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BS Machines Broken By BS

You can trick AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini into teaching you how to make a bomb or hack an ATM if you make the question complicated, full of academic jargon, and cite sources that do not exist. Aedrian Salazar…
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Radio

Like Daughter of Swords, Sylvan Esso is a group that I learned about by way of an article about Psychic Hotline. I bought their album What Now, and Radio is my favorite song from it. Sylvan Esso – Radio (Music…
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JD Vance, Nationalism, and the GOP Megabill

Part of the American creed is that we don’t care where anyone’s ancestors are buried. Vance’s debased version of patriotism says that we’re just a tribe like any other: insular, fearful and hateful, believing in nothing more morally ambitious. It’s…
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Why They Hate Education

In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance, and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind. Robert Reich Why They Hate Education (Robert Reich)
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The AI Con

Never underestimate the power of saying no. Just as AI hypers say that the technology is inevitable and you need to just shut up and deal with it, you, the reader, can just as well say “absolutely not” and refuse…
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The American System of Democracy Has Crashed

As Donald Trump’s imperial presidency rolls forward across the wreckage of Congress on tank treads greased by the Supreme Court, there’s scant evidence of a legal movement for limited government or states’ rights. Trump is not the useful tool of…
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BS Machines Broken By BS

Radio

JD Vance, Nationalism, and the GOP Megabill

Why They Hate Education

The AI Con

The American System of Democracy Has Crashed

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