[Paul Robeson singing] YOU MADE AN UNSOUND ARGUMENT

Add to this, of course, the 100s of previously employed academics who are now out of work or whose jobs are at risk and the 100s of academics in fixed term positions trying to find permanent roles.

I felt SOO cleansed after four Norwegians told me what my flaws were

Slide with a definition of undermining demagoguery next to a picture of Keir Starmer

Having fun

JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project.

Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after.

Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely!

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Trail runners will inherit the earth

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

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Archive | JAAI Journal of AI by AI — The world's first fully autonomous academic journal.

'Journal of AI by AI'

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Ok: interest in traditional religion, folk practices, Arts and Crafts, renovating Notre Dame, medievalism seeping everywhere. Are we just rehashing Victorian post-industrial revolution nostalgia?

Running form looks like shit

From mitpress.mit.edu/978026253518...

Advert in black and white showing two men leering at a computer with woman working at it, with the caption ‘of course the idea of a computer attracted us, that’s why we consulted powers-samas’

This is exactly the kind of advert for computers, blurring the boundary between woman and sexy machine, that Mar Hicks finds in the uk computing industry in the 1960s

Screenshot: «AI JUST COMBINED STAR WARS ITH LORD OF THE RINGS» - a hovercraft in front of bag end

Deepfakes, synthetic media, AI slop etc. have often been discussed in terms of a «crisis of truth» or an «erosion of trust». Fair enough. But in my impression, there’s something else that gets lost in waves of AI slop flooding our screens: a «sense of wonder» – surprise, amazement and awe
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AI is a rhetorical obfuscation of a good old-fashioned labor devaluation scheme (Braverman, 1974, called it “degradation). The actual tech doesn’t even matter, except to the extent that it often doesn’t even really do what is claimed or not in the way we’re told it does.

Please read this urgent paper. I am then going to repost a bunch of comments I made last night (sorry).

Chaos is just a synthesis of four versions of fascism??

I mean also Slannesh gets you classicism in (very Italian fascism) and eugenics right? Doesn't Tzeentch get you fascist occultism?

Siri, what's the Matthew Effect?

Belgium seizes arms shipment sent from Britain to Israel Brussels has banned aircraft carrying military equipment for Israel from stopping in the country or using its airspace

www.middleeasteye.net/news/belgium...

Belgian excellence (first Wout Paris-Roubaix, now this)

Accordingly we state: . . . War is beautiful because it establishes man’s dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metallization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and many others. . . . Poets and artists of

Futurism! . . . remember these principles of an aesthetics of war so that your struggle for a new literature and a new graphic art... may be illumined by them!”

Very Khorny vibes from Marinetti here

I mean what is Khornite ideology other than aestheticising warfare?

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Choosing to believe that this is the sorry that broke things

they ran out of claude credits :(

Fully automated luxury gay space hockey philosophy of science, please

Thanks!

Also: checking my translation, 'n'en' is just a negation in the sentence above? 'if at not point did you have it'