Josh Habgood-Coote
@impractknow.bsky.social
Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running
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After all, I'm just a guy, sitting in front of Editorial Manager, dreaming of the greatest journal submission portal of all time
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
After all, I'm just a guy, sitting in front of Editorial Manager, dreaming of the greatest journal submission portal of all time
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Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
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Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed.
20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.
Think on, dear hearts, think on.
20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.
Think on, dear hearts, think on.
Oh no the Governor of the Bank of England compared AI to the Industrial Revolution
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed.
20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.
Think on, dear hearts, think on.
20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.
Think on, dear hearts, think on.
Getting to the point of a paper where I realise that every single linguist disagrees with me (oh dear)
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Getting to the point of a paper where I realise that every single linguist disagrees with me (oh dear)
"we were left with no choice but to oppose our dehumanisation and reassert our rights and the rights of the Palestinian people with the battle of empty stomachs, as our Palestinian friends call it." www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Inside the hunger strike of Filton 24 activist Qesser Zuhrah
Imprisoned without trial over her alleged involvement in a direct action against an Israeli weapons firm, Qesser Zuhrah has been on hunger strike for over a month, along with seven other activists. He...
www.dazeddigital.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"we were left with no choice but to oppose our dehumanisation and reassert our rights and the rights of the Palestinian people with the battle of empty stomachs, as our Palestinian friends call it." www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
These are such a good example of the importance of photographer's intention to photographs
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
These are such a good example of the importance of photographer's intention to photographs
It is weird that David Lewis thought that you needed the concept SLAVE to make sense of imperatives and deontic modals
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It is weird that David Lewis thought that you needed the concept SLAVE to make sense of imperatives and deontic modals
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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Socialism.AI is gonna get into some wild arguments about whether it should exist
![But this is not the road along which machinery, by
and large, arose, and even less the road on which it progresses
in detail. This road is, rather, dissection [Analyse] - through the
division of labour, which gradually transforms the workers’
operations into more and more mechanical ones, so that at a
certain point a mechanism can step into their places. (See
under economy of power.) Thus, the specific mode of working
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here appears directly as becoming transferred from the worker
to capital in the form of the machine, and his own labour
capacity devalued thereby. Hence the workers’ struggle against
machinery. What was the living worker’s activity becomes the
activity of the machine.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hsvhbajy2fw3u4szixntqyb2/bafkreib22k6k4acolxy3bp3kxwzjazcwdgckrinnwraei5rldsw4cgdq7e@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Socialism.AI is gonna get into some wild arguments about whether it should exist
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The case against English is surprisingly strong: it’s an unusual language, hard to learn for non-native speakers, and, crucially, even learning to speak and write it well, at least by formal rules, doesn’t mean that your non-native communication reads neutrally.
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The case against English is surprisingly strong: it’s an unusual language, hard to learn for non-native speakers, and, crucially, even learning to speak and write it well, at least by formal rules, doesn’t mean that your non-native communication reads neutrally.
Ross's paradox but for interrogatives (is this anything?)
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ross's paradox but for interrogatives (is this anything?)
The moral maze is the worst
December 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The moral maze is the worst
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The Bullshit Boys (me, James Humphries and @hikemix.bsky.social) are at it again. We wrote this short piece for the Philosophical Glossary of AI a while ago, but it's just come out: aiglossary.co.uk/2025/12/15/b...
#ChatGPT #LLMs #Bullshit
#ChatGPT #LLMs #Bullshit
Bullshit – The Philosophical Glossary of AI
aiglossary.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Bullshit Boys (me, James Humphries and @hikemix.bsky.social) are at it again. We wrote this short piece for the Philosophical Glossary of AI a while ago, but it's just come out: aiglossary.co.uk/2025/12/15/b...
#ChatGPT #LLMs #Bullshit
#ChatGPT #LLMs #Bullshit
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'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3
Philosophy journals should have a concept of the year
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Philosophy journals should have a concept of the year
Communicating with students:
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Communicating with students:
Last shout for this - closing today!
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
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Last shout for this - closing today!
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We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky
PhilPapers
philpapers.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We got the PhilPapers feminist philosophy of science category philpapers.org/browse/femin... moved up from "miscellaneous" to "general philosophy of science" proper 🎉 Combatting disciplinary marginalisation and recognising the strength of feminist work on sciences! #philsky
I would like to know where French anti-Italian sentiment comes from
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I would like to know where French anti-Italian sentiment comes from
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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
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
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
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...