way in different cultures... The metaphor says quite the contrary of what it was meant to

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 15d

They seem to ignore that the names for animal parts do not translate exactly from one language to another because people don't carve animals the same way in different cultures... The metaphor says quite the contrary of what it was meant to

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15d

Ohhh this is a useful term

Let me introduce you to your new favourite term: ‘workslop’
Academics trying to square the rise in use of generative AI in workplaces with early reporting suggesting that many companies aren’t seeing material benefits from the technology have coined a new term: workslop (Harvard Business Review)

Workslop is AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.

HBR
The team makes the case that workslop is hurting productivity because people are using AI to do work that is good enough to pass on, but ultimately ends up being “unhelpful, incomplete, or missing crucial context about the project at hand.” They say they see examples of this in coding, research and just general communication.

The Sizzle: I don’t want to be only negative about AI. In fact, in a future edition I’d like to share some of the ways that I am experimenting with AI (do you have some good uses? email me). Like most tools, I think it can be useful when used in the right situation (obligatory mention of IP, environment and corporate consolidation issues).

But as I was reading this article, I was thinking one thing: EXACTLYYYYYYY.

Everyone now knows exactly what it’s like when they’re handed a piece of workslop. It’s not just in workplaces either — people taking in open source projects or other collaborative efforts have to deal with this too. This sentence particularly resonated with me:

The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15d

No i’ve not been hacked. No this is not one of those “how would you call for help” memes.

Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 16d

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

youtu.be

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 19d

My essay ‘Breaking the Chain’ is up at Aeon magazine:

aeon.co/essays/why-q...

It summarises the argument of my book (A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics, OUP) that the Husserlian underpinnings of a crucial text in the history of quantum physics have been overlooked.
#physics
#philsci

Why quantum mechanics needs phenomenology | Aeon Essays

The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution

aeon.co

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 22d

What if thoughts are recursively defined strings? (I'm the first though)

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Cory Allen Heidelberger @coralhei.bsky.social · 27d

Good news in the global war on fascism:

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27d

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

www.theguardian.com

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 27d

Elle cherche des neutrinos qu'elle a égaré sur le sol

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · 28d

"El ser y el poquitín"

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Jean Abbiateci @jeanabbiateci.bsky.social · 28d

« Il me semble que... »

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · Sep 8

They had the US, duh

Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · Sep 8

They would retort that your phone has a temperature sensor

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Sep 6

In the 80s I went to a lecture by a Bulgarian political philosopher. The whole lecture was delivered with his back to the audience writing incomprehensible symbols on the board. He said afterward that they’d developed this habit so the secret police watching would think they were doing maths.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Sep 6

Christopher Monckton calls for all university teaching to be recorded and permanently archived online. "That would stop the communist propaganda dead!"

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Devastating article!
mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

mikelovesrobots.substack.com

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · Aug 27

A session on the Bergson-Einstein debate at #EPSA2025, almost as packed as a Bergson conference! #philsci

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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hasok Chang’s keynote at EPSA, in a typical European lecture hall #philsci

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Aug 24

since, people ask, here's what's worked for me:

1. call out information sources directly "you've been on twitter to much", "you've been listening to manosophere crap & it's starting to get in your head"

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Aug 24

what *would* be good, is work on talking friends & family out of facsism that's positive, practical, & non victim blaming

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Quentin Ruyant @qruy.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's like thanking your pen and paper for the writing aid

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · Aug 21

Interesting piece, but quite unfair to Rawls’s actual views. It seems to be more about the misinterpretation and misuse of his ideas by elites. Rawls disliked the term “neutrality” (he mentions it only once, in order to explain the limited kind of neutrality that is compatible with his theory). …

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Aug 21

my latest with @newrepublic.com

liberalism isn't the 'referee of politics'. it's a player, & it must win

newrepublic.com/article/1992...

Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus

The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.

newrepublic.com

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