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Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness by Joseph Stenberg, 2025

Aquinas sees the key elements of his ethics - happiness, law, virtue, and grace - as an interconnected whole. However, he seldom steps back to help his reader see how they actually fit together. In this book, Joseph Stenberg reconsiders the most fundamental ways in which Aquinas connects these major elements of his ethics.

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Stenberg presents a novel reading of Aquinas's account of individual happiness that is historically sound and philosophically interesting, according to which happiness is exclusively a matter of engaging in and enjoying genuinely good activities. He builds on that reading to offer an account of common happiness. He then shows that Aquinas defends a unique form of eudaimonism, Holistic Eudaimonism, which puts common happiness rather than individual happiness at the very heart of ethics, including at the heart of law, virtue, and grace. His book will appeal to anyone with an interest in Aquinas or the history of ethics.

✍️ This one should worry every newsroom and publisher. Wired, Business Insider, Index on Censorship, and others have had to pull articles by “Margaux Blanchard” after discovering they were AI-generated fabrications. 🤖 Sources didn’t exist, quotes couldn’t be verified, and in one pitch the author even invented an entire Colorado town. 😳

The scandal shows how vulnerable editorial workflows are when freelance pitches slip through without rigorous checks. Smaller outlets are especially exposed, but even major names missed the warning signs.

TL;DR
⚠️ AI-generated articles published
📰 Fake names, quotes, even towns
🔍 Weak fact-checking exposed
📉 Trust in media at risk

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/wired-and-business-insider-remove-ai-written-freelance-articles/

"But private schools operate largely outside those rules because they haven’t historically received direct taxpayer dollars. Now, as the state moves to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years on private education, lawmakers have imposed almost none of the accountability measures required of the public school system."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts/

"...FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has launched a series of ad hoc “expert panels” to discuss...topics with physicians and researchers who often have contrarian views and financial interests in the subjects.

Former agency officials worry the meetings are skirting federal rules on conflicts of interests and transparency, while promoting fringe viewpoints that align with those of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."

https://apnews.com/article/fda-kennedy-antidepressants-hormones-meetings-experts-afbd525b29ca5e2585b79548a075be75

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗺: 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗿𝘇𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰 -

Krznaric's quick efficient philosophy is nonetheless valuable insight into how a translation error has been unethically turned upon us all.

https://youtu.be/G92mTiG4HgQ

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

Great article about computer pioneer Weizenbaum, who turned - after developing worlds first digital chat bot - into a humanist tech-pessimist. His thoughts are most interesting, not only for the obvious reasons: He had a moral backbone, and a good philosophical education - thanks to this, he was a able to do a analysis that was well ahead of its time. The article is well written, and does a good job explaining the historical contexts.

#IT #philosophy #media #ethics

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

As its title suggests, there is little in “The Haves and Have-Yachts” about the victims of wealth inequality. The book is a repository of noxious have-yachts and envious haves who fret about their comparatively small boats and modest mansions... But Osnos’s emphasis is understandable: The bizarre spectacles and amoral contortions of what he calls our “new aristocracy” matter more than ever.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/18/have-yachts-ultrarich-evan-osnos-review/

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scegli.app propone applicazioni e servizi europei. Molte di questa alternative sono anche software libero. Le riporto qui, più che altro per non dimenticare ancora questo sito che propone molti siti e servizi alternativi a quelli dominanti.

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https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/08/01/scegli-app/

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FOSS: "I made actor identity independent of DNS"

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FOSS: "And I made service development dead easy, intuitive and productive"

Fedizen: "This is so wonderful. What a cozy place we have"

Meta: "We agree! We embraced the technology and today announce free fediverse access for anyone. Our datacenters are primed and ready for a billion more fedizens. That's not all! With Service Mart you're in full control!"