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I wrote about this paper for New Work in Philosophy: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/nick-clanc...

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In only two years, ChatGPT and the surge of AI-generated cheating from college students it has created have unraveled the entire academic project.

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Fyi Azad Essa’s eye-opening book Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel is currently 50% off from Pluto Press: www.plutobooks.com/978074534501...

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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Er Er

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I wrote about this paper for New Work in Philosophy: newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/nick-clanc...

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A short thread of some of my favourite n+1 pieces in the hope you’ll read one, fall in love, and consider subscribing in their time of need: (1) Andrea Long Chu’s “On Liking Women”, obviously: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-30/ess...

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Deeply concerning, and I don't think the line that this poses "an existential threat to the universities sector" is an exaggeration. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

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"It has been my experience – even travelling across four continents at different times since my transition – that an overwhelming majority of people will take you as you are, not as any government imagines you to be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Once again thinking about Grace Lavery’s observation that every Gender Critical slogan (“A woman is an adult human female”, “A female has large immotile gametes”) can be sung to the tune of “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain”.

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My mum died in A&E last month – and the place was like a war zone | Zoe Williams

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Scores of people filing past me on their way to see a performance of Mean Girls: The Musical at Place des Arts wearing pink for the occasion despite it very much not being a Wednesday, there’s no respect for culture any more 😔

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The EHRC’s interim guidance following last week’s Supreme Court decision is bigoted and cruel, will do a huge amount of completely avoidable harm, and likely contravenes both Article 8 and Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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As usual the news it reports is thoroughly depressing, but today’s Daily episode at least features the deliciously oxymoronic phrase “the wedding goes off without a hitch”

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Reading my way through Andrea Long Chu’s new essay collection, in which she advises that “one should never trust an argument that depends on the anonymous defenestration of undergraduates.” If only this precept were more widely followed.

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1. Todd Haynes/Julianne Moore, 2. Kelly Reichardt/Michelle Williams, 3. Céline Sciamma/Adèle Haenel

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If you want to help trans people right now - send a letter to your MP. Ask for a meeting. You can start with the template below. And feel free to mention the disgraceful behaviour of the Labour Government in Parliament today!

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This is an excellent piece on the horrific conflict in Sudan, which ought to be getting a lot more attention.

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Viz. next year’s anniversary: “Imagine a country about to celebrate the fact of two hundred years without a revolution. Why, that’s nothing to celebrate. That’s something to put on mourning for.” - Jim Holbrook speaking 50 years ago, quoted in Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism.

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📣New Blog📣 We have published our response to the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the legal definition of "woman", what it means for trans people and what we can do next. www.equalityamplified.org.uk/blog/in-response-to-the-supreme-court-determined-that-sex-in-the-equality-act-2010-means-biological-sex

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Reading today’s decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, it occurs to me that the anti-trans side succeeded in part by providing the Supreme Court with what C. Thi Nguyen calls the seductions of clarity: philarchive.org/rec/NGUTSO-2

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Eugene Debs once condemned "the serfdom imposed by 'common law', which is no law at all”. We’ve seen that again today—democratically unaccountable judges imposing their ignorant bigotry on the rest of us.

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So I think the implicit thinking is that British Steel is i) a strategically important industry for the UK, and ii) contains voters Labour are at risk of losing. So both narrow and broad interests compel them to care. I think they doubt either of these are true in academia, whereas I think both are.

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For sale: baby shoes + 125%

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"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, “There is a question you are avoiding.” For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..." me for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Once again thinking about the coolest collection of people ever to live under one roof, aka February House: newcriterion.com/article/the-...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK can either raise domestic fees substantially, provide more direct funding to its universities, force closures on some unis to redistribute resources, or lift visa restrictions on foreign students. Or we can have a madcap series of uncoordinated cuts.

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Reading this has reminded me what a fantastic paper @lastpositivist.bsky.social’s “White Psychodrama” is: philarchive.org/rec/BRIWP

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This Trans Day of Visibility I donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which does fantastic work providing legal and social services to low-income trans people and trans people of color - if you can spare them something, you can do so here: srlp.org/about/

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Some thoughts from me at Crooked Timber

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It won’t break any box office records, but…Melvil Poupaud as Jason Stanley

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"It’s a shame that you can’t afford rent, but we can offer epistemic compensation." - my paper on relating epistemic and social justice is out. Mostly written as self-therapy, struggling with my own scholarship. But we also need a broader discussion on ways forward in "epistemic injustice" debates.

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