Explains, for example, why I unsubscribed...

If international law is dead, it wasn't killed by the countries who violated it, but by the countries that did nothing to enforce it.

Excellent news for us Europeans!

Antti, a middle-aged man stands in front of a screen showing a slide with the talk’s title, “Love and Meaning”, and a medieval painting showing women holding books.

Miranda Fricker defended a minimalist view of blame that would allow us to see the good in each other. Antti Kauppinen’s talk focused on the connection between loving relationships and meaning in life.

@erikangner.com is the expert on this issue!

Reluctantly confirmed...

Awesome news!

Flattering Trump is the only way to get him on your side. So we should praise many of his ideas about Gaza. It's a good thing if the US takes on a major role in reconstruction and economic development there, constraining Israel. And unlike displacing the Palestinians, it's a realistic possibility.

I've read Iris Murdoch's Sovereignty of the Good many times since I was a student, and re-read it again today. What a brilliant little book! Aptly, it rewards loving attention, revealing new riches each time you look at it from a different angle.

...but when I started the next section, it was "ah, this shite again", and I jumped to #6 to confirm it was probably the same pattern.

But I neither knew nor expected that to be the case, but had to figure it out on the basis of the poems themselves without knowing how many of each there would be etc. As soon as I got to poem #6, I saw it was strikingly different. Even then I started the next section expecting a different pattern.

On the other hand, people who have looked at unlabeled poems in the materials of the paper have also arrived at the same verdict about the AI ones. (By 'people' I mean me.)

that may have misleadingly suggested I was a New Yorker myself. There is little doubt that, circumstances notwithstanding, swearing at someone with reduced mobility was bad behavior. But was I to blame for it? Suppose, perhaps contrary to fact, that such behavior was entirely uncharacteristic of me

We were just about to enter an elevator when someone pushed an elderly woman in a wheelchair past us, leaving no room for our pram. Before the elevator doors closed behind the offenders, I lost my precarious cool and uttered a few choice words, and possibly even made a one-finger gesture [...]

I find them more annoying than not seeing, which causes trouble e.g. when I'm building something...

Thanks, Anna! This might be too public for music - though we have a couple of gigs coming up, maybe there's some nice videos...

It's a nice illustration of how there can be normative centers of gravity that exert a pull on people without the need for coordination.

This morning, I decided that it was high time to quit Musk's Twitter (where I never posted anyway) and urged others to do the same. I find it a pretty interesting phenomenon that so many people over here seem to have independently arrived at the same conclusion at the same time.

Only goes to show how rarely I do this - I didn't recognize my username...

Me (though that's not much of an omission, since I rarely log in so far).

Listened to an interview with Zeke Faux (not the best name for an investigative reporter) about Sam Bankman-Fried. Maybe the most outrageous thing: FTX, which had at most 300 employees, apparently spent $1.5B of customer money on expenses. That is, on average $5 mil per worker on *expenses*! How?