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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I understand that it’s good to argue against bio-essentialist accounts of “the English”. But… I mean… *that* video is still very, very, very bad (and plenty essentialist). It is not a counter to the far right, it is participating in the construction of an intellectual base from which to subjugate.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the obsession on this website with what we should probably just call bourgeois manners to be… worthy of some critical reflection.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“It’s too easy to distil research down to its most enjoyable or artistically viable elements. We should be skeptical of any version of research that excises itself from accountability procedures in the name of loftier goals...“

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Owen Ashworth @advancebase.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hi. Here's a free live album. advancebase.bandcamp.com/album/in-mil...

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In Milwaukee, by Advance Moon Base Type

11 track album

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have written about this here: thepolyphony.org/2026/07/29/d... We must resist any defence of human doctors that suggests they have exceptional epistemic capacities. Instead we must critique the fascistic determinism of those that argue AI is better at resolving pathology than humans.

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Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives | Book Review

Max Edward Perry reviews Charlotte Blease Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives (Yale University Press, 2025), reflecting on its arguments in the context of today’s debates …

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Feels to me like we are really at the moment now where the “AI product” is the product we have — “AGI” and “the singularity” will now disappear off to the lab for several years until we need a new product to hawk. www.axios.com/2026/08/05/g...

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside

oogle's AI organization is undergoing a profound change as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wonder if they’ll use any Hacking, or… you know… any sociology? Be good if they let me do my “livers are socially constructed” bit. Used to like doing that.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Perhaps it’s the contrarian in me, but I’m quite enjoying the photographic image’s fall from its privilege status of representation. Interesting to note that “deep fakes” haven’t really materialised as potent events, but a new scepticism of the image has. Every cloud… etc etc.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

First trip out as a Papa. Wonder if I’ll ever finish any of that writing now…

Me, with a big pink pram containing baby Frank.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I do think, increasingly, that it is important to question whether automation has ever been about efficiency, and to ask instead whether it has not been driven by a punitive desire to cleave a rift pleasure and labour.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This article is v.good and full of interesting quotes. It seems obvious to me that AI is continuous with a whole history of bureaucratic techniques which have the effect of alienating folk from their labour.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I am now speaking in the afternoon session *as well*. Both the morning and afternoon session is online and free. I am told that BUP is giving a 50% off discount code for the book to attendees too. Link for 5PM session here, other session listed below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/part-2-boo...

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Part 2 Book Launch: Using Documents in Research - When, where, why and how

Two online book launch sessions, at 10am or 5pm, with chapter authors discussing document analysis, methods and real-world research.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I personally like VAR. It’s a perpetual public humiliation for a society that convinced itself objectivity was a mere technological innovation away.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I happily will be speaking at this book launch in a few weeks on the chapter I wrote. sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/part-1-boo...

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I wrote a short reflection on sociology, AI, and healthcare and smuggled it into a book review. It was was published this morning. doi.org/10.1111/1467... Got a paper at BSA on this, and a few other pieces of writing in various states of completion, should that be of interest to anyone.

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Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives. By C. Blease, London: Yale University Press, 2025. 352 pp. £18.99 (hbk) £18.99 (ebk) ISBN 978‐0‐30024714‐5

Click on the article title to read more.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

i wrote a 100 word short story about saints for my friend's substack which publishes only 100 word short stories veryshort.substack.com/p/return

"The saints came back. Not the gods nor the dead but the saints: emerging from crowds and forests and broken towns with eyes as soft as milk and hearts like booming cannons. They went among the people and worked miracles. They brought calm to the mad and grief to the unfeeling and so parted the lands as gently as a mother parts her infant’s hair. And wherever they went there followed behind them tides of envy and muttered complaint, for the world still knows what to do with saints and soon busied itself sending them on, to a better place."

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Owen Ashworth @advancebase.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I missed the anniversary but nevertheless! Aaron Seward's hand-painted music video for "The Year I Lived in Richmond" by Advance Base has been out in the world for a whole, big, terrible year. Thank you Aaron for making beautiful magic. Watch it here: youtu.be/-LXwshEQjtg?...

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This is a good and thoughtful essay. Photo booths are a strange thing to have persisted... There is something of the absurd in their invention, and thus, double absurd in their persistence. A romantic machine. artreview.com/how-we-were-...

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3, 2, 1: How We Were Drawn Into the Photo Booth

A century after the first iteration, these public-private cameras have changed the way we think about photographs

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I watched The Shrouds tonight at the cinema. A strange little film (in a good way). Seems like a real companion to Crimes of the Future.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Giving this another “bump” as the deadline is on Friday. Happy to chat to anyone who wants to know more. I’m, tentatively, very excited for it…

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

FAO those interested in databases. We/I have an open call for a workshop running in June. More details here: dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Poster for “a social science of databases” workshop. Date: 17-18th June, Location: University of Edinburgh.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I love this article. Opens: "Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well." www.theverge.com/openai/62420...

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The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer

To that which a chatbot cannot speak, it should pass over in silence.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For years now, something akin to a ‘repressive hypothesis’ has taken hold in popular political discourse. Endless desire to have conversations that have been imagined to be repressed. It seems to me, my whole adult life has been dominated by endless talk about what is being repressed in politics.

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Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hello, First nascent post here. I am genuinely rubbish at this. Here is a blog piece I recently wrote for the DARE project website on the eternal search for a single medical record.... dare.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/et...

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The Eternal Return of a Single Medical Record | Dare | Data and the Healthcare ‘Revolution’ – DARE for short – explores the intersection of data, care and learning in the era of data-driven transforma...

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