Update on Ethics

 

Interesting Websites: A Series

 The websites for:

• Niall Ferguson
• Steven Pinker
• Keith Richards
• Mari Kondo
• Jordan Peterson
• Van Morrison

One Mask Rule Too Many

 Hey Disney, when you've lost FutureLawyer, you've lost a serious customer.

"Why are you on Twitter 24/7?"

 

Workout

 The harder the workout, the easier the day.

- Naval Ravikant

Falsehoods of Critical Social Justice

So, how it is possible that this bizarre—if mostly user-friendly—theoretical approach has so rapidly come to dominate over more rigorous approaches, which allow us to understand the world and therefore change it for the better? To answer that, we need to turn to the two central falsehoods of Critical Social Justice.

See the essay by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay.

An Animation of the Earlier, Not the Latest, Mars Landing

 

Mob Justice versus Due Process

 The Hill: Jonathan Turley on how we must resist turning due process into mob justice. An excerpt:

Due process, like free speech, is rarely valued until its loss becomes personal. Take Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.). Cuomo advanced his political career by positioning himself at the front of every mob pursuing political rivals, as during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. Before hearing the defense of now-Justice Kavanaugh, Cuomo described the allegations against him by Christine Blasey Ford as presumptively true. He not only effectively called Kavanaugh a rapist, without any due process, but demanded that Kavanaugh take a polygraph as a condition to be believed.

Learn It!

Farnam Street: The Feynman Learning Technique.

I wish I'd had this as early as elementary school.

Hmm