Screenshot from the BBC News website showing an image of a police officer followed by text. The text contains a spelling error saying that the police are 'extending officer's shits'.
Not sure BBC News quite meant to write this... Sounds a little uncomfortable for the officers involved.
I am pretty firmly convinced that one of the most telling questions to ask of a philosophical theory/tradition is 'Can it cope with children?'. So many essentially treat them as non-human animals or tiny, drunk adults - if they remember they exist at all... ๐ถ๐
Brown sign at the side of a road with an image of a red dragon on a white background. The sign reads 'Welcome to Wales' and 'Croeso i Gymru'
Someone on Radio 4 very very worried about a single bilingual English and Bengali sign at a station damaging the cultural fabric of the UK because this is the UNITED Kingdom and we speak English and... no-one tell the poor man about Wales, he couldn't take it ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐ฑ
True Thomist at work here (ad quartum...)
IMO the major theological error here is not an order of loves (debated) but the fact that in his ranking Vance doesn't mention love of God!? Thinkers like Aquinas who order loves ALSO think only way we truly love others is through God. How does God see and love a migrant, an opponent, a prisoner?
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
OpenAI right now
Well of course a company simply scraping enormous amounts of other people's work off the internet and using it for profit without permission, payment or attribution is immoral and unacceptable ๐
Maria Kolesnikova, Belarusian dissident. A woman with short black hair , pale skin and red lipstick looks straight at the camera. She is dressed in a black jumpsuit, handcuffed and behind bars. She is smiling and making a heart symbol with her hands. In the background is a male in a white polo shirt, a person wearing a cap and mask, and a set of wooden doors.
This is Maria Kolesnikova, recipient of the International Women of Courage award and one of the people Lukashenko is so afraid of. During a kidnap and attempt to forcibly exile her, she escaped, destroyed her own passport and crossed back into Belarus, surely knowing she would be jailed.
Thanks to @bbcstever.bsky.social for his journalistic integrity and bravery - what a contrast with the 'leaders' he challenges. "Prison is for people who opened their mouths too wide" is fearful in both senses of the word.
How much the words of Maria Kolesnikova and others terrify this 'strongman'.
Well worth engaging with the scholars on this list (inc. @marika.bsky.social)
Rights language has its place, but I think it's pretty clearly preventing both sides from dealing with the actual moral challenges here.
Also - might have expected a more relaxed view of personhood from a judicial system that thinks a corporation can be a person... wonder why the difference ๐ค ๐ ๐ต
La honte change de camp. Merci Gisรจle.
๐ค Not sure how many 10-11 yr olds would burst into tears on being told Santa isn't real, but I've known plenty who would fake-cry and think it was hilarious (because, well, it is). Well done to the child who got a BBC interview about who eats Santa's cookies ๐ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Claim on the Moral Maze that extension of democracy in modernity has led to greater restrictions on property ownership. My heart bleeds for the landed gentry but this seems less true for , e.g., *all women*, given that before 1870 married women in the UK literally couldn't own anything.
It's not in the news as much now, but others responsible for serious failings in the Makin Report have been awfully quiet. The resignation of Justin Welby is NOT a sufficient response. I hope many clergy, including several bishops, are prayerfully considering whether they can continue in ministry.
Oh yikes, OK! Which are your favourite angel films then?
No, sounds like I need to!
yoon frantically googling 'is no harm no foul a defense'
Scene from the film 'A Matter of Life and Death'. Surgeons around an operating table stand in front of a large golden staircase on which stand a variety of historical figures including a judge in white robes.
I would like to submit for consideration 'A Matter of Life and Death' for the idea of having to argue for your life before a celestial court while undergoing brain surgery because people want to stop you seeing the celestial court which is probably really there and also the judge is your surgeon.
Image of email reads "The AI design of your email is clever, but significantly lacks warmth. Would it be possible to be contacted by a human being moving forward instead of AI? Many Thanks"
Image of response reads "It's not AI. I'm just autistic. See you next Friday. Sent from Proton Mail mobile.
This is not an email exchange I ever expected to have. (I'm the second one.)
Portrait of David Hume, 1711 - 1776. Historian and philosopher. A plump white man of middle age is looking forward and to the left of the portrait. He has blue-grey eyes and a slight smile. He is wearing a white collar attached to the white ruff of a shirt which is showing underneath a half-open cream waistcoat with intricate golden embroidery, blue and red embroidered flowers and large gold buttons. Over this he is wearing a dark brown-red jacket with large buttons of the same colour on his right lapel, and large slit buttonholes on his left lapel. On his head he wears a light red-pink velvet turban, concealing his hair and ears. The background of the painting is a simple brown colour, lighter over his right shoulder and with shadow to his left but showing no further detail. The portrait is contained in an oval-shaped dark brown frame. At the bottom right of the frame is a signature and date in black ink, reading 'A. Ramsay, 1754'
Have discovered that after David Hume had a breakdown as a young man, his doctor:
a) laughed at him
b) diagnosed him with "the Disease of the Learned" and
c) prescribed a pint of claret a day. Which apparently worked.