This is interesting: "Why Birds Are The Only Surviving Dinosaurs" www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX5Y...

This is interesting in a very specific way: it touches a real philosophical problem, then quietly builds a slightly dubious metaphysical bridge across it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY3Z...

Here is Hubert Dreyfus talking to Bryan Magee about Husserl, Heidegger, phenomenology, and existentialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_T...

Waiting for @christian-berg.bsky.social 👀

This is interesting: “Thailand is becoming an AI hub” www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzo...

This is interesting, not merely because it is a spectacular “sea monster attacked another sea monster” fossil, but because it is a near-perfect example of how paleontology reconstructs interaction, rather than merely identifying organisms. peabody.yale.edu/news/fossil-...

Here is James C. Scott on The Art of Not Being Governed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwr...

See you on the other side 👋🏻

"AI profits are fueling a new labor fight in South Korea"—reporting by @lamle52.bsky.social

Here is a 1984 exchange between John Searle and Margaret Boden about AI, mind, understanding, and the implications of the Chinese Room argument. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5a9...

Monday morning ☕️

Here's an interesting video: "The West has sleepwalked into its downfall" www.youtube.com/watch?v=M42G...

Sunday morning ☕️

Here's an interesting look into China's 'Silicon Valley' In Hangzhou: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEx7...

This is interesting: “Why oil markets stabilized far faster than anticipated” www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbT9...

Here's John Passmore on David Hume's philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3U...

Melbourne winter wandering

Rereading an old favourite 📖

Here is Searle vs Eccles, 1984, on the mind–brain relation. What makes it interesting is that this is not just a textbook “dualism vs materialism” debate. It is more like two different forms of anti-reductionism facing each other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kem...

Revisiting a classic 📖

Here is Bryan Magee interviewing W. V. O. Quine — The Ideas of Quine, from 1977. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnhU...

Here is a Bryan Magee episode on Spinoza and Leibniz, with Anthony Quinton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7n7...

Thank you to our panelists and to everyone who joined our Data Center Policy in Practice training series to learn how to stop, slow, and restrict the rapid expansion of AI data centers in communities across the US. Full series recap, recordings, and resources: bit.ly/DCpolicy-tra...

Here is Bryan Magee talking with Michael Ayers about Locke and Berkeley: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHmK...

Here's something amusing: "Popularity of Melbourne coffee in Indonesia sparks copyright debate" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP92...

Hello from a very cold winter's day in Melbourne 🌞

This makes me so happy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWV...

Hey @davidgunkel.bsky.social look what I found today while packing 🙂

Here is A. J. Ayer and Bryan Magee on logical positivism and its legacy, from Magee’s 1977 Men of Ideas series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBSU...

Here is Ernest Gellner with Bryan Magee, “The Social Context of Philosophy” — from Magee’s 1977 Men of Ideas / Modern Philosophy series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YA4...

On Monday (6 July) at 7:00 CDT/20:00 MYT, I will be presenting "Does Writing Have a Future?" as part of the opening session for "Literary AI: Computational Writing and the Media of Language" an online event hosted by Monash University Malaysia | literaryai.org

Real coworking vibes at Thieves Coffee today ☕️

Here is Bryan Magee interviewing William Barrett on Heidegger and modern existentialism, from Magee’s BBC philosophy series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry6a...

Here is Hito Steyerl on art, automation, and authoritarianism on Joshua Citarella’s Doomscroll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrX...

Why not use this opportunity to order a copy or two! 📚 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/internet-cures

A lovely session today with colleagues at the UK Embassy in Hanoi and the UK Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City on AI in Practice: Building Institutional Judgement Under Constraint.

Here is Martha Nussbaum with Bryan Magee on Aristotle (1987). www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJC9...

‘Uber for Nursing Part II’ featured in the @theguardian.com. The future of the care economy could offer little of the stability and safeguards that workers and patients have fought so hard to win if gig nursing platforms get to set the rules.

Workers can't be an afterthought as AI is deployed in workplaces. Kate Brennan in @wsj.com: “What’s being sold is this idea of productivity and efficiency, and what that means for the people doing the actual work is rarely part of the conversation."

Here's an interesting video: “1966: Alan Turing’s Machines | Mathematics in Action” www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRBS...

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From me and Courgette ❤️

Remembering the great man today.

Here is the extraordinary bell hooks in Speaking Freely, recorded in 2002. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bm...

Good morning @davidgunkel.bsky.social, it's me again, etc.

In our final Data Center Policy in Practice training session, we outlined how Big Tech is driving the current nuclear energy buildout to power AI, in lockstep with gov undermining of nuclear regulation, and explored alternative federal policy to counter this agenda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_2...

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Sun's out! ☕️

Here's Bryan Magee interviewing Charles Taylor on Marxist philosophy, from the 1977 Men of Ideas / Modern Philosophy series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5v6...

Hey! I'm back! 👋🏻