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Edmund Griffiths
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Author of Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism (ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
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Good thread
philedwards.bsky.social Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social · 17d
Just spent five minutes on 'Your Party' mailing list advocating sortition & explaining that selecting conference attendees "literally at random" is actually a feature, not a bug.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
New poem: Canute
www.edmundgriffiths.com/canute.html
Canute You’ve heard the story. He came down to the sea past stands of thorn with little orange berries and great barrel jellyfish crashlanded in the sand, all shining shoulders; behind him toiled the interior minister and the logothete of the revenue, one fat, one thin, heaving the throne, and the procession was completed by a quorum of the secretariat waving small flags and singing his name. Holidaymakers stared at them marching across the beach. The meeting was opened in proper form, the text of the resolution was grandly unrolled, and the swerving gulls looked down and saw Canute the King commanding the water. You’ve heard the story: he was making a point. But you won’t have heard (though perhaps you’ll have guessed) that for a short time then the wind blew offshore so the tide did pause in its inevitable advance, and for more than a minute he thought it had worked.
September 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
Articles on sortition for the YP conf:

me, proposing it
edmundgriffiths.com/newpargetsor...

Jack Conrad, anti ("let me put it politely—the suggestion is criminal")
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Paul Demarty, anti
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Max Shanly, pro
medium.com/@maxshanly/b...
August 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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tegenverkiezingen.bsky.social
More on Edmund Griffiths' proposal for sortition in a yet to be founded new left party in the United Kingdom. #SortitionUK
@edmundgriffiths.bsky.social @lijphart.bsky.social @nuttlos.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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disgwylfa.bsky.social
Planet Sloe
August 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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umland.bsky.social
Dr. Peter Rollberg @gwu1821.bsky.social reviews for #SlavicReview:

@edmundgriffiths.bsky.social, Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2023. Distr. by @columbiaup.bsky.social

@aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social
Edmund Griffiths. Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism. Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2023. 208 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. €34.90, paper. | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
Edmund Griffiths. Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism. Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2023. 208 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. €34.90, paper. - Volume 83 Issue 4
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July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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algebraist.bsky.social
Happy space battle over Nuremberg day to all who celebrate @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
1561 newsheet with a mysterious picture of a space battle centre on the sun
April 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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@pierssy.bsky.social I'm afraid it looks as though your account on the other micro blogging app might have been hacked
February 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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ianwalker.bsky.social
Motonormativity: who must travel out of their way to go through a dingy underpass, and who gets a smooth uninterrupted route across the surface?
January 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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progintl.bsky.social
BREAKING 🇵🇸 The Inaugural Joint Statement of The Hague Group.

https://buff.ly/40E8yRF
January 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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lewisbaston.bsky.social
Can someone phone in a joke about the state of the Tory party please? I’m having difficulty.
January 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
Does the FT not have a house style for spelling Greek words? Hard to believe it would be that one. Maybe Mr Thiel is rich enough to sidestep it
apokálypsis
January 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
Wikipedia includes a metrical translation of God Save the King into Tatar, that can be sung to the original tune—a thing nobody in history has ever wanted
Алла, сакла аны, Күрекле патшаны, Алла, сакла! Җиңүләр бүләк ит, Данлы, бәхетле ит, Хакимебез дип хакла, Алла, сакла!
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
I think the last time the United States bought a dependency from Denmark was in 1917, when the Danish West Indies became the US Virgin Islands for $25m. The population (larger than Greenland's) still have no vote for president & only a non-voting "delegate" in the congress
January 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become even more human and more personal. Imagine, for example, asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting – literally, asking it out loud or via an app. Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?” and it’ll tell you. Integrating generative AI into everyday products could lead to a new era of smart appliances that are not only more adaptive to our needs but also more interactive and engaging.
March 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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oneinahundred.bsky.social
I still can't get over this comment.
January 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Just posted: my talk on Fu-Manchu from this evening
edmundgriffiths.com/fumanchu.html
Haunting Europe: the vision of Dr Fu-Manchu Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 19 December 2024 37:17
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
A couple of links to textbooks on languages of Siberia, both adapted from Soviet-era books in Russian:

jehsmith.com/1/2019/07/sakh…
Introduction to Sakha, JEH Smith, based on LN Kharitonov

copius.eu/files/balandin 
Einführung in das Mansische, Timothy Riese, based on AN Balandin
December 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
If you're around in Oxford on Thursday, I will be speaking at a CCS meeting on the title "Haunting Europe: the vision of Dr Fu-Manchu". 7:30pm Thursday 19 December, Quaker Meeting House (St Giles'), all welcome
December 16, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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xanlopez.xyz
How did they ship this. bsky.app/profile/dave...
davelee.me Dave Lee @davelee.me · Dec 13
Here's a lighter example of an Apple summary gone useless -- my Amazon package ignoring the limiitations of time and space
December 13, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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xanlopez.xyz
Nobody is asking for it. It costs a lot of money. It's extremely hard to monetize. The actual use cases where it shines are mostly meant for power users, and are overshadowed by all the “hallucinations” that make it unreliable for anything that's actually important.
December 13, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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xanlopez.xyz
AI enshittification must be the most pointless act of corporate self sabotage in the history of capitalism.
December 13, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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disgwylfa.bsky.social
First light
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 AM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
English has borrowed loads of words from Russian, but a lot of them are words for distinctively Russian things: vodka, nomenklatura, tsar, Kremlin, rouble. Off the top of my head the only ones I can think of that _aren't_ like that are intelligentsia, shaman, & tokamak. What else is there?
December 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
edmundgriffiths.bsky.social
Got around to posting this talk on ghost stories, from last month
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...
Anatomy of the classic ghost story Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 31 October 2024
November 29, 2024 at 10:53 PM