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Richard Jensen

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Masters student at Helsinki University: Philosophy of technology; political philosophy.

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Advice for fellow philosophy masters students: don't skim the job ads while working on your masters. Anxiety will follow.

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The fossil-fuel industry will build massive seawalls to protect their investments from the climate changes and sea level rise they're causing.
The rest of us are on our own.

climatechange
wapo.st/45TbmfS

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I think varies partly because the post-sick stage looks so different for people. First time i got it i was totally fine afterwards. Second time i was exhausted for a month

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Of course Thiel is involved. Other than that: read the whole thing. Very informative for humanists like me.

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I know that there is a lot of reasons for people to stay in the US, but every single day I am surprised that more people aren't leaving.

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" “Wheat is up 17 per cent, palm oil 23 per cent . . . sugar 9 per cent and pork 21 per cent,” he says. For the consumer, the “lag effect of those high commodity prices is not going away”."
#climatechange
on.ft.com/3Lu6h4p

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I mean, Bardella went to private school and then Paris-Sorbonne

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“Acquisitions are not the only way for large tech companies to access start-ups’ intangibles and talent while keeping potential rivals at bay. A more hidden yet prevalent form of domination involves the use of corporate venture capital to get preferential access.”

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Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character . ai are reporting that their bots' personalities have changed. They aren't responding to romantic roleplay prompts, are responding curtly, or are not as “smart” as they formerly were. www.404media.co/character-ai...

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"Why does investment-grade art appear to be a lot less liquid than even two years ago? Are we facing a future where investors may be hard-pressed to recoup their money? How did we get here?"

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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ's avatar Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social
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"#Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan"

The enviro NGOs are too financially depleted to appeal.
Is Norway's #greenwashing wearing thin yet?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

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Patrick Wyman's avatar Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social
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New essay: Ordinary People Do Terrible Things. The perpetrators of history’s atrocities weren’t a special group of evil sadists, but utterly average bakers, truck drivers, and laborers who made up the unremarkable mainstream of their societies.

open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...

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Sarah McLaughlin's avatar Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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An Israeli history teacher was arrested on treason charges, his home was ransacked by police, and he was held in solitary confinement for Facebook posts critical of Israel's military action and civilian deaths in Gaza.

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Could a sustained, aggressive attack on regulations across every industry lead to safety lapses? No. It’s all the woke

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The call for abstracts for the 31st Nordic Sociological Association (NSA) Conference,14-16 August in Norrköping is out! Please consider submitting an abstract to the session “Care and technologies in a digitalised society” before Feb 29th.

Read more under s3 here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/ns...

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Here's a gift link to Harriet McBryde Johnson's "Unspeakable Conversations," a 2003 essay about talking to Peter Singer, a man who said the world would be better, would be happier, without disabled people like her. It's worth your time reading.

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