ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Elon Musk appears to be crashing Tesla faster than a dodgy self-driving AI or the faulty accelerator pedal on one of his cybertrucks. You’d have to have a a heart of stone not to laugh.

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Summer School at Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 2-6, 2024

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"It seems to me that the occupations are not some disruption of the university's normal function, but an attempt to fulfill what should be the mission of university: to think and live critically. At this moment in time, they are the university. "

http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/04/two-thesis-on-limits-of-philosophy-marx.html

Two cat-focused FB memories today. We lost our sweet old girl Sassy a bit over two years ago. Three years ago we were constantly together. One year ago, I was coming into Almost Home to visit the cats, and applying to become a volunteer

Hey, American college students, it would be helpful for the U.S., the world, Palestinians, and Israelis, if you would turn your attention to defeating Donald Trump in November. Read about his fascist plans in this recent extended interview with him. https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

Heat of the moment:
Once, a cooling off followed.
Heat's now of whole lives.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #climate #GlobalWarming #heat #ClimateAcceleration

I lightly edited and republished a piece previously in my Medium in my Substack where anyone can read it. The highest good in Plato is impersonal, but does that mean to attain it, we leave our personalities behind?

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/plato-on-persons-and-the-highest
#Plato #Personality #Ascent #Philosophy

Well, how about that!

I will be joining the protest march in Amsterdam called, among others, by my union @fnv, adding of course a flourish of #InternationalSolidarity with the oppressed people of #Palestine @palestine

@socialisten030

Solidarity forever!

What are the stereotypes affecting young people who hear voices? I wrote a post for the EPIC blog addressing this question: https://epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/05/stereotypes-about-young-people-who-hear.html @philosophy @philosophyofpsychiatry

happy #InternationalWorkersDay! how will you be celebrating?

Novo evento na #FLUP: Simpósio Da Tradição à Modernização: 50 anos Após a Revolução dos Cravos https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=174227 https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-01T07:00:02Z

A good article on the immediately awful effects of Florida’s 6 week abortion ban. Once again some U.S. states are using their laws to subordinate and oppress, with the aid and comfort of the federal Supreme Court. Gift access: https://wapo.st/3Wmi7Eg

“Most readers of this newsletter understand the seriousness of Trump's threats and are working tirelessly to prevent a second Trump term. But tens of millions of Americans seem oblivious or apathetic in the face of an imminent and dire threat.” https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-been-warned

Un nouvel outil libre et gratuit sur #LaForgeEdu pour pouvoir créer facilement un livre numérique à feuilleter en ligne à partir d'un document en Markdown (sur la forge ou sur CodiMD) :

https://eyssette.forge.apps.education.fr/flipbook/

#LaForgeEdu
#LaForge
#numérique
#Prof #MastoProf #TeamEduc #TeamProf

A great piece that William Morris wrote for Mayday in 1896. Granted, his choice of words is at times somewhat archaic and problematic - especially when he speaks fondly of colonized peoples (and their resistance against colonization/capitalism). But other than that, this is something that unfortunately has not lost even a little bit of relevance in the past 130 years:

"[N]ot all the discoveries of science, not all the tremendous organisation of the factory and the market will produce true wealth, so long as the end and aim of it all is the production of profit for the privileged classes.

Nothing better will happen than more waste and more, only perhaps exercised in different directions than now it is. Waste of material, waste of labour (for few indeed even of the genuine wage earners are engaged in the production of utilities). Waste, in one word, of LIFE."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1896/may.htm