The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Meet a professor fed up with AI slop who made her whole class use typewriters instead of computers | Fortune "What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself?"

“Ok, Eric, do you have any personal heroes?”

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Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.

Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—

*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*

To not be or not to be—that is the question

I still like Chomsky but it’s just as a linguistics guy now. I no longer respect him as a sexual being

Some colleague should put Galatians 3:28 on their proposed ethics syllabus, and send the overseers into conniptions

The distinction (when it’s relevant) between reasons for acting and reasons for (a completed) action

It Was In The Syllabus (Official Lyric Video) | Thimblerig Records YouTube video by Thimblerig Records

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I realize I was assuming it will be written in the Latin alphabet. That isn’t a sure bet

Impressive! Similarly, I know all the letters in the future scientific paper that explains the cure for cancer

LOL. That second one 🤔

Who am I kidding? I actually hate a lot of things

First Lady Melania Trump: Presidential AI Challenge YouTube video by The White House

It’s nice when your enemies all line up at once. Only other thing needed here is a Duke jersey.

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OP's screenshotted quote, but doctored to now read: ""I'm the motherf***er that's putting my life on the line, not you. You ain't stepping your motherf***ing ass in that [FACTORY]. You or nobody else. So why should I have to pay to carry your [SURPLUS VALUE]? You should be paying me, if you want to be truthful. It irks my nerves how this dude gets on a plane, gets a hotel suite — him and his buddies — they go out to dinner, five-star meals, all that, and guess who's got to pay for it? Us [WORKERS]. We're paying for y'all to come out here, have the time of your life, stay in the best hotels of your life, and it's all done on our dime."

Shorter Capital chap. 1:

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“Institutional auto-cannibalism”

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Notably, a lot of the current wave of "AI-infused" curriculum overhauls are being pushed by provosts looking to make the jump to president and trying hard to win the attention of the (callow, ignorant) trustees who make those hires

GMU lecturer fired for drinking in class with undergrads, sources say An adjunct faculty member at George Mason University was fired after openly drinking alcohol with undergraduate students in class last week, sources tell News4.

Clearly, the relevant admin have never themselves supervised undergraduate class presentations. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

Churchlands agree 👍

Watch Honest Review of Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on Amazon Live Shop with expert advice from The Munro’s in their latest video Honest Review of Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

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Check out their review of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Tears Before Bedtime, by Would-Be-Goods 14 track album

We the Would-be-goods shall release a new album on 13 February, *Tears Before Bedtime*. At our Bandcamp page you can listen to ‘The Gallopers’, a single from the album, and watch the first ever Would-be-goods video . . .

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Inspired: Ph17050hy 0F aR71F!claL Int3££|g3ncE🤖

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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4 More Innings!

Isn’t it amazing? The tone is perfect, and the acting is unreal

The Circularity of Welfare Judgements - The Journal of Ethics Some theories of welfare hold that whether you are living well depends upon whether you think you are. But then the very phenomenon we want to understand gets deployed in its putative explanation. Vie...

A couple new articles on well-being stuff. Thanks to all y’all who heard inchoate versions of these ideas.

philpapers.org/rec/WILWAA-10

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Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.

So so sad to learn about the death of Jonathan Lear. His work on Aristotle and Freud was formative for me. He was a model of philosophical intelligence and curiosity. More importantly he was a human human, with rare integrity and sharp judgment. It's hard to imagine the world without him in it.

Time for a transcen-dental abduction

New idea to create artificial intelligence that exceeds human capacity, not by programming a machine to be more intelligent than we currently are, but instead by making all the humans stupider by replacing reading and formal education with playing with a chatbot, thereby lowering the bar to clear