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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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Musk is Exhibit A for why billionaires need to be regulated.
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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:
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Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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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.
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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Trump promises $1M for reporting his attempt to intimidate Brad Raffensperger into fraudulently intervening in the 2020 election. I know he won't pay up, but it'd be great if he was flooded with reports of his own wrongdoing.
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We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...
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RFK Jr stalls out vaccination in America, as the Trump regime fights against public health.
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The report alleges Donald Trump was an “active participant” in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. trib.al/r158uvt
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Peculiar man behind Hanson's repulsive & rudimentary AI cartoons is a One Nation candidate for Victorian Senate: he says he employs 25 people to make them (ba ha ha). Quite unfathomably, he claims he's a satirist. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Trump's new campaign approach: "I don't give a damn, I'm going to say it — we [elites are] making a freaking fortune." It's only little people who are suffering at the pump.
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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...
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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
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.
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.
Nicki Minaj filmed herself aboard the Qatari-gifted Air Force One while campaigning with President Trump in Michigan today.
Spanish and US authorities violate their treaty obligations in their zeal to prosecute an American supporter of Hamas.
Flavio Bolsonaro: Whoever votes for Lula is voting for the rule of law! He stands firmly against leftist cultural values, such as the law.
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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
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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Utah asks for help with the bird flu outbreak in mink; they are told the USDA is on indefinite leave, sorry.
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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.”
"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.
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Trump judges blistered by colleagues after ruling ‘detonates’ due process
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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.
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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The Republican Party is giving us cancer. The New York Times doesn't say it that directly, but its investigation proves it.
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Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...