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A high-tech digital dashboard titled "WORLDVIEW" showing a global flight tracking map in a vivid green night-vision (NVG) aesthetic. Hundreds of bright green airplane icons swarm over a dark globe. A sidebar on the left lists data layers including "Live Flights" (5.8K), "Satellites," and "CCTV Mesh." The UI includes tactical markings like "TOP SECRET // SI-TK // NOFORN" and various filter toggles at the bottom for CRT, FLIR, and Anime styles.

A comprehensive geopolitical dashboard titled "MONITOR" showing a "Global Situation" map. The map is covered in red "Breaking" hotspots and blue markers for military activity. The bottom half of the screen features a live Bloomberg news feed, AI-generated strategic insights, and a "Country Instability Index" ranking nations like Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. The top header shows a "DEFCON 5" status and a UTC clock.

A web browser window displaying a 3D globe interface called "GEMINI EARTH: Orbital Omniscience System." A hover-state popup for London, UK, displays humorous, cynical text about rain and the property market. On the right, an "Intelligence Brief" sidebar shows images and info for Bangkok. The UI has a dark, futuristic aesthetic with a "Shoggoth Thought Stream" text box and a URL bar showing a local development environment.

A photograph of a tablet displaying a real-time urban monitoring interface centered on a map of New York City. A "Focus Mode" sidebar on the left shows a grid of CCTV camera thumbnails, while a larger "Live" window in the top right shows a real-time feed of traffic on the BQE at 49th St. The map is peppered with points of interest like L’Industrie Pizzeria and Union Square, styled with a dark, high-contrast "Intelligence Platform" skin.

We need a dashboard to monitor the situation of situation monitoring dashboards.

Being an academic is spending 90 min looking for a source to back up a claim of something you know it's true because you were fucking there.
"I am alive( My mother, 1990)"

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.

This is the aftermath in one area

This paper has like 2k quotes. Academia is dead, and we are all in the purgatory.

Ah yes, how to forget when Chomsky and Ibn Rushd used to hang out to comment the Organon.

I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.

The culture war(s)
Not sure if the plural here counts.

2) The reading wars (never quite understood them)

Thread of academic wars (for the sake of procrastination)

1) The rationality wars

Mapping the online manipulation economy A market perspective on digital manipulation may help improve online trust and safety

The internet is full of fake and coordinated activity, and platforms often rely on SMS verification to prevent it. A hidden market selling SMS verifications lets bad actors bypass these protections, and a new website was created to track and study this problem for the first time.

The fact that a link to a seminar on moral virtues in a university has been banned as adult content by @safety.bsky.app is...ironic to say the least.

The epistemic environment is not good, folks. It's not good at all.

Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

Me when ready philosophers: "I should've been a cognitive scientist". Me reading cognitive scientist: "wtf is wrong with this ppl thanks christ I'm a philosopher"

Wake me up when rationality is normative again.

Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse Removing stressors robs students of growth opportunities, writes TC's Ben Lovett and his co-author Alex Jordan

Food for thought: "Students are more capable than their anxiety tells them they are."

Unpopular opinion: just because the space of posibility and plausibility allows for your empirically insane argument, doesn't mean you have to make it.
Don't make it.

As my former Uni-clinic-based GP said to me once: "everyone on this campus is on sertraline, it's the only way this *gesture surroundings* works".

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

No, but a hotdog is.

A drawing of the traditional cognitive science hexagon with Philosophy, Linguistics, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology at each side. The overlapping lines call to mind more traditional spooky pentagrams.

If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.

Post by academics in the US right now be like:
"OMGOMGOMG fascism is here OMGOMGOMG. Anyway I'm happy to announce that here is my new paper. :D "

Less academic freedom leads to less innovation - Impact of Social Sciences Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freed...

🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."

#AcademicFreedom

"When I was a kid, we didn't have smartphones. We had to come up with our own extremist views"

No longer credentialed at the Pentagon: NYT, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, Reuters, Fox

Now credentialed:
LindellTV, Tim Pool, Jack Posobiec, TPUSA, Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Post Millennial

Tax the rich

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I've come across content by quackademics* around topics of cognitive sovereignty and AI epistemology. Some of them talking about "noosphere" or "autopoiesis" like its a real thing at the same level of very real serious stuff like epistemic agency.
Philosophy grifting meets AI Bs.

Cognition