Ed Gibney
Writer of fiction and philosophy. I explore how understanding evolution can change our worldview. (Hint, eugenics was dead wrong.) evphil.com.
US-Brit now in Vienna 🇦🇹. Ex-FBI and Secret Service. Peace Corps 🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini! Still not a podcaster.
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- This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- No one thinks more poorly of men as a class than other men who desperately want to normalize their perversity. No man-hating feminist could even come close.
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- “This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
- Sam Harris and I dissect the Trump phenomenon and sadly conclude...yes, it's fascism. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...
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- Intelligence and consciousness. @anilseth.bsky.social, brief, clear and to the point: "intelligence is about doing and consciousness is about being" www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
- A new review of Elusive Cures is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Thoughtful and thought-provoking. Appreciated! I'd love to see it inspire other researchers to spell out their ideas about the "Grand Plan". Progress in our next steps depends on such discussions. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Were you one of the 10,000 people who signed our @climatemajority.bsky.social petition calling for a National Climate Resilience Plan? If so, you'll want to read my joint article with @carolinelucas.bsky.social outlining the Government's response. climatemajorityproject.substack.com/p/10000-voic...
- Tried chatGPT on a final exam I wrote (at home exam, not in class). Now I want to kill myself.
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View full threadI do that. Somehow it guessed correctly. I guess since this is for an intro course there’s not much that is idiosyncratic.
- The contrast btw intro and advanced or niche is key. Anything that is written about a lot (i.e. intro stuff) LLMs will do fine. Anything "last mile" i.e. edge of knowledge, or especially niche, and they are hopeless
- Let's talk about who funds Reform. Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been. Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform. Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
- "Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- Is phrenology about correlation or causation?
- Hallucination?
- But the pseudoscience made a causal claim!
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- Black Mirror was bang on with the Be Right Back episode - preying on the vulnerable
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- The risks come not from Super Intelligence, just from Regular Stupidity.
- Thanks to amazing team who came canvassing in Denton with me today - we had a lot of fun & fab reception on the doorsteps 🙂. And if anyone is still (weirdly) thinking of voting Labour - one more Labour backbencher will make no difference - the first Green MP from Manchester would be transformative 💪
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- Great to see my friend, Dave, sign a contract for his first book on philosophy & aliens. Congrats!
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- "We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..." Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis. Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫 1/
- The Gadfly at Columbia University just published an interview on the idea of coöperism: an alternative to both capitalism and socialism that builds a society of cooperatives and mutuals from the bottom up. Thanks to Yunah Kwon for a great conversation! Here: www.thegadflymagazine.org/home-1/colle...
- This is what an entire party stepping up looks like. Together, we stop Reform. Together, we win Gorton & Denton. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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- It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in a rent-an-extremist - this isn't about representing the people of Gorton and Denton, it's about using this place as a platform for their careers. Manchester will show him the door.
- This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Writing with @rupertread.bsky.social about just how devastating the Government- suppressed security report is, particularly its conclusions about our food insecurity. Ministers should be helping to build our resilience to these threats, not burying the report that contains them 👇
- And there we have it. The Government are admitting Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform. Let's make sure hope wins. www.thetimes.com/article/3d6d...
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- New post: walterveit.substack.com/p/panpsychis...
- What. A. Night. Hope is here - it's all of us! 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk 📷 - Laura-Louise Fairley
- Labour say a Green win would be "existential." Sounds like an invitation.... Join.greenparty.org.uk
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- Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
- The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
- 1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
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View full thread9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.
- 10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- I can’t wait to watch these! Knowing Andy, they’re going to be great.
- An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- “Children’s food contaminated with worms and mold, limited clean drinking water, inadequate medical care among allegations raised by migrant families in court filings about conditions their CHILDREN faced in federal custody.” The “pro life” party popular.info/p/ice-has-st...
- "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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