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An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades: UPDATE (2026)

September 5, 2026 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blog, Capitalism, citizenship, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, critical thinking, Democracy, ERG, Ethics, Internet, Marx, Media, Open Source Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Social Media, Teaching Comments Off on An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades: UPDATE (2026)

Do “grades” even matter anymore?

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An Experiment in the (Re)distribution of Grades (Part 3)

September 5, 2026 Leigh M. Johnson Blog, citizenship, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Democracy, ERG, Ethics, Justice, Labor Issues, Pedagogy, Politics, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy Comments Off on An Experiment in the (Re)distribution of Grades (Part 3)

Why don’t we give students space to critically reflect upon the way they are assessed?

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An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades (Part 2)

September 4, 2026 Leigh M. Johnson Blog, Capitalism, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Democracy, ERG, Ethics, Justice, Public Philosophy Comments Off on An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades (Part 2)

Pearl clutch! Turns out Gen Z is socialist!

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An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades

September 4, 2026 Leigh M. Johnson Blog Comments Off on An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades

What if “pointless points” could be redistributed?

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Comradeship in Crisis: Climate Change vs. the Posthuman Threat

October 24, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Blog2024+, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Emergent Tech, Environmental concerns, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Technology and Human Values, Trump Comments Off on Comradeship in Crisis: Climate Change vs. the Posthuman Threat

Could the posthuman—rather than climate catastrophe—be the unifying force that calls us to arms?

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Lying Artificial Intelligence

July 27, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blog2024+, Emergent Tech, Ethics, Hotel Bar Sessions, Internet, Justice, Machine Learning, Media, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, podcast, Politics, Posthuman, Social Media, SPEP, Technology, Technology and Human Values Comments Off on Lying Artificial Intelligence

Should we worry about a robot capable of lying about being a robot?

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5 Tips For Starting A New Podcast

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Blog 2023+, RMWMTMBM Archive, Tutorials Comments Off on 5 Tips For Starting A New Podcast

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in…

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This Is Not A Retraction

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, LGBTQ, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, SCOTUS, Women and Gender Issues Comments Off on This Is Not A Retraction

I’ve received a fair amount of pushback (mostly on Facebook and Twitter, but also in the comments section here) regarding my post on Saturday critical of the Supreme Court’s Ogerbefell decision. I may have been a little quick on the draw with my criticism, which I posted only one day after SCOTUS’ decision and while…

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The Wired Election, Part 3: “A Man Got To Have A Code.”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Democracy, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, TheWiredElection2016 Comments Off on The Wired Election, Part 3: “A Man Got To Have A Code.”

[This is the third installment of my series The Wired Election, employing insights gained from HBO television series The Wire to interpret 2016 Presidential election campaign events, persons and states of affair. The cheese stands alone.]

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Our Dirty War

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Democracy, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive Comments Off on Our Dirty War

The disappearance of citizens displays a perversely cruel and absolute sovereignty. —Ruti Teitel, Transitional Justice (2002) I should begin by noting that I started writing what follows last week, after the publication of the New York Times story on the “1.5 Million Missing Black Men in America” but before the popular uprising in Baltimore that began Monday as…

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