The first ever Parfitian mood board

Another one

I miss college so bad because this is literally what every day was

There is no benefit to the U.S. from chaining South Korean technicians who were here temporarily to help set up a battery factory. Their presence was going to help the factory get online sooner than it otherwise would be. Americans would work in that factory. Now it will take

There are ~36 waiting families for every one child who is placed for adoption in the US. Our culture has not really absorbed this yet. Still stuck in the 60-90s idea that "there are so many kids who need a good home!"

A fourth spiky logo has hit my bus stop

Why do they all have the same logo

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Couldn't resist

I've seen a lot of shitty space policy over the years. However, a US Senator in a tough reelection fight trying to steal a space shuttle from the Smithsonian, and the NASA Administrator being all cloak and dagger about it, is among the shittiest. https://t.co/iXmhg9HQOp

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enough to emphasize positive flourishing over the reduction of suffering, but both classical utilitarianism and capabilitarianism have a big role for positive welfare, and only really differ in what their list of goods is. I would have liked to hear more on exactly what he meant!

3. An interesting note is that Sunstein discussed becoming less of a Benthamite utilitarian and favoring something more like Nussbaum's capability approach. I wish he'd spent more time discussing this - his objection to classical utilitarianism seemed to be that it didn't do

2. In terms of practical advice, one interesting thing Sunstein recommended was for advocates to frame making pro-animal changes as an opportunity for people to do something good (and feel good about it), rather than making people feel bad about their current choices

1. Sunstein talked about stepping away from animal advocacy work for several due to the vitriol and threats he'd received. I'd known his pro-animal positions had been a challenge during his confirmation for OIRA director, but had no idea how bad it got

Enjoyed the recent @LoveShrimpPod with @CassSunstein! A couple interesting items from it:

President Trump says he is firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the weak jobs data. BLS puts out the jobs reports, CPI inflation, productivity and employment cost index, among other key statistics. This is basically unprecedented and will raise concerns about

News! For the next 2 months, I'll be guest-posting on RP's CEO's Substack, "Charity for All" In my 1st post, I wrote about the remarkable evolution of the Global Burden of Disease study & what it can teach us about quantifying the world's most pressing problems Check it out!

Waiting for the bus on Capitol Hill: > A passing driver rolls down their window Driver: “excuse me sir, is this a safe neighborhood?” Me: “yes?” Driver: “I used to work at DC General Hospital, 40 years ago. Back then they would EAT people like you” > drives off

A lot of conservatives seem to be under the impression that PEPFAR was briefly paused by mistake and will be back to normal soon. But no. The administration has repeatedly tried to destroy PEPFAR and Congress keeps telling them to stop and then they try again.

I feel like people don't realize just how hard Parfit went regarding our obligations to donate in volume 3 of On What Matters