Things that I think are worth your time.
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How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Authorities in and outside government said the acquiescence to Israel as it prosecuted a brutal war will likely be regarded as one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the Biden presidency. They say it undermines America’s ability to…
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
It is, as many have already pointed out, incredibly ironic that OpenAI, a company that has been obtaining large amounts of data from all of humankind largely in an “unauthorized manner,” and, in some cases, in violation of the terms…
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Pardoning 1500 Insurrectionists Is An Insult To America
It was, without hyperbole, an insurrection against this country. An attempted coup, a bona fide attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. And it was the most violent attack on the Capitol since 1814. And yet, now re-elected President…
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A Radical Test of the Presidency’s Power
Much about the initial memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which has since been rescinded, was unclear — including the scope or duration of the “temporary” pause on “all federal…
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The South Bank of the Rubicon
The thing about points of no return, the reason we worry over them so much, is it’s rare to know where they are until they are some ways behind you. Ian Danskin The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the…
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