If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto.
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.

direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Third fix: EU digital sovereignty. Most major platforms are foreign-owned & may not share European democratic values. The report backs decentralised alternatives — think Mastodon, FediVerse, Eurosky — and calls for a "European CERN for Data & Democracy."
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Planning a Dioscuri application (≤15 yrs post-PhD)?

We’d love to host a PI in philosophy of mind / cog sci / AI / neuro at IFiS PAN (Warsaw).

€300k/year, 5 years, your own Centre, serious autonomy.

If you want to build something real — let’s talk. ncn.gov.pl/dioscuri/dio...

h/t @jakubmihalik.bsky.social

CfP for the Faces of Subjectivity workshop @ our Institute in Prague, September 10–12, 2026

Keynote speakers: Robert J. Howell, Anna Giustina and Sam Coleman

Deadline end of May 2026.

Thx for spreading the word!

subjectivity.flu.cas.cz/workshop/?fb...

#philsky

Panoptykon zamiast polityki naukowej - Academia PAN Ocena parametryczna jednostek naukowych w jej obecnym kształcie przypomina Panoptykon – krytykowane przez Michela Foucaulta w Nadzorować i karać „więzienie idealne”, w którym więźniowie są stale obser...

Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji: academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z... A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.

U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia

Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System? For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. Thi

For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiO0_uSJAk

Duża aktualizacja wielkiego słownika-angielsko polskiego na urządzenia Kindle, PocketBook, Apple i z systemami Windows lub Android – już dostępna! marcinmilkowski.pl/pl/2026/04/0... #kindle #PocketBook

EU investigates Snapchat over child safety concerns The European Commission suspects that adults masquerade as young users on Snapchat and recruit them for illegal activities or to exploit them sexually.

EC joined the chat: www.euronews.com/next/2026/03...

Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

Christ on an electric bike.

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the

11,000 children who don’t know if they’ll ever get to see their parents again.

Who are forced to live with friends or even strangers.

Whose lives will never be the same again.

This is Trump’s legacy.
www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-dep...

Announcing the Frontiers in Psychology Corpus: 21,000+ Papers Ready for Concept Mining We’re excited to release a comprehensive linguistic corpus of 21,084 papers published in Frontiers in Psychology between 2010 and 2021. This dataset is specifically designed for computational lingu…

Just released a tagged and compiled corpus to play with my new concept mining app, ConceptSketch. marcinmilkowski.pl/2026/03/20/a...

Problem czarnej skrzynki: co wiemy o tym, czego nie rozumiemy, Marcin Miłkowski YouTube video by Copernicus

Czarna skrzynka nawet po otwarciu nie da się pojąć. Ot i problem. youtu.be/lu8jur1cVDk

A point of contrast.

Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)

14 marca 2026 w wieku 96 lat zmarł Jürgen Habermas, wybitny niemiecki filozof i socjolog, przedstawiciel Szkoły Frankfurckiej. Już w 1983 roku ukazał się wybór pism „Teoria i praktyka” w przekładzie m.in. Małgorzaty Łukasiewicz i Zdzisława Krasnodębskiego. Wczesne lata…

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...

apnews.com/article/juer...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x) in semantics & philosophy of memory (SEER project, 3 years)

Three-year postdoc in our ANR- and DFG-funded project (with Kourken Michaelian) on the semantics of episodic representations: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/3... Please share widely!

Opinion | Roundup needs legal protections. This is the wrong way to do it. Glyphosate’s link to cancer has long been tenuous at best.

I've been holding onto my subscription to WaPo, mostly out of loyalty to #CarolynHax, but this is the last straw. Glyphosate does not need protection!!! The American people need protection from toxic chemicals & our regulatory system needs protection from corporate interference.

wapo.st/4tUf8Bf

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Here's another @zotero plugin for you! Search & Replace in Library metadata. I always missed a convenient way to remove Worldcat URLs from printed books. Ugly and unnecessary. Now you can. It's a pre-release, so back up your library because it may wreak havoc. github.com/milekpl/zote...

GitHub - milekpl/zotero-ner: Zotero author name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling) for cleaner bibliographic metadata Zotero author name normalizer — detect and fix author name variants (diacritics, initials, spelling) for cleaner bibliographic metadata - milekpl/zotero-ner

@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too!

Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote...

#Zotero

What is it like to be part of the Trump Regime? Hard to imagine.

“How was your day dear?”

“Oh pretty good. I shielded a few billionaire paedophiles from justice. How about you?”

“Fairly quiet really. Just some voter suppression and racial profiling. Nice to get to own a few Libs in the process.”

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Congratulations to you as well!

Excited to share that EPSA 2029 will take place in Ljubljana! 🎉
Big congrats to the Warsaw team for hosting EPSA 2027 too!
@epsaphilsci.bsky.social @mmilkowski.bsky.social @hgreif.bsky.social

There are 10 days left to submit a proposal for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference (Bucharest, 18–19 September 2026).

Submission deadline: 15 February!

Talks and symposia across all areas of philosophy of science are welcome ☀️
eenps2026.sciencesconf.org

#philsci