Kevin Korb

Kevin Korb

@kbkorb.bsky.social

Researcher in philosophy of science and AI Naarm, Australia Sarcasm is my native dialect. My blog, loosely tied to Bayesian reasoning and argument analysis: https://bayesianwatch.wordpress.com/ Ex: FB, Twitter, Mastodon, Post (in order)

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BlueSky is a great ignorance amplifier. In future, I'm going to block people who want to engage with me on philosophy or AI, unless it's clear the engagement is well intentioned. BS is no place to discuss difficult issues. Engage me otherwise if you want to troll.

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NEWS: Alarm bells go off as Trump Jr. caught hunting with Russian oligarch tied to Putin. Counterintelligence officials are worried. Court orders release of 'intimate' and 'embarrassing' Musk emails about elections. Trump has brutal personal day. Told to shove ballroom "up his ass." Subscribe:

aaronparnas.substack.comNEWS: Alarm Bells Go Off as Trump Jr. Hunts With Russian Oligarch, Court Orders Release of Musk’s Election Emails, Trump has Brutal Personal DayGood morning.

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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Hey, Wormbrain! The written symbols we use to do math came from the Arabs! Remember “Arabic numerals”? If it weren’t for the Arabs giving us streamlined math symbols, we might still be trying to do maths with Roman numerals (!). Arabs were preserving learning when Europeans were in the Dark Ages.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

On the BBC a Bolsonarista is saying she won't support Lula's election because the voting time extension violates the rule of law, even though it was decided upon by the authorities after irregular voting interruptions. Fascism comes with a different concept of the rule of law.

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The Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal is bringing a little bit of joy to Australian families doing it tough. And that’s something our whole Parliament can support.

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The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

finance.yahoo.comMeta Unseats Musk as Tech Villain for Lula in Brazil’s ElectionA new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms Inc.

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Like father like son

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

1. BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede Brazil's presidential election and says he will seek to have the election annulled after losing to President Lula.

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Serbia to Trump: Drop Dead.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

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"The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether." #ClimateCrisis Trump constantly proves that he is pro-death. #ProLifeMyAss

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

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Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

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She hasn’t been able to buy pardons for her convicted relatives yet - convicted of rape. Give it up, girl. 🤦🏻‍♀️ meekman.bsky.social @meekman.bsky.social · She can't vote but she's going with Trump to campaign for Republicans who want her deported.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

Nicki Minaj filmed herself aboard the Qatari-gifted Air Force One while campaigning with President Trump in Michigan today.

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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“The Ellison family & Musk already have a few ties between them & they seem to be enjoying passing money back & forth. Musk previously put Larry Ellison on Tesla’s board, & Ellison repaid the favor later by helping fund Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Now Musk [is] passing some cash on to Larry’s kid.”

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

"Elon Musk Just Invested $1 Billion in the Company Set to Air a Documentary About Him: Report Alex Gibney says he's been promised that HBO will air his documentary about Musk. That promise is about to face its biggest test." gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ju...

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NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

democracydocket.comTodd Blanche falsely claims DOJ isn’t seeking to block Alaska from certifying Senate contestBlanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certifying the state's election if the Republican loses. The actual complaint says otherwise.

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President Trump made another unexpected and odd sound during his rally in Iowa on October 22, 2026. I went ahead and added a zoom to that moment. I also slowed the same clip down to 25% speed. I have no idea what is going on with him but he’s had two episodes like this recently.

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lol -- on Newsmax, Mike Collins admits that he's at least 7 points down on Ossoff, but says "it doesn't really matter"

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For decades, the Justice Department has avoided big pre-election charges so it wouldn’t look like it was tipping the scales. Yet in the final weeks before the midterms, federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, and prosecutors indicted a Democratic official in a Texas swing county.

bit.lyTrump DOJ arrests red state Dem in swing county days before midtermsHOUSTON — Federal prosecutors Thursday announced indictments accusing Fort Bend County Tax Assessor-Collector Carmen Turner of theft of government funds and wire fraud.U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz, joined at a Houston news conference by agents from the regional office of the Federal Bureau of Investiga...

Turning universities into businesses pays off! Humanities die out, while tech oligarchs are well supplied with potential minions.

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

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Fresh off a humiliating military defeat, with US warships forced home after months of fighting Iran’s rowboat navy, an increasingly brain-soggy Trump threatens to invade Cuba to save face and send Marco Rubio, brother-in-law of cocaine trafficker Orlando Cicilia, in first.

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Oh good, we’ve made it to the “advertising discrete partnerships with the CIA” stage of this goatfuck. I remember when Marco was supposed to be the reasonable one.

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Be prepared for the pardons.

Lakota Man 🪶@lakotaman.bsky.social

I sincerely hope that whoever’s the next democrat president, goes after this corrupt little shit, locks him up and throws away the god damn key.