Barry Lam 🥢

@ProfBarryLam

Philosophy Professor at UC Riverside. Associate Director at Marc Sanders Foundation. Executive Producer of Hi-Phi Nation podcast. I mostly tweet at @Hiphination

Los Angeles, CA hiphination.org Joined July 2014

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Barry Lam 🥢 @ProfBarryLam Dec 9, 2024

Announcing my first book, with my style of longform narrative journalism and philosophy. It's about the clash between governing by top-down rules versus discretionary decision-making, in law, in sports, in the household. Pre-order now. @wwnorton wwnorton.com/books/fewer-ru…

wwnorton.com Fewer Rules, Better People “A call to rethink the value of good judgment.” —Evan Selinger, Boston GlobeA philosopher argues that the proliferation of rules and mandates is making us dumber, less moral, more deceptive, and less...

Barry Lam 🥢 @ProfBarryLam Nov 4

Rhetoric on ideology is not the same as competent governance. Here’s hoping Raman is more Mamdani than DeBlasio.

Barry Lam 🥢 @ProfBarryLam Nov 4

From a policy rather than punitive standpoint, it makes more sense for Dems to impeach Hegseth, Rubio, Bessent, Blanche, etc, than Trump. Trump strengthens under attack, but likes to throw his underlings under the bus, and at this point gives less than zero shits about policy.

Barry Lam 🥢 @ProfBarryLam Oct 27

Whenever you spend hundreds and thousands of hours trying to raise philanthropic money and organize and do something that is not only free but actually pays people for something, the universal response on the internet is always "f-you that you're not doing some other thing."

Barry Lam 🥢 @ProfBarryLam Oct 13

Crazy Asian crimes in California are going to be the next gen’s “Florida man.” This, the baby-hoarders of Arcadia, the old man who got put in a trunk in Chino and shot by old gambling buddies, and a crazy case of who put the hit on Jimmy Sengpaseuth justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/t…

www.justice.gov Twenty Defendants Charged in Drug Indictments; One Alleged Trafficker

CBS News Verified account @CBSNews Oct 12

A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced significant health problems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019.

Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.

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