Not read The Melancholy of Resistance but it does look like a banger.

“clothes, furniture, one’s wife, the fear of war…”

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Exactly the kind of nerdy thing I love.
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It's a great line. Unfortunately, I believe it dates to the 1970s & there's no good reason to attribute it to Goldman. (Though, happily, Goldman is said to have enjoyed dancing.)

Who is Dr. Sarah Chen? #claude #amazonnova #hallucination

The disappearance of Amelia Epstein? Really?

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.

Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

likewise, definitely going to be following up some of this, thank you! On the entangled ways we've thought of government bureaucracies and computers, you might also enjoy @jonagar.bsky.social The Government Machine.

Robot personhood/rights is conceptually bogus and legally puts more power/rights in the hands of those that develop and deploy robots/AI systems

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

See also an earlier article on LLM sycophancy by this group, though its attempt to apply sociological insight from Goffman seems to me peculiar. Goffman assumed social reciprocity. Human-LLM interactions (even if parasitic on human expectations of reciprocity) are fundamentally non-reciprocal.

This by @myra.bsky.social @cinoolee.bsky.social @pranavkhadpe.bsky.social Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han & @jurafsky.bsky.social looks at the effects of LLM sycophancy on its users. Its findings are unsurprising but depressing:

Yet more proof that immigrants aren't integrating.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The police will tell you they have 'no choice' because PA are a proscribed organisation but come to Belfast and you learn very quickly that is a lie.

This is absolutely a choice.

rage against the machi-, oh, nvm

I like this thought. (Though somewhat distracted by wondering when people started talking about a 'gap in the market')

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People, things. Across the board, in fact, there’s a very low rate of prior consent.

Last Orders. A poem by my dear friend, John Lucas, published in 2000. John was a fine poet, professor, critic, novelist, cornet player and publisher. He died a few days ago, at 88. It's his poetry he'd most want us to remember him by, and we still have that. But oh how much I'll miss his friendship.

Yes. Just saw footage from this on Novara Media. Hard to gauge numbers, but looked clearly over a hundred - which is remarkable at 1.30am!

There are ten Israeli ships five miles from the flotilla, one of the boats says. All the updates as they come in are on the live blog: ilpost.link/nbh3zGLsJK#i...

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

Sent :)

well, history and law hived earlier than economics (at which point logic, mental science etc. joined morals and economics)

'The moral sciences tripos at Cambridge University, 1848–1860'. PhD, Camb Uni, 2003. Can email a pdf if you're interested. Unpubl, but drawn on in 'Mid-nineteenth Century "moral sciences" between Paris and Cambridge'. In Anglo-French Attitudes, ed. Christophe Charle et al. Manchester U. P., 2007.