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Researcher in philosophy of science and AI Naarm, Australia Sarcasm is my native dialect. My blog, loosely tied to Bayesian reasoning and argument analysis: https://bayesianwatch.wordpress.com/ Ex: FB, Twitter, Mastodon, Post (in order)
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DeGette: “Will you commit to not taking retaliatory action against the NIH scientists that signed the research letter?” RFK: “I don’t know anything about that.” We copied RFK on the #BethesdaDeclaration, so either he doesn’t check his email, or he lied under oath. www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-26724...

Fuck Doug Collins ~ A Veteran

Haiti is unsafe for Americans, but safe for Haitians, according to the State Dept. Perhaps they should be more nuanced and declare it unsafe for MAGAts, but safe for Dems and Haitian refugees.

Trump claims he has the right to decide what taxes Canada levies on business inside Canada.

NEW: In a sweeping rebuke of President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution against law firms that challenged his political agenda, a federal judge Friday struck down in its entirety an executive order issued by Trump that targeted a powerful law firm. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

This whole debate takes place in a kind of bizarre time warp where the existence of gay and trans people is some kind of dirty secret children could be oblivious to, but for insidious woke kid lit.

🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.

NewsGuard: The Lies of RFK Jr

Das letzte Mal, dass es so warm auf der Erde war wie gerade, ist mind. 100.000 Jahre her und ich weiß nicht, was ich erschreckender finde - die Tatsache, dass die menschengemachte globale Erwärmung hier einfach ein senkrechter Strich (!) ist, oder dass es immer noch Leute gibt, die sie leugnen. 🌍🔥😐

Even in my field - higher education studies - some (many?) people don’t realize deadly seriousness if the stakes, that everything has changed. Some colleagues think they can keep their preexisting frames for understand how things work in US higher ed and proceed with their research agenda as such.

Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign. I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist. He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.

"The world is falling short in multilateral cooperation," says a group of former leaders & Nobel laureates, in a slight understatement. As trillionaires loom and the rest are kicked into the curb.

The White House’s math on the budget bill requires nothing short of an economic miracle, says @bobburgess.bsky.social

Hegseth is such a dumbshit it sometimes still shocks me. Like a bunch of their other people would know better and say this as a conscious lie, but this meathead probably believes it

"Medicalized treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria needs to be dispassionately scrutinized like any other area of medicine, no matter which side of the aisle is cheering it on. But in the United States, it has not been." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

if the ads I’m seeing are any indication of why consumers should get behind AI, we’re in big trouble if Google, Meta, Microsoft, et al think a selling proposition is a bewildered nitwit calling in for instructions on how to pull off a Fourth of July bbq… www.nytimes.com/2025...

Mamdani stood up to lies that supporting human rights is antisemitic. Other Democrats could profit from his good example.

Judd Legum decries a court's #copyright ruling that AI should have access to its legitimately sourced input works, since copyright laws explicitly allow for that. This ruling conforms to what I've previously written about #AI and copyright: if existing law means anything it grants AI fair use.

Just read about Caballo (Seville) Bell experiments supposed to show whether or not free will exists. Specifically, whether (partial) determinism may explain Bell violations. This is a story about physicists doing bad philosophy.

In order to demonstrate how well-justified Trump's version of the success of the Iran bombing was, the White House is suppressing Congressional oversight of US intelligence.

Mainting the class system- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump claims new evidence backs his obliteration claim. The idea that someone has crawled through the demolished tunnels of Fordo and established the facility to be destroyed is far fetched. I note that Ratcliffe's note doesn't contradict me.

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...