Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
I really applaud both author & sources, & The Chronicle for running with this. As somebody who was a decade into recovery before I started grad school, I think there can be many reasons why addicts find their way into academe. But what resonates with me is this…
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
The archive of SH teaching here is fantastic. Conjuncture = Hegelian dialectics is an odd contribution, but that aside this is really interesting and useful.
Capitalist Power in Post-War Croydon.
New post in which I discuss the network of business people & local politicians behind Croydon's concrete building boom.
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“Even more depressing is how well suited this cauterisation of the self is to the political moment, one of a glut of content and bad information…What is at stake isn’t just a few unfortunate errors here and there, but a commitment to strive [to maintain] the veracity of the world we all experience.”
Where’s Andy Burnham going?
‘Andy Burnham has turned that anger and helplessness, so liable to become a poisonous and reactionary nostalgia, in another direction. His campaign has made unabashed use of the word “hope”.’
Tom Crewe on the rebirth of municipal England, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
The Guardian
“'We think of drug addicts or substance abusers as people who really just can’t deny themselves the pleasure.' But it’s really about escaping pain."
Episode Five - Stuart Hall asks: Is There An English Ideology?
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With @jemgilbert.bsky.social & Caitlin Doherty, with a special appearance at the end from Catherine Hall
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
K Biswas
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
Will Bunch
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
