Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...nytimes.comSeparatists Are Poised to Win Quebec’s Election. Independence Is Still a Hard Sell.The Parti Québécois has vowed to hold a referendum on independence, three decades after Quebec voted “no.” Voters want change, but maybe not that much. 000
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Quite worried about the safety of the traveling fans 110
Reposted by Michael KatesAmerican Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026From our FirstView: "Structural Injustice as Emergent Disorder" by Hochan Kim, buff.ly/TPOHteM 072
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I guess there's less of a consensus than I thought. But the practice is clearly more prevalent for reviewers of books. 010
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As someone who is very self-conscious about his looks, I find the repeated tendency of people on this site to mock their political enemies because they are "ugly" or "unattractive" in some way to be incredibly distasteful. 2112
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thank you! Was looking for the video and couldn't find it in my region 010
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cherki with some great OOP work to almost set up a Dembele goal 020
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026tell me who it was (to thank them for the boost it gave my career) and I was told, in no uncertain terms, that asking the editor that question would be seen as very unprofessional. 200
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That makes sense. But I've been told (by more senior people in the field) that I shouldn't unmask myself even if I gave a very positive review. Likewise, someone once gave me a very positive review in a very prestigious journal and I wanted to ask the editor (long after the fact) if they could... 200
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Is there a real chance that a referendum might go forward? (Haven't been following this very closely.) 110
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The book looks excellent (will purchase). Your exchange prompts a question though: it seems that anonymous reviewers for books often unmask themselves, but that almost never happens for journal articles (and I've been told that it's something that shouldn't be done). Why the difference? 120
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is what I find so difficult to comprehend 200
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026But I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that their standards for assessing evidence must ultimately be compatible with English law 120
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I take it that the members of the IC simply dismissed this evidence. What I don't understand is what legal basis they have for doing that. In other words, how would members of the IC know whether the evidence is real or fabricated, and do they have to provide evidence to substantiate that claim? 230
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've never understood that either. The view always seemed more like branding to me, rather than a basic rejection of moral principles/rules 130
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Right, but she always discusses "Spur" vs. "Fat Man," and says the same basic problem arises 100
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026See the discussion I had further down in the thread 000
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026How are teachers handing out prescriptions, for Christ's sake? My kid's school confiscated a moisturizer I gave him because we didn't get a doctor's note for it 010
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sounds plausible. I was confused because whenever I've talked about TTP with fellow philosophers, we've always assumed the issue was the contrast cases. 010
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes, that's right. But it's also how I've always thought of the trolley problem: how to explain conflicting intuitions people have in seemingly similar cases (Bystander, Footbridge, Transplant, Loop, etc.) 210
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very cool! But why do you think this shows that the trolley problem isn't what you thought? 300
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Think you can access it through the link above 100
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I agree, but does that mean the IC will presume that any such witnesses are liars? That seems hard to justify as a legal matter. 130
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same. Hang in there, mate; we're all in this together. 320
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes, absolutely. But the two are not mutually exclusive 100
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very concerned about the mental toll this will take on City's players. 230
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good piece. But what if your university gave each student the newest version of Gemini and embedded it into Google Workspace? 010
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm especially concerned about the impact this might have on my son. He's young but has been supporting City for most of his life and the players are his heroes (esp. Haaland). 110
Michael Kates @michaelkates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Interesting; I haven't seen that. Do you have a link to an article? 100