“In smaller courses, the difference in the quality of course discussion where 70 percent of the students have done 50 percent of the readings and one in which 20 percent have done 10 percent of the readings is obvious in the same way that a cold Coke tastes different than lukewarm spit. The former is no Chablis, but it is more palatable.” @profmusgrave https://musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-literate-society-is-a-too ht @RebeccaSpang
i hope they stop murdering people there. i am rooting for that.
“It’s true that Bush did more to infringe on civil liberties than Trump did in his first term, but if Trump had been president on 9/11, he probably would have put the country’s entire Muslim population in internment camps.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-authoritarian-menace-has-arrived
@keunwoo yes. i’ve had conversations with otherwise remarkably sophisticated people and the response has been “if your grandma could live and be healthy a hundred more years, wouldn’t that be worth whatever its indirect costs would be? then QED, scaling it up is can only be many times better!” these are not people who’ve never encountered the phrase “fallacies of composition”. and yet.
people underestimate the power of mere annoyance in politics. often people just vote against the people they consider more annoying.
in a dystopian society, billboards would be dominated by ads for personal injury and divorce lawyers. radio (they’d call it “podcasts”) would be constantly hawking supplements, CBD, and psychotherapy.
as a peacemaker, i am perfectly willing to accept your absolute surrender.
the entrenchment of a gerontocratic political leadership globally suggests life extension research may have social costs its enthusiasts and funders have not reckoned with. for much of the world, the finitude of leaders’ natural lifespans represents the public’s best hope for change.
i’d like to hear more about generative AI tools developed and deployed outside of the United States or China.
massachusetts should just send their national guard off to tulsa without telling anyone and have them deploy in parks and pick up litter.
@Phil ( was a subtweet of this stuff https://xcancel.com/antoniogm/status/1974892099507220723 )
people think the president doesn’t care, but i think he stays up nights worrying the situation in gaza might become as bad as portland.
maybe the reason why you see fewer American and European young people traveling isn’t their lack of interest or adventurousness, but the fact the West has grown profoundly more unequal, and the tourist industry caters to dollars, not bodies, and dollars are disproportionately in older hands.
@gl33p Is it? I don’t really have any idea how the epub format works internally, I just send it to an ebook reader.
Are there “readers” for archived or zipped websites, distributed as a single file? (That is, without users having to overtly unzip and open the top directory’s index.html or whatever.)
For offline convenience or as a kind of samizdat, one might imagine passing around zipped sites rather than links.
“What appeals to me most about American traditions is the creedal nature of national identity, the Declaration’s insistence on universal equality, and the rights enumerated in our Constitution. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but I consider innovation, productivity growth, and sustained material prosperity to be downstream of free expression.” @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-compact
@EvolLove i suppose, but perhaps the perception is subjective!
is CBS the new “newsweek”?