Thanks to my wonderful colleagues @scuethics & @SantaClaraUniv, you can now read a version of my postman analogy on #NetNeutrality⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁦@sfchronicle⁩

RT @IEthics: "Perhaps the most dangerous misconception is that #disinformation targets only the unsavvy or uneducated, that it works only o…

RT @jeanguerre: Three months ago I heard Salman Rushdie speak at the PEN World Voices Festival. He said: “A poem cannot stop a bullet. A no…

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RT @IEthics: "Facebook declined to answer detailed questions about its filtering systems and policies on data from crisis pregnancy centers…

Grading can be difficult and stressful, but I’ve heard my civil engineering colleagues have improved on the manual process (though their machinery seems overkill). Pictured below: a machine for grading undergrad Lepidoptera (or post-grad Felidae).

@aleatha But, who’s e-Ent, and why would they know whether or not you’d been directed to somewhere?

@a__cubed @IEthics Thank you. That’s incredibly kind of you. Now I really wish I’d had the foresight (and courage) to propose it as such.

@klukoff @ackermanmaya @shoha99 @boilerir @davidjeong @AmyLueck3 @maxkreminski @BehnamDezfouli @subbuvincent They tell me the chandeliers and lights are being set up as part of graduation/end-of-school-year festivities, but nonetheless they seem to fittingly reflect our delight at your joining us.

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@aleatha The pedant in me must tediously point out that this work seems to be, literally, nit-picking.

@aleatha @JoelMcCracken “Why didn’t he ride an eagle to Mount Doom?” … whatever the reason, I guess that precludes Sam from playing Sam. As for Aragorn, I vote Sweetums! Or Fozzie, subbing Floyd for Boromir “like, one doesn’t just walk into Mordor, man”

“Is it ever moral to sacrifice a hostage to save a hostage-taker?” is a question I did not want to ask … again. But with antivaxxer apologists arguing “yes,” ICUs being overwhelmed, and ethicists+policymakers repeatedly avoiding the question, here we are … again.

May your best day in 2021 be its shortest. And may I be proven wrong about that with every day to come. (Translation: Wishing everyone happy holidays in a tough year, but happier days to come)

@ShannonVallor Sorry if this isn’t particularly helpful if you don’t have the option to adjust smart shuffle, but for what it’s worth I like to think of a shuffle playback failure (to seem random) as a triumph of human pattern/link-detection.