Mollie Gerver
@mgerver
Associate Professor in International Ethics at King’s College London, focusing on immigration, consent, and experimental philosophy. www.mgerver.com
Everyone faces pressure. Pressure comes from employers to work more hours, from societal expectations to lose weight, from the government to leave the country, and from family to have children. My new book considers when pressure invalidates consent, and how we can make consent more voluntary. 1/3
Happy eclipse everyone! My daughter added holes through a leaf to see the eclipse through.
In case you missed it, @alanmanning4.bsky.social in his new book also thinks claiming an economy “needs immigration” is unhelpful.
People who judge the quality of AI based on how much it can write should read this:
Really looking forward to @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s forthcoming book, but was surprised to see that you can’t *not* consent to cookies on her website, with only “accept” as an option. That’s contrary to UK law, and also seems inconsistent with Klein’s principles!
They used to do that all the time: www.christopherfowler.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Many in Trump's cabinet are from the part of the tech world which gave us the Thiel Fellowship, which pays people $100,000 to not go to college because college is just "good for learning about what's been done before." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/t...
When I was in high school we only had two channels and twelve films on VHS. One of them was this film, watched at least a dozen times.