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North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival

One of my favorite holiday season events since moving to North Carolina is the Chinese Lantern Festival. We attended the first time for a Microsoft holiday event, but have returned several of the years since then, including last weekend.
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Condemning Millions for One Man’s Crime

Miller is justifying collective punishment and guilt by blood. I’ve witnessed those barbarisms elsewhere, in war-ravaged countries and in dictatorships, but never before during my lifetime as a matter of national policy here at home. Trump and his top aides…
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

The soul of public education is at stake. When the largest public university system licenses an AI chatbot from a corporation that blacklists journalists, exploits data workers in the Global South, amasses geopolitical and energy power at an unprecedented scale,…
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Shy Boy

Katie Melua is doing a remaster of her album Piece by Piece, so there’s a new version of one of my favorite songs: Shy Boy.
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Reactions to an Assassination

A few articles about Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the response to it that I think are worth reading. That Kirk, who became famous for participating in viral political debates, was gunned down on a university campus is a tragedy, period.…
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How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

Tens of thousands of people, at any given time, are idly listening to the ambient, muted beats that accompany the Lofi Girl livestream: in solo studying sessions, taking tests in a classroom, and using the tunes as a stand-in for…
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North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival

Condemning Millions for One Man’s Crime

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Shy Boy

Reactions to an Assassination

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

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