Georgie
@georgien.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD @ Edinburgh • history of CogSci, psychoanalysis, utopianism
georgienewson.com
georgienewson.com
Loved this perhaps most of all for its reference to Au Pays du Cocaine by Geese, a track that I too had enlisted as a nonmonogamy anthem. Up there with the best of all time: Don’t Forget About Me by Arthur Russell.
Postscript to an Open Marriage
By Jean Garnett
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Loved this perhaps most of all for its reference to Au Pays du Cocaine by Geese, a track that I too had enlisted as a nonmonogamy anthem. Up there with the best of all time: Don’t Forget About Me by Arthur Russell.
On the bright side: new Charli track featuring John Cale…. A great day for girls in intergenerational relationships
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
On the bright side: new Charli track featuring John Cale…. A great day for girls in intergenerational relationships
The Your Party senior leadership continue to cook up endlessly inventive ways of fumbling the bag
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Your Party senior leadership continue to cook up endlessly inventive ways of fumbling the bag
Ngl critiquing the BBC at this time is kinda giving Lexit
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ngl critiquing the BBC at this time is kinda giving Lexit
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
love you guys but sometimes this is what reading neo-vitalist philosophy feels like
Uhhhh actually the assumption that the trolley itself does not have agency is super problematic
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
love you guys but sometimes this is what reading neo-vitalist philosophy feels like
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Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
Loved this & agree that we’re actually living in a pretty great time for (‘folk’) film criticism and moviegoing, but the last passage made me think about how London-centric independent screening is now. Before the reopening of Filmhouse this year, Edinburgh - a capital city! - had 0 arthouse cinemas
‘During a four or five-year period at the turn of the millennium, I went to the cinema around six hundred times. I wasn’t a film critic or even an aspiring director. I was just a schoolboy and, in my parents’ probably loving description, a “weirdo”.’
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Loved this & agree that we’re actually living in a pretty great time for (‘folk’) film criticism and moviegoing, but the last passage made me think about how London-centric independent screening is now. Before the reopening of Filmhouse this year, Edinburgh - a capital city! - had 0 arthouse cinemas
V useful overview of US-Venezuela situation by Vincent Bevins
www.northsouthnotes.org/p/regime-col...
www.northsouthnotes.org/p/regime-col...
Regime collapse
A new paradigm
www.northsouthnotes.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
V useful overview of US-Venezuela situation by Vincent Bevins
www.northsouthnotes.org/p/regime-col...
www.northsouthnotes.org/p/regime-col...
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Auden as phenomenologist, on watching a person in flow state:
‘How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.’
‘How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.’
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Auden as phenomenologist, on watching a person in flow state:
‘How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.’
‘How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.’
Gonna show this to my students to illustrate Popper’s critique of induction
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Gonna show this to my students to illustrate Popper’s critique of induction
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Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction
Can we do philosophy by writing fiction, drawing, designing a game, or telling a story? Submit work to this special issue honouring the legacy of Helen De Cruz.
think.taylorandfrancis.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
Guys how is ‘the Archers’ trending on here…… Please…. We gotta try to make this website sexy and fun
October 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Guys how is ‘the Archers’ trending on here…… Please…. We gotta try to make this website sexy and fun
No legitimate Other, no pesky old transference! Problem solved ✅🫶🫠
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
arxiv.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
No legitimate Other, no pesky old transference! Problem solved ✅🫶🫠
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i agree, even if we can critique this on many fronts, the slow establishment of overlapping “green” infrastructures is indeed a reason for hope, if only because they set the stage and other directions become harder to take (see C. Levine’s 2023 book for this argument, if you need some more hope 🙂).
October 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
i agree, even if we can critique this on many fronts, the slow establishment of overlapping “green” infrastructures is indeed a reason for hope, if only because they set the stage and other directions become harder to take (see C. Levine’s 2023 book for this argument, if you need some more hope 🙂).
