Damon Young
@damonyoung.com.au
"Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
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Damon Young
@damonyoung.com.au
· Jun 1
Hey, folks. As I've new followers, I'll reintroduce myself.
My name's Damon Young, I'm a philosopher & author. Some of my books are below, in English & translation.
My short stories, essays, and poems have been published in newspapers & literary magazines.
More about me here: damonyoung.com.au
My name's Damon Young, I'm a philosopher & author. Some of my books are below, in English & translation.
My short stories, essays, and poems have been published in newspapers & literary magazines.
More about me here: damonyoung.com.au
“ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review”
This headline is bloody absurd, and doesn’t reflect the report at all. It doesn’t even reflect the BBC story itself. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This headline is bloody absurd, and doesn’t reflect the report at all. It doesn’t even reflect the BBC story itself. www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
“ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review”
This headline is bloody absurd, and doesn’t reflect the report at all. It doesn’t even reflect the BBC story itself. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This headline is bloody absurd, and doesn’t reflect the report at all. It doesn’t even reflect the BBC story itself. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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‘There is no way to “bone up” on Anthony Burgess. Where do you establish a first hesitant foothold? His 33 works of fiction? His wide-ranging literary journalism? His screenplays for film and television? His works for piano, his chamber music and concertos?’
Ian Penman
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
‘There is no way to “bone up” on Anthony Burgess. Where do you establish a first hesitant foothold? His 33 works of fiction? His wide-ranging literary journalism? His screenplays for film and television? His works for piano, his chamber music and concertos?’
Ian Penman
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Shell game.
October 9, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Shell game.
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On a personal level, I feel honored that I've met Carson. On a different personal level, I'm glad that the Nobel is celebrating someone shy, peculiar, intense. May all the weird/funny/creative/dark/introverted people of the world live long and prosper.
October 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
On a personal level, I feel honored that I've met Carson. On a different personal level, I'm glad that the Nobel is celebrating someone shy, peculiar, intense. May all the weird/funny/creative/dark/introverted people of the world live long and prosper.
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Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and librettist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
www.cbc.ca
October 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
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I hate how good this is.
October 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
I hate how good this is.
I was very pleased to see the news of Anne Carson’s Nobel Prize for literature. Well deserved.
Alas, it probably means I’ll keep seeing that clip of her talking about Descartes and doubt.
Alas, it probably means I’ll keep seeing that clip of her talking about Descartes and doubt.
October 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I was very pleased to see the news of Anne Carson’s Nobel Prize for literature. Well deserved.
Alas, it probably means I’ll keep seeing that clip of her talking about Descartes and doubt.
Alas, it probably means I’ll keep seeing that clip of her talking about Descartes and doubt.
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The idea of 'social contagion' will make me the most vulgar Marxist possible. It's Rene Girard's Mimetic Desire if you've been drinking lead paint.
Why people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N
Why people don’t want to have children any more
Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap
ft.trib.al
October 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
The idea of 'social contagion' will make me the most vulgar Marxist possible. It's Rene Girard's Mimetic Desire if you've been drinking lead paint.
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[Eminem voice] that's an awfully bot coffee pot
October 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
[Eminem voice] that's an awfully bot coffee pot
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My top book-fair moment today: the tech guy who walked up to the sign with the missing Umlaut (Ubersetzer) and added a tiny sticker of a lower-case e over the top of the U.
October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
My top book-fair moment today: the tech guy who walked up to the sign with the missing Umlaut (Ubersetzer) and added a tiny sticker of a lower-case e over the top of the U.
This doesn’t happen with my Bialetti moka pot.
October 8, 2026 at 5:48 AM
This doesn’t happen with my Bialetti moka pot.
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The first research snapshot from the inaugural Feminist Researcher in Residence program at the Victorian Women's Trust has just been released, and it's a landmark work mapping the gendered harms of AI at a systems level in Australia: www.vwt.org.au/resources/ou...
Gender and AI: Where’s the Harm? - Vic Womens Trust
www.vwt.org.au
October 8, 2026 at 5:32 AM
The first research snapshot from the inaugural Feminist Researcher in Residence program at the Victorian Women's Trust has just been released, and it's a landmark work mapping the gendered harms of AI at a systems level in Australia: www.vwt.org.au/resources/ou...
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Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think
fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
October 8, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think
fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Meanwhile Stephen Conroy is working for Palantir
Kinda funny watching the AI parliamentary inquiry where a former Stephen Conroy staffer turned MP (Tim Watts) is asking questions to a former Conroy staffer turned data centre group head (Belinda Dennett)
October 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Meanwhile Stephen Conroy is working for Palantir
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Kinda funny watching the AI parliamentary inquiry where a former Stephen Conroy staffer turned MP (Tim Watts) is asking questions to a former Conroy staffer turned data centre group head (Belinda Dennett)
October 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Kinda funny watching the AI parliamentary inquiry where a former Stephen Conroy staffer turned MP (Tim Watts) is asking questions to a former Conroy staffer turned data centre group head (Belinda Dennett)
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‘Asked about what he was going to do for the rest of his day, Halzen said, "I'm working on a proposal; I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
The winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for his work on astrophysical neutrinos.
www.iflscience.com/astrophysica...
www.iflscience.com/astrophysica...
October 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
‘Asked about what he was going to do for the rest of his day, Halzen said, "I'm working on a proposal; I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
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Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text.
We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
October 7, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text.
We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
Socrates: So how then ought we raise children?
Me:
Me:
October 7, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Socrates: So how then ought we raise children?
Me:
Me:
my mug of coffee is not itself marginalised but it will fight to be on the
October 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
my mug of coffee is not itself marginalised but it will fight to be on the
Me and my dread.
October 7, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Me and my dread.
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Happy anniversary of this post
October 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Happy anniversary of this post
This gets to the desiccated heart of the techbro fantasy.
These billionaires and their simps sell themselves as hard, practical men who stoically push through pain. Grim doers.
But the promise of their technology is *not doing the things*.
These billionaires and their simps sell themselves as hard, practical men who stoically push through pain. Grim doers.
But the promise of their technology is *not doing the things*.
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!"
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
October 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This gets to the desiccated heart of the techbro fantasy.
These billionaires and their simps sell themselves as hard, practical men who stoically push through pain. Grim doers.
But the promise of their technology is *not doing the things*.
These billionaires and their simps sell themselves as hard, practical men who stoically push through pain. Grim doers.
But the promise of their technology is *not doing the things*.
