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Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…d get to work. Of course many liberals already do. And there lies the good news. The United States has a rich heritage of liberal (and even radical) political views being promoted by religious people and congregations. Millions of Americans seek sanctity in their lives, humble themselves before a higher power (however they understand it), and realize that liberal policies will foster a safer, more orderly life for themselves and their community. B…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…orts from coast to coast. The recent contretemps around the opening of the new REBAR in the old G Lounge space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is (again) quite typical. Evidently aware that G had finally, after many years, become a rare welcoming downtown space for people of color, the new management made a point of making REBAR distinctly unwelcoming to African American patrons. With Pride month upon us, I want to call out what should be recog…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…not entirely predictable, we may want to sue bots themselves, rather than user-workers. There is no guarantee that we will come to feel this way or that we must, but it is certainly one possibility. Whether or not we are replaced by robots, chances are, in the coming decades, more and more of us will work beside them. Right now our moral intuitions about robots are not well tuned, and we’re facing new problems that stretch our judgments. All of u…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ernor George Pataki’s case, he botched the facts, too: he claimed that the New York Police Department had a “very active group, aggressively monitoring” Muslim communities, which “stopped and prevented dozens, and dozens of attacks in New York.” But the NYPD itself has admitted the program, since disbanded, produced no terrorism leads. “I’m a great believer in the First Amendment,” Pataki insisted, while advocating for spying on people based on th…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…n teach us about Ferguson Watch filmmaker Dean Peterson’s short video of a New York City subway stairwell: When the video was posted three years ago, it prompted this jewel of an observation by Metafilter user James Bording: “On its own, when you see one person slip, you automatically assume that person slipped, was clumsy or not playing attention. But when you look at the aggregate, you realize that the failure isn’t on the individual at all, rat…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…ur cat or your toes. You have toes (I assume). So, anyway, I agree—the bad news is that we’re totally not ready for Ultron. The good news is that we may be ready for Roombas. But the middling news is that even that may not be all that easy. MHS: Because Roombas aren’t people? HL: Well, yes, and because it might still be hard to figure out who to sue to compensate you for your rogue Roomba. Or your rogue oven that burns your smarthouse down while y…

An Art of Flesh and Blood: Remembering Disability Activist Rev. Rick Curry

By Gregory Mozgala

…each other. A young man with a severe case of cerebral palsy—a wheelchair user who relied on a personal attendant—in the next room overheard us and threw himself out of his chair, dragging himself over to us so he could join the conversation. I saw a man who couldn’t walk without crutches suddenly get up and run to the front of a bar when he realized it was his time to sing karaoke (a miracle?), and I watched people from all over the country and…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

…are needed to imagine the sexual scene he sets. I interviewed creators and users of Christian sexuality websites and asked whether the sexual nature of the content worried them. Surprisingly, no one seemed very concerned. How are they so confident that these websites are wholesome rather than obscene? The Barna Group has its answer, based on the “Porn Phenomenon” data: “Turns out, it’s more a question of function than form. If it’s used for sexual…

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…helps designers use a system of digital triggers and reward loops to hook users, keeping them engaged. It’s a guide to making zombies, not to curing them. There has been backlash to Eyal’s book, mostly focused on consumer protection policies. In Aeon, Cubit co-producer Michael Schulson argues for government regulation of addictive technologies. Slate magazine founder Jacob Weisberg, writing in the New York Review of Books, advocates age restricti…

Via Jokes, ChatGPT Chooses Which Religious Traditions and Figures Deserve Respect — And Therefore What Counts as ‘Religion’

By Robert M. Geraci

…ah, or Muhammad. With regard to these latter examples, ChatGPT informs the user that it could hurt someone’s religious sensibilities by telling such a joke. But it does not say this with regard to Krishna. At first it seemed to me that there is an ontological difference between Krishna, Muhammad, and Jesus in that the latter two are—or are at least widely understood to be—historical individuals. So to test this hypothesis, I went to ChatGPT and I…