Sad but true - tried it last night. Enshittification of video games in action…

latest by the dream team of @pasliwa.bsky.social and Tom McClelland #philsky

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...

Thank god (and Dave Chalmers and David Bourget) for philpapers!! Long may its funding model be sustainable.

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu. www.academia.edu/terms

A better ruling would be to ban the unnecessary collection of personal data for profit. There are better business models for democracy than those based on #surveillance. #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

UK-based academic fed up of our sector's involvement in research and production of weapons that get used to kill innocent civilians? Here's a petition for you: ded1.co/how-we-do-it... #Philosophy #Philsky

📣 CFP – DEBATES IN AESTHETICS GENERAL ISSUE 📣 We are currently accepting articles (3,000-3,500 words) on any topic in philosophical aesthetics, proposals for interviews with people working in aesthetics (500 words), and book reviews (1,000-1,500) words. debatesinaesthetics.org/news/ #philsky

I was quoted in this @mashable.com article about use of AI in personal conversations mashable.com/article/chat...

Look who came with

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

From taxing private jets to closing offshore loopholes, and more. Here's how we could make our economy fairer and raise £60 billion to revitalise key services to deliver first class healthcare, education and more. taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten… every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia Length: 3000 words. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Prize money: 3,000 Euros.

New open access paper with @alfredarcher.bsky.social is now online! "We’re a Tourist Club Now: The Ethics of Sports Fan Tourism" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

9 Sep 25 -- Libs of TikTok calls out by tweet a senior naval commander who has she/her pronouns on her bio (tinyurl.com/jz3u3k4r) Hours later SecDef Pete Hegseth fires her, tweeting: “Pronouns updated: she/her/fired.” Words fail. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Maybe social media is unfixable? A new (ongoing) study suggests that "(1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices" cannot be fixed by chronological feeds, inverting engagement algorithms, hiding social stats, etc.

Surprise surprise

Fellow feminists! I found this podcast with @claremcglynn.bsky.social eye-opening and inspiring—on big tech and gender inequality; the expressive value of criminal law; anticarceral feminism and kaleidoscopic justice; and how to cope as a feminist researcher working on “deeply despairing” material.

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.

Sam Lewis asked whether it’s good for AI to write our heartfelt missives for us. @alex-fisher.bsky.social explored what we should disclose on dating apps.

A normal country would regulate this BS, but the US is not in the business of restricting things that kill people, including guns, SUVs, fossil fuels, and machines that convince people to commit suicide.

“This is not the first time the Israeli government has committed a live-streamed war crime and then told all of you that it was just a mistake.” @premthakker.bsky.social lists 10 times that Israel has attacked civilians, journalists and health workers and brushed it aside with an apology.

"The burgeoning AI industry is almost entirely unregulated by the federal government and is generally encouraged to self-police." 😅

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1

Excited for this fantastic event! I'll talk about our moral obligations to disclose information about ourselves to potential partners on dating apps Not disclosing that we secretly hate Bake Off - seems OK. Not disclosing that we already have children, or criminal convictions - perhaps not so OK?

Actors, videogame players and VR users often experience *imaginative contagion* - imaginatively adopted attitudes persist into daily life. My paper explains why this occurs and answers the concern that it may result in our acquiring immoral attitudes. doi.org/10.1111/phpr.70056 #philsky Thread:

Currently looking for work. I am a former Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. I have six years of teaching experience, research experience with particular strengths in qualitative methods, project management experience, and personal tutoring experience. I also have editing experience too!

Job opp, tight deadline... #philsky #philosophy

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Delighted to say that this year I'll hold the Society for Applied Philosophy postdoc in Leeds. Excited to work with @lukebrunning.bsky.social as mentor, and those at @leedsprhs.bsky.social, @clsrleeds.bsky.social & @idea-leeds.bsky.social More about my project on online romantic misrepresentation:

Wow I feel safer already knowing people can't access information.

Do dating apps perpetuate sexual racism? @nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social contribute to this Cosmopolitan article exploring the issue www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

Looking for a web developer to update my website, but I'd rather hire, like, a nice student freelancer rather than a big company. Does anyone have advice about how to go about this? The internet seems to be mostly a morass of scammers.

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”

Well worth reading these two together if you want to understand why the OSA is bad bsky.app/profile/girl...

I'm teaching Intro to Philosophy in the Fall for the first time in a while. In the past, I've taken an historical approach, but I'm thinking of switching things up a bit this time around. What are some of your favorite things to teach in an intro course? I'd love some suggestions. #philsky

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Some Saturday morning writing about an issue I have thought about for quite a few years now: "Responding to Drive-by Critics" www.nathannobis.com/2025/08/resp... #philosophy #ethics #criticism #critics #arguments

Pass over your biometrics, your passport, and financial details to dodgy companies – or accept a child-proof version of the web. (or get a VPN) Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’ My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6

CLT Blog published my piece about how AI is becoming a far-right Trojan horse infecting our critical thinking skills. It has been online for two weeks now, but I was ironically off the grid detoxing from emails and computers. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/h...

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion. Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something! #philsky

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”