Josh Habgood-Coote
@impractknow.bsky.social
Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running
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November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We had an application for a phd in philosophy from chat-gpt last year pretty much exactly like this. I was VERY puzzled what the person typing the prompts was trying to do
Why is the University of Exeter Classics Department ground zero for the robot takeover?
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Are We Human, Or Are We Chancer?
It’s weird that I haven’t seen any discussion of this, as it seems improbable that the robots would choose the University of Exeter’s Classics Department as the bridgehead for world conquest, but t…
thesphinxblog.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We had an application for a phd in philosophy from chat-gpt last year pretty much exactly like this. I was VERY puzzled what the person typing the prompts was trying to do
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
Taylorising wanking
“Pallas is the director of the award-winning short film Clankers, which explores the rise of AI sex influencers and the blurring of consent.”
How is AI changing sex work?
Documentary filmmaker Naomi Pallas speaks to Dazed about her new film investigating the rise of AI-generated sex workers – and the troubling questions it raises about consent, exploitation and the fut...
www.dazeddigital.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Taylorising wanking
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November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Is there any sociology/internet studies stuff that takes seriously the connections between Facebook social graph and census records?
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is there any sociology/internet studies stuff that takes seriously the connections between Facebook social graph and census records?
Sometimes you read an academic researcher's CV and you just feel like a Soviet citizen reading another press release about comrade Stakhanov
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Sometimes you read an academic researcher's CV and you just feel like a Soviet citizen reading another press release about comrade Stakhanov
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CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
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Bumping this for USians waking up
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Bumping this for USians waking up
Bumping this for USians waking up
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Bumping this for USians waking up
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
Share, suggest to people etc!
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Share, suggest to people etc!
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
I know things have gone truly off-track with writing when I start thinking about cognitivism about intention
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I know things have gone truly off-track with writing when I start thinking about cognitivism about intention
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Does anyone in the literature on norms of assertion talk about the difference in standings to criticise between a hearer of an assertion which breaks the norm, and a bystander or a person who hears about the faulty assertion later? (this is very assurance theory of testimony coded thought)
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Does anyone in the literature on norms of assertion talk about the difference in standings to criticise between a hearer of an assertion which breaks the norm, and a bystander or a person who hears about the faulty assertion later? (this is very assurance theory of testimony coded thought)
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Pro tip: If the person providing a different interpretation is not speaking for Moneyed Interests and is an expert in their field, they’re an “independent scholar”—not just a “skeptic” (ffs!)
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pro tip: If the person providing a different interpretation is not speaking for Moneyed Interests and is an expert in their field, they’re an “independent scholar”—not just a “skeptic” (ffs!)
Many words of the year are in fact more than one word
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Many words of the year are in fact more than one word
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"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"
Does anyone in the literature on norms of assertion talk about the difference in standings to criticise between a hearer of an assertion which breaks the norm, and a bystander or a person who hears about the faulty assertion later? (this is very assurance theory of testimony coded thought)
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Does anyone in the literature on norms of assertion talk about the difference in standings to criticise between a hearer of an assertion which breaks the norm, and a bystander or a person who hears about the faulty assertion later? (this is very assurance theory of testimony coded thought)
You ain't my muvva: on the normative grounds for authority
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
You ain't my muvva: on the normative grounds for authority
Shit
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Shit
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AI for the win again
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
AI for the win again
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At the 1995 Beijing Conference, a delegation co-led by my mom Margaret Prescod and representing International Women Count Network which was coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign, won recognition of unwaged work and the need to measure it
globalwomenstrike.net/women-celebr...
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Women Celebrate New Recognition of Unpaid Work, Beijing Watch - Global Women's Strike/ Wages for Housework/ Selma James
globalwomenstrike.net
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
At the 1995 Beijing Conference, a delegation co-led by my mom Margaret Prescod and representing International Women Count Network which was coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign, won recognition of unwaged work and the need to measure it
globalwomenstrike.net/women-celebr...
globalwomenstrike.net/women-celebr...
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Philosophers checking their “intuitions”
a collective noun for moles
YouTube video by Conrad Quek
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November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Philosophers checking their “intuitions”