Derek A. Michaud

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Title page of Descartes On the Passions of the Soul

New episode for you today, on Descartes on the passions!

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#podcast #descartes #philsky #emotions

YES!

'If Yiddish isn't safe at Brandeis, where is it safe?' Brandeis, historically a bastion of Jewish education, planned to put its Yiddish program "on hiatus" — until the Yiddish community spoke out.

Facing budget cuts and dwindling enrollment, Brandeis said it would place its Yiddish program “on hiatus” after next year — a move that would effectively eliminate the role of Ellen Kellman, the university’s sole Yiddish professor for nearly three decades.

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models. The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

This is very good.

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Mamdani Headlines The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate.

The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

Thanks.

What was that in response to?

I declare a ceasefire between all and all. The state of nature is over.

#philosophy

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

Five things to remember about war:

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Hey, that's my dude!

OVERHEARD IN A PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT

"I don't mean to speak ill of the dead... but that's kind of what this whole class is about"

Headline/chyron if this were happening in a foreign country: "Far right president calls for arrest of opposition party provincial governor, raising further questions about democracy & the rule of law"

Headline/chyron when this happens in 🇺🇸: "Trump Takes Questions As He Returns To The White House"

Guest Lecture Open Call Be a Guest Lecturer for Religion for Breakfast Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public engagement? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, globally diverse audience that’s hungry...

Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? We’re inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes, greed and racism are our greatest sins. But both arise out of something more basic. Fear. We are a nation of the perpetually terrified.

Live updates: Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.

Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators.

Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.

Advocacy and Civic Renewal - PLATO - Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization Advocacy and Civic Renewal - a post from PLATO - The Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization.

Peter will join us at the PLATO conference on Saturday morning's plenary panel “Embracing Difficult Conversations: The Intersection of Philosophy and Civics Education" Register on our website. See you there! Blog post: www.plato-philosophy.org/advocacy-and...

#philsky #edusky #civic #engagement

A Manifesto for a Future Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous "This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people..." The following is a guest post by Helen de Cruz...

"This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people."

Without philosophy Einstein said he would have "contributed nothing" | Massimo Pigliucci

Without philosophy Einstein said he would have "contributed nothing"

Why Einstein credited philosophy for his scientific revolution | By Massimo Pigliucci iai.tv/articles/wit... #Einstein #physics #philosophy #philsky

Israeli military officials have privately concluded that Palestinians in Gaza face widespread starvation unless aid deliveries are restored within weeks, according to three Israeli defense officials familiar with conditions in the enclave.
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Super proud of my @umaine.bsky.social colleague Kara Peruccio who was victorious on tonight’s episode of #Jeopardy!

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Like so many of the trends of the 1880’s-1920’s, eugenics is on the rise. Scientists have a moral obligation to speak up.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"