Errol Lord

@DanieLorenzini For one, I think that, when you approach it this way, you realize you have a lot more power over the situation. That right there is a big shift, for me.

@DanieLorenzini I actually haven't been to a paradigm fancy place since I started thinking about it in this way, but I think that I was misinterpreting a lot of service things before. They'd be better interpreted in terms of hospitality, and I would have enjoyed them more.

I wrote about The Bear for Aesthetics for Birds

@Softtop_67 On the girls side hardly anyone even tries to make a team full of technically competent players, even at the "elite" clubs. The games are just awful. Such a disservice to the players, who obviously could be better if there was any development plan.

Having worked with truly elite youth I can tell you what separates them from the very good is that they are phenomenally good at the basics. Rarely is it every those wow moments that got them to their level Watch youth games. Most goals are from a basic error not a brilliant play

@csandis @lex_academic If only they'd fix their editorial practices!

Formal announcements to follow in due course, but I’m over the moon that @lex_academic have signed an agreement to copy-edit The Journal of Philosophy.

@AidanMcGlynn That is bizarre. The rt does have more engagements after 25 minutes as the original 20 hours though.

Twitter's algo really doesn't like outside links, I guess.

Making it to the Other Side open.substack.com/pub/criticalch…

I want to send this final paragraph from @Tyler_A_Harper's essay on the humanities @TheAtlantic to every professor and administrator as we wind up the first semester. Exactly my experience as a student and now as a prof.

@add_hawk So glad this is in JESP!

Anyway, "Value Capture" is forthcoming from Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. I archived the pre-print, free and online, here: philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=NGUV…

The main paper I've been working on for the last 3 years is out: "Value Capture"! It's about the harms of taking on external metrics and rankings as your own core values. The argument: you're outsourcing your values. It's fast, but then your values won't be tailored to you.🧵:

@dan_star @hirjisukaina University presidents are just professional fundraisers. We should not give a fuck what they think (at least qua university presidents).

@elord @hirjisukaina Or university presidents, apparently.

Oh my

Okay, very unpopular opinion here, but while the university presidents in question handled this very poorly from a public relations perspective there is nothing fundamentally wrong with their answers and Stefanik should be much more ashamed of herself than any of them. First, while I'm sure it has occasionally happened because there are lots of university students in the US and some of them are bound to be lunatics, I haven't seen any evidence that many people on campuses were "calling for the genocide of Jews". When the president of MIT says the same thing at the beginning, Stefanik replies that people have been calling for "intifada", but I think it's totally disingenuous to claim that most of the students who shout slogans calling for a "global intifada" or whatever want to genocide the Jews, however stupid they may be and to be clear I don't have a particularly high opinion of their intelligence or knowledge about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Anyway, while this ubiquitous confusion between very different things annoys me, that's not what I want to talk about here, so let's assume for the sake of the argument that many people on American campuses have literally called for the genocide of Jews. Stefanik asked a precise question, namely whether this was a violation of their university's code of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, not whether they condemned calls for genocide of Jews or even whether they were a violation of their university's rules in general. And while I haven't reviewed the codes of conduct at Harvard, MIT and Penn, not only am I pretty confident that the presidents of the universities in question are correct given those codes, but I also think that it would not really make sense to change the codes of conduct so that calls for genocide per se are treated as bullying or harassment. It seems obviously right that, as they said in their reply to Stefanik, it depends on the context. For instance, if someone writes a blog post defending Hitler and the Holocaust, I obviously agree that it's vile but how on earth does that constitute bullying or harassment? Surely, as the university presidents correctly said in that hearing, bullying or harassment should be targeted at specific individuals. If the person who wrote such a blog post then proceeded to send it to Jewish students, then I agree that it would constitute bullying or harassment, but otherwise it seems clearly not to be the case and to say otherwise is to engage precisely in the kind of concept creeps that many right-wing people I see retweeting this video correctly denounced in previous years. If someone wrote a blog post arguing that French people should be killed as payback for colonization or whatever, I certainly wouldn't think that he thereby harassed or bullied me. I think that this is what the presidents of those universities should have explained, so again I agree they handled this very badly, but to be fair with them Stefanik also made it as hard as possible for them by demanding a "yes or no" answer, even though she surely knew or at least should have known that her question did not admit of a simple "yes or no" answer. It just seems wrong to attack the university presidents for not handling that situation well, because this is public relations and not a moral failing, whereas Stefanik is definitely morally culpable here for setting them up in this way and deliberately turning this hearing into a clown show. It's very clear that, despite what she pretends, she wanted them to embarrass themselves and maximized the probability they would by trying to leave them no choice between giving what they knew was a false answer and replying accurately but in a way that would make them look bad.

@hirjisukaina Especially when the person asking the question is an insurrectionist who literally defended George Santos.

@LedermanHarvey After yet another suicide this week, I say let's get rid of grades.

Why do Yale and Harvard have grades at all if 79% of students are getting As? Employers must think As are still valuable signals and maybe they are. But my guess is they haven't computed how weak the signal is. (1/2) yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/11/3…

@princetonK12 This is more than a week late?

The Nov. 7 bond referendum is a path to practical improvements with the opportunity for approximately $5M in state debt service aid. That state funding toward project payments is only available if the referendum is approved. princetonk12.org/progress