Amy Flowerree

Child psychologists have been saying for decades that screen time is very bad for children but who cares because some disruptor with investment capital and an Instagram campaign said "I will subsidize this for you so it will be cheaper than the underpaid teacher you currently have" 🤦‍♀️

Some things flourish in Texas ♥️

Great writing reflections from Nguyen!

I like this!

First peach harvest

I was so proud of Lubbock!

Thank you for sharing this with us. The loss is immeasurable, and they will not be forgotten by those whose lives they touched (including mine). Sending love and condolences to you. ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you for this. I have had the privilege of working with many Iranian students over the years, and I am horrified that anyone would be cavalier about the destruction and loss of life (even given very important criticism of the regime).

LLMs are less like Jeopardy contestants (who “win” if they get the right answer) and more like Family Feud contestants (who “win” if they guess the most popular answer).

How Did We Fare on COVID-19? - Boston Review To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.

@bostonreview.bsky.social just published a Forum on a recent (critical) post-mortem of US COVID policy, with responses from me and @cailinmeister.bsky.social, along with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, Adam Gaffney, and @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social. V. interesting!

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...

Absolutely!

The country really has pushed tourism! I've twice had a free long layover in Lisbon courtesy of Air Portugal. I enjoyed it, but I can see how it would flood the downtown and push out locals.

I see somebody not being serious, but it ain't these protesters.

Anecdotally, I can say that our two job searches saw lower than usual numbers of female applicants, and several promising (f) candidates withdraw at the interview stage. And I'm aware of several candidates who didn't apply because of roe and the political climate (our deadline was pre election).

Political change is often accomplished with stories that are literally false. A true version of Kitty Genovese's story wouldn't have had the same impact.

Thanks for sharing! I didn't know this paper. I do think there is always an inherent tension between forms of story telling and being true to lived experience. But it's also an interesting tension between political and moral/epistemic ends.

Yeah, it was more of a narrative over the whole season!

NeuroDiving Podcast · Amelia Hicks · a philosophy podcast about neurodivergence neurodiving.substack.com

For neurodivergence, I love this podcast: open.spotify.com/show/76vlGXG...

I don't remember if one episode was a good stand-alone. It is specifically looking at how social conceptions (and even the science) about autism are wrong

A first, our peach tree has fruited!

Wind in the pecan tree. Hammock time. Grateful this year has ended (except all that admin that can wait a day or so).

It's true there is a narrative that folks want to spin that "trump is being globally rejected". Narrative spinners aren't known for fidelity to individual details.

Thanks for this! I had seen the vote percentages and the claims about Portugal rejecting trumpism, and I couldn't reconcile the two claims. I thought maybe it was because folks expected the far right to win in a landslide, so this was better? (I don't know Portuguese politics)

You've got the receipts!

(I am super new to bluesky and don't get why I have so few characters. It cramps my style!)
Rachel Fraser recently wrote that skeptics are conspiracy theorists. This also seems wrong, but I'd love to explore the accusation of conservatism and conspiracism together. And whether they're connected!

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Good point. And the skeptical arguments I was focusing on (white ignorance, echo chambers, The Cave) are not general skepticism, because to articulate them requires that there's an epistemic asymmetry between the person offering the analysis and the recipient.

I feel like TTU should have a list serve for this. I used to have an extra (inherited) but I lent it out so now I just have mine.

All of them are used to dislodge ideologies that prevent new thoughts from being considered. Usually because action needs to change.

As an empirical matter, skeptical concerns are often raised as ways of challenging and undermining the status quo. I taught a class this year where we examined four: Descartes, nyugens critique of echo chambers, mills on white ignorance, and Plato's cave.

On my way to the office