As said by a colleague in response to this tweet.

all boys ritually emasculate/are emasculated by other boys as part of showing you are a real man. Trans women do not respond to this phenomenon the way that boys do and, as a result, are treated differently long before anyone realizes they are trans.

Some modern writings on the implications of “On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives” for the Kantian. You cannot lie, but the categorical imperative does not beget you yo give useful information or unnecessarily share your thoughts.

SKINNER: So, it’s no lies for the Kantian, but sometimes misleading truths are in order.

KLEMPNER: In a world where all our choices are determined by game theory (including the choice whether to tell the truth or tell a lie) something precious has been lost, the foundation of our ability to communicate with one another. That’s the point Kant is making.

It is categorically Evil for an object to travel fast than the speed of light, which is why God doesn’t allow it to happen.

And just like their parents before them, Brooding columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton writes, their vigilance is suffused with anxiety.

COCO is a large-scale object detection, segmentation, and captioning dataset.

used in google’s mediapipe to train EfficientNet, EfficientDet, and MobileNet.

Slime Molt Time Mold would be very interested in procedural rhetoric in order to help people learn cybernetics.

Public shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable?

This piece does a great job of explaining when use of (public) shame is justified. We ought to get much better at deploying social shame, especially as the Western world rapidly becomes more fascist.

How to be taken seriously

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

No paywall: https://archive.is/20251003102345/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates

We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.

The point is that the possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved.

Great stuff.

Interesting posts on sexual consent.

Wonder what Tom Dougherty would think of this post.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to purchase a weapon now to protect against future potential threats.

Yay, LLM-induced psychosis! Man, the posts and articles of this genre do not stop flowing…

Two surprising discoveries about obedience

Explores the implications of the famous Milgram experiments and a sibling study.