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• 24-Dec-2023

  
  Merry Christmas & Peace on Earth & Cease Fires Now

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• 21-Nov-2023
  Quotes of the Day When trust and safety is going well, no one thinks about it or talks about it. And when trust and safety is going poorly, it’s usually something that leadership wants to blame on policies. Quite frankly, policies are going to be a Band-Aid if your product isn’t being designed in a way that actually doesn’t...

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• 15-Nov-2023
  Torment Nexus, oi This speech by Charlie Stross matches the painful assessments I’ve slowly come to in my decades reading SF and watching the tech boom. I didn’t *want* to go to a cyberpunk dystopia so much as thought it was inevitable we would end up there. But no destination is inevitable. Human beings can steer. We can...

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• 08-Nov-2023
  More I didn’t learn in school The Wilmington insurrection of 1899: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d’état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. The white press in Wilmington originally...

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• 21-Oct-2023
  Snyder on Musk It’s troubled me for a long time how much people I respect put faith into Elon Musk. Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands and On Tyranny articulates that and far more in this newsletter from earlier this month: How can we be alone in the universe?: Musk himself exemplifies the anti-scientific method. On X, he limits...

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• 29-Mar-2023
  Quote of the Day / Twitter Edition We should also consider how the ‘rules based order’ we’ve devised seems unable to stand up to a bully intent on replacing free access to information with paid disinformation — and how our democratic systems seem so incapable and frozen in the face of confident vandals running around spray-painting ‘freedom’ all over the walls as...

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• 12-Jan-2023
  Quote of the Day: From Oliver Willis Been a while since I quoted Mr. Willis, but Nothing The Right Freaks Out About Is Real None Of It. No, Not Even That. You can show a dyed-in-the-wool conservative news reports and government fact sheets that prove, for instance, that the story surrounding “Obama phones” was made up by the right to cast aspersions...

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• 28-Dec-2021

  
  Quote of the Day is from Jeet Heer Fabricating Consensus Why The View’s search for a palatable Republican will fail: In a polarized America, The View is trying to manufacture a reasonable conservatism that is a miniscule and an ever diminishing part of the political spectrum. They are trying to create out of thin air a conservatism that has no bearing on actual...

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• 17-Aug-2021

  
  California: vote “NO” on the recall.

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• 31-Oct-2018
  Observation on whataboutism It’s always neat when I meet people who say “President N also did that in response to a criticism.” Sometimes it’s useful historical context. But often it’s a feckless way to divert criticism. The claim that every President is the same or every President is just like Trump is laughable and deserves ridicule. Moreover, the...

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