try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Skill nostalgia

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Just spent three hours talking about cyberfeminist gym culture AMA

*stands up and cheers*

I appreciate the diversity of the speakers of this interesting workshop. But wow... I remember a moment, about 15 years ago, when some of us thought that all-male lineups were permanently a thing of the past... philevents.org/event/show/1...

READ 👏 THEORY 👏

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Students have better critical thinking than Uni leadership "schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship"

I thought I'd found a good use for LLMs in teaching (translating handouts into Gen Z), but the outputs were not great, I did it by hand and now you have this:

Holy shit it may actually be time for some game theory

Intentionlulu

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." - William Morris, born 191 years ago today.

Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

Trying to write a lecture about Donna Haraway, and I've got completely distracted by Janelle Monaé lore (I'm finding a few online essays about Monaé and transhumanism from around dirty computer, but recommendations would be helpful!)

Trying to write a lecture about Donna Haraway, and I've got completely distracted by Janelle Monaé lore (I'm finding a few online essays about Monaé and transhumanism from around dirty computer, but recommendations would be helpful!)

Check out the Aeon philosophy prize for early career researchers - offers the chance of intensive mentoring in writing public philosophy @aeon.co aeon.co/philosophy-p...

Going to start blaming Kurt Gödel for postmodernism. If anyone's responsible for undermining the idea of absolute truth, it's him.

Has anyone written about the aesthetic function of the small gap of time between pressing play on a cd tape or vinyl player, and the music starting

I don’t drink much at the moment, but I do have seven hours of face to face philosophy teaching on Fridays, which approximates the same effect

Eid Mubarak!

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

DoorDash is now in the business of data work.

The most consistently accurate frame to understand the appearance of articles like this is knowing that The Guardian and OpenAI have a partnership.

NOW DO THE REST OF THE PHILOSOPHY BOOKS AND PAPERS!!!

This is a crowdfunded for a very cool bookshop project being run by pals in Newcastle www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

I’m haunted by the phrase “Cesar Chavez is just a man,” spoken by way of explanation between two women he tried to coerce into sex. All men should be haunted by that phrase. It’s not about Chavez being some kind of monster. It’s about all of us.

Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university’s recent hiring of a philosopher owing to his "race science" writings. Other scholars are circulating a defense of the philosopher's academic freedom.

Friends are raising money for a radical bookshop in Newcastle. Give if you can here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfrombelow

"Now then, worthy Erwin, before I venture back to sea in my fragile bark, more likely to encounter death than prosperity, behold this grove where I engraved the names of beloved friends, there I will cut yours into a beech tree slender and soaring like your tower,

His father‘s son in the best possible way.

I just wasted ten minutes checking what mood the verb was in this insult (subjunctive, not imperative boo)

"Ask Gemini, the AI service powered by Google, and the answer you receive is no – in fact, Gemini claims the photograph is from two years earlier and more than 2,000km away [...] Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Is Ruha Benjamin still on probation at Princeton?

Materialist explanations of billionaire behaviour

Excited to share my recent interview with Fintan Mallory (@fintanmallory.com) about his paper 'Fictionalism about chatbots', in which he reflects on meaning, make-believe, and the ideological significance of the terms we use to describe chatbots.

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

Pouring a moderate amount of malt liquor on the kerb for one of the all-time great Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats.

Big Jürgen has died apnews.com/article/juer...

Theres a second Schlegel

Sad to report that 20yos do not know who prime mutton is

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. Cabin of the Customs Watch, 1882 In museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art Location: Manhattan, United States of America Size: 81.9 × 61.0 cm #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Umarells:

I fear that listening to screen rot before I write a philosophy of language lecture is going to colour my example sentences

There was an awful Ai-produced image of the American West that was put out on a Tr!mp socials. Can anyone remember find it? (doing teaching prep)

lmaooooo sloppelganger

Rip Walter Benajmin, you would have noted gift shops at art museums