Jenny Judge
@jennyjudge.bsky.social
I write about music and mind. Lecturer (i.e. asst prof) in philosophy at the Uni of Melbourne. Formerly NYU Philosophy (PhD) and Cambridge (music PhD). 🇮🇪
My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Lecturer in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Role type: Full-time Faculty: Arts School: School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Salary: $124,656 - $148,023 p.a. plus 17% super Teach and inspire across diverse Philosophy subjects / Contrib...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Re the Andrew Formerly Known as Prince: I'm sure I'm not the first to think of Sue Townsend's 'The Queen and I', in which the royal family have been deposed and are living in a council estate. Hopefully King Chaz is reading this for inspo @backlisted.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
The Queen and I (novel) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Re the Andrew Formerly Known as Prince: I'm sure I'm not the first to think of Sue Townsend's 'The Queen and I', in which the royal family have been deposed and are living in a council estate. Hopefully King Chaz is reading this for inspo @backlisted.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
This is a great (open-access) paper, cataloguing the utterly staggering amount of unwaged labour that generative AI -- and recommender systems before them -- rely upon to function. It's not just copyright-holders that gen AI violates, it is literally all of us
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The unwitting labourer: extracting humanness in AI training - AI & SOCIETY
Many modern digital products use Machine Learning (ML) to emulate human abilities, knowledge, and intellect. In order to achieve this goal, ML systems need the greatest possible quantity of training d...
link.springer.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is a great (open-access) paper, cataloguing the utterly staggering amount of unwaged labour that generative AI -- and recommender systems before them -- rely upon to function. It's not just copyright-holders that gen AI violates, it is literally all of us
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Also, name me one other president who released a spoken word poetry album in his last few weeks in office.
I'll wait
I'll wait
October 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Also, name me one other president who released a spoken word poetry album in his last few weeks in office.
I'll wait
I'll wait
What a legend. Tiny Wizard Presidents are clearly the best presidents
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
Michael D Higgins gives some €2m back to State from his salary
President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina won’t be under pressure to have their last bags packed today for the journey home to Galway from the Phoenix Park.
www.independent.ie
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What a legend. Tiny Wizard Presidents are clearly the best presidents
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
4.8/10... oof.
Setting aside the verdict (though tbh I agree, it's a disappointing album), it's refreshing to see a thoughtful negative review in a world of 'five stars no notes' bullshit.
Far preferable to the 'we only write about it if we like it' policy IMO
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Setting aside the verdict (though tbh I agree, it's a disappointing album), it's refreshing to see a thoughtful negative review in a world of 'five stars no notes' bullshit.
Far preferable to the 'we only write about it if we like it' policy IMO
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Tame Impala: Deadbeat
Read Sam Goldner’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
4.8/10... oof.
Setting aside the verdict (though tbh I agree, it's a disappointing album), it's refreshing to see a thoughtful negative review in a world of 'five stars no notes' bullshit.
Far preferable to the 'we only write about it if we like it' policy IMO
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Setting aside the verdict (though tbh I agree, it's a disappointing album), it's refreshing to see a thoughtful negative review in a world of 'five stars no notes' bullshit.
Far preferable to the 'we only write about it if we like it' policy IMO
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Louvre: The thieves were highly organised and professional, we couldn't possibly have detected them, i mean they were basically ninjas
Also the Louvre: They used an angle grinder and power tools to bust in the window of the gallery. Also it was broad daylight
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Also the Louvre: They used an angle grinder and power tools to bust in the window of the gallery. Also it was broad daylight
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Louvre heist: hunt on for thieves after eight ‘priceless’ jewellery pieces stolen
Necklace given by Napoleon to his wife among items taken from Paris museum in highly professional daylight raid
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Louvre: The thieves were highly organised and professional, we couldn't possibly have detected them, i mean they were basically ninjas
Also the Louvre: They used an angle grinder and power tools to bust in the window of the gallery. Also it was broad daylight
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Also the Louvre: They used an angle grinder and power tools to bust in the window of the gallery. Also it was broad daylight
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
i've got quite a few unsolicited emails lately from strangers claiming to have developed conscious AI. i'm like:
1. 👍?
2. surely if you really had developed conscious AI, there would be far more lucrative things you could be doing than emailing me, a random philosophy lecturer in australia
1. 👍?
2. surely if you really had developed conscious AI, there would be far more lucrative things you could be doing than emailing me, a random philosophy lecturer in australia
October 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
i've got quite a few unsolicited emails lately from strangers claiming to have developed conscious AI. i'm like:
1. 👍?
2. surely if you really had developed conscious AI, there would be far more lucrative things you could be doing than emailing me, a random philosophy lecturer in australia
1. 👍?
2. surely if you really had developed conscious AI, there would be far more lucrative things you could be doing than emailing me, a random philosophy lecturer in australia
me, spending like 4 hrs tweaking a paper to fit a journal's idiosyncratic formatting requirements when it'll prob get desk rejected anyway 💃
This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
me, spending like 4 hrs tweaking a paper to fit a journal's idiosyncratic formatting requirements when it'll prob get desk rejected anyway 💃
How rude...
