Maxim Raginsky

mraginsky.bsky.social

18 September 2026 16:18

If you turn something into a benchmark with quantifiable rewards and progress metrics, don’t be surprised when the machines achieve dominance there. At that point it will be too late to gesture at intrinsic non-economic values, you’ve made them illegible (in Scott’s sense) to any outside observer.

Kieran Healy

kjhealy.co

16 September 2026 20:27

See, you have your changing forces of production, and you have your social relations of production. It’s important not to think that your trenchant critique of the latter requires you to insist there’s nothing new, interesting, surprising, or powerful about the former.

James K. Tauber

jtauber.com

15 September 2026 23:02

Not only is it the 49th anniversary of the publication of The Silmarillion today but, two days ago, I was the exact age Christopher Tolkien was when The Silmarillion came out.

Dr Mary McAuliffe

drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

15 September 2026 14:52

‘If you live and work and pay taxes here, there's an ever-tougher obstacle course. But if you're Irish in a vaguely genetic sense .. welcome. There is a logic and it is implicitly racist.. Citizenship is a right for those who have "Irish blood", a grudgingly granted privilege for those who don't’.

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