Adorno on when human beings were probably more like corals than what we call individuals today: “The phase of myth is the phase of the swarm, of swarming.”

ethics (ie everything) stems from pain, so if disabled or raced folk claim y'all are getting too comfortable using these "slurs" for machines, and you immediately go defensive, that isn't off-limits per se but is suspicious enough to prompt thought about the horizon of your caring faculties

largeblack.substack.com/p/ai-is-infa...

Brandom’s “Making it Explicit” in one post:

‘this’ (normativity as rule-boundedness)
is ‘how’ (implicitness of norms in practice)
‘we’ (community as ascriptive possessor of original intentionality)
‘do’ (pragmatics)
‘it’ (conferral of propositional/conceptual content)

youtu.be/0hiUuL5uTKc?...

Ok with this I officially will be advising students who ask me for advice re PhD programmes not to go to the USA. I think we get some really talented people interested in diverse topics going through our MSc and PPE programmes here at LSE that I teach on, so I genuinely think this is America's loss.

By the way you can catch my talk for the 38th Chaos Communication Congress last December here media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

this is a great term, one I didn't realize I'd been wanting. I think a lot of higher ed is coin operated.

Probably not good that we are ahead of the timeline in some of the events depicted in The Deluge?

Une trompe sans vertu

my symptoms are value-formed please help

Lost holiday bingo. Throw the year away

Yesterday was Alaa's birthday. He's still not free. #freealaa www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

you should be able to edit on here

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

I made it to 1000 followers. I said when I did I would introduce everyone to my great work. That was obviously a joke. But here are two general audienish overviews of my works in progress in relation to Marxism and Critical Theory:

www.ppesydney.net/ten-question...

It is once again time to read Adorno