Will Davies

will-davies.bsky.social

18 October 2026 08:38

Reading and writing had already been colonised by cognitive psychology and numbers, long before LLMs came along. Heroic, humanistic defences of ‘difficulty’ ignore some inconvenient truths. My new piece in the Ideas Letter www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ri...

nick-james.bsky.social

17 October 2026 15:15

saw a take that the Victorians were the opposite: public affluence and private squalor. look at some of the pubs and town halls for instance.

Andrew Cooper

rickynow.bsky.social

17 October 2026 15:11

This is the Leicester section of Ray Goslings documentary youtu.be/SD_KkBl5Qmc?...

Rick

flipchartrick.bsky.social

17 October 2026 07:47

I can’t remember who it was that said Russia was used as a laboratory to test two ideologies invented in German-speaking Europe. One by Marx, the other by Hayek. Ideologies other Europeans have never tested on themselves.

Gordon Guthrie

foundationsofthedigitalstate.com

17 October 2026 07:46

Excellent article, can't do it justice on here, but short findings It's like you on Gove's Ditchley Lecture but for code @abbyinnes.bsky.social