I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
Recently have been putting a lot of thought into what norms govern the movement between folk concepts and scientific concepts. What concepts are resistant to operationalization? Really interesting thread from a cognitive scientist on what concepts we can have “theories of.”
I have suddenly come to understand that I want to smell like the foil bit of a cigarette pack. That minty, fresh tobacco leaf smell. But so many tobacco fragrances are supposed to be "warm" and "sensual". Does anyone have a good sense of what notes I should look for/any frags i may like?
The wellwood intrigues me! Tysmmmmm
My curiosities re:this are I think more squarely in psycholinguistic terrain so this works well for me! Tysm again
Lit. Tell me more. Now or another time. I'm not v good at tracking events
This is super duper helpful thank you so much!! I'll report back
Ye event cognition, which requires representing events.
I am curious about both! But more towards the former. I remember stuff about how (I think surprisingly) late we seem to learn things like "the day after tomorrow" but that's all I really know! Also curious about what makes us learn such structure but I think that's way harder to find a paradigm for
Hi Bluesky! Suppose I was feeling brave and wanted to learn about how we/kids develop event cognitive capacities. Where should I start?
scenes from the MIT philosophy department
I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄
Y'all are the shiniest of counterexamples ❤️
did you catch this?
Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
Great profile of C. Thi Nguyen in The NY Times! Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore | In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b... | @add-hawk.bsky.social |
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
Never, in a million kabillion years, when I decided to say "screw it" to mainstream philosophy and started writing about the philosophy of games, could I have imagined that this road would take me down to having the goddamn NY Times profile me and my new book.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
Who are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!
My dream (all my cognitive and emotional capacities halve in the summer)
A crocodile basking in the sun, mouth open for thermoregulation. Moisturized. In his lane. Thriving
Hoping that my experience machine will stimulate my brain to experience the pov of this handsome guy
There's a real glut of AI videos of men of the cloth in full regalia chewing out ICE officers and the way I was able to identify them is:
When men of the cloth get involved, it makes news, as in Rev. David Black. So if there's real footage of a priest screaming at ICE at a CHURCH it will be NEWS.
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
dark times ahead. but we are going to win.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
Ok, philosophers, things I think I'm supposed, professionally, to know, but I'm worried I learned wrong.
What is a proposition?
Reviewers reading my technical appendix:
