The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

NEW: ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Benjamin was cooking in Theses on PH: "The astonishment that the things we are experiencing in the 20th century are “still” possible is by no means philosophical. It is not the beginning of knowledge, unless it would be the knowledge that the conception of history on which it rests is untenable."

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

And why is it Morning Glory Milking Farm?

We're Romanticism-maxxing aeon.co/essays/young...

philpapers.org/rec/WOOCTA-5 📣 New paper arguing that consent isn't (always) necessary for permissible sex. What is the point of having a permanent job if you don't have spicy takes?

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

Miliband->podcaster popular front->labour-green coalition next general election

Strong case for Streeting here, I can see why Labour might really want to lean into him

Fuck Wes Streeting

Hove

analysis of the "general intellect" also applies — LLMs and "AI" are the means of alienating that general intellect and turning it against us mronline.org/2026/04/24/m...

Who is in the process of laying off 18,000 NHS workers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marking philosophy of language papers about whether women can consent to sex on the train may have been an error

This startup is full ghoul shit

2700 academic staff at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social received formal notice today that their job is at risk. Approximately 1-in-5 (22%) will lose their job. In an interview in today’s @timeshighered.bsky.social the university’s VC responded “it’s an exciting time for higher education”.

One year teaching job at Glasgow just advertised. Fairly broad criteria. Deadline 8th June. If you've got any questions about Glasgow, I'm happy to chat (I have no role in the appointment). www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... #PhilJobs

All the UK needs to do to sort out its tax system is to have every citizen cycle through leadership of one of the main political parties

‘The only real counsel these elections can offer a Labour politician is that ambition has little downside – they don’t have much left to lose.’ James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on the local election results, from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The OG ballmaxxing

Reactive attitudes hit sandwiches

A few minutes back two young Jewish women appear to be repeatedly booed and removed from the rally by police for carrying a sign that reads ‘Jews are not safe until all minorities are safe’

The Carnival of Venice but somehow it slaps m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gm0...

Not seen any big coverage of this but it's a big story imo Newcastle, a totally Labour-domianted city & home to the party central office, is a total wipeout for Labour with over half the wards counted. ZERO seats. The sole Tory to be elected to the council since 1992 has also lost his seat

Has anyone tried making intro to logic a cross-listed module for all programmes? (We call them discovery modules) What happens when geologists and chemistry people learn logic?

Do the Odyssey in Scots you cowards

One student wooed at the end of the philosophy of technology course (a W)

Next Wednesday, @elsakugelberg.bsky.social will be talking to use about institutional power and the sexual sphere!

Coming soon on our blog: @matildacarter.bsky.social on her new book about dementia, equality and justice! Follow our blog for the full interview: ethics-untangled.ghost.io

The cherry on top of classics season would be for Wout van Aert to endorse the Belgian Workers Party

Hard working politicians get to have 8-10 pints in between votes as a little treat

Back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social. Why? Management is pushing ahead with restructures despite sitting on £200m+ in reserves. Along with colleagues in East Asian Studies, I also find out in 12 days how many of us they want to fire. No justification is deemed necessary by management.

Join us this Wednesday for a talk by Dr Leonie Smith (Lancaster University). Title: "Looping Injustice, Politics and Class." 📍 IDEA, 17 Blenheim Terrace (Boardroom) 💻 Online attendance available For full details, visit: bit.ly/PRHScalendar

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Nonna-maxxing as in maximising the quantity or quality of grandmas?

First frontier AI lab to unionize, driven in part by concerns about Pentagon's use of AI in the war on Iran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's only a matter of time until someone invents intersectionality theory for the right

How many philosophers of language does it take to calculate an implicature? (more than two)

Embarrassingly in my head I thought that Maeva Squiban and Cedrine Kerbaol were one person (there can be more than one Breton professional cyclist with funky glasses)

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

I would love it if someone painted the Brutalist bit of U of Leeds

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sumptuary laws are not over – these are designed to maintain the road user hierarchy and discourage displays of conspicuous efficiency, with the not-always-unwanted side effect of soaking up energy & displacing attention that might otherwise be spent on effective safety regulation & infrastructure.

I'm spending international workers day writing about skill nostalgia, then going to talk to an industrial museum about the Luddites

This is sick, on quantificational (Norwegian) and community-based (Ethiopian) approaches to endurance training aeon.co/essays/what-...

Thinking about @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 's thesis that fraudsters flourish in high-trust environments. This has application to philosophers' vulnerability to culture-war bad actors. Philosophers can be terribly naive, think themselves super-smart and immune to being conned, and so get conned