Amy Flowerree

Good to know!

Colin Marshall, Just Hear Me Out: How to Change Minds Without Lies, Bullshit, or Moral Compromise - PhilPapers A guide to persuasion for people who want to change minds without manipulation or coercion. Most of us have given up on persuasion. We say our problems are too pressing, people ...

Very excited to see @profcolin.bsky.social "Just Hear Me Out" is out! Excited to read! philpapers.org/rec/MARJHM

One reason is state demographics. California, for example, is expected to feel the enrollment cliff keenly (and are being prevented from making up the difference with international students). If we weren't destroying our universities nationally, though, this would be a great opportunity

I am not supposed to teach it until I get permission in March. Class started today. They really do not give a flip that they are working with student's education and stealing their money.

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.

I have filled out the form justifying why I should be allowed to teach Plato's republic, even though they include discussion of things that the Board of Regents things sound like gender identity and sexual orientation (Plato didn't have those concepts).
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

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After reading through more threads, I think your kids have hella more to deal with than I did, and I don't want to take any of the focus from them. But thank you for this compassion. ❤️❤️❤️ You are an incredible parent.

As someone who once was that grandchild, I'm sending all the support I can, and know that your seeing and understanding means everything.

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Even though I knew it was coming, it still shook me

Ken Paxton opens tip line to encourage “bathroom bill” enforcement The attorney general's complaint form is the latest effort to enforce new state restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in public buildings.

Update: according to the Texas tribune it is illegal to take photos in a bathroom (yay?) www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...

In the American south "coke" is a generic name for a soda. I don't think Pepsi is the generic name for soda anywhere.

Latest in Texas dystopia: our attorney general created a website where you can upload photos you've taken in a women's bathroom. To make women feel safer. I kid you not.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...

So delighted that one of my favorite thinkers & writers engaged with my new preprint on empathy 🥰

By far one of the best parts of being an academic is putting ideas out into the world and seeing them refracted through other minds, who help you see things more richly than you did before.

Texas universities deploy AI for course audits Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.

These professors try to put in their learning objectives that students will *learn* things! The nerve! The public simply will not pay for a university education where students *learn*!!! jobs and football is all that matters, you nincompoops!

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

It's important to note the scale of these searches, thousands of courses. At TTU we haven't seen the process yet, but it includes all course materials. That could be thousands of pages for a single course. They want to do it in one month. They need speed. Accuracy optional.

Texas Tech Puts Its Anti-Trans Rules In Writing Race and sexuality course content is also caught up in the university system’s expansive new content review policies.

More on the recent memo at TTU. Be sure to look at the flowchart for max cringe. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Chancellor of #TTU issued a memo today triggering a review of all course content related to gender, race, and sexual orientation, effective immediately.
Which is more amateur? issuing it four days before finals, or not having a final step to the process (so how could anything be approved?)

I love a snickerdoodle!

Professor: Texas used to have universities Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...

Excellent piece on what's happening in Texas and why it shouldn't happen: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Who could have possibly foreseen these consequences 😱
(Anyone paying attention)

Though in the US we have a different system, so the class is taken by majors, minors, and as an elective for other majors

I teach an applied social epistemology course and I think it is pretty important for life skills. (Ok, you didn't have to do a deep dive into conspiracy theories, but you do need to think about experts, reliability online, trust, social epistemic responsibility, white ignorance, etc,)

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Rogers Park

So proud of my neighborhood! (Not a current resident, but always in my heart) open.spotify.com/episode/1nnH...

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

Honestly, our times in miniature

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

(that was just one; all the other dickheads definitely ruined things)

I knew a dickhead once that didn't ruin the workplace. It was already ruined.

It's like the bike lock principle. Don't spend $10 on a bike lock for a $500 bike