Josh Habgood-Coote

Odds on this post being ai written

This is going straight on the phil tech syllabus

Y'all remember when they used to just put cocaine & laudanum in drinks you could buy at a grocery store, & their marketing called it energizing, mood-lifting, & even outright healthy?

I think about that a lot these days the more these people try to convince us every product should be jammed w/ "AI"

Doing conceptual analysis of millennials: the hipster loves arts and crafts, the gymbrx loves work, the gardener loves the earth, the folk millennial and the raver millennial both love the imagined past, the Gilet millennial loved being at uni, the gxrlboss millennial loves liberalism.

We’ve a long tradition of burning effigies of catholics innit

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

Aeon is not accepting pitches, the Raven is ghosting me

Where are good public places for pitching longish bits of public philosophy?

You see my uni experience was R&B nights full of white people (proto wokeness?)

English has both formal (he/him) and informal (she/her) pronouns

RIP #histsci Margaret Rossiter, who coined term Matilda Effect
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#philsci #feministsky

The Industrial Revolution has no extension, whereas the book has length, breadth, AND depth

Bleh article: he says this is going to be good, but what about these general questions which I am going to raise and ask no follow-ups about

Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had...

Guardian learn what words mean challenge:

"As such, Hassabis finds himself in the position of being both a booster for AI and an apologist for it." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's coming home 🇫🇷

Fuckssake Jimmy

My in-laws live up a 1.7km 7% climb, so we've been measuring all the climbs in multiples of that road

11 km at 8.5% is horrendous!

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot winning the GC after 40 years with no French winners might be the best outcome for the growth of tdf femmes

Drop me an email on my Leeds address and I can give you my non-academic email (can’t use dms because of porn laws)

No! Gonna check this out. Feels like different flavour of pastoral

Addressing Friends as ‘fellow creatures’ would be a hilarious bit of historical egalitarian one-up-creatureship

*Shaped group of Austrians*

@drrobertchapman.bsky.social has a nice argument that early Friends were the acceptable face of social revolution, so it makes sense that they spent a lot of time worrying about linguistic politics

Plain speech is a mixed bag because thou-ing is silly, refusing to use titles is genuinely egalitarian, and it also encompasses trying to say what you think in the simplest and clearest way possible (which sounds like something a certain shaped group of Austrias would have liked).

What I'm saying is the revolution starts with South Downs sparkling white white makers

'Champagne socialist' is such a weird insult. 'Champagne' is a protective designation designed to create artificial scarcity in a market economy. Outside the market we can make as much Champagne as we'd like

New burial is festival hauntology (someone should ask him if he's ever been to a festival)

Hang on, ethicists are surely experts in which things are morally wrong? And most philosophers will have taken a few ethics classes

Mark Zuckerberg increasingly leaning into the toxic manosphere classical aesthetics that his sister wrote the book about