"Humans have, in a real sense, always been cyborgs. From vaccines to psychiatric drugs to Fukuyama’s glasses, we fashion the tools that allow us to climb above the tuchē that threatens to limit us." www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...

Fukuyama's Glasses

Like the man himself, Francis Fukuyama's new memoir "In the Realm of the Last Man" combines startling insight and baffling contradiction.

liberalcurrents.com

Beyond the amusing headline I'd seriously recommend checking this essay out - it's an excellent piece of analysis

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

A wonderful essay on the future of the humanities - recommended reading for all! www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-third-wa...

A Third Way for the Humanities

A Declaration

the-hinternet.com

This is indeed really good!

Budget Motel Abyss@budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...

Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

irishtimes.com

There is, of course, no "Age of AI". There is, still, only a bubble of bullshit. Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.

Shocking stuff - The UK's transformation into an intellectual wasteland sadly continues...

@lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Great essay - read whilst you can before AI exposure turns our creative faculties to mush!

John Merrick@johnmerrick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This Sam Kriss essay on AI writing is brilliant www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

I don't usually read many book reviews, but this one truly is excellent and well worth your time

Cominsitu@cominsitu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

what a review! www.cambridge.org/core/service...

A very articulate and powerful article! Recommended reading for everyone, especially those engaged in the (particularly toxic) debate in the UK.

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Absolutely excellent essay - highly recommended

Ntina Tzouvala@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Very grateful to @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social for organising this amazing workshop, which I had the pleasure of attending yesterday! A really wonderful day of talks and discussions.

Maxim van Asseldonk 🟥@maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social · last yr.

Event announcement! On Sep. 12th, @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social and me are organising a workshop on 'Radical democracy & the Rechtsstaat' at RU Nijmegen. We're thrilled to have found @illanwall.bsky.social and Manon Westphal prepared to offer keynotes. CfA now live: philevents.org/event/show/1...

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

theatlantic.com

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

We cut live to the University of Chicago economics department: m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1x4...

The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Orc has come.

YouTube video by QuoteTheGuy

m.youtube.com

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · last yr.

The age of liberal education is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of the university is extinguished for ever.

What an amazing document - absolutely essential reading for everyone

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as a genocidal machine." You must read the whole report. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Thrilled to be elected as chair of the POLEMO research group for 2025/26 - looking forward to a busy year of talks and events!

Political Legal and Moral Theory Research Group @CEU@ceupolemo.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very happy to announce that Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social and myself Peter Verpoorten @peterverpoorten.bsky.social have been elected as Research Group co-chairs for the coming academic year 2025-2026. We will do our utmost best to honor the trust placed in us going forward.

Just heard that Alasdair MacIntyre has sadly passed away - a brilliant and stimulating thinker whose like is rarely seen. A great summary of his life and work has already been published here: www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem... Gus am bris an latha!

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Word on Fire

What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.

wordonfire.org