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Shea Stevens

@holistic-p

Interested in: transcending the objective/subjective dichotomy; Gestalt-related philosophy; phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty especially.

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You’re trapped in the last tv show you watched. Where are you?

06.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

06.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 5383 πŸ” 2405 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 212

Carlo Rovelli’s β€œThe Order of Time” is such a good book. Brief and powerfully insightful. Recommend it for everyone.

06.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unsupervised clustering reveals spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia and typical imagery Mental imagery is a ubiquitous phenomenon for many people. Its absence - aphantasia - has recently attracted increasing scientific interest. Individua…

- The second article reveals spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia using unsupervised clustering.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

28.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
In which I reply to someone with a blacked out name that they are missing the joke and they inform me that in-jokes are virtue signals β€œused often by the far right.”

Kinda want to frame it.

In which I reply to someone with a blacked out name that they are missing the joke and they inform me that in-jokes are virtue signals β€œused often by the far right.” Kinda want to frame it.

And they keep saying Bluesky doesn’t have the juice…

02.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 4556 πŸ” 482 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 39

There's lots of good philosophy that looks like the diagram on the right, but many philosophers really do spend a lot of time on their own little island...

02.03.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Our view is that conscious representation is the ultimate representational reality (this is our difference from Dennett) and as such, is not the result of modelling. How we describe our conscious episodes, however, is a model

02.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | LSE Event
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | LSE Event YouTube video by LSE

Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!!

@lsephilosophy.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...

27.02.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sending care and my best wishes for their safety πŸ™πŸ»

28.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

27.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Bishops Take On Trump At the Supreme Court: β€œProtect God-Given Human Dignity” The U.S. bishops have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court calling Trump’s birthright citizenship order β€œimmoral” and unconstitutional β€” a consequential legal action without recent parallel.

In a historic legal intervention, America’s Catholic bishops have asked the Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship β€” calling it an attack on β€œGod-given human dignity.”

The brief caps a year of escalating conflict between Pope Leo and the White House.

27.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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All done with the quilt top! This is a free pattern by Bari J, called Stars Over Fairview Avenue. She also designed these fabrics. 10/10 recommend! #quiltsky

27.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've read a lot of infuriating things over the past year or so, but this lede is up there. This man spent a year being abused and tortured before being killed by this government. Totally unconscionable.

27.02.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 313 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

…systematically parsing through the goals of people who are bullshitting, we should use other terms. Persuasion, spectacle, ignorance, deception, love of lying, irony, joking… these are a lot more precise. Bullshit can just mean too many things. It’s still a great catch-all in everyday usage though.

26.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s a hot take: I don’t think the term β€œbullshit” in philosophy a la Frankfurt is all that helpful of a term because it’s not a narrow or precise enough term. In colloquial usage it can mean anything from meaningless fluff to a lie that stinks to high heaven. Instead, when we are systematically

26.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm hiring again!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp

- to work with me!

Deadline: March 20, 2026

More info on PhilJobs

26.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

"We must reject political violence of any kind," says Trump, who pardoned hundreds of violent rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired.

25.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 3432 πŸ” 807 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 23
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Catholic Bishops Warn Trump: Mass Deportations β€œDetrimental to Human Rights” Hours before President Trump’s State of the Union, 18 Catholic bishops β€” many from border states β€” issued a rare public plea urging him to reverse course on immigration.

NEW: Echoing Pope Leo XIV, U.S. Catholic bishops confront Trump ahead of his State of the Union β€” urging an end to family separations and mass raids.

25.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
24.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!

24.02.2026 08:14 πŸ‘ 901 πŸ” 202 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12
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Call for participants! I’m interested in ho therapists make complex decisions on ethical issues and what guides them.
I’d be really grateful if counsellors, psychotherapists or trainees (UK based) out there would fill out this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste... #TherapistsConnect

24.02.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is also a tax on women who are judged much more harshly for their appearance.

23.02.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
kash patel trump kids book

kash patel trump kids book

kash patel trump kids book

kash patel trump kids book

kash patel trump kids book

kash patel trump kids book

its another day to remind people that the reason kash patel is fbi director is because he wrote trump fan fiction, not because he knows jack about law enforcement. and nearly every republican in the senate approved his nomination. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

23.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 578 πŸ” 166 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 10
To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacationΒ©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacationΒ©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

23.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 3368 πŸ” 1202 πŸ’¬ 184 πŸ“Œ 306

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 18519 πŸ” 6558 πŸ’¬ 431 πŸ“Œ 175

#gestalt

22.02.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

Sometimes it do be like that

22.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

21.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 13148 πŸ” 6655 πŸ’¬ 399 πŸ“Œ 369
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Quilt in progress

21.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

america is a place where the president illegally demolishes the economy for a year before the wizard council decides he wasn’t supposed to do that

20.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 1971 πŸ” 534 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 2