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Jordi Cat
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 5h
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 8d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 9d
We are deep in Girardian territory.

Reposted by Brooke Harrington, Jordi Cat

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13d
Alexei ❤️
four panel cartoon by Jon Bailey 1) East Berlin 1971, kitchen. A woman preparing food says "Alexei, play Tchaikovsky". 2) close-up of a blue telephone behind her on a table showing there is microphone taped under a table in the same kitchen, next to a speaker 3) a man in a grey uniform wearing headphones sits in front of a record player and selects a record from the shelf above. 4) back to original woman in kitchen preparing food, now listening to music coming from the speaker under the table and smiling @jbaileyofficial @jbaileycartoons https://x.com/jbaileyofficial/status/1233356763598139394

Reposted by Carlos Spoerhase, Jordi Cat

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Sjang ten Hagen @sjangtenhagen.bsky.social · 16d
Just published: our introduction to the history of peer review in the humanities! (with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities: An Introduction - Minerva
This Introduction to the Special Issue “The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities” situates the currently dominant evaluative regime of peer review within a longer and broader history of s...
link.springer.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 17d
While AI earbuds promise to eliminate language barriers for tourists, researchers say true language learning offers far more: creative thinking, deeper cultural understanding and access to communities you can't reach through a translator.
What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language
AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 18d
www.techpolicy.press/local-govern...
Local Governments are Learning How to Negotiate With Data Center Developers | TechPolicy.Press
Christopher Jordan from the National League of Cities and Kate Stoll from the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues consider examples.
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 18d
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
UK minister unveils plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI
New funding for researchers and streamlined regulation part of roadmap for phasing out use of animals in science
www.theguardian.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 18d
Blackmail

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 18d
What significant aspects of it will be declared automatable and be automated?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 19d
Valuing vs value. Sometimes shared valuing is more valuable than a shared value.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 20d
Participants in private scientific and technological collaborations? Or more indirectly in philanthropic institutions indirectly funded through industry profit?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 20d
Can science study fields –e.g., history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology of science– only survive attached to privatized science and technology research?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 20d
Science research is increasingly privatized, especially away from academic settings. What does it mean for the survival of research in the humanities, especially within academia? At the mercy of private funding and no less discretionary government interests? Can it survive outside academia at all?

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 24d
Much analysis of the recent election results appear to assume that citizens/voters represent political parties rather than the other way around. Party dynamics remains, however, the same: parties represent themselves, their own interests, which often do not overlap with those of voters.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 24d
Participation correcting representation. Only up to a point? We'll see. The large-scale situation is not fluid, but it's sludgy enough to destabilize projects and projections. Expect interventions from all sides. It's still a war.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 25d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dick Cheney’s role in ‘war on terror’ may have paved way for Trumpism
Former US vice-president a key figure in expanding White House’s power and ‘corrupting the intelligence-policy relationship’ to sell Iraq war
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 25d
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo
Joseph Wright of Derby’s vivid paintings depicted Enlightenment thinking and illumination amid the dark. So why are they so terrifying?
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 25d
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 28d
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe?
An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.
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Reposted by Michela Massimi, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Jordi Cat

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · Oct 20
The open access pdf has been out for a while but so much more exciting to hold the physical book in my hands!

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Oct 9
I wonder how Kraznahorkai's and Fosse's one-sentence novels fare in audiobook format.

Reposted by James Goodwin, Andréas Nilsson, David Murakami Wood , and 1 more

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · Oct 6
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Oct 5
More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Sep 29
The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..

It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.

A legal scholar explains the line:
How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.
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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 28
well, it is now.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 28
Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 27
Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.

Reposted by Steven French, Alan Richardson, Jordi Cat

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Sep 25
#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics
facultypositions.stanford.edu