This is how I teach ethics in engineering. The veil of ignorance is a helpful guide for many people with power in their professions.

This post was about something else entirely, but it applies quite well to the murder of corrupt CEOs.

The movie "Don't Look Up" perfectly captured the nature of morning "news" hosts: they are self-centered toadies whose lack of serious engagement undermines the spread of quality information, which is the role of the media.

The colleges ARE to blame for high debt. He's right about that. The problem is when you attack the professors, who are not at all to blame for the huge and senseless armies of administrators who do some good things but (as a whole) stand for objectionable corporate values.

Meanwhile, less prominent universities will bow to the Almighty Dollar and make changes. Some of these changes may be good, since they just might threaten administrative bloat. But all in all academic freedom will be under constant threat.

I would predict that the money doesn't dry up much at all, but that the media will perceive it as drying up, because the universities big name media members went to will be targeted. This will further cement the perception that the media is out of touch.

But he has become a chameleon on that issue, and he would happily become a chameleon on others. He shifts with the wind.

So in order to convince me he will defund colleges tout court, you'd need to convince me the public would beat him there.

But I agree that using funds vindictively is bad! (2/2)

I think you're misunderstanding the driving force behind Trumpism. He has one basic policy position: the border. Everything else is populism. This was masked in the first term because he was capitalizing on an untapped conservative energy on culture war issues... (1/2)

The real Twitter is the friends we made along the way

So much for Swifties

Seems like he's much more likely to use the money as a lever to force colleges to get rid of DEI programs and things conservatives don't like - to reward the "good" and punish the "bad". It's political suicide to massively reduce federal loans to college students.

Keepin' standards low.

Next up: meeting with Putin to mutually resolve not to dissolve prisoners of war in acid.

I haven't looked closely at the text on this point. I do wonder why you would say that the tyrant's life is especially motivated by eros, when presumably the lover of honor's life is less characterized by eros. Why not say the same for both?

Eric, do you interpret the texts as indicating that every person has at least one desire (or perhaps exactly one desire) that is erotic, in this way? Does a person necessarily, merely by having a life of the mind, unconditionally value something?

I don't like muting people, but the algorithm fills my feed with retweets by one or two people. Is the solution just to follow more people? Any way to mute someone's retweets but not their tweets?

Haven't been on here much, but it is pretty exciting to see the floodgates opening.

Aside from freedom from Elon and the risks of X, what will I like about Bluesky if I spend more time here?

If there is any lasting peace in Palestine, it will be because people imagine what it's like to be on the other side, and slowly, gingerly have those conversations. It will not be because one group decides to out-atrocity the other.

The attitude of a therapist is instructive. Whatever the client did, however crazy or unthinkable, the therapist listens, never leading w judgment. The therapist seeks to understand.

But the therapist simultaneously attempts to give the individual the tools to stop. Dignity is one such tool.

From "people do heinous things for sympathetic reasons", it does not follow that the things are not heinous.

We need to normalize sympathizing with reasons for terrible things, in order to see one another as human and lovable.

We do not need to normalize or justify brutality. Stop that.

Some poor communicators are impressively patient. They're not bothered if they have to explain it over and over, not exasperated when they exasperate you.

Maybe this is part of why their communication hasn't improved over time. Patience gets the glory, but a certain kind of impatience is of use.

Yes, but I mean, don't you have to weigh the consequences. On the one side, there is a life of tremendous and inestimable worth. On the other side, my brakes might be slightly damaged if I brake real fast.

Clearly a moral dilemma!

"The most evil age is the one in which the carpet of striving has been rolled up, in which the movement of thought is interrupted, the door of revelations bolted, the path of visions blocked." - Suhrawardi

Blank slate? Not quite

"decorates"

Student's attempt to spell "Descartes".

(I think, therefore I'm spelled like Socrates.)

I haven't yet said any stupid stuff here. Much better than the Other Place!