Beyond the amusing headline I'd seriously recommend checking this essay out - it's an excellent piece of analysis

A Third Way for the Humanities A Declaration

A wonderful essay on the future of the humanities - recommended reading for all!

www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-third-wa...

This is indeed really good!

Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence

Loved this!

This was great! Thanks for sharing.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Thanks for this essay! Really really helpful.

There is, of course, no "Age of AI". There is, still, only a bubble of bullshit.

Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.

Looks great! Very excited to read it when it's out next year!

Shocking stuff - The UK's transformation into an intellectual wasteland sadly continues...

Great essay - read whilst you can before AI exposure turns our creative faculties to mush!

I don't usually read many book reviews, but this one truly is excellent and well worth your time

A very articulate and powerful article! Recommended reading for everyone, especially those engaged in the (particularly toxic) debate in the UK.

Absolutely excellent essay - highly recommended

Very grateful to @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social for organising this amazing workshop, which I had the pleasure of attending yesterday! A really wonderful day of talks and discussions.

Looks great! Kicking myself for missing the call for applications earlier in the year!!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Thanks for sharing this!! Will definitely try to integrate some of these into my own teaching this coming year!

We cut live to the University of Chicago economics department:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1x4...

Absolutely fascinating work, especially the points about the varying success rate for specific public bodies and individual judges. Looking forward to reading the larger study when it comes out!

What an amazing document - absolutely essential reading for everyone

A really insightful review, thanks for sharing - I'm probably more sympathetic in temperament to Schuringa’s position, but the points you make here were enough to make me think twice.

The Rule of Law Through critical analysis of key concepts and measures of the rule of law, this book shows that the choice of definitions and measures affects descriptive and explanatory findings about nomocracy. It ...

Perhaps this one by Møller and Skaaning? It's got the same title and goes (somewhat) into the history.

link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

Thrilled to be elected as chair of the POLEMO research group for 2025/26 - looking forward to a busy year of talks and events!

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Word on Fire What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.

Just heard that Alasdair MacIntyre has sadly passed away - a brilliant and stimulating thinker whose like is rarely seen. A great summary of his life and work has already been published here: www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...

Gus am bris an latha!