Josh Habgood-Coote
@impractknow.bsky.social
Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running
This is tres good
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is tres good
People are worried about these water frames taking away craftspeople's jobs, but now look at how diverse the cloth workshops are: all of their children and wives are now working the machines!
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
People are worried about these water frames taking away craftspeople's jobs, but now look at how diverse the cloth workshops are: all of their children and wives are now working the machines!
I don't know about these examples, but here's a hypothesis (from what often happens when work is Taylorised): (white) men who were relatively quite well paid got fired when these technologies came in, and then women and minorities groups were employed for less money
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I don't know about these examples, but here's a hypothesis (from what often happens when work is Taylorised): (white) men who were relatively quite well paid got fired when these technologies came in, and then women and minorities groups were employed for less money
One thing you miss if you're not thinking about the political context is that these 'routine' (big scare quotes) part of academic work are literally thousands of people's jobs. Talk to an adjunct about what counts as 'routine' teaching.
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
One thing you miss if you're not thinking about the political context is that these 'routine' (big scare quotes) part of academic work are literally thousands of people's jobs. Talk to an adjunct about what counts as 'routine' teaching.
To be fair, we get this passage, but this is an abstract worry that gets set to one side, and not the central question of the essay (how can we organise AI systems to keep the skills we need?)
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
To be fair, we get this passage, but this is an abstract worry that gets set to one side, and not the central question of the essay (how can we organise AI systems to keep the skills we need?)
Yup, there's a history of deskilling. Gee, I wonder whether there's a massive literature in sociology in the 1980s about the 'deskilling hypothesis' where they got extremely spooked by a Marixan economist pointing out that capitalist labour process degrade the character of work?
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Yup, there's a history of deskilling. Gee, I wonder whether there's a massive literature in sociology in the 1980s about the 'deskilling hypothesis' where they got extremely spooked by a Marixan economist pointing out that capitalist labour process degrade the character of work?
"The problem is that Sam Altman hasn't understood Merleau-Ponty: intelligence is to be found in the chiasmus between body and world"
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"The problem is that Sam Altman hasn't understood Merleau-Ponty: intelligence is to be found in the chiasmus between body and world"
Someone give me 1000 words on this image
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Someone give me 1000 words on this image
I think this is one of the strangest images I've ever made for teaching
October 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I think this is one of the strangest images I've ever made for teaching
They got us
From the ONS skills supply estimates, on a 1(low) to 7(high) scale of average competences in skills
From the ONS skills supply estimates, on a 1(low) to 7(high) scale of average competences in skills
September 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
They got us
From the ONS skills supply estimates, on a 1(low) to 7(high) scale of average competences in skills
From the ONS skills supply estimates, on a 1(low) to 7(high) scale of average competences in skills
Absolutely zero sessions, doesn't bother to set a single pace for a run 0/10
September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Absolutely zero sessions, doesn't bother to set a single pace for a run 0/10
My costume for the performative male competition
September 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My costume for the performative male competition
This is a question about how a new staff member should use AI to update teaching slides (also: assumption that teaching is just a matter of updating slides fucking hell)
Also note the grammatical mistake. Guess we're not checking the outputs of secure CoPilot so carefully then
Also note the grammatical mistake. Guess we're not checking the outputs of secure CoPilot so carefully then
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is a question about how a new staff member should use AI to update teaching slides (also: assumption that teaching is just a matter of updating slides fucking hell)
Also note the grammatical mistake. Guess we're not checking the outputs of secure CoPilot so carefully then
Also note the grammatical mistake. Guess we're not checking the outputs of secure CoPilot so carefully then
The new Uni of Leeds' AI training is exactly as you'd expect.
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The new Uni of Leeds' AI training is exactly as you'd expect.
Before shrimp Jesus, there was Whopper Hopper (picture from 1935 and this book archive.org/details/larg...)
September 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Before shrimp Jesus, there was Whopper Hopper (picture from 1935 and this book archive.org/details/larg...)
The function of the Institute of Arts and Ideas (and how the light gets in) seems to be to launder far-right ideas by passing them off as philosophical debates.
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The function of the Institute of Arts and Ideas (and how the light gets in) seems to be to launder far-right ideas by passing them off as philosophical debates.
They’re very pretty!
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August 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
They’re very pretty!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oast_ho...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oast_ho...
