Oh no! Who’s going to snap at the doormen now?

Can't say how thrilled I am that this grant will allow @welpita.bsky.social @uditbhatia.bsky.social and I to properly investigate popular government at a moment when representative governments are increasingly captured by oligarchic elites

Evidence that being "gender critical" has nothing to do with listening to women. Women have made it clear that trans women are welcome in the ladies' pond at Hamstead Heath, and now a small group of transphobes is going to court to override them.

I'm on @macrodosepod.bsky.social alongside great peeps, for an episode on war, climate crisis, and the economy. My own remarks focus on the rise of state capitalism with a military-imperial twist, at the very heart of US empire open.spotify.com/episode/4un1... @campolis.bsky.social

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

“Data centers are like warehouses filled with machines and cables, and there's little need for workers”

Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."

In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“ Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!

Do not, under any circumstances, go short ontology.

New book supported by the @nuffieldfoundation.org on what philosophy can contribute to public life. Contributors include @jowolff.bsky.social @tariqmodood.bsky.social @lornographic.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social @profclarechambers.bsky.social www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

How might philosophical thinking shape research, policy, and public debate? “The point is to change it”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life, explores this question by bringing together perspectives from 21 leading philosophers across the UK, US, and Europe. 🧵 Read essays: bit.ly/philosophyesays

Delighted and grateful to @halcyene.bsky.social to have a short piece in this excellent collection. What a great initiative, all open access. Check it out below

"The point is to change it" — a volume of new essays from 21 leading academics exploring the role of philosophy in public life — launches today! Contributors include @tariqmodood.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social, @jowolff.bsky.social, @elkeschwarz.bsky.social and more. Click below to read 👇🦉

People are misled by low false positive/negative rates for some AI applications but these can mean large numbers of high-impact cases that are costly to resolve. The rate matters but also the actual size of the denominator - and the impact of error.

if I were a VC I would interview potential employees just on their ability to categorize AI startups as [potentially legit] / [impossible] / [nonsensical] / [tractable but dystopian]

🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future 🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social 🪑 Sarah Nankivell 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

its not that i actually expected this to mention #infinitedetail, but y’know…the same publication made it their SF book of the year…? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

Another parable from George Osborne's Britain

For any of my followers based in London — two super cool book talks coming up at the Newington Green Meeting House as part of its newly-established programme exploring radical arts, culture and heritage 🤩 (Full disclosure: one of my partners runs the venue...) www.artsonthegreen.org/whats-on 1/3

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

I spoke to @mjgault.bsky.social in WIRED on what I ultimately view as safety theatre for "nuclear safeguarding" and how it distracts from the real risk of unregulated private corporations having access incredibly sensitive nuclear secrets given their insecure AI models.

Excellent from @jonathanliew.bsky.social here and I look forward to Ed Davey and Keir Starmer working both domestically and cross border to ensure there is a downgrading in the securitisation of football. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brian (@brianjchen.bsky.social) is always worth reading, and this piece — on the shifting logics of imperial competition in and over AI supply chains — is no exception: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/gre...

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

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It's out! My review of "Abundance", my review of "Breakneck" and the slogan "rent extraction is always what the other guy does" open.substack.com/pub/hypertex...

Our next research seminar is with Daniel James (TU Dresden). The title of his paper is “Racism and Racialised Oppression”. Thursday 16 Oct 4pm. PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: For this week only, we meet in CKK.1.14. Registration for externals: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj danieljamesphilosophy.com

Pumped about the ceasefire, hostages, aid to a starved people but still feeling a bit confused. Israel has been committing genocide. When do we start talking about what they owe the Palestinian people for two years of savage collective punishment and mass civilian murder? And who goes to jail?

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

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Terrific opportunity to help shape and oversee Ada's work as a member of our board 👇🏻

🕵️‍♀️ I FoI'd DWP to try to find out how they are using AI ⁉️ I got some answers, and a lot more questions 📩 Read all about it - and sign up for the newsletter!

“We have to be really clear that there is no contradiction between saying clearly that antisemitism is completely unacceptable and demanding that the genocide end.” Na'amod's Em Hilton spoke to @novaramedia.com about organising against antisemitism and for Palestinian liberation.

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

BREAKING: Banner drop on Westminster Bridge ahead of the mass silent vigil taking place in Trafalgar Square today. The banner says "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" As the genocide escalates in Gaza, and our rights to oppose it are under threat, we must resist.

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

I’ve worked on and off on digital identity for a decade. I have plenty of thoughts about the UK govt proposal. Right now though, based on my work with 14-24 year olds I’m curious how a compulsory DIGITAL ID will help with extricating young people from mobile devices? 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.gov.uk/government/n...

Just under two weeks until the launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social — tickets still available, sign up for free at the link below!

We'll be launching Tom Parr's new book next week Thursday for our first LSE political theory seminar of the year. Register below!

Blog post on today's digital ID announcement. Most important issue is what the impact will be on people with low and no income - will the new rules create a new barrier for employment? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

On the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast, D&S Climate, Technology, and Justice Program Director @tamigraph.bsky.social is among the experts exploring what a “tech agenda” for Climate Week might look like. www.techpolicy.press/setting-a-te... ]

Illuminating read on the Tony Blair Institute: "an organisation unusually close to the British government, able to lobby ministers directly, and which holds joint retreats with Oracle and is willing to engage in “tech sales” with governments in the rest of the world."

The most successful novelist of her generation can't actually enter this country to accept an award for fear of arrest, someone tell the BBC

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

The thing is "digital ID" as a category is absolutely freaking enormous. It could mean *all sorts* of things, which are all quite different to one another, but it cannot usefully include every single technology imaginary that is being bandied around in think tank papers and op eds

"In terms of its impacts on people and planet, AI is as physical as any other industry." Thoughtful piece by @imogen-parker.bsky.social reflecting on last week's Global Fund for a New Economy convening in Nairobi: www.globalgovernmentforum.com/lessons-from...