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Moral and political philosophy, climate economics, bioethics Author of *The Social Cost of Carbon* (OUP 2025) | Faculty @UWMadison | First-gen | Beginner boulderer Fandom: Boston Celtics ☘️, Scrivener, pandoc, ebikes, funding public ed. paulkelleher.net
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You mean like, “the trolley problem” doesn’t specify whether the single person on the spur is your child or not?
Thanks. It was definitely a misreading on my part
Ah, thanks! For some reason (maybe just that I'm only two coffees in) I thought that was a link for ME to submit a comment to DOE if I wanted to.
If the trolley problem is "Is it ethically permissible to pull the lever in the original Spur case", do you still think that?
Dumb question but: I can't see to find a link to the Experts' response document itself at the website. A little help?
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The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
And here's a deep dive into the Dems' strategy from @emilypont.bsky.social at @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/politics/ele...
Might be a good time to institute something like this. (I link to this one only because it's the one we have.) Our kid is 7.5 and he still uses/respects this. www.walmart.com/ip/Big-Red-R...
I thought it’d be green
And I’m curious what you mean by this. Do you mean that each refuses to, like, rock the boat?
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What do you call a dent in the Kant car? Ding an sich.
Can’t argue with you on that!
This an official @ternbicycles.com dealer/servicer.
Ride ebike to shop for service. Call for update: “There’s no key.” Um, I rode it there, & the key is needed for riding. Later: “OK, we found the key.” Now it’s ready. Ride it home. Notice there’s no key. But you can’t ride it without a key? Um, lock bolt is missing too? “Wasn’t us!”, says manager.
“And Big Pharma has profited from it greatly, which is one reason the industry is supporting Trump.” Ask your doctor if nonsequitur is right for you.
This definition is pretty good
Not inconsistent with what you say,but like Rt 3 is totally rural and east of the turnpike
These are gorgeous
In NM, this order allows boards/agencies to act more quickly to replace regulations that require ACIP guidelines with those relying on other sources of guidance. Something similar may work in some other states. But in some states, longer regulatory processes or even legislation may be required.
LOL Although, Tuesday begins my Transplant Ethics course…
The thing about teaching in a med school is that I’m always the most underdressed
August 31st / September 2nd
I’ll call it Stormin’ Normative.
An anthology where I excerpt the early “ethics” chapter/section of a 100 non-philosophy textbooks and just explain why, like, No, just No.
Totally! But ironically Stringer Bell has nothing to do with setting things up.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
On the bright side, you’re not waiting inside.
no this is too on the nose
The New Hampshire Journal of Mediocrity
Article links to a Newsweek piece. www.newsweek.com/russia-ukrai...
Ironically, in my book "Seeing is Disbelieving" one of the major categories of rumors during the Syrian civil war was rumors about Assad's death, but almost no respondents said they believed these in the interviews I have access to.
Great seats tho!
Good luck!
I have a fairly new Mac laptop and also recently had it refuse to charge. I had to let the latest OS update install. Not saying that's your issue!
Bluesky is a necro chamber
You can get this from just the opening number of Heights.
I think that true of Hamilton, yes. It comes through much more on the In the Heights cast recording.
Unfair. Sure, Miranda can’t really sing. But he has undeniably special charisma on the stage.
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Just kidding. About it's being "good news". I like winter. But these days winter is snow a little, melt and be muddy, snow a little. Rain a lot. Rinse, repeat.
I hear you. The good news for me here in Wisconsin is that we don't really get winter anymore 🙃
not trying to convert you or anything, but if you have the right gear it can be glorious
And a movie starring Julia Roberts!
The movie looks pretty bad (as a movie), but wow (to the part where they made a movie about it)
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Why don’t you just tell me the name of the thing you did last summer?
“And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”
Probably shouldn’t have voted for a champion of pocket recessions as OMB director then! This was always their plan. #mepolitics
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Meanwhile, the US Naval Academy removed *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* from its library in April.
There was also this: bsky.app/profile/paul...
“Chidi, if the points system told you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge…”
Taking inspiration from my kid's planned book series, the social cost of podcast content will be included in my second book.
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I’ll believe that when I see it!
If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.
Kevin, Chidi literally says there’s no solution to the trolley problem. Have you met a single philosopher who thinks there’s no solution to the trolley problem?
Debate moderator: Do you have this journal's Editorial Manager login details? Me: I have concepts of their login details.
Cambridge would never.
What does "Send Me" mean on his vest?
Hmm, I wonder what miraculous new understanding of the cause of autism he’s gonna release in Sept.
I was thinking the other day that RFK Jr’s getting through was the dog catching the car for Cassidy that he managed to evade by when McCain gave the thumbs down.
In that case I’d probably just use Perusall. I think it’s a great system, and it does have that great @-everyone function, which I like to use when a comment/comment thread has raised an important point.
Hyp. is more involved to set students up in, and is lacking one key feature that Perusall offers, viz. the ability to @-reply the whole class (rather than single students, which Hyp. now has).
UW–Madison doesn't offer Perusall or Hypothesis integration with our LMS. When this is the case, Perusall has begun pestering instructors to let Perusall charge students a fee, and also there are copyright issues for readings I upload there. Hyp. is totally free & there are no copyright issues.
Instructors: Realize it's late in the day, but if you plan to use Hypothesis (the Perusall alternative) for social annotations this semester and your school's LMS doesn't come pre-integrated with it, I'd be happy to share the step-by-step instructions I wrote up, as well as a video tutorial I made.
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"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Everything is terrible but Maine is beautiful
Important context for why the CDC-led process for establishing vaccination recommendations matters to access and affordability. Federal laws require Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers to cover CDC-recommended vaccines. www.kff.org/other-health...
Dr. Daskalakis in a resignation letter you can read below: “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive…Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Last week I got 5 days in Acadia with beautiful weather, and then another 3 mostly lounging in a breezy Maine hay field. All in all, pritty pritty good.
That’s awesome. They did a book together, right?
Narrator: Turned out, this was *not* a comic book.
We gotta dig in on this or it’s all lost
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Oh man I need to get my hands on this
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. But wind turbines do kill whales.
this is so uncool
so no one <65y without a high risk feature can get a COVID shot? I’m immunosuppressed but LilAware and MrsAware can’t get COVID shots? what about young kids who were born recently enough to not have gotten a primary COVID vaccine yet? this does not “protect the vulnerable”
In a solo-authored work, Dasgupta says about the key graphs in Hardin, "It would be difficult to locate another passage of comparable length and fame containing as many errors"
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. But wind turbines do kill whales.
They’ve definitely been reinvented… 2 examples: getfreewrite.com/products/alpha www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/z... But I think the sell-to-schools part is unlikely. No one is making anything as indestructible as the original Alphasmart Neo
I’ve long wished I could buy these for students in my classes to use. bsky.app/profile/paul...
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
A1 performance art, to have posted this twice within a minute
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I’m in this documentary on the history of smog, airing tonight on PBS: American Experience at 9 pm. And streaming here www.pbs.org/wgbh/america... check it out!
Happy to be one of the initial signers of this @agu.org letter for climate change scientists to EPA stating unequivocally that greenhouse gases are causing harm. Scientists can sign on here: