Rebecca SearPhilosophy has a WEIRD people problem too: “we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification”
Liam McHugh-Russell
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Critical legal takes on capital, labour and the markets. Prof at Dalhousie (Canada). Dad of two. Hopeful.
Simon Wren-LewisNew post: Economics and neoliberalism https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/08/economics-and-neoliberalism.html
Academic economics is different from the economics neoliberal proponents like to talk about. Because they are selective in order to persuade, their ideas are vulnerable to more general economic theory and evidence.
Academic economics is different from the economics neoliberal proponents like to talk about. Because they are selective in order to persuade, their ideas are vulnerable to more general economic theory and evidence.
Taylor LorenzElon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter as “X” led to the site being blocked in Indonesia under the country’s strict laws restricting pornography and gambling. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-twitter-rebrand-as-x-gets-site-blocked-under-indonesia-porn-laws #elonmusk #twitter #twittermigration #musk
interfluiditythe justice i want is a good life for everyone.
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Doom is a privilege we can’t afford.
“Some days I think that if we lose the #climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.” - Rebecca Solnit
Chu 朱Climate Activists had this underlying assumption that part of our problem was that there was too much disconnect between action and consequence. We thought it was because people couldn't immediately see #ClimateCrisis or its effect was the main problem.
#COVID proved that wrong. Literally friends, family, and neighbours were dying and in order to preserve whatever stupid ideology they wanted to preserve, people started suing coroners to take COVID off of their loved ones' death certificates.
We thought if we could show people evidence, they'll accept it and move on. Now we know that evidence is irrelevant. This is the fight of our lives. We are beyond asking nicely. If they are intent on killing us, we must take action to preserve our lives.
You know that trope of the kid running for student council president, promising "free orange soda in all the drinking fountains"? What's happening on the bird site is like that kid grew up, bought the water company, and now we all have to shower and make coffee with orange soda.
One lesson here of course is that public utilities should be... public (as in, not wholly subject to whims of one dude).
Dude is 100% living by the slogan "move fast, break things" totally oblivious it seems that the motto was always about making money by messing with _other_ people's stuff
Ann Lipton
Darius KazemiSince I'm seeing a new wave of people saying they plan to leave Twitter, you may like my browser tool that takes the zip file of your Twitter export and returns a zip file of a web site that lets people browse and search your tweets. You can just upload the files wherever you normally host html and it'll work just fine.
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
Example archive: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/