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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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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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Why Adam Became a Crypto Shill
Adam Conover, whose videos I generally like, made an embarrassing mistake and accepted an offer to make a video about Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency company, World, and its Orb biometric scanning device. After folks complained and pointed out how working with…
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Why Speed Limits Don’t Matter
We set speed limits, we put them on signs, and we expect people to follow them. But in reality, it plays out a little differently. People don’t really drive based on what a sign tells them. So if signs don’t…
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