This is basically the only good news story in the world rn…
Prompted by this podcast with Bill McKibben, here’s a random thread of resources I’ve found helpful for understanding/feeling cautiously optimistic about the present energy revolution
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Prompted by this podcast with Bill McKibben, here’s a random thread of resources I’ve found helpful for understanding/feeling cautiously optimistic about the present energy revolution
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast
Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is basically the only good news story in the world rn…
Prompted by this podcast with Bill McKibben, here’s a random thread of resources I’ve found helpful for understanding/feeling cautiously optimistic about the present energy revolution
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Prompted by this podcast with Bill McKibben, here’s a random thread of resources I’ve found helpful for understanding/feeling cautiously optimistic about the present energy revolution
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Israeli forces have intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla so now would be a good time to pressure your government to hold Israel to account and ensure everybody's safe return. Kieran Andrieu is one of my oldest friends and I'm worried about him. youtube.com/shorts/HiiJn...
If You're Watching This Video, Israel Has Kidnapped Me in International Waters
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Israeli forces have intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla so now would be a good time to pressure your government to hold Israel to account and ensure everybody's safe return. Kieran Andrieu is one of my oldest friends and I'm worried about him. youtube.com/shorts/HiiJn...
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Along very similar lines, but from a Beauvoir-inspired existentialist view. philpapers.org/rec/TUBAAL
Ariela Tubert & Justin Tiehen, Authentic Artificial Love - PhilPapers
Often in romantic relationships, people want partners whose moral, political, and religious values align with their own. This article connects this point to the project of value alignment in AI resear...
philpapers.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Along very similar lines, but from a Beauvoir-inspired existentialist view. philpapers.org/rec/TUBAAL
Hegel: ‘True union, or love proper, exists only between living things who are alike in power and thus in one another’s eyes living beings from every point of view.’
This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...
She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.
As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.
slate.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hegel: ‘True union, or love proper, exists only between living things who are alike in power and thus in one another’s eyes living beings from every point of view.’
It seems the senior leadership themselves have not been adopting this approach… Richard Seymour, as usual, has good things to say on this www.patreon.com/posts/139540...
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It seems the senior leadership themselves have not been adopting this approach… Richard Seymour, as usual, has good things to say on this www.patreon.com/posts/139540...
I’m sorry bro but if you’re going to get ChatGPT to write your dating app prompts you gotta at least delete the quote marks and the em dash. What are we doing here
September 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m sorry bro but if you’re going to get ChatGPT to write your dating app prompts you gotta at least delete the quote marks and the em dash. What are we doing here
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‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry
For years, his biography on press releases was just four words long: ‘Eagle scout, Missoula, Montana.’ David Lynch...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Some friends of mine are holding a fundraiser - the first so far! - for Your Party in Oxford this week. I can’t be there, but I’m donating - here’s the link if you wanna join me:
chuffed.org/project/1440...
chuffed.org/project/1440...
Oxford Fundraiser for Your Party
Comrades, friends, residents of Oxford. Zahra Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party are building a new kind of political party, and we’re throwing a party to help them on their way. We are throwing a...
chuffed.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Some friends of mine are holding a fundraiser - the first so far! - for Your Party in Oxford this week. I can’t be there, but I’m donating - here’s the link if you wanna join me:
chuffed.org/project/1440...
chuffed.org/project/1440...
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Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d453cb25-5adf-4859-ae72-5c1552133526
#initials #torches #lamps #typography #design #walking #lettering #art #publicdomain
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d453cb25-5adf-4859-ae72-5c1552133526
#initials #torches #lamps #typography #design #walking #lettering #art #publicdomain
September 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d453cb25-5adf-4859-ae72-5c1552133526
#initials #torches #lamps #typography #design #walking #lettering #art #publicdomain
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d453cb25-5adf-4859-ae72-5c1552133526
#initials #torches #lamps #typography #design #walking #lettering #art #publicdomain