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  • Stop Using Generative AI as a Search Engine

    I know people are sick of talking about glue on pizza, but I find the large-scale degradation of our information environment that has already taken place shocking. (Just search Amazon if you want to see what I mean.) This happens…

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  • You Should Have a Website

    When you post on social media, you are subject to the whims of whoever runs it. If you get banned, no one knows how to find you. If the website gets sold to someone who sucks, you cannot transfer your…

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  • More on Biden’s Pardon

    It’s one in a long line of things that should be punished by the electorate, but are currently not. This kind of behavior, whether it is from President Biden or former President Trump should have made either of the candidates…

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  • How North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Affects the Nation

    Here’s the reality: the congressional map we used to have, with a 7-7 Republican-Democratic split, reflected the true political makeup of our state. It was fair. It gave voters on both sides confidence that their voices mattered. But that wasn’t…

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  • Those Who Remember Dictatorship

    The events in South Korea, and this trip to Portugal, has me more convinced than ever that the United States is an innocent teenager when it comes to our development as a nation, and our tendency to let the market…

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  • Storing Times for Human Events

    What’s wrong with calculating the exact UTC time the event is starting and storing only that? The problem is that we are losing crucial details about the event creator’s original intent. … My strong recommendation here is that the most…

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