Posts

Things that I think are worth your time.

  • 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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  • Fourth Amendment?

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly…

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