A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
If you have a PhD in Philosophy and would be volunteering to help out the Royal Inst. of Philosophy and myself re. some judging (e.g. a few hours work), do please get in touch: email me at think(AT)royalinstitutephilosophy.org
The Right: 'Young people are shutting down free speech (re e.g. trans rights, race/genetics) on campus using accusations of bigotry to justify it. This must be stopped!' Also the Right: 'Young people's campus protests about Gaza are antisemitic and must be stopped!'
The Right: 'Young people are shutting down free speech (re e.g. trans rights, race/genetics) on campus using accusations of bigotry to justify it. This must be stopped!' Also the Right: 'Young people protesting about Gaza on campus are antisemitic and must be stopped!'
Israel blocks the entry of drugs & equipment Palestinian kids with serious burns need to recover, so MSF has been using a 3D printer to print masks for children that assist in their recovery. But Israel is now blocking the supplies they need to continue.
Hind Khoudary reporting
Oxford Uni among those paying security firm to monitor pro-Palestinian students. Director of parent company 'publicly blamed the rising number & size of pro-Gaza demonstrations in Western countries on a “Russian/Iranian orchestrated media campaign” not genocide. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
I got asked what it actually was like being in Gaza amidst genocide:
Making a pledge and then breaking it is not merely 'changing your mind'. The latter is fine, while the former reveals a character flaw: you're untrustworthy. Still, breaking a pledge need not be a lie if the pledge was at least sincerely made at the time. But I think it pretty clear it was not.
Iran is a country run by religious fanatics.
Meanwhile: Trump’s spiritual advisor. 👇
'If you want to know how the reality is, you'll need to *observe* it. But then armchair reflection can amount to nothing more than pointless navel-gazing. Which makes armchair philosophy a grand waste of time.' True? www.templeton.org/news/philoso...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American journalist, has been detained for over six weeks in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. The Kuwaiti government must release our friend and colleague immediately. Journalism is NOT a crime. Sign the petition here. #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin
Odin's new toy.
What is the most serious risk to humanity posed by the development of AI? A panel discussion featuring philosophers and AI specialists. May 14th event, 6pm London Details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/is-ai-...
@triphilosophy.bsky.social
Hang on to your hats: Yvette is now *deeply* concerned.
There have many grotesque mass murders over the last few centuries, each unique in its own disgusting way. To insist that only one is unique is wrong, and quite possibly racist.
"You said that Iran pioneered the use of terrorism in the Middle East. Actually that was the Zionist gangs, the Stern Gang and the Irgun... bombed the King David Hotel..."
I factchecked a lying Israeli military spokesman on 'Piers Uncensored.'
Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...
Pennycooks opposition to rent controls was welcomed by Kurt Mueller - Britain's largest listed private landlord
Labour's housing minister's opposition to rent controls welcomed by the country's largest private landlord.
Who's side are Labour on? Renters or landlords. The answer is here.
Reeves is 'very frustrated and angry' over the US's war on Iran that we are helping them with by supplying bases to launch bombing raids and the RAF to shoot down Iranian missiles and drones launched in response.
Illusionism is currently becoming a bit more popular in philosophy of mind (cf @keithfrankish.com) Here I explain the Wittgensteinian variety of illusionism. Yes, consciousness exists, but it's not the necessarily private inner world you may imagine it is. www.templeton.org/news/is-the-...
I've been leaked a letter from the Telegraph's new owners.
It's now mandatory for the Telegraph's journalists to support Israel.
And their new owner's record is deeply disturbing 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/at-the-tel...
Currently, people who fear publicly expressing opinions beyond the margins of what the status quo deems 'sensible' wouldn't dream of saying Starmer, Lammy, and Cooper should be prosecuted and imprisoned. Let's normalise the thought by repeating it, so that even the sensibles might dare say it
If your reaction to the thought Starmer, Cooper, & Lammy should be imprisoned is 'That's ridiculous' (it will be reaction of many) ask yourself *why* it's ridiculous. Often what seems 'ridiculous' to us seems so not for good reasons but as a result of prevailing zeitgeist.
BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial.
UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details.
“If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”
War, what is it good for?
