The Treachery of Words.

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Deadline: 22-05-2024
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This is ridiculously cool and well worth reading the thread

I used to work at Technical University & my postdoc mentor there used to say:

'Be careful, here they pray to the God of technology & believe all society's problems have technological solutions'.

I think I never fully grasped the weight of his warning until this AI hype cycle.

The press is being banned from the institution that administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

An oil baron wants to build over a local park for his ‘green’ energy project.

Sir Ian Wood plans to “greenwash” his oil billions with a new “energy transition zone”. The plan involves concreting over a third of the local park.

Rivkah Brown reports 👇
novaramedia.com/2024/04/10/an-…

Labour being pro-assisted dying but anti-transition should prompt the question, what ethical framework allows a 25 year old to consent to death but not to transition?

TRIBUNE. Soixante-dix ans après la création de la TVA, Bruno Le Maire veut l’utiliser pour financer la Sécurité sociale. Pour le député LFI David David Guiraud, ce système est non seulement injuste, mais surtout, il est déjà en partie mis en place.

Lire 👇
liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…