E.g. with the original inclusion of trans women in women's spaces, that doesn't imply we should exclude trans men who are not sufficiently far along in transition and don't feel safe using men's spaces etc. We shouldn't be ruling based on legal essence. We need to rule based on humanity and dignity.

Is Russia a great power? Is it a pole in the global order? For both, whether yes or no, why?

does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

Every day I read one of your posts and learn something terrible. I suppose that's on me for following you but jesus what a price I pay

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Our epistemic claims are trustworthy and reliable as a profession because we have standards. If we don't make those standards notorious, by enforcing them, the public will have no reason to know or understand why they should believe what we say.

I don't know what Weiser's views are on Israel are and *it does not matter here, at all* This kind of despicable antisemitism needs to be called out, condemned and lead to consequences, without exception.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Firefox tab organizer that operates through time rather than space. Like snoozing an email. I don't want to read that Wilson post about The Odyssey until I see it in two weeks. Is this a thing?

Mr. President, a second Wilson post has hit The Odyssey. The joint chiefs are suggesting that all discourse be shut down, immediately

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · yesterday

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

I don't know what Weiser's views are on Israel are and *it does not matter here, at all* This kind of despicable antisemitism needs to be called out, condemned and lead to consequences, without exception.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Either freakishly tall or incredibly short. There’s no way someone of a normal height wrote the Tractatus.

there's always money in the

Meredith Lowry@meredithlowry.bsky.social · yesterday

Today in design patents: D1138536 issued for a banana stand. #DesignPatents

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

"You're a World War II historian! Why aren't you glad we have new Nazis to talk about?"

Evergreen:

"The statistics matter, but you can’t put a number on the rank immorality of an utter disregard for whether people who don’t look like you live or die. Whatever the Trump death toll turns out to be, this stain on the American soul is never coming out."

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d ago

The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Westjet flight attendants are on strike, which is a good time to share my view that airlines (and many other federally regulated sectors) should be moved to a sectoral bargaining model. (1) What would that mean? And (2) why is it a good idea?

The actual status quo? Threat of strike, actual strike, flights cancelled & delayed, airports disrupted, back to work order, fight in court, wildcat strike. With three units per airline, three airlines, and three year agreements, you get the same song and dance *three times per year.*

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

I genuinely cannot follow Lab Leak discourse, even when I've tried, and who am I to decide between these bewildering reports, diagrams, charts, fights among experts? but all that furor over who's "ultimately" responsible for COVID's origins seems to sidestep accountability for all that happened next

Westjet flight attendants are on strike, which is a good time to share my view that airlines (and many other federally regulated sectors) should be moved to a sectoral bargaining model. (1) What would that mean? And (2) why is it a good idea?

University of Toronto (@utoronto.ca) is hiring: Assistant Professor - Law and Philosophy #assistantprofessor #philsky #law

I think being aware of social construction of entities is super important, especially in law. But when my students get excited I remind them that bridges are socially constructed too and that bridges are often easier to change

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

I think being aware of social construction of entities is super important, especially in law. But when my students get excited I remind them that bridges are socially constructed too and that bridges are often easier to change

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

I guess by real-time I meant something more like "persistent." Like consciousness is partially composed of a constant stream of embodied feedback into the cognitive system--it's not just call response

Liam McHugh-Russell@xntl.info · 2w ago

I actually think it's totally possible for silicon-based algorithmically formed technical systems ("AI") to be conscious. But consciousness requires *at least* real-time, reflective self-reference and the language engines we've got today lack at least two of those three?

I was going to say that people who love The Bear have not adequately recognized the incredible job Ebon Moss-Bachrach does as Richie. But apparently he won two Emmys? So it's not like he's being slept on. Still, his ability to bring emotional subtlety to working class anxieties is breathtaking

One of the things that American liberals™ long got heat for us they talked or refused to actually engage on questions of strategy. And agree or disagree, that's just not an attack that lands with the Liberal Currents folks. They want equality, and they want to win

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago

The Prairieland case is a perfect example of the "burn down a walmart" theory of change when you attempt to put it into action. Song says he intended it to be a warning shot, but you can't control what the bullet does after a warning shot. Don't fire at all. www.liberalcurrents.com/prairieland-...

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda