Max Edward Perry
@0404am.bsky.social
Social science researcher in Edinburgh.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
Reposted by Max Edward Perry
I reviewed a new biography of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his co-authored manifesto, The Technological Republic for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Karp is marketing as Silicon Valley's philosopher-CEO, but what actually guides his business?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
www.newstatesman.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I reviewed a new biography of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his co-authored manifesto, The Technological Republic for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. Karp is marketing as Silicon Valley's philosopher-CEO, but what actually guides his business?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Reposted by Max Edward Perry
I missed the anniversary but nevertheless!
Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year.
Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic.
Watch it here:
youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...
Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year.
Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic.
Watch it here:
youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I missed the anniversary but nevertheless!
Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year.
Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic.
Watch it here:
youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...
Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year.
Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic.
Watch it here:
youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...
This is a good and thoughtful essay. Photo booths are a strange thing to have persisted... There is something of the absurd in their invention, and thus, double absurd in their persistence. A romantic machine.
artreview.com/how-we-were-...
artreview.com/how-we-were-...
3, 2, 1: How We Were Drawn Into the Photo Booth
A century after the first iteration, these public-private cameras have changed the way we think about photographs
artreview.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a good and thoughtful essay. Photo booths are a strange thing to have persisted... There is something of the absurd in their invention, and thus, double absurd in their persistence. A romantic machine.
artreview.com/how-we-were-...
artreview.com/how-we-were-...
I watched The Shrouds tonight at the cinema. A strange little film (in a good way). Seems like a real companion to Crimes of the Future.
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I watched The Shrouds tonight at the cinema. A strange little film (in a good way). Seems like a real companion to Crimes of the Future.
Giving this another “bump” as the deadline is on Friday. Happy to chat to anyone who wants to know more. I’m, tentatively, very excited for it…
FAO those interested in databases. We/I have an open call for a workshop running in June. More details here:
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
April 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Giving this another “bump” as the deadline is on Friday. Happy to chat to anyone who wants to know more. I’m, tentatively, very excited for it…
FAO those interested in databases. We/I have an open call for a workshop running in June. More details here:
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
March 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
FAO those interested in databases. We/I have an open call for a workshop running in June. More details here:
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...
I love this article.
Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well."
www.theverge.com/openai/62420...
Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well."
www.theverge.com/openai/62420...
The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer
To that which a chatbot cannot speak, it should pass over in silence.
www.theverge.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I love this article.
Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well."
www.theverge.com/openai/62420...
Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well."
www.theverge.com/openai/62420...
Reposted by Max Edward Perry
February 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For years now, something akin to a ‘repressive hypothesis’ has taken hold in popular political discourse. Endless desire to have conversations that have been imagined to be repressed. It seems to me, my whole adult life has been dominated by endless talk about what is being repressed in politics.
One-fifth of German voters now support a party that all others consider too extreme to govern with.
I don't believe one-fifth of Germans are fascist/racist/any other -ist, but they are concerned. It's time to have the uncomfortable conversations that voters demand.
open.substack.com/pub/theleopa...
I don't believe one-fifth of Germans are fascist/racist/any other -ist, but they are concerned. It's time to have the uncomfortable conversations that voters demand.
open.substack.com/pub/theleopa...
The liberal blind spot
The reluctance to discuss problems in minority cultures has boosted the far right.
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For years now, something akin to a ‘repressive hypothesis’ has taken hold in popular political discourse. Endless desire to have conversations that have been imagined to be repressed. It seems to me, my whole adult life has been dominated by endless talk about what is being repressed in politics.
But as one becomes more fluent in any particular system, the culture reveals itself.
artreview.com/why-are-we-s...
artreview.com/why-are-we-s...
Why Are We So Obsessed With Five-Star Ratings?
Whether review culture symbolises the democratisation of taste or the demise of expertise, it’s too late to turn back to a time before everyone was a critic
artreview.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
But as one becomes more fluent in any particular system, the culture reveals itself.
artreview.com/why-are-we-s...
artreview.com/why-are-we-s...
Hello,
First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...
First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...
The Eternal Return of a Single Medical Record | Dare | Data and the Healthcare ‘Revolution’ – DARE for short – explores the intersection of data, care and learning in the era of data-driven transforma...
dare.ed.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Hello,
First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...
First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...