FRANCIS TURNER PRESENTS: A host your own server blogging platform. “Micronetia is a system for people to create their own standalone blog, website or other internet connected resource that is hosted by them so that it can’t be arbitrarily deleted because some part of BigTech decided that either the content or its creator needed to be cancelled.”
Smiley Face Eyeroll Laughing Face Could Become Some Of The Clearest Work Communication
At least, that’s what one emoji-loving CEO proposes. “Millennials and post-millennials now make up at least 65% of the workforce in the U.S. Emojis are an essential part of how most of this generation communicates in their personal life. Businesses typically view communication skills as highly valuable in employees, so why suppress such an important tool?” Ah. Side-eye surprised face grimace. – Fast Company
The Pandemic Has Killed Whole Classes Of Friendships
Understandably, much of the energy directed toward the problems of pandemic social life has been spent on keeping people tied to their families and closest friends. These other relationships have withered largely unremarked on after the places that hosted them closed. The pandemic has evaporated entire categories of friendship, and by doing so, depleted the joys that make up a human life—and buoy human health. But that does present an opportunity. In the coming months, as we begin to add people back into our lives, we’ll now know what it’s like to be without them. – The Atlantic
10 Musicians Under 40 Who Are Changing Classical Music
They have YouTube channels, they expand repertoire, they perform in unconventional places. These are musicians who are building the future of classical music. – USAToday
Swedish Film Festival Takes Social Distancing To Extreme — Plays To One Viewer
“Over the course of the coming week, it will hold screenings in two urban venues for just one festival attendee. And it has also sent a single viewer to a tiny, barren island in the North Atlantic to watch the 70 films in competition — alone.” – The New York Times
A philosophical framework for political hope — Joe Biden’s inauguration speech and David Estlund’s (Brown) critiques of “utopophobia”
“Moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge” — a discussion of Sarah McGrath’s (Princeton) book defending this idea
“The aim of transitional justice is to fundamentally alter the basic terms of interaction, both horizontally among citizens and vertically between citizens and officials” — Colleen Murphy (Illinois) on the hard work of following through on calls for “unity
The professor of an online course currently running has been dead for over a year — and no one bothered to inform the students
“In some standard Gettier cases, if you reason probabilistically, it is possible to know” — Alexander Pruss (Baylor) makes the case
“Philosophy can’t be so racist that one will just be stonewalled if one draws from traditions associated with low status minority groups… But…” — Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) on why philosophers “leave credit on the table”
Among those plagiarized were Elizabeth Anscombe, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert Pasnau, Tad Schmalz… — an update on the Roques plagiarism case
Thwarted markets in everything: “Smuggler found with nearly 1,000 cacti and succulents strapped to her body.” New Zealand, of course