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Recent links…

Discussion welcome.

1. What happened in math and the sciences in 2024? — year-end reviews at Quanta
2. We need to be asking more about AI tools than whether they “undermine the narrow policies and objectives of institutions of higher learning” — Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin at Times Higher Ed
3. The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit — including, among other things, a sample decolonized epistemology course reading list
4. “Analytic philosophers of fiction and deception have thus far not paid much attention to hoaxing… Media scholars have, however, and their findings are not only very interesting…” — they can, argues Merel Semeijn, “help us better understand Santa”
5. “Any regime that finds the world’s saturation with injustice so unwelcome news that they wish to ban it in some fashion or another, is itself an expression and entrenchment of a worldview that contributes to the suffering of the young” — Eric Schliesser on the human condition
6. “You’re an adult, and you negotiate with your parents the same way you negotiate with other adults” — philosophers Samantha Brennan & Simon Keller are among those consulted by The Atlantic on navigating the holidays
7. “Resigned to the Big Tech companies recording our every move, we’ve invited friends, family, and partners to join them in watching us. We’ve begun to celebrate surveillance as a form of intimacy” — Zoë Hitzig on changing norms of privacy

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