“Help your future self by making the present more memorable”

 Used AmEx card of Michael Jordan sells for 3k 

 

Europol recently published the European Union (EU) Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, the EU SOCTA 2021. The SOCTA, published by Europol every four years, presents a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the EU. The SOCTA is a forward-looking assessment that identifies shifts in the serious and organised crime landscape.

 

Watch what you say: Hong Kong civil servants become wary of office snitches jostling to prove loyalty SCMP

 

The U.S. Congress Wants to Know More About What the Chinese Are Doing in Africa China Africa Project

 “Help your future self by making the present more memorable” — Felipe De Brigard (Duke) and others featured in a NYT piece about memory, imagination, and romanticizing the past

 Working From Bed Is Actually Great. [NYT]

Ronald Reagan tells a soviet joke

Losing letters

The 2001 novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn depicts a town in which a totalitarian government begins banning letters – from the town and from the novel itself.

“Xenobots are turning some conventional views in developmental biology upside down” — learning about organisms and life from ” a new generation of xenobots — ones that took shape on their own, entirely without human guidance or assistance”

1. “There is no evidence that… induced change in free will beliefs has any effect on morality, such as antisocial behavior, cheating, conformity, or willingness to punish” — findings from a meta-analysis of nearly 150 studies with over 26,000 participants
2. The fertile philosophy of mind of William James — an interview with Alexander Klein (McMaster)
3. Music to my ears: careful distinctions, carefully deployed — an informative and well-reasoned examination of the analog-digital debate in audio, from Michael Thomas Connolly, a very thoughtful musician and recording engineer
4. Do lessons that encourage students to try out virtues like Confucian filial piety or Lakotan quietness involve objectionable cultural appropriation? — Jean Kazez (SMU) takes up the question
5. Metaethics and experimental philosophy — the Cognitive Science of Philosophy at the Brains blog continues with contributions from Pascale Willemsen (Zurich) and Bianca Cepollaro (Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
6. “Where the crowning moment of our identity we hoped to achieve in the pinnacle of success turns out not to be the thing we were looking for after all, and we’re thrown back upon the thinness of our bare self’s existence” — Mary Townsend (St. John’s) reviews “Soul,” the recent Pixar movie
7. “His academic year stipend was $15,000 throughout graduate school, yet he finished with about $35,000 in savings” — an interview (featuring helpful financial tips for graduate students) with philosopher Trevor Hedberg (Ohio State), who completed his PhD in 2017