FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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'No true Scotsman': US-ish philosopher HQ'd in Edinburgh. Death & dying, work & labor, Kantian ethics, paternalism, etc.. Unapologetic coffee snob. More at https://michael.cholbi.com/ and https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/michael-cholbi
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
What happens when climate change makes the world uninsurable? aeon.co/essays/how-d...
'Trump is Bibi's lapdog' seems like a pretty potent Democratic attack line IMO newrepublic.com/post/207228/...
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My partner's elderly mother thinks I'm a barrister and always asks me about the legal profession. I'm actually a barista in a failing coffee shop, but we find it too hilarious to correct her
Turns out SOME GUY finished 1st in his age/gender category in yesterday's Edinburgh Meadows 5K! πππ
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" β’ a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event Β» 5:27 PM β’ Feb 23, 2014
Itβs finally over
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase βCall me Ishmaelβ, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen βHis nameβ
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
The 'world's richest country' is 49th globally in life expectancy, projected to be 66th by 2050 newrepublic.com/article/2068...
Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the βThe Diversity and Variability of Griefβ at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
Yeah - 'fallacy bingo' is a bad way to teach argumentation. At best, fallacies *diagnose* bad reasoning -- they're pretty useless at actually *identifying* when reasoning is bad www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-stop...
If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean thisβ¦
Remember when nudges were all the rage in policy circles? They still raise intriguing philosophical questions, but their impact on big social problems turns out to be pretty much nil, big structural problems need big structural solutions archive.is/yYWym
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βIβve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddingsβ is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
Enten: "If Canadians really don't like Donald Trump, how do Americans feel about Canada? Well, they actually like Canada! ... even among Republicans, it's +30 ... Canada -- more popular than Donald Trump in Trump's own country"
I've seen beached whales less out of their depth.
The Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences reports on our tearing down the paywall: humsci.stanford.edu/feature/belo...
#PhilSky #philosophy #podcast
Scrapping REF should be βseriousβ optionβ, says Manchester VC.
Duncan Ivison questions βusefulnessβ of βmassive, bureaucraticβ research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS
Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... β’ Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso CuarΓ³n put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens βChildren of Menβ.
Feeling pretty badass today, truth be told: Finished second in my category in a 5K race, 21st overall! π
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The disc that was attached to the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
In 1977 NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft, including a CD with the song Johnny B. Goode, on a mission to study the solar system & beyond.
The extraterrestrials who open it will get another CD every month from Columbia House at full price and be hounded for life by intergalactic debt collectors.