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Shannon E French

@sefrench.bsky.social

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Philosophy Prof, International Ethics Center Director, Author of Code of the Warrior. Fields: Military Ethics and Ethics & Emerging Technology. Views I post are mine alone and not any employer’s or sponsor’s, etc. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · Aug 19

Whoohoo! IT HAS ARRIVED!

I gotta admit, the thrill of opening a box of freshly published books with my name on them never gets old. Thank you, @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for a great author experience thus far.

I hope those of you with an interest in the subject enjoy the new material! #booksky

Image shows four copies of the new book The Code of the Warrior, by Shannon E French, third edition, out with Bloomsbury press. The cover is gold with white and black lettering, and has pictures of a battle axe, a katana, an assegai, and an assault rifle. The books are propped up on a dark green velvet couch.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 32m

🧵Stop calling it Argentina aid.

It's a scam bailout to friends of Trump and his thug chums who had been making a lot of money off Argentina.

The scam goes like this:

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

Good.

No matter what, we'll always fight to protect every students' freedom to learn.

Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.

www.npr.org

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 2h

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“Betty Ford had the best quote for how special the East Wing is: ‘If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart,” Anita McBride, who was chief of staff to Laura Bush when she was first lady, told East Wing Magazine.” - NYTimes

What a metaphor, indeed. 💔

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GraceCallahan @gratefulg.bsky.social · 13h

Right. And the East Wing used to be the women's wing where first ladies and other leaders would advocate for health care and other important initiatives that especially affect women and children.
19thnews.org/2025/10/east...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3h

this is what scientific progress is all about www.404media.co/breathing-th...

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial

The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.

www.404media.co

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 3h

Your horoscope for today:
Be like a tree - get more twisted, bent, and weathered with age, and only more beautiful.

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 3h

This is remarkable - an amazing bonus benefit from these vaccines

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.

Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients

A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

In Opinion

“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.

Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

nyti.ms

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 20h

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadn’t

go.nature.com/4hkqZma

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine

mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

go.nature.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s morning of a weekday. Children were there

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The companies that run so much of the world’s digital infrastructure are mandating overconsumption like a water supply authority installing thousands of open taps to juice their water delivery numbers -->>>

ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

ketanjoshi.co

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Is it good when your product is reviewed by everyone but they all say it sucks.

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’

The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

www.theguardian.com

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 1d

A new letter signed by hundreds of public figures from across the ideological spectrum calls for a "prohibition" on building AI "superintelligence" until A. it can be controlled and B. the public wants it. (And right now, polling shows that the public *does not.*)

futurism.com/artificial-i...

FUTURISM

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence
"Nobody developing these AI systems has been asking humanity if this is OK."
By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Published Oct 22, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

Image is a multicolored collage featuring Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, and Steve Bannon

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP; Michael M. Santiago; Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

💔Kharkiv: Rescuers evacuate children from a destroyed kindergarten.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

US farmers aren’t happy about the Trump admin’s plan to import beef from Argentina, especially after losing their soybean market to them. On top of that we’re still bailing Argentina out with $40B while American farmers go bankrupt. America First, right?

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 2d

Once again: no one told me when I was in grad school that becoming a historian of 20th century Europe would mean I would need to convince people that Nazis were (and are) bad.

I really thought that was a given.

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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

Quote text from article:

Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges.
"What a travesty," said Bennett L.
Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it."

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 2d

I was worried about being able to read their handwriting, but in fact I had zero problems there. And that’s despite the fact that English is a second (or third or fourth) language for some of my students. Honestly, the worst handwriting in the mix is mine, in my comments while grading, lol!

Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 2d

While I haven’t (quite… yet?) gone this far, I graded my blue book midterm exams yesterday and the vast majority of my students did extremely well on them. I’m truly proud of them! And no complaints. Provided full accommodations for the few students who were registered for them (uni helps with that)

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 2d

Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally.

This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."

All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 2d

And btw, just posted this: bsky.app/profile/1789...

Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 2d

We knew this, right? AI is extending our workdays. Research done at #Emory. #academicsky
www.emorybusiness.com/2025/10/06/a...

Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday

New research from Goizueta’s Wei Jiang reveals AI exposure can actually extend the workday instead of shortening it. Read more.

www.emorybusiness.com

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 2d

💯 It honestly makes my stomach churn to hear people seriously shill for these biased, error-prone shortcuts while not acknowledging the value of real research at all.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d

welp

"A near-record number of cars are being repossessed as Americans continue to fall behind on their auto loans amid mounting financial strain...over three million cars could be repossessed in 2025, a level only reached in 2009 during the Great Recession."

Car repossessions approaching record high as delinquency rates soar

If current trends hold, 2025 car repossessions could reach levels last seen during the financial crisis.

www.newsweek.com

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