It's world #PhilosophyDay! Philosophy touches every part of life, from art to xenotransplantation. I'll be covering the ethics of human genetic engineering in January at the American Philosophical Association conference in New York. Be there and be square. 🙂

This Week in #Bioethics: Why did Sam Altman get fired from #OpenAI? They opened up #ChatGPT and found a bunch of hamsters running on wheels inside

The last book Bernard Williams published in his lifetime, Truth and Truthfulness (2002), contains this brief passage on the internet.

This Week in #Bioethics: Disinformation about #cultivatedmeat spreads in Italy and the government bans lab-grown meat (which is actually safer than the meat derived from slaughtered animals and is not "synthetic"). bbc.com/news/world-eur…

It's all happening at the Met museum. Tours tomorrow at 1:30 and Tuesday at 3:30. Tree is up! Happy Thanksgiving!

How to carve a turkey for #philosophers: Carve at the joints: nyti.ms/3RcgVQR via New York Times Video

Another example of how #privateequity is incompetent when it comes to the #media (won't they ever learn?). Anyone want to join me in offering to take #PopularScience off of #RecurrentVenture's hands and restart the online mag? nytimes.com/2023/11/28/bus…

This Week in #Bioethics: Should #philosophers continue to use #Twitter? Or is it no longer an ethically tenable position? nytimes.com/2023/11/30/tec…

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This Week in #Bioethics: Texas #antiabortion law could kill the mother and child. AG fights the medical exemption. texastribune.org/2023/12/07/tex…

The most dangerous #Christmassong to drive to? Frosty the Snowman, followed by.... Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. Nuff said. (Based on beats per minute.) 🎄

This Week in #Bioethics: Is the barbarian now through technology's gates? Possessing little knowledge, should he be the figurehead of #AI? nytimes.com/2023/12/09/tec…

As a #philosopher I can no longer ethically remain on a platform that spreads antisemitic messages, misinformation that costs lives, and that assaults a free press. Thds jqontech BluS jqbioethics ontheroadtoautonomy.com

The naked corruption of #ElonMusk: nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/…

It's the Gulf of Mexico, but if you say the truth, Trump will ban you. ap.org/the-definitive…

The corruption of #ElonMusk

#ElonMusk's incompetence is showing. (By the way, how's that self-driving car coming?) nytimes.com/2025/02/21/ups…

Something Canada should do and can do is revoke #ElonMusk's Canadian citizenship. Canadians can help by signing a government petition. (Yes, that guy illegally firing all those U.S. researchers, nuclear oversight workers, etc., is Canadian.) ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/P…

#ElonMusk lied to #Trump's cabinet about #ebola outbreak. (Big surprise.) nytimes.com/2025/02/27/hea…

Pincher movement of #ElonMusk and #RFKjr violates basic bioethical principles: lack of informed consent and lack of transparency in order to reduce #Medicaid and medical research: cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-tr…