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Those days when bel canto was supported by tobacco

River Lea

Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics Free online from 23rd April 2025 - 7th May 2025 #philsky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

In case you are a huge nerd, I made some lecture notes on Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution for a reading group I am doing with my students. They are very nerdy and opinionated but I dunno maybe some of yinz will care. www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...

River Lea

If the chancellor and president of your uni hasn’t signed the (lame imo) aacu letter, email them if you have some authority at your uni. I just emailed chancellor gavel at Pitt. Perhaps of interest for @pghcitypaper.com: why hasn’t gabel signed?

American Doctors Warn of Alarming Rise in Dangerous Brain Complications in Children After COVID-19 Pandemic www.thailandmedical.news/news/america...

The perfect Tweet (sadly now deleted)

At least someone in the MoD should be nominated to take legal responsibility: if they’re willing to risk others’ lives on the operation of LAWS, let them put their own liberty under the same risk.

“Far from introducing clarity, this ruling suggests that—by law—transgender men in Britain are two sexes at once: whichever one circumscribes their rights the most will be the legally salient one.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-potemkin...

Old Ford Lock 19

Harvard’s position is that they will be anti-Palestinian on their own terms. Remember that.

St Alban’s, Good Friday

Heartwood Forest

OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning” models generate more falsehoods than their predecessors. Since #LLMs are model language usage and not factual information, it’s built-into their design that they will output false or misleading information. #PhilAI techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/o...