Michael Garnett
@michaelgarnett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, interested in personal, social and political freedom.
Leytonstone, London, 14th September 2025
September 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Leytonstone, London, 14th September 2025
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The cross cultural conversations happening on RedNote are something to see. For example:
January 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The cross cultural conversations happening on RedNote are something to see. For example:
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"I used GenAI to research this topic"
The research:
The research:
December 15, 2024 at 10:48 AM
"I used GenAI to research this topic"
The research:
The research:
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I can only conclude that this will wash an infinite amount of dishes
"Washes up to 2x more than expected"—philosophers, I need your counsel on this serious matter!
Is this a self-defeating promise? By promising to exceed expectations, does this detergent raise those expectations to a level it cannot beat due to its very promise of beating them? 🤔
#PhilSky
Is this a self-defeating promise? By promising to exceed expectations, does this detergent raise those expectations to a level it cannot beat due to its very promise of beating them? 🤔
#PhilSky
December 9, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I can only conclude that this will wash an infinite amount of dishes
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“We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his protectedness: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.” Adorno
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 AM
“We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his protectedness: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.” Adorno
“The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants.”
— Hegel, who for some reason I am still reading
— Hegel, who for some reason I am still reading
December 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
“The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants.”
— Hegel, who for some reason I am still reading
— Hegel, who for some reason I am still reading
Today I get to teach one of my favourite philosophical arguments: G.A. Cohen on ‘freedom tickets’
December 3, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Today I get to teach one of my favourite philosophical arguments: G.A. Cohen on ‘freedom tickets’
To be clear: this isn’t a side-effect of current government policy, but one of its central aims.
Eighty-three universities are now making redundancies. That number will rise to 90 and then 100+ during 2025. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
To be clear: this isn’t a side-effect of current government policy, but one of its central aims.
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Eighty-three universities are now making redundancies. That number will rise to 90 and then 100+ during 2025. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Eighty-three universities are now making redundancies. That number will rise to 90 and then 100+ during 2025. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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Educators are rightly worried about AI threatening student writing. But there’s also dangers to reading with a new generation of AI summary tools, with students relying on abridgements rather than working through the details of difficult texts.
November 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Educators are rightly worried about AI threatening student writing. But there’s also dangers to reading with a new generation of AI summary tools, with students relying on abridgements rather than working through the details of difficult texts.
Family ticket booked for Moana 2 tonight and I can report that the excitement levels here are extremely high. My kids also seem to be looking forward to it.
November 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Family ticket booked for Moana 2 tonight and I can report that the excitement levels here are extremely high. My kids also seem to be looking forward to it.
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This is important. It's no big deal to me that Bluesky totally ripped off everything Twitter is because that place now sucks so bad. But we don't need a new word for a micro-post of a nature we all understand to be a thing. Like podcast started from iPod, tweet is now just a generic. This is a tweet
When I say tweet here I mean it like I would say Kleenex for any tissue or chapstick for any lip balm
November 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
This is important. It's no big deal to me that Bluesky totally ripped off everything Twitter is because that place now sucks so bad. But we don't need a new word for a micro-post of a nature we all understand to be a thing. Like podcast started from iPod, tweet is now just a generic. This is a tweet
Rousseau by a mile.
Round 2! Which philosopher is the worst human being?
Only philosophers that aren’t right wing polemicists allowed.
Only philosophers that aren’t right wing polemicists allowed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Rousseau by a mile.
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my two cents on the echo chamber discourse (with a very outdated title)
1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices
2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities
1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices
2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities
Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better Than Facebook
Online Environments Social media has the potential to expand our epistemic horizons, connecting us with a wider range of people and more information and analysis than ever before. But it comes with…
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
November 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
my two cents on the echo chamber discourse (with a very outdated title)
1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices
2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities
1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices
2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities
Counterpoint: seeing fascist memes from people called things like @cuckfuhrer18 is, in fact, unlikely to deepen my understanding of politics and society
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Counterpoint: seeing fascist memes from people called things like @cuckfuhrer18 is, in fact, unlikely to deepen my understanding of politics and society
Every day I curse the series of life choices that led to my sometimes having to teach people about Hegel
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Every day I curse the series of life choices that led to my sometimes having to teach people about Hegel
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Every time I see this ad on fb my first thought is “omg they put a Death Star in Moana 2”
November 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Every time I see this ad on fb my first thought is “omg they put a Death Star in Moana 2”
This is the longest autumn I’ve ever experienced.
November 15, 2024 at 10:36 AM
This is the longest autumn I’ve ever experienced.
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Guys I'm not calling them skeets. Get fucked 😂 if Twitter has given up on the word tweet then it's ours now
November 14, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Guys I'm not calling them skeets. Get fucked 😂 if Twitter has given up on the word tweet then it's ours now
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
I think that at this point “tweet”, “retweet”, etc. should be considered as generalised terms (like hoover, wellington or sellotape) and not as platform-specific
November 11, 2024 at 8:14 AM
I think that at this point “tweet”, “retweet”, etc. should be considered as generalised terms (like hoover, wellington or sellotape) and not as platform-specific
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This.
one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk
as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media
here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media
here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed
November 11, 2024 at 7:16 AM
This.
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When I last visited X, several weeks ago or longer, it had the feel of an abandoned shopping mall in a dystopian B movie.
November 10, 2024 at 11:26 PM
When I last visited X, several weeks ago or longer, it had the feel of an abandoned shopping mall in a dystopian B movie.
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i refuse to use the terms “skeet”, “reskeet”, “repost”, “quoteskeet” or any such woke nonsense. nothing less than the full afc wimbledon treatment is demanded here. everyone knows it’s a tweet. stop lying to yourselves. musk has relocated the IP to milton keynes. I’m taking his 1988 fa cup
October 20, 2024 at 9:09 PM
i refuse to use the terms “skeet”, “reskeet”, “repost”, “quoteskeet” or any such woke nonsense. nothing less than the full afc wimbledon treatment is demanded here. everyone knows it’s a tweet. stop lying to yourselves. musk has relocated the IP to milton keynes. I’m taking his 1988 fa cup