(Actually interesting tho. Apparently much of our contemporary hell-related imagery comes originally from 12th c. Irish knight who, upon falling into a drunken stupor after a massive bender in Cork, had a vision of hell that he later related to others)
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
(Actually interesting tho. Apparently much of our contemporary hell-related imagery comes originally from 12th c. Irish knight who, upon falling into a drunken stupor after a massive bender in Cork, had a vision of hell that he later related to others)
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Does the road to hell begin in Cork?
How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation
www.rte.ie
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
How rude...
(Actually interesting tho. Apparently much of our contemporary hell-related imagery comes originally from 12th c. Irish knight who, upon falling into a drunken stupor after a massive bender in Cork, had a vision of hell that he later related to others)
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
(Actually interesting tho. Apparently much of our contemporary hell-related imagery comes originally from 12th c. Irish knight who, upon falling into a drunken stupor after a massive bender in Cork, had a vision of hell that he later related to others)
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
All-time GOAT bass baritone Paul Robeson, politely explaining to the HUAC why he refuses to leave America for good. Suspect that many in the US feel like this now
October 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All-time GOAT bass baritone Paul Robeson, politely explaining to the HUAC why he refuses to leave America for good. Suspect that many in the US feel like this now
I'm rewatching The Sopranos. Really struck by how you hear Tony breathing through his nose so much. It gives you an immediate, uncomfortable sense of his physicality, & how intimidating he is. They must have had to mic that specially, it wouldn't have come across on boom mics. It's brilliant
September 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm rewatching The Sopranos. Really struck by how you hear Tony breathing through his nose so much. It gives you an immediate, uncomfortable sense of his physicality, & how intimidating he is. They must have had to mic that specially, it wouldn't have come across on boom mics. It's brilliant
Reading Plato's Republic, realising that even Socrates swore on occasion.
So, am now trying to figure out appropriate circumstances to say things like 'By the dog of Egypt' and 'By the goose'
So, am now trying to figure out appropriate circumstances to say things like 'By the dog of Egypt' and 'By the goose'
August 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Reading Plato's Republic, realising that even Socrates swore on occasion.
So, am now trying to figure out appropriate circumstances to say things like 'By the dog of Egypt' and 'By the goose'
So, am now trying to figure out appropriate circumstances to say things like 'By the dog of Egypt' and 'By the goose'
Oscar Wilde knew what he was talking about, when it came to pleasure
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oscar Wilde knew what he was talking about, when it came to pleasure
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
(from 'The Picture of Dorian Grey')
Folks, take approx 30 seconds to fill this in. The Irish Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a trailblazing initiative that might well die a death if we don't come out in support of it.
There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
August 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Folks, take approx 30 seconds to fill this in. The Irish Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a trailblazing initiative that might well die a death if we don't come out in support of it.
Tell me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel without telling me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel
@backlisted.bsky.social
@backlisted.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tell me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel without telling me you've just started an Iris Murdoch novel
@backlisted.bsky.social
@backlisted.bsky.social
Useful article which tells you (among other things) how to transfer your playlists from Spotify.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think
Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options – along with how to keep your playlists
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Useful article which tells you (among other things) how to transfer your playlists from Spotify.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
I reckon army recruitment would be a lot easier if they still allowed soldiers to dress like Maurice Ravel did, when he was in the French army in 1916
July 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I reckon army recruitment would be a lot easier if they still allowed soldiers to dress like Maurice Ravel did, when he was in the French army in 1916
Just met a deadline and it feels GOOD.
I love writing in the same way that I love running: it feels really great when you stop
I love writing in the same way that I love running: it feels really great when you stop
July 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Just met a deadline and it feels GOOD.
I love writing in the same way that I love running: it feels really great when you stop
I love writing in the same way that I love running: it feels really great when you stop
Panel proposal: 'What is it like to be a bat on-stage with Ozzy Osbourne?'
RIP to the Prince of Darkness
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
RIP to the Prince of Darkness
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76
The singer, who later became famous on reality TV show The Osbournes, dies less than three weeks after retirement concert
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Panel proposal: 'What is it like to be a bat on-stage with Ozzy Osbourne?'
RIP to the Prince of Darkness
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
RIP to the Prince of Darkness
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
V satisfying when composers indicate the time signature like this.
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
July 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
V satisfying when composers indicate the time signature like this.
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
IT'S IN 4 YOU IDIOTS
Reposted by Jenny Judge
Someone thinking stuff through and expressing themselves honestly if clumsily is so much more useful, worthwhile and insightful than fluent banalities from the digital void.
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Someone thinking stuff through and expressing themselves honestly if clumsily is so much more useful, worthwhile and insightful than fluent banalities from the digital void.
Reading (and v much enjoying) @ksetiya.bsky.social's Midlife. I never knew that JS Mill's wife Harriet was so centrally involved in his intellectual life, and that they had such a wonderful marriage
May 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reading (and v much enjoying) @ksetiya.bsky.social's Midlife. I never knew that JS Mill's wife Harriet was so centrally involved in his intellectual life, and that they had such a wonderful marriage
Reading Michael Tanner on sentimentality and art, and having a great old time. Here he is on Winterreise, and on the dubious nature of the poems that Schubert sets, which he refers to as 'Müller's indistinguishable dollops of goo'
#philsky
#philsky
April 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reading Michael Tanner on sentimentality and art, and having a great old time. Here he is on Winterreise, and on the dubious nature of the poems that Schubert sets, which he refers to as 'Müller's indistinguishable dollops of goo'
#philsky
#philsky