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the NYT reports that AI is great because it is a therapeutic cure for the desire to experience art and hey I think that is just called death

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

I continue to think that politically appointed judges and police chiefs is an absolutely terrible idea, and certainly not any kind of way to preserve the separation of powers. The natural end-point of a political system that does this is Trump and authoritarianism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I dunno, but it seems like maybe there isn’t such a thing as a constitution if a president can just appoint some flunkies to the Supreme Court & then have them re-write the constitution on the fly to grant him unlimited power.

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

OK, I've read the injunction opinions once. I'll read them again and think about them some more. For now: This Court either doesn't think they're staring down fascism, or they do. At this point, I'm not sure what would be worse. Because either way they are making law that helps fascists.

submitted 21 hours ago • 22 comments

Just to be safe, I think we should shut down Harvard & Yale law schools until we figure out what the hell is going on

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Evergreen.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Worth reading just for a sense of how bizzare this guy's beliefs are.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hesgeth just stated that the UN (Atomic Agency) is no friend of the United States. What?! The Trump regime has a victimhood complex like no one else on earth.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This exactly. Most takes I've seen have focused on the "18yo in charge of £millions and public services", (certainly a worry) but the worst thing for me is that an 18yo has such bitter and jaded political views.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Making myself feel better about a desk rejection by sending my paper to a journal with a 1.6% acceptance rate next. Definitely a sign of a very healthy discipline.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Nothing says you've carefully selected me as the best person to review this article like getting my name wrong and sending me a paper on Baudrillard.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

My latest paper Rights, Duties, and Inviolability has just been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. It’s probably my most theoretical work so far being in normative ethics and on the metaphysics of rights and duties. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a thing that senior management types do, which is to schedule a meeting without checking if anyone else can attend, and then to reschedule it (sometimes repeatedly) when they have a clash. Nothing tells me my contributions aren’t valued at all in quite the same way.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Think you can delete "the diversity in" there, save some words.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, government expert here! This is not funny. Governments only do this (moronic, flailing nonsense) when they're in extreme distress.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Follow the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into the disaster at Dundee University live here... the role of breaching its covenant with the uni's bank is already clear. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A report on our @triphilosophy.bsky.social funded webinar, Philosophy in the Classroom! Featuring @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social @lauradol4.bsky.social and @htaylorphil.bsky.social #philosophyforeveryone #p4c

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

No10 has issued odd internal guidance banning officials speaking at public events It means more closed govt & worse policy decisions-the opposite of what ministers say they want From @drhannahwhite.bsky.social & me @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

What if, instead of liking each other’s posts, we read each other’s papers? (im assuming that every like i dont get is a paper read. i cant lose)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I read these stories I cant help but think of Vance who came to Munich to tell Europe that we have freedom of speech problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

The nights are drawing in and it’s only 182 days till Christmas: have you got your lights up yet? Important question for @wulfboyraff.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you're Mark Rutte, doing some light NATO-saving BDSM with Trump, what's your safe word?

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Please take a moment and read this. Pauline doesn’t just teach ethical principles, she lives by them - even when it cost her a named Chair at the Naval War College. She’s a woman of character, through and through!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t know who came up with the idea for Lynx’s* ‘Lower Body Spray’, but getting it to market was clearly a team effort. Every single member of that team, especially the marketing department, needs to be imprisoned in a very remote dungeon, possibly forever. * Axe for US readers.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Budgeting last year for a conference I'm helping organise, I assumed cost increases of about 20% for everything. Plane fares have instead gone up 60% and train fares have doubled. Just as well I've found savings elsewhere!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Person 1: Do you know how America’s class system works? Person 2: America has a class system? Person 1: Yes, that’s how it works. From @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social excellent book Limitarianism

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

At this point l'd even plug into the mediocre experience machine.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is disingenuous nonsense. Foreign students already benefit the UK to the tune of almost £40 billion. So far, neither Labour nor the Tories have been willing to celebrate this, their main interest lies in treating foreigners badly so as to please unreasonable bigots. This is no different.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I think about this post so much these days. (h/t @doctorcochrane.bsky.social)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The lack of algorithm on Bluesky tells me that we were fools to accept it elsewhere. We all now talk about how Musk uses it to suppress dissent on twitter, but he hardly invented it. Letting someone else set parameters for what you see is maybe the most poisonous thing that social media normalised.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments