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@aaronrosspowell.comFirst time it’s been cold enough this fall to turn on the heat. Which means this morning the kitten discovered heating vents for the first time in his life. He’s parked himself in front of the one in my study, and I don’t expect he’ll move from that spot all day.
This article looks at why moral philosophers don’t seem more moral than anyone else, and gives an answer that I think is correct—and which dovetails my own thinking about the need to go back to viewing ethics as a practice.
https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/12/10/why-arent-ethicists-more-ethical/Why Aren’t Ethicists More Ethical? | Blog of the APA
I am sad that the audiobooks of John le Carré’s novels are being redone with Simon Vance, and those new editions are replacing the older with Michael Jayston. Vance is a very good narrator, but Jayston’s George Smiley will always, for me, be the the one true Smiley.
I was rereading the convention favorite “Jailbreak” scenario for the Unknown Armies TTRPG, and it got me wondering: Are there RPGs, or full campaigns, structured with no NPCs? Where, like “Jailbreak,” every character encountered in the game is controlled by a player, and none by the GM?
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.
Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms is unconstitutional and even the 6-3 conservative majority will balk at it.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/liz-murrill-louisiana-attorney-general-ten-commandments-law-supreme-court-1235134392/
Louisiana AG Expects State’s ‘Ten Commandments’ Law Will Reach Supreme Court
Louisiana’s attorney general has a plan for what she’ll say about Louisiana’s religious classroom posters when she’s “standing in” the Supreme Court.
The kitten gets to lick the dog food can after the dog’s been fed, and this means the kitten is now waking me up each earlier and earlier morning to yell at me that it’s time to feed the dog.
Nice try, but that image is clearly AI generated.
The claims about social media rotting young brains are largely indistinguishable from the claims about how TV would rot our brains when I was a kid, and the people my age breathlessly repeating the former generally don’t think their brains were rotted. This is a panic over novelty, not evidence.
