Up today: New Books Network podcast (*Note that the New Books Network mis-titled the book, including the link, but not Lilly Goren, who conducted the interview & summarizes/semi-reviews the book on the launch page)

This is awful, and so very predictable.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d ago

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

I don't see any value in a paper length LLM-Summary on a topic. What sense does it make to engage with such a paper, if I cannot dabble with understandings and interpretations? What does reviewing look like if I have to assume the authors don't know the topic they're publishing on? (2/2).

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

One philosophy department's policy on AI use by students...

Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s - Daily Nous

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...

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In this extract from his newly published essay collection, the author traces the imperial British origins of a quintessential Kiwi chore.

Mowing the lawn: the colonial ghosts haunting our suburban ritual

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There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?

Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

yesss shove it in my veins Chapter 11 Strategies for organising against AI in higher education Robert Ovetz and Lindsay Weinber > the future of AI in higher education is not a foregone conclusion. Academic workers can organise to contest, refuse and ban extractive AI

I'm excited to share my last paper of 2025, which is out now in Human Studies. This one means a lot to me, as I draw on my own experience of synaesthesia in grappling with Merleau-Ponty's claim that 'synaesthetic perception is the rule'. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World - Human Studies

Human Studies - Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates...

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A publication for a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies to close out the year. I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and María Zambrano. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KSBQS...

'Condemned to Proceeding': Time, Motivation and the Human Heart in Merleau-Ponty and Zambrano

Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human exp...

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Leadership would have you so tired, so poor, so disempowered, that you only watch your own back. This is what happens when we don’t watch each others back. Join a union that cares about *everyone* and work hard to keep everyone safe. Including people that are at risk from viruses.

Congratulations to my @emorylaw.bsky.social colleague Deepa Das Acevedo on her new book The War on Tenure. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Zoom in for the 9/26 book launch:

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Back after a short hiatus, in our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Anya Daly. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental and analytic philosophy, and human and animal lifeworlds. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin. www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter

MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

“Universities educate students, but they are also incubators of new knowledge and discovery. ... For example, by supporting areas of research that might not be economically “efficient” but which will be required for our future.” theconversation.com/universities...

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

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Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

One of the best experiences I had in graduate school was joining a reading group on @bryanvannorden.bsky.social's Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (and the accompanying books of readings). There is still so much missing from mainstream philosophy.

Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations@fivebooks.com · last yr.

“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

World Philosophy

Want to expand your knowledge of world philosophy but don't know where to start? Bryan Van Norden chooses foundational texts of traditions around the globe.

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An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner

This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

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In our latest episode, @ptmcconville.bsky.social speaks with Lexi Eikelboom. They discuss rhythm and time in cubist painting, letting the shapes of art speak for themselves, and art as confrontation and incitement to change. Follow the show and listen wherever you find your podcasts!

As you can see, I'm not keen on UTas' proposed cuts to the humanities, social sciences and creative arts. www.instagram.com/p/DLRqxFwSQo1/

Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI: They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!