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Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job. — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/31/moral-deskilling-or-why-you-spend-more-time-on-admin-than-doing-your-job/

'No moral victories' for Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys in Week 1 loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-moral-victories-for-brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-in-week-1-loss

50 years ago today, #JerryGarcia & legion of mary at the great american music hall, only 2 circulating songs (#7 #13): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-Yr80KfG

I am triply cautious of this article from @…:
- OpenAI et al use the supposed danger (and thus implied power) of their own product as a marketing ploy (as the article points out)
- When a product vendor funds their own research about the potential dangers of their product, it’s more likely to be good PR than good research
- Society always engages in moral panics about new things causing addiction and psychological damage (including bicycles and novels!)
With those caveats in mind, I do think this is an issue worth watching closely. And that quote in the post? Chef’s kiss.
https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/114796898620291517

Twenty U.S. Catholic bishops have signed onto an interfaith effort opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would enact key provisions of President Donald Trump's legislative agenda on taxes and immigration, calling it a "moral failure."
A letter from more than 40 faith leaders of several faith traditions
-- made public by Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on June 26
-- urged senators to reject the bill.
"We, the undersigned f…

Iain Banks said in 2010:
"Appeals to reason, international law, U. N. resolutions and simple human decency mean – it is now obvious – nothing to Israel... I would urge all writers, artists and others in the creative arts, as well as those academics engaging in joint educational projects with Israeli institutions, to consider doing everything they can to convince Israel of its moral degradation and ethical isolation, preferably by simply having nothing more to do with this outlaw st…

'No moral victories' for Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys in Week 1 loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-moral-victories-for-brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-in-week-1-loss

Structure and Smoothness Constrained Dual Networks for MR Bias Field Correction
Dong Liang, Xingyu Qiu, Yuzhen Li, Wei Wang, Kuanquan Wang, Suyu Dong, Gongning Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01326

Structure and Smoothness Constrained Dual Networks for MR Bias Field Correction
MR imaging techniques are of great benefit to disease diagnosis. However, due to the limitation of MR devices, significant intensity inhomogeneity often exists in imaging results, which impedes both qualitative and quantitative medical analysis. Recently, several unsupervised deep learning-based models have been proposed for MR image improvement. However, these models merely concentrate on global appearance learning, and neglect constraints from image structures and smoothness of bias field, le…

NYC mayoral candidate Jim Walden drops out and implores rivals to consolidate against Zohran Mamdani (Jake Offenhartz/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-jim-walden-zohran-mamdani-729776ee8294a3f18ad5258cb0f22fa8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p128#a250902p128

Louisiana Republicans have passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted.
A massive blow to the rights of people in prison in a state that's full of wrongful convictions:
https://

Louisiana Is Bulldozing the Right of Prisoners to Prove Their Innocence After a Conviction - Bolts
Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that would ultimately free him, while watching television coverage of the... Read More