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Very much open to arguments like this (which importantly don’t try to dispute the rule breaking in question, and in the process, abase the proponents), but a few caveats:https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1265646942899638272 1.

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There’s inevitably going to be that decision - when a doctor has to choose which one of two patients will live or die. 1/? The obvious answer to this is

Years ago, possibly on the recommendation of @sbisson and @marypcbuk , I read Kim Stanley Robinson's MARS trilogy. I loved it, and tried to persuade @damiankahya that anarcho-communism was the

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As states raced to increase their supplies of medical equipment, and news articles and protocols on strategies for dealing with shortages circulated, we gauged public opinion on the issue and

Ethicists are quoted re:#COVID19 as saying things like "in a public health emergency, medical #ethics shifts from clinical ethics (priority to worst off, patient autonomy) to the #publichealth #utilitarian value

Ocean the Hermit

I'm seeing a lot of "Get in fucking line and vote Biden" posts and I'm just like... eh. I'm gonna think some things through between now and November, but honestly,

Jared, gurgling shrieks into the night

game text creates good play (intent of designer)game text provides contingent tools that can produce good play in use, good play is ab choosing the right tools (intent of the

Prof Francois Balloux

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One intriguing aspect of the scientific discussion about #COVID19 measures is how entirely unscientific it feels to me. "Letting young people get infected by the virus is immoral" or "lockdowns

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A story of a mother playing Animal Crossing went viral on the Chinese social media Weibo, where her mentality of playing the game changed from utilitarian to one where she

Thread: My problem with this critique has always been that the actual point of most academic presentations of the problem since the first article-length discussion of it by Judith Jarvis

Another day, another staunch refusal on my behalf to appreciate Brutalist architecture Sorry, I'm fully aware of its egalitarian and utilitarian design intent, I know there's a philosophically sound justification

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

Quick series of polls about the current @NEJM 'Dying in a leadership vacuum'Curious what you think!https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812#1 Writing it - was it the right thing to do? #2 Did it have

Richard Johnson

Two pieces of Labour foreign policy history arrived today: Dick Crossman and Michael Foot's pamphlet urging creation of a state of Israel and a signed copy of Harold Wilson's book

So the thing about Garrison Keillor saying we should "let the culture war rest" and focus on policy... the "culture war" exists because for the GOP it's a means towards

GMing Horror - a threadIn the last 2 years Ive run more horror or horror-tinged games than I ran in the decade before, and thought it might be fun to

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This morning a friend of mine sent me an email wishing me a Happy Easter, and attaching a link to the below article (as part of an ongoing debate). It