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Truly inspiring…

In the Black magazine reviews my latest book.

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Reading some philosophy papers again after a long time and it’s very clear—if there was ever doubt—that there’s a tendency both to overcomplicate and oversimplify. Both tendencies stem from a lack of examples. Philosophy of science and biology is least problematic in this respect

In the first 10 years of employment there should be a dollar-for-dollar employer/employee home deposit scheme.

Great work by Rob Brooks and Rachael Brown—your phone is a parasite theconversation.com/your-smartphon…

“If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the expense of another.” —Karl Marx

Despite extensive safety training, LLMs remain vulnerable to “jailbreaking” through adversarial prompts. Why does this vulnerability persist? In a new paper published in Philosophical Studies, I argue this is because current alignment methods are fundamentally shallow. 1/13

Switzerland will soon require stores to label products from animals subject to painful mutilations without pain relief. Prediction: this will lead industry to end the cruel practices, as they know they can't justify them to informed consumers. I hope other nations copy this.

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/hel…

a fanatical Zionist asks Chomsky if he believes Iran having a nuclear program is an existential threat. Chomsky replies: No, the existential threats to the region and humanity are Israel and the US

Is it any wonder that overworked students are turning to shortcuts when higher education has become a degree factory? Dalia Gebrial on #NovaraLive

Roberto Benigni on how we all lose our humanity watching children die in Gaza. A man who can recite Dante’s Divine Comedy by heart. Che l'antico valore  Nell'italici cor non e ancor morto The very best of Europe.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them”.

The City of London police are fining people for cycling without hands - while groups of lads angle grind £1000 sports bikes like it’s ordering a cup of tea. We incentivise numbers and low hanging fruit over dealing with actual crime. Mad.