After all, I'm just a guy, sitting in front of Editorial Manager, dreaming of the greatest journal submission portal of all time

Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed. 20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour. Think on, dear hearts, think on.

Getting to the point of a paper where I realise that every single linguist disagrees with me (oh dear)

"we were left with no choice but to oppose our dehumanisation and reassert our rights and the rights of the Palestinian people with the battle of empty stomachs, as our Palestinian friends call it." www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

These are such a good example of the importance of photographer's intention to photographs

It is weird that David Lewis thought that you needed the concept SLAVE to make sense of imperatives and deontic modals

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Socialism.AI is gonna get into some wild arguments about whether it should exist

The case against English is surprisingly strong: it’s an unusual language, hard to learn for non-native speakers, and, crucially, even learning to speak and write it well, at least by formal rules, doesn’t mean that your non-native communication reads neutrally.

Ross's paradox but for interrogatives (is this anything?)

The moral maze is the worst

The Bullshit Boys (me, James Humphries and @hikemix.bsky.social) are at it again. We wrote this short piece for the Philosophical Glossary of AI a while ago, but it's just come out: aiglossary.co.uk/2025/12/15/b... #ChatGPT #LLMs #Bullshit

'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3

Philosophy journals should have a concept of the year

Communicating with students:

Last shout for this - closing today!

We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky

I would like to know where French anti-Italian sentiment comes from

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Erasing the actual ironworkers is also very symbolic of how people think about this technology, which will allegedly "take all the jobs", even though it can't weld girders or indeed build anything.

The Cable got there! thebristolcable.org/2025/12/prot...

Keeping this vague: if you're writing a paper about F of X, do a search to see if anyone has written a paper called 'F or X' or cognate words. When the editor you submit to is looking for reviewers, they will search 'philosophy paper F of X' and ask the writer to review it.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

I should know this: where are the debates in ethics where they chat about whether ought distributives over conjunction? (i.e. something like O(A&B)phi --> (O(A)Phi and O(B)phi))

Great news for Bristol! My wife and House Teen are obsessed with this story. They were having such a giggle about it. HT keeps showing me photos from a local Reddit of people in hi-vis cleaning up sausages.

This is wild stuff from Crowborough (the sleepiest town imaginable)

Broke: said that reports Woke: and she was like reports

Is it a good deal? Depends on how you feel about blood sports and capybaras.

The jokers at the institutes of arts and idea are increasingly just a 'philosophy' shell on right-wing reaction.

The jokers at the institutes of arts and idea are increasingly just a 'philosophy' shell on right-wing reaction.

This is from a satirical magazine written by Anthony Kenny and Julius Kovesi in Oxford, 1958-59. I have reviewed so many papers in the last 5 years that are basically just this.

Random shout-out for Berislav Marušić's Evidence and Agency, a ridiculously good book on a disgustingly complicated topic global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Two days left to send stuff in for this!

Is there a new set of filters or processing software for videos that makes them *look* more like AI videos, it's dead weird

This video turned up on my instagram earlier and it took me a second to notice how weird all the figures in the background are. The account was sharing loads of similar videos, wild it wasn't taken down.

As far as I can tell, six or seven people being detained for allegedly taking part in actions against Elbit Systems in Filton are on hunger strike (and have been for about five weeks). And I can't find anything about this story in any big newspapers (or the Cable!) www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread 1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance

It would be a good time for education reporters to start asking which Russell Group Universities are rolling out AI tools in student feedback. This feels like information that prospective students would like to have!

Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.

Thinking about Ruskin's rant about how travelling by train stops you being able to understand the landscape you're going through, and the fact that 50% of the UK's public paths are ripped up railway lines

Damn girl, are you the 4 hour long nosecam view of the Edinburgh Waverly - Kings Cross London sunrise train ride? Cos your comforting regularity of function and subtle invocation of the everyday majesties our technologies have wrought got me reflecting on life fr fr www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcZ...

Literally anything else more effective than AI for learning www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins...

Idris took the bag

Again: "AI" actively harms critical thinking skills, users actively reject Less sycophantic "AI," getting increasingly hostile toward/less likely to help or be helped by humans, creating cylces of dependence on tools that Actively Harm Critical Thinking. What better dirt for disinformation to grow?