Image: espresso maker with tinged brewed water and tamped coffee next to it.

This is where it needs more emojis than just the heart.

“To achieve the rigor of specificity, more Americans …should ‘taboo’ DEI…Doing so would force us to better understand our own claims and make them more legible. It would help us better understand what others think, and to achieve sensible policies rather than careening between totalizing extremes.”

2/3 “When you find yourself in philosophical difficulties, the first line of defense is not to define your problematic terms, but to see whether you can think without using those terms at all.” He says “summon ‘the actual details’ until you can replace the symbols with the substance.”

1/3 Excellent, nuanced article about the lack of common understanding of “DEI.”
“In…Taboo, a player tries to get a partner to guess a word, such as margarita, without saying” the obvious ones. The AI researcher and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky urges “tabooing” words to help clarify their meaning.

#booksky

The main characters maintain a lighthouse and desperately want children but they’ve faced 3 infant losses. Then one day a baby and a dead man wash up on the beach. And a few years later they learn about the birth mother…