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On this week’s Lever Time Premium: David speaks with a leading expert in airline history and regulation; and discusses the shadowy power wielded by our country’s largest law firms.

Photos from space show 11,000 beavers are wreaking havoc on the Alaskan tundra as savagely as wildfire (Thanks to Robert Moats)

Cow gets lost in shopping centre, stuck in mud, during 24 hour emergency streak (Thanks to Fabian Marson)

Chaos on Lake Union hot tub boat ends in finger pointing (Thanks to Allen at Division)

More links… If you’re using MTurk to run surveys, you probably should consider an alternative — Florian Cova (Geneva) with an experimental philosophy cautionary tale A private firm is planning on using genetic engineering to de-extinct the woolly mammoth — Andy Lamey (UCSD) has some questions “I had been involved in actions that seemed deeply wrong to me, though perhaps necessary in the conduct of the war, and parts of my soul were at war with each other” — Paul Woodruff (Texas) on how philosophy helped him put his “soul back together” “It is a strange thing… that the more time and pains men have consumed in the study of philosophy, by so much the more they look upon themselves to be ignorant and weak creatures” — George Berkeley is “interviewed” at 3:16AM “Prohibitions aren’t enough. We need a positive moral vision that guides us towards securing a better future.

The problem, you see, is extremists on Both Sides.

Not to sound like an old Carson joke setup, but…. It is a mystery just how much of their own BS the hardest right among the Republican House caucus believes. They really, really dislike their own party establishment. That’s something activists on both sides of the aisle can appreciate. What they do about it is something else. Especially with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is now backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy in his failing bid for Speaker. McCarthy failed to secure the votes to win three times on Tuesday. There is more fun to come this afternoon. CNN’s Jake Tapper offered some praise for Greene’s willingness to back the majority of her caucus, while contributor Jonah Goldberg condemned the holdouts (Mediaite): “They’re nihilists,” he said before ripping Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a leading anti-McCarthy voice. “Most of these guys are performative people. Matt Gaetz is an illiterate.” Dana Bash asked Goldberg if the speakership drama speaks to a broader problem with the Republican Party.

Sian Norris reports from the incel forums on their reaction to the Tik-Tok influencer’s arrest – and the reaction is not what you would expect

This one is for all my students. Never give in. Never give up.

The Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) has been awarded the María de Maeztu Prize by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Innovation. The prize includes official recognition for BIAP as a “unit of excellence” and a €2 million (approximately $2.12 million) grant to support its research over the next five years. BIAP was the only institute in the humanities in Spain to have been awarded a María de Maeztu prize this year. BIAP is comprised of researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Girona, and the project will involve researchers at all three institutions. The research program the prize will support is on the nature and role of evidence. It aims to: 1. explore and systematize the different roles, and scope, assigned to evidence in a variety of well-defined contexts of enquiry, 2. develop a coherent overall conception of the nature of evidence, and of evidential support, across the aforementioned contexts of enquiry, synthesizing the results obtained in pursuit of the first principal research objective, and 3.

The scandal-hit baroness was elevated for years by the party now backtracking over the PPE firm linked to her that won millions in pandemic contracts

Here at Time, we find it incredibly important to update you on any changes, updates, irregularities, and goings on. However, the purpose of this particular letter is celebratory. We would like to formally congratulate you on making it to 2023, which will officially be the final year.

We’ve seen many years over the years: 1789. 105. 1453. 280. 1066. 476. 2020.

Year 33 was particularly influential—not to mention the seemingly endless years before. But now we’ve reached the final year, and we couldn’t be more proud that you’re here for it.

So: what should you expect in the final year? Well, don’t get too excited—99 percent of all years have been forgotten by most everyone except keen historians. Luckily, this year won’t have that problem because there won’t be any more years after this one, and since it will always be this year, nobody will ever manage to forget about it. Isn’t that wonderful?

So, Canada has done two interesting things in the last couple years to deal with the effects of Covid. The first is let in a lot more immigrants:

Canada added more than 431,000 new permanent residents last year, the largest annual increase in its history, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to ease the country’s labor shortages.

The new admissions met the 2022 target set by Trudeau’s government and exceeded the prior year’s record of about 401,000 newcomers, according to a release from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Tuesday.

No response from union to questions about claim Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has published a tweet in which she claimed credit for an increase in strike pay that predated her taking up the role by several months. Ms Graham claimed that she ‘upped the daily strike rates to £70 when I became general secretary: […]

On 9 December 2022, The Wales Cross Party Group on Digital Rights and Democracy, of which Open Rights Group is the secretariat, held its second session, this time held on data sharing and migrant women reporting domestic abuse. The session, chaired by Sarah Murphy, Member of the Senedd for Bridgend and Porthcawl, heard representations from […]

Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play, study finds (Thanks to pharmaross)

In 1961, hundreds of thousands of Australians lined the streets of Melbourne to give a tearful farewell to the motorcade passing them by. The Australian test cricket team had just won the home series two to one, but the crowd wasn’t cheering for them. The motorcade contained the West Indies cricket team under its first […]

As Covid vaccines underperform and for some groups, present risks, an article in a prominent metical ethics journal calls for mandates to end.

A Black artist grapples with the paradox of success in the white art world that wants his paintings, but not his message

- by Psyche Film

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Travels might be over.

The effects of being bullied can linger for decades, but it’s never too late to heal and reclaim your place in the world

- by Stacee Reicherzer

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A new analysis finds our inflation comes first from Covid/sanctions supply shocks and second, spending by the rich, not government spending.

I shared this Twitter thread on that site this morning and will be discussing it on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 at
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Yesterday's post on anger was quite popular, and that is c continuing this morning. These are the page views, and since it was the only
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