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Stephen Everson

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Armchair Aristotelian

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tinnitus as a model of machine sentience.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every informed public-health professional: we need to stop plastic from leeching toxic chemicals and microplastics into our food. Waitrose:
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Named after Agamemnon, who slaughtered the innocent to protect ships and was killed when half-submerged.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/mohamme...
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Mohammed El-Kurd on the Politics of the “Perfect Victim”
The author discusses the limits of liberal solidarity, and why human rights cannot depend on being likable.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What are we going to do if it turns out that really sophisticated computers are conscious and what it’s like to be such a machine is just to be aware of a constant, but ultimately unbearable, electronic hum?
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Domingos Faria @dfaria.eu · 25/09/2026
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Partitives, groups, and wholes
Abstract. There’s an attractive view in social ontology on which a group is identical to its members. It has its defenders, but seems felled by a simple ob
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It turns out there’s an English poet called Fredegond Shove. Maybe everyone knew that already.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Note how easy it is for a president to revoke a guidance document. Zero process required. So, listening to Republicans complain about how our do-nothing Congress is entitled to rescinding these things through the Congressional Review Act is a little obnoxious. www.thenewlede.org/2026/09/epa-...
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EPA withdraws guidance preventing PFAS from entering drinking water
In the latest regulatory rollback on toxic chemicals, the EPA has identified several documents it deems “appropriate for rescission,” including a 2022 memo that encouraged states to use existing Clean...
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Central Line 2018
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Thailand Medical News @thailandmedical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ACE2 and Lipid Dysregulation May Link COVID-19 to Neurodegeneration www.thailandmedical.news/news/ace2-an...
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ACE2 and Lipid Dysregulation May Link COVID-19 to Neurodegeneration - Thailand Medical News
A newly published scientific review is drawing attention to a potentially important biological connection between COVID-19, disrupted fat metabolism, and long-term neurological damage. Researchers argue that changes involving the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and cellular lipids could help explain why neurological problems persist in some people with Long COVID and may overlap with pathways involved in...
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This whole issue is framed wrongly. As I've written: "Worrying that some migrants won’t pay their way is a displacement activity - an attempt to blame migrants for the failings of British capitalism." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-the-fis...
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On the fiscal costs of immigration
Are immigrants a drain on the tax-payer? It's a silly question.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
to a certain extent you have to admire the harmony of form and content inherent in Tom Watson going to work for a company when nobody really understands what they do, everyone hates them, but for some reason we are stuck with them forever because of their important friends
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“It is the substantive ‘time’ which mystifies us. If we look into the grammar of that word, we shall feel that it is no less astounding that man should have conceived of a deity of time than it would be to conceive of a deity of negation or disjunction.”
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From the campaign against IHT being waged on X, it would seem that the country is replete with wealthy old people who live on tins of sardines and never go out out on holiday just to maximise the wealth they can pass on to their children.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s astonishing to discover just how many wealthy people had it not been for their goal of enriching their children after their death would have been perfectly content to live idly in tents on scrubland foraging for scraps.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Edward Breen in October’s Gramophone.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ellwood’s complacent parroting of the standard lines against the traumatised outrage of a Ukrainian who feels he country is being sacrificed for geopolitics becomes increasingly hollow through this. youtu.be/MTmswelILOc?...
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DEBATE: Is Trump Ending Russia's Isolation on The Global Stage? | Counterpoints
YouTube video by Al Arabiya English
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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've published a review essay for @ssir.org of Mariana Mazzucato's recent book, The Common Good Economy. I'm broadly sympathetic to her approach, but discuss some issues about power, and the challenges posed by those who are committed to acting *against* the common good. ssir.org/books/review...
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Arriving at Collective Power (SSIR)
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just keep all US food out of the UK.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Adam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It was a pleasure to contribute to this symposium in Mind & Language on Frances Egan's wonderful book, Deflating mental representation (MIT, 2025). My paper on "Deflationism, realism and fictionalism" is Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila... @francesegan.bsky.social @kenaizawa.bsky.social #philsky
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Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist about vehicles of menta....
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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New book: The Mathematisation of Economics: A Twentieth-Century History, y Marcel Boumans (the pdf is free online until September 18) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No company (and even more so, no public sector organisation) should ever get into a position like this with any vendor, come on, this is basic
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What was that about the efficiency of capitalism?
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Workers’ Observatory, a charity founded by gig economy workers alongside academics at St Andrews and Edinburgh universities. Its aim is to help riders research the parts of their working experience that are mostly concealed by the companies" Excellent initiative! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Food delivery riders call on platforms to open up AI ‘black box’ they say has cut pay
Workers who blame algorithms for lowering their earnings are getting help from academics to find out how the system works
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently the way Reform recruits is to subdue someone and bite their neck.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Marc Francois is on Politics Live demanding we cut Housing Benefit to fund defence contractors. If we’re going to cut Housing Benefit, we’d better introduce some serious rent controls.
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davidglot.bsky.social @davidglot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Self explanatory...
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Describing Kenny as just an ‘historian of philosophy’ is very irritating and does not do him justice. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Sir Anthony Kenny obituary
Historian of philosophy and former Roman Catholic priest who wrote and lectured on figures from Aristotle to Wittgenstein with verve and lucidity
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We Tories LOVE James Cleverly our new candidate for London Mayor but he is a bit of a clot.😄 Remember his campaign video for a candidate whose name he couldn’t pronounce in a constituency he couldn’t remember? Are you ready for Clever Jim London? 😳
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Maybe Cofnas could be persuaded to pursue a more intellectually serious and scientifically promising research programme; how people’s moral characters are influenced by their star signs for instance.
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A standard way to note an issue or also reason for something used to be by way of an absolute clause. ‘We’re making slow progress in getting people to reduce their driving, the problem being that many places are inaccessible without a car.’
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
St Albans
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Greens slam Burnham's 'free labour for Sainsburys' con Sainsbury's now have free workers to replace the 3,000 it made redundant last year while announcing a profit of over £1bn www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Greens slam Burnham's 'free labour for Sainsburys' con
Sainsbury's now have free workers to replace the 3,000 it made redundant last year while announcing profit of over £1bn
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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