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Alan Richardson
@alanrichardson.bsky.social

Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science

Philosophy 46%
History 20%

Are you telling us that Freddie was doing it earnestly?

I’d move my stage coach a bit farther away from the huge white lady. She isn’t looking where she’s stepping.

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Congratulations to the UBC Philosophy Class of 2025! Each undergraduate and graduate student has worked tremendously hard and has accomplished so much. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Congratulations to the UBC Philosophy Class of 2025! - Department of Philosophy
Message from the Head Congratulations to our new graduates! In today’s commencement ceremony, we celebrate twelve new BAs with a Philosophy major or joint major and two new Philosophy MAs.…
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Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. I am grateful for the decades you spent as the largest public finder of science in the world—and deeply baffled why you are dismantling all those programs.

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Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com

I just stick with “be sure to answer these questions by conceiving their subject matter under the form of eternity.”

I just thought it was a funny way to think about homework

But that wasn’t the assignment, Leo!
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

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This is of course fucking grim and all I can say is that Satan will be going to work in a snow plow before I turn a student away from my class for wearing niqab or anything else.

Fuck that forever.

(great column by @nolore.bsky.social)

open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
open.substack.com

Stupidest time to be alive
Thanksgiving remarks of @VP J.D. Vance: "Think about turkey. Who really likes, be honest with yourselves, who really likes turkey? You're all full of shit. Everybody who raised your hand." Vance said to U.S. troops at Fort Campbell
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/vic...
#wtf?
Vice President Vance Tells Soldiers, ‘You’re All Full of Sh*t’ for Saying They Like Eating Turkey
Vice President JD Vance told U.S. Army soldiers that he did not believe them when they claimed to enjoy eating turkey.
www.mediaite.com

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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
Thanksgiving remarks of @VP J.D. Vance: "Think about turkey. Who really likes, be honest with yourselves, who really likes turkey? You're all full of shit. Everybody who raised your hand." Vance said to U.S. troops at Fort Campbell
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/vic...
#wtf?
Vice President Vance Tells Soldiers, ‘You’re All Full of Sh*t’ for Saying They Like Eating Turkey
Vice President JD Vance told U.S. Army soldiers that he did not believe them when they claimed to enjoy eating turkey.
www.mediaite.com
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
It didn’t even take 6 hours.

Plus the whole Trudeau thing
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.

Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.

Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN

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This is so fucking sick. Why would this young woman be on anyone's radar. Yeah, dangerous gang members and drug dealers my Aunt Matilda. Fuck you, Donald Trump. You're a worthless little shit and may you and your miscreant minions burn in Hell for all eternity.
Babson student detained at Logan Airport, deported to Honduras while trying to travel for Thanksgiving - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
BOSTON (WHDH) - A 19-year-old student at Babson College was detained at Logan Airport then deported to Honduras while she was trying to travel to<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/new...
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com

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$937,989.39: That's the amount of the penalty owed by Trump and Alina Habba, according to a new appeals court decision, which upheld a 2023 ruling that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
Vaccines save lives. Vaccine-deniers are killers.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com

Have you ever wondered if Oral Roberts had siblings and if so what their names were? Welcome, friend.

Hard to get the felching animation right in PowerPoint

Hey, Bulldog

I am bored with having to actually listen to the music. Why doesn’t Suno have a feature where it listens instead of me?

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"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
~A month or so ago the nu faculty assembly voted like 598 to 7 for no deal.

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