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recent bookmarks from mcmorganDisciplined for Requiring My Students to Wear Masks2021-10-02T16:05:00+00:00
https://academeblog.org/2021/10/01/disciplined-for-requiring-my-students-to-wear-masks/
mcmorgan Every philosophy that I am aware of places happiness and its concomitant, health (with death being the epitome of ill-health), at or near the apogee of its moral framework. Here’s where our bedfellows have a falling out. Iowa’s legislature and governor seem to be expending Herculean amounts of energy to please and appease the base of the political right. Consequently, the BOR finds themselves bound to a political juggernaut that demands loyalty and holds the “Damocles’ sword of funding” above their heads. Thus, our universities are forbidden to require that students, faculty, and staff wear masks. Given that diseases, in particular the Delta-5 variant of COVID-19, readily and rapidly spread unless constrained, it is a near certainty that the BOR’s decree has caused deaths and long-COVID among the population. For example, a non-symptomatic student passes the virus to a roommate, who spreads it to an off-campus friend, who gives it to his grandma who dies. I surmise that disallowing mask mandates is both morally and ethically wrong. Our two bedfellows, politics and morality, are experiencing a severe bout of insomnia.]]>covid-19 ethicshttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:3175c33114f2/Trump and Kushner on the Coronavirus: ... Revisionist History2020-05-01T01:45:13+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/politics/trump-kushner-coronavirus-revisionist-history.html
mcmorgan At the same time, the reported death toll from the virus in the United States topped 60,000 — more killed in eight weeks than the 58,000 American troops killed in eight years of major combat in Vietnam. The death toll has already reached where it was expected to be in August, more than three months from now, according to projections accepted by the White House. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now estimates that 73,000 will die by August.
This is not how you measure success. This is how you measure failure. It could always be worse.
> In the revised history of the pandemic that Mr. Trump and his team offered, his actions were not belated and inadequate, but bold and effective. “We did all the right moves,” Mr. Trump said. “If we didn’t do what we did, you would have had a million people die, maybe more, maybe two million people die.”]]>covid-19 deception ethics trumphttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:b2028d115d76/US edits National Stockpile website after Kushner claims it’s not for states2020-04-04T16:29:33+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/us-edits-national-stockpile-website-after-kushner-claims-its-not-for-states/
mcmorgan The Trump administration changed the Strategic National Stockpile website's description of the program yesterday after White House adviser Jared Kushner falsely claimed that the medical-supply stockpile is not meant to be used to help states. The description was changed to minimize the stockpile's role in helping states through crises like the current pandemic, but other portions of the official website still make it clear that Kushner was wrong.
I doubt that the website declares the actual policy - that would be in official government docs - so the change in the site is an attempt at covering Kushner’s tracks. But it’s not the action of responsible leaders. ]]>coronavirus ethics trump ethos deceptionhttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:9f88c74ecee8/Trump Officials Scared To Tell the Truth About Coronavirus2020-03-03T23:39:31+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-vaccine-pentagon-lying.html
mcmorgan Trump’s incentive, as always, is absolutely transparent, like watching a simple machine encased in glass. He is perfectly amoral and projects his amorality onto others. Under the Obama administration, he wildly and recklessly hyped the Ebola threat to discredit the administration for political gain, and has assumed his own opponents will naturally do the same to him. He has therefore focused on minimizing the coronavirus threat and demanded his administration do the same.]]>coronavirus trump ethicshttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:29f50d192274/Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive2020-02-25T15:48:06+00:00
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/25/org_purchaser_promises/
mcmorgan ICANN has received confidential information from Ethos/PIR about the various companies but notes in its new letter: “ICANN requested certain information regarding the directors and officers of the post-transaction entities (and Affiliates). PIR has provided information with respect to four individuals who will serve on the Board of Managers of Purpose Domains Investments LLC. There are five seats on that Board of Managers. Please identify the fifth director.”
> And if you think all of that sounds suspicious, you’re not the only one. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has approached the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to “review the leveraged buyout” and asked ICANN to publish the information it does have.]]>eff ethics .orghttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:536af3ee05e0/Protect Your Intellectual Property2019-11-07T14:30:18+00:00
https://academeblog.org/2019/11/06/protect-your-intellectual-property/
mcmorgan Here’s how it could potentially work:
> The university could enter into a “Course Development Agreement” with a part-time or contingent faculty member, giving him or her access to all instructional materials that Purdue faculty from across the university system created and placed in a learning management system like Blackboard. The contingent faculty member would then use this content to assemble a course through a variety of modules, thus fulfilling the “Course Development Agreement.”
> However, something happens when the contingent faculty member signs that agreement and uses those instructional resources: those “Instructional Copyrightable Works” become “Commissioned Copyrightable Works,” which only the administration control.]]>academicfreedom lms administrative_Schemes copyright ethics adjuncts DEhttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:d0ff685eb88c/Serving at Cross’s Purposes. WI unit system rewards the suck ups.2018-12-13T15:46:59+00:00
https://academeblog.org/2018/12/12/serving-at-crosss-purposes/
mcmorgan Why am I not surprised? Because as anyone who has been paying attention knows, the chancellors have been carrying water for UW System President Ray Cross and the Regents for several years now. These outsized raises are financial rewards for their not having opposed or obstructed a single top-down edict from Cross and the Regents–for their having carried out his orders like good soldiers or middle managers are expected to do.
> Put differently, what both the raises and the punishment reveal is that these raises are payoffs, ex post facto bribes, or quid pro quo rewards for UW System chancellors having accepted without objection the destruction of tenure and shared governance; repeated massive budget cuts; unfunded tuition freezes; and the break-up and distribution of the UW Colleges and Extension to the four-year, comprehensive, and doctoral campuses, aka the UW System merger.
Looks like students need to go further afield to find an ethical university. ]]>ethics politics mnscu businesshttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:ee3080ac585b/Predicting Financial Crime: Augmenting the Predictive Policing Arsenal Brian Clifton1, Sam Lavigne1, and Francis Tseng12017-04-26T22:59:33+00:00
https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/static/whitepaper.pdf
mcmorganethics art rhetoric algorithmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:51ad7e19c437/O'Reilly Radar > Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct2007-04-10T11:10:13+00:00
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/call_for_a_blog_1.html
mcmorganblogging ethics web2.0 codeofconducthttps://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:7f237c50e55a/Bloggers Can't Ignore Basic Ethics of Journalism2006-12-29T23:53:46+00:00
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077969,00.asp?kc=EWYH104059TX1B0100580
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