Stephen Everson

'Regent's Canal' (2022) by Chris Thompson instagram.com/cthompson_art

Wassup! #blueskyartshow Saturday! Prompt #transportation Royal Gorge Railroad. 🚂

‘explains’

Early morning Westminster bridge Monday 12 October 2026

I don’t recall ever voting for the army and I am a bit tired of seeing the fuckers on TV explaining which forms of politics they will and will not tolerate.

Again, the point is that these apologies rarely travel as far as the original lie(s). Solidarity and love to my friend and colleague @mothinali.bsky.social, one of the most gentle and kind people I’ve ever met. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

COVID-19 Blood Clotting Disorders Linked to Deadly Complications www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-1...

This, released yesterday, is glorious

If you think that there is a ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, why think that there’s only one?

1/2 You think that's bad. AI Fucked with Sarah Kendzior .. "There's an AI-generated "biography" of me that is just my book "The Last American Road Trip" plagiarized near verbatim and sold under the byline of a non-existent person."

The oldest Parisian barricades photographed on Rue St Maur in 1848. 📷 Support for high school students #paris

So glad you enjoyed! You may also enjoy my further discussions of Machiavelli on my new podcast, Beforecast.

Westminster bridge early morning Friday 2 September 2026

Tinnitus as a model of machine sentience.

Every informed public-health professional: we need to stop plastic from leeching toxic chemicals and microplastics into our food. Waitrose:

Named after Agamemnon, who slaughtered the innocent to protect ships and was killed when half-submerged.

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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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It turns out there’s an English poet called Fredegond Shove. Maybe everyone knew that already.

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-...

Central Line 2018

ACE2 and Lipid Dysregulation May Link COVID-19 to Neurodegeneration www.thailandmedical.news/news/ace2-an...

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...

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

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

“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.”

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.

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.

Edward Breen in October’s Gramophone.

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?...

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...

Just keep all US food out of the UK.