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1. “Humans now are just having the right tools and desire to be able to look at whale voices in this way to see the complexity that has been there all along” — new analyses shows that whale vocalizations are “highly complex” and similar to human ones
2. When colleges treat degrees like job credentials and students like customers, the result is “degree hacking” or “college speed runs” — yet another threat to college education
3. What is it to “fall for white feminism”? — Serene Khader is interviewed at The Dissenter
4. DeepMind hires in-house philosopher — Henry Shevlin is moving from Cambridge University to Google’s AI team
5. “My ‘slow, unreckoning heart’ is unable to keep up with the abstractions of ‘the Earth’ or ‘Nature’” — though Alan Jacobs doesn’t put it this way, he could be seen as pushing for a turn towards partiality and “special relationships” in environmental philosophy
6. “If you allow yourself to engage with the work, you can accept that it often has some flaws while still gaining real insight” — Liam Kofi Bright, an admitted analytic philosopher, responds to a recent iteration of a familiar critique of Continental philosophy
7. “Confidence should not be confused with expertise nor shyness with ignorance” — Hélène Landemore on using citizen assemblies to improve democracy’s ability to hear from the shy, introverted, and quiet

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