ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Humans have A/C
To ease stress in deadly heat.
Food crops sadly don't.

#haiku #senryu #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #heat #ExtremeHeat #AirConditioning #famine #collapse #CropFailures #FoodSecurity

Sinon y avait du monde et c'était bien.

Alt : deux photos de la foule vue de dos dans les rues de Caen.

Je suis allé à la manif aujourd'hui et je me demande si y a d'autres personnes que moi qui ont le bâtiment où ils travaillent sur un sticker antifa. On devine même mon bureau 😅 (faut que je m'en procure)

A new crop of five kittens at Almost Home Cat Rescue, along with with a few adult new arrivals. Marla, Bitsy, and Homer still there too. Spent a lot of time giving pets, playing, and cuddling

Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode focusing on the second of the "sketches" of what Albert Camus calls an "ethics of quantity" in part 2 of the Myth of Sisyphus, this one focusing on drama, the stage, & the actor

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/albert-camus-the-myth-of-sisyphus-a-sketch-the-actor
#Podcast #Camus #Philosophy #Ethics #Absurd #Existentialism

Plutôt le Front Populaire
Que Hitler !

#frontpopulaire #frontpopulaire2024 #NFP

My conversation with Michael Hardt about my book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work has been posted online.
https://youtu.be/_HShI8j-Y_c?si=_9TpPkX_O9ad4VpZ

TODAY: Another Situating Palestine lecture at Radboud University by Prof. Santiago Slabodski, titled: "Interrogating Colonial Fabrications: Palestine/Israel and the Muslim-Jewish 'Eternal' Enmity." Open to all.

Monday 17 June, 12:30-14:00, CC5 (Mercatorpad 1, Nijmegen)

#AllesIstParkplatz nervt. Wenn statt minimaler Einschränkungen für den PKW-Verkehr oder der freien Einfahrt der Gehweg in voller Breite blockiert wird, fehlt mir echt jedes Verständnis.

"Yancey also needed to complete graduation requirements not asked of other seniors, who were also exempt from taking final exams."
https://www.theqgentleman.com/post/2024-05-georgia-tech-first-black-graduate-passes-torch-to-granddaughter-59-years-later

Daily Nous || Santoni De Sio from Delft to Eindhoven

https://dailynous.com/2024/06/17/santoni-de-sio-from-delft-to-eindhoven/

It is coming in 2025! Ema Sullivan-Bissett has created a new incredible resource for philosophers interested in delusions (38 chapters!), and I am so excited to be part of it https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Philosophy-of-Delusion/Sullivan-Bissett/p/book/9781032283388

Years of bigger dreams
small nymph in bright cool water
one day you may fly

For @StrepsipZerg's
#AquaArthroPoemWeek #mayfly #haiku

It is pointless and counterproductive to put warning labels on social media. Not only will it create warning fatigue, but it'll increase tribal division. Republicans hate such paternalism and it'll be an in-your-face reminder, fueling pointless tribalism.

Find a better way than warning labels, which are too static and too blunt.

Social media is ill-defined and little more than online group communication. It was a key survival mechanism during the peak of the covid pandemic. Is Slack social media? Is Zoom? Are protocol-based tools like web browsers, email (including "listserv" and the like), and Mastodon that are based on SMTP, HTTP, ActivityPub, etc?

There is a risk that the differences between platform-based and protocol-based tech will seem a mere quibble. But look for a parallel in how the discussion went in SCOTUS recently over bump stocks and whether guns equipped with them fell under certain legislative requirements.

Unlike smoking, where the cause of harm is known and measurable, problems in social media arise from specific rules, capabilities, tools, algorithms, monetization plans, and prevailing social attitudes. Would a warning label fairly acknowledge deeply substantive differences? How?

Social media is just life by networked, electronic means. Life does have risks. Would we require warning labels on the front door of a house? Such coarse and ineffective micromanagement sparks tribalism in our society. They'll say that's coming next. Please don't give them ammo.

The details of social media matter a great deal and are worthy of study. But the right answer to everything it's not a static one-size-fits-all warning label. What will be learned will not be caution, it will be to not bother reading meaningless labels.

Let's encourage, even fund, robust public dialog using many metrics, even competing ones, for studying and reporting effects and risks of specific aspects and actions. But social media itself is too broad, vague and integrated to warn against as a whole. That horse has left the barn.

https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-social-media-mental-health-df321c791493863001754401676f165c

#SurgeonGeneral #WarningLabels #SocialMedia #politics #paternalism #tribalism #mastodon #http #smtp #scotus #Covid #pandemic #ActivityPub

Note: This essay is an approximate mirror of a rant I posted as a thread on the ex-bird site a while ago today. I did light editing to rework it for this forum. It still reads a bit funny with the paragraphs now unpacked into a coherent whole, but I'm not gonna bother to fix that.

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