Ordinary Sunday Brunch: Culture Quick Links
Ordinary Sunday Brunch is Ordinary Times cultural quick links for you enjoyment. Music, Art, History, and Religion stories to read, share, and discuss.
Tagged: Philosophy
Linky Friday: Summertime
Linky Friday is Ordinary Time’s Friday tradition of compiling stories from around the world and across the web straight to you. This week, Summertime is the theme, and clicks are easy, the stories are jumping, and the world is yours to read, share, and discuss. From Gershwin to Manafort, plenty to occupy your dog days of summertime.
AI is Coming, But What Culture Will Influence It?
The questions surrounding AI development are heavy on the why, the how, the should, and other things; but what culture would that AI would be operating from? Naturally the designer will be reflected, but something as complex as culture meeting the complex world of AI, there are new questions to answer for both fields.
Sunday Brunch: Culture Quick Links
Sunday Brunch: Culture Quick Links on Music, Art, Thought, and People for your Sunday Enjoyment.
Teaching Philosophy to Weaponized AI
The philosophical questions of morality in warfare are as old as recorded human history. With the rise of AI, drones, and technology, those age-old questions are only getting more complicated.
America, the Awesome
Burt Likko has one of those sorts of problems that really aren’t such bad problems to have.
Retroactive: This Week in Ordinary Times
This past week, at Ordinary Times:The Magic of Ben Shapiro; When Schools Get Political, What Should Teachers Do?; By a thousand cuts; Yes Hannity Cohen is in fact your lawyer and you should be glad; Letter to younger myself #1: The anti-gay rights amendment; National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine
Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech
Almost immediately, a fresh front was opened in the perpetual war between free speech and outrage.
David French — When the Pursuit of Happiness Becomes the Flight from Pain
Happiness is not hedonism, but David French thinks Americans have lost sight of that truth.
Hinges & Doubts: Musings on Social Justice & Activism
The problem with being prejudiced against prejudice.
The Small r “republican” Tradition Offers Something to Religious Left Originalists
Read about cutting edge research from Harvard that both contradicts a “secular” understanding of modernity and supports an egalitarian economic vision of such.
Linky Friday #149: Pirates, Poindexters, & Confederados
This Week: Science, Culture, Healthcare, Resources, Copyright, and Latin America!
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
The Wager
Pascal wrote, “Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same,” so I recommend a reading this with a drink or two.
