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(he/they) i make music and am a phd student in philosophy at the university of toronto - interests in aesthetics, spinoza, german idealism, romanticism, marx and critical theory linktr.ee/bertrandhustle
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
huge W
see ya there!
Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL
"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"
"There are about a thousand of us"
"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"
"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"
"Release all of the Epstein files"
holy shit
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
Trying to imagine the reaction if a Democratic administration did this.
The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize
Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇
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“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
genuinely hard to believe how clownish this era is
On the screen of a Nintendo 3DS: Manifesto of the Communist Party Preamble A spectre is haunting Europe -the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and
Reading the Communist Manifesto the way Marx and Engels intended
NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
The person who was shot in the face here is a local organizer who has been very active in the Movement for Black lives.
"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
ICE murdered a woman a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in 2020.
will be presenting a paper called 'marx's poetic dimension of labour and the german aesthetic tradition' in march at the acla. give me a shout if you'll be around!
Dear Author, I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete. We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences. We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views. The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…
Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted. ——— Samuel Mehr School of Psychology, University of Auckland and Child Study Center, Yale University Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
Scholars Fired/Suspended for Opposing Genocide in Palestine Featuring: Eric Cheyfitz (suspended, Cornell), Jodi Dean (reinstated, Hobart & William Smith), Maura Finkelstein (formerly, Muhlenberg), Sang Hea Kil (formerly, San Jose State), Ramsi Woodcock (suspended, U Kentucky)
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One of the best feelings in the world is that 'eureka' moment when you've finally found what the right way is to interpret a complicated philosophical idea. Beyond whether yours is a new interpretation or not, it's extremely rewarding to just 'get there.'
1/ New chapter out (with Franz Knappik): “G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” – in Matt Congdon and Thomas Khurana’s Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives.
⬇️ Short thread below:
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."
Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.
My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
