Jan Plate

Analytic metaphysician. PhD 2012 Washington University in St. Louis

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

'Towards an Ontology of Roles and States' is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. https://t.co/X2LXW8Bmz6
This is kind of a big deal for me: its roots go back to a manuscript that I submitted to Dialectica in the halcyon days of August 2013.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

One of the most gentle souls the genocide has brought into my life is Ahmed ShihabEldin, journalist of rare strength, integrity & compassion. US-born Kuwaiti citizen, Ahmed has been imprisoned by Kuwaiti authorities for his work since 3 March. Journalism is not a crime #FreeAhmed

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

@Alexmitter @jacobin What about his kids and wife? They should have no food or shelter, or what?

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

Whatever you may think of TC, this was quite the interview. https://t.co/Cz6Dfjn39u

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government | TechCrunch https://t.co/Ng0a3EnSyR

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.

His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.

I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks

And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.

Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

"[P]hilosophy provides the primary means for us to scratch our philosophical itches, which is important given the frequency and personal importance of those itches."
- Bryan Frances, 'Philosophy as Fact-Based Discipline' (Phil. Studies, 2026)

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

God dammit.
U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues https://t.co/10jqUR7LXy

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Very important and very well put remarks by 🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney. It’s time to take down the sign and speak up.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

‼️Away from the eye, away from the heart: the genocide continues. Compounding the killing/barring of journalists and the expulsion/paralysis of humanitarian orgs, Israel's NGO ban is part of the intentional creation of conditions of life designed to destroy the Palestinian people

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Overnight, israelis torch homes & vehicles in the Bedouin community of Khallet Sidra, near the village of Mekhmas, just northeast of Jerusalem

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is the perhaps best illustration that Trump's new "Monroe doctrine" is objectively achieving the exact opposite of what it intends. https://t.co/nZpR1Ul0lv

Carney is currently in Beijing describing a "new era of relations between Canada and China" and explicitly talking about both countries becoming "strategic partners" on a comprehensive range of issues, including "issues on security."

There is no overstating how extraordinary this is to anyone who's followed Canada-China relations in the past few years. Canada was probably THE country globally most aligned with the U.S. when it comes to China.

As a reminder they literally abducted the daughter of Huawei's founder on the U.S.'s behalf and held her hostage for years despite severe Chinese retaliation - all in service of Washington's containment strategy.

So for all intents and purposes Canada used to actually embody the Monroe Doctrine in practice: they were all-in on the US! And now Trump has achieved the extraordinary feat of changing that calculus, impressing upon Canada that HE was the threat and that they needed to hedge their US exposure.

I mean, imagine telling anyone during the Meng Wanzhou episode that 4 years later Canada would be in Beijing, asking them for a strategic partnership on security matters while America threatens to annex it 😅

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

GAZA. The so called peace plan is allowing Israel to "finish the job": 450 killed; 2,500 structures destroyed; lifesaving aid blocked.
The human rights movement will not allow those responsible to run away from justice. It is not matter of if. It's matter of when.
@ICC
@CIJ_ICJ

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: Four Palestinians — including two children — were killed and others injured after an Israeli explosive drone struck a tent sheltering displaced families near Street 5 in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.

The victims identified so far:
1.Abdullah Al-Hussein Muhammad Al-Abadleh, 7
2.Omar Al-Hussein Muhammad Al-Abadleh, 5
3.Layan Omar Abu Shaqra

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

https://t.co/g1O3Tm9IK6
Very true, @hanno_sauer

[Jan Plate @jan_plate]

@Sabrina38111857 @merzerrama Ein "Geschmäckle" hat es auch, wenn man noch immer einen kindermordenden Terrorstaat unterstützt. Schäm dich. https://t.co/RPKvRPa73q

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Israelis stole a donkey from a 10yr-old Palestinian boy from Al Ma’azi Bedouin village, which they slaughtered, stabbed, stoned & hanged

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Solidarity with @doctor_rahmeh who’s been raided by British police & arrested: they even stole her mother’s phone to stop her reporting it

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

More grim news from Gaza,the crime scene that never closes. No ceasefire -declared, imagined or hoped for- can shield Palestinian journalists from Israel’s violence.

RIP Mahmoud Wadi.Solidarity to his family,or what remains of it.

225–250 journalists killed in Gaza in 750 days

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Today, little Alma Abu Karsh was severely injured in Gaza after an israeli explosive disguised as a children’s toy detonated in her hands and face