Things that I think are worth your time.
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We Need To Talk About ICE
A video from Kat Abughazaleh about the government’s usage of ICE as an intimidation tool without regard for due process. We Need To Talk About ICE (Kat Abughazaleh – YouTube)
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Cherry Republic
I first visited the Cherry Republic in Glen Arbor, Michigan when I was in high school. One of my teachers, who was also my coach for cross country and the sponsor of adventure club, was the brother of Bob, Cherry…
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Email Servers and Signal
I thought this was a good look at how Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal differs from the email server that Hillary Clinton used while Secretary of State. The video is notably before more recent news stories about how Hegseth was…
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The Idea of Computer Generated Employees is Weird
The very idea of having an “employee” that is just a large language model and a generated portrait seems bizarre to me. A boss immediately hitting on the large language model when he sees the generated portrait is even weirder.…
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20 Lessons on Tyranny
A video of John Lithgow reading the 20 lessons about tyranny from Timothy Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow (PoliticsGirl – YouTube)
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Conservative Seniors & Survivorship Bias
One of the abiding realities of our political era is a major generational split anchored on the right by disproportionately conservative seniors and on the left by disproportionately progressive millennials and post-millennials. This is often thought of as a perfectly…
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