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Josh Habgood-Coote

@impractknow.bsky.social

Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running (picture eliot.ely)

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Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social · 18h ago

I have now seen The Film, and the climactic slaughtering of the suitors both doesn't make sense for a film about the consequences of war, and does a heavy Benjamin aestheticising violence

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 22h ago

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've got around to finishing Thi Nguyen's The Score, and I think it ends up basically being Romanticism against Bureaucratic Modernity, but where romanticism meanings yo-yos, fly fishing, and euroeames, and not Sturm und Drang (uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game

'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, GuardianIs this the game you want to be playing?Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning...

uk.bookshop.org

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · last wk.

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.

ukri.org

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Josh Habgood-Coote@impractknow.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm enjoying reading about the New York Luddites, and increasingly confused why there isn't a parallel Notts/Yorkshire movement in the historical home of the movement. With that said, there's this exhibition opening in Leeds in August museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/ludd-in-the-...

Ludd in the Machine at Leeds Industrial Museum

Leeds Industrial Museum | 17 August 2026 - 13 August 2027 | A community exhibition focusing on trade unions and workers rights from 1812 to the time of AI.

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.

"I first met the Luddites a week earlier in Tompkins Square Park, for a press conference hosted by their official spokesperson: a puppet made of garbage." www.404media.co/luddite-even...

Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · last wk.

Remembering when Byrne gave a colloquium while I was still a grad student, and a bunch of people in the department tried to explain to him, patiently & at length, the social costs of what he was doing. He was completely deaf to those concerns. We should conclude he very much knows what he's doing

Dr Keith Wilson 💭@keithwilson.eu · 2w ago

“There is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of #AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way.“ #AIEthics #PhilTech

Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 2w ago

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...