Regina Rini
@reginarini.bsky.social
I teach Philosophy at York Uni in Toronto. I also write the 'Morals of the Story' column for the Times Literary Supplement. Work on norms, disagreement, and the role of tech in society.
June 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
story here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Defendant accused of faking Trump death threats so witness would be deported
Demetric Deshawn Scott wrote letters threatening to kill President Donald Trump, in an attempt to get Ramón Morales Reyes deported, Wisconsin prosecutors said.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
story here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The motives here are good, but it's hard to imagine how to keep students from gaming this. Also risk of a backfire effect if young people think civil discourse is just what the olds force you to pretend to do a few minutes a day while you go on being horrid on your real (hidden from olds) accounts.
May 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The motives here are good, but it's hard to imagine how to keep students from gaming this. Also risk of a backfire effect if young people think civil discourse is just what the olds force you to pretend to do a few minutes a day while you go on being horrid on your real (hidden from olds) accounts.
What's maddening is that the Trump admin probably didn't even think about the long term consequence. I can picture the meeting around a whiteboard last week: 'Come on guys, we need a way to damage Harvard's finances. Toss them out, no dumb ideas!'
May 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What's maddening is that the Trump admin probably didn't even think about the long term consequence. I can picture the meeting around a whiteboard last week: 'Come on guys, we need a way to damage Harvard's finances. Toss them out, no dumb ideas!'
Also: future scientists, you are very welcome here in Canada! We may not be able to pay as much as America, but there is much less chance we will abduct you off the street and send you to a nightmare prison in El Salvador!
May 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Also: future scientists, you are very welcome here in Canada! We may not be able to pay as much as America, but there is much less chance we will abduct you off the street and send you to a nightmare prison in El Salvador!
Future historians may actually be able to calculate how much economic benefit China gained from today's news.
May 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Future historians may actually be able to calculate how much economic benefit China gained from today's news.
also: who would trust an AI attached to a program that routinely mishandles CTLR-c-CTRL-v?
May 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
also: who would trust an AI attached to a program that routinely mishandles CTLR-c-CTRL-v?
for years, the online alt-right discovered they could distract from the substance of their most repugnant views by jumping to a meta- debate about free speech. Some seemed to conclude that they would never find a limit to that strategy
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
for years, the online alt-right discovered they could distract from the substance of their most repugnant views by jumping to a meta- debate about free speech. Some seemed to conclude that they would never find a limit to that strategy