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There’s No Such Thing As a Smart Fascist

This post is a couple of years old now, so it is framed on Ron DeSantis who was at the time struggling to launch his campaign to be the Republican candidate for 2024. Ronald was supposed to be that great…
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This is How Universities Die

If American universities remain the envy of the world in 2025, the question must be: for how long? William C. Kirby This is How Universities Die (Harvard Magazine)
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The Myth of Artificial General Intelligence

Claims of “AGI” are a cover for abandoning the current social contract. Instead of focusing on the here and now, many people who focus on AGI think we ought to abandon all other scientific and socially beneficial pursuits and focus…
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An All-American Surveillance System

Jacob Ward discusses how the US government is contracting Palantir in order to process information on residents and compares it to Estonia’s digital identification. A key difference is that Estonia is focused on keeping the data siloed while here a…
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Unique

Time for another song that I like. This one is Unique by Lenka. Lenka – Unique (Official Video) (lenkatv – YouTube)
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The Myth of Bloated School Administration

One of the central arguments made by opponents of public education is that North Carolina taxpayers spend too much on their children and schools. Even as the state continues to rank near-bottom in the nation for school spending, some on…
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