"Nobel Laureate economist Angus Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that #capitalism is about #power."
"when efficiency comes with upward redistribution — frequently though not inevitably — our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder”
An oddly specific #AskFedi, but Mastodon is the kind of place where I feel comfortable making a request like this, so here goes.
My request is for a female ethicist/moral philosopher (not necessarily a current or former professional philosopher, but someone who has at least a PhD in ethics/moral philosophy) who is a trans-inclusive feminist to DM me to advise me on a moral quandary I'm having relating to reproduction (not an urgent one, I should say, not remotely). I'm at the point where I cannot resolve the problem myself, but I don't feel like any of my female friends or family are capable of the kind of perspective or moral clarity that I need here. It's quite a big ask, I know, but for the first time in my life I need the services of a professional.
Do you own an ".io"-domain or intend to? You might want to reconsider and find an alternative. @cariad wrote down the history and facts, and no it's not an easy read: https://www.beep.blog/io/
If you're on the fence about Meta or even calling others on here "idiots" for disagreeing with you, may I point out this article and let you ruminate on what it could mean for the fedi.
"As first noted by The New Scientist and Animal New York, Facebook's data scientists manipulated the News Feeds of 689,003 users, removing either all of the positive posts or all of the negative posts to see how it affected their moods."
Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About #Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that #ClarenceThomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow #SupremeCourt justices to take speaking fees.
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
Every year, the #SupremeCourt justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Using our new database, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
The #Biden Interview: The President Talks About the #SupremeCourt, Threats to Democracy and Trump’s Vow to Exact Retribution
In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to #democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an #ethics policy.
This is why you don't use ChatGPT for research. ESPECIALLY if you're inputting qualitative data from participants without having had their informed consent. Their data ends up on stranger's screens!!!
"Ars reader reports ChatGPT is sending him conversations from unrelated AI users
Names of unpublished research papers, presentations, and PHP scripts also leaked."
It’s Not Personal: Why Clarence Thomas’ Trip to the #Koch Summit Undermines His #Ethics Defense
Even by Thomas’ own permissive interpretation, the justice’s recently revealed travel to Palm Springs and the Bohemian Grove appear to violate the disclosure law, experts explained.
"There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks," Ohls said. "Maybe the head man thinks his hands are clean but somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut from under them and had to sell out for nickels, decent people lost their jobs, stocks got rigged on the market, proxies got bought up like a pennyweight of old gold, and the five per centers and the big law firms got paid hundred-grand fees for beating some law the people wanted but the rich guys didn't, on account of it cut into their profits. Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system. Maybe it's the best we can get, but it still ain't any Ivory Soap deal."
Using an inflation calculator, I found the $100 million in 1953 is worth just over $1 billion in today's dollar, so Chandler's character Ohls is talking about billionaires.
Today, Forbest listed the 400 wealthiest Americans:
Still exploring and getting to grips with mastodon. Loving silent Sunday. Searching for people to follow, especially humanities and #sociology#academics critical perspectives of business, #ethics and philosophy, #green economy. Any suggestions?
Today I had time to read the full report on faked data in the former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s work, his failures to correct and retract misleading or incorrect articles, and his mismanagement of labs whose members manipulated the data. Ultimately, I was struck by the grubbiness of Tessier-Lavigne’s conduct, and how it smacks of the same lack of ethical judgment repeatedly displayed by Clarence Thomas. Report here: https://washingtonpost.com/documents/454b8927-febc-4bcc-990b-7b68d3f7ed9a.pdf 1/ #ethics#ResearchEthics
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The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by the Supreme Court’s chief justice, has spent decades preserving perks, defending #judges and thwarting outside #oversight.
'...new research led by York University shows that people with autism are less likely to be affected by ["the bystander effect"] than neurotypical people. They are less likely to stay silent in the face of gross misconduct or even just everyday mistakes...'
💛 “Cadavers of the Poor and Black Dissected without Consent”
Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the deceased or their next of kin.
—@TheConversationUS
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted flights by private jet last year and cited security concerns around the court's controversial abortion decision to justify some of the private travel, according to a disclosure form released on Thursday....
my department is hiring an adjunct to teach an A.I. ethics course in the fall. the course is fully online and asynchronous, 3 credits in 7 weeks starting in the second half of the fall semester (unsure of the exact start date, but probably some time in october). phd in hand is not required.
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
[News] US Supreme Court's Thomas flew on GOP donor's jet, cites security risks (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted flights by private jet last year and cited security concerns around the court's controversial abortion decision to justify some of the private travel, according to a disclosure form released on Thursday....