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Hate to Godwin's Law this, but what if the Berlin Bugle in 1931 said, Hitler may be a threat to democracy, but polls show that most Germans are most concerned about Communism and the Jewish problem. A journalist's job is not to reflect the polls, but
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The past two days of former president Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, to silence her before the 2016 election have been illumina
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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the ha
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But while a chatbot can't produce truthful and informative articles, it can produce bullshit – at unimaginable scale. Chatbots are the workers that hedge-fund wreckers dream of: tireless, uncomplaining, compliant and obedient producers of nonsense on
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As I reflected on these problem-solving technologies—Zoom with Swivl, and ChatGPT—it occurred to me they both would have “worked” if we’d all been robots. That is, if the goal were to transfer facts and ideas from the teachers to the students, Zoom a
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It was an odd echo, for on this day in 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed into law the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers, but not scholars, businessmen, or diplomats, from immigrating to the United States for ten years. This w
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Science acknowledges that we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction of life on this planet. A primary factor contributing to the upheaval is human behavior. Civilization has created a massive ecological catastrophe through such behaviors as: clea
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You cannot trust your message to entities that do not — and should not — share your interests. The Right has a large media apparatus that can tell their story on their terms to their voters. The proper response to the shortcomings of traditional medi
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You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app th
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As the United States turns to protectionism and an embrace of the kind of policies it would’ve spurned less than a decade ago, the true nature of its internet policy is being put on full display. It was never about the liberal ideals it wrapped the i
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What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single
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Six mortals with lifetime appointments, five of them named by Republican presidents who never won a popular majority, routinely abandoning even the pretense of intellectual coherence and procedural norms to press changes in how the nation is governed
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Publicly partnering with people who've been charged with crimes and who'll be charged with even more crimes if people who haven't been charged with crimes stop publicly partnering with them is a very strange move for *checks notes* every Republican i
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When we agree to live simply, people cease to be possessions and objects for our consumption or use. Our lust for relationships or for others to serve us, our need for admiration, our desire to use people or things as commodities for our personal ple
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Trump’s blank, aggressive ignorance shouldn’t be a comfort. He has shown, over and over, that incompetence doesn’t have to undermine evil intent; often it can exacerbate it. He offers a vision of a presidency of cruelty and violence disavowed as it o
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On social media, the writer Rick Perlstein has been discussing, with reference to his book Nixonland, the policing of unrest back then versus the policing of unrest now and pointing out that since 9 / 11, a riot-gear posture of emergency has become so
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It seems to me like the point of all this wealth inequality is to make sure a bunch of us stay down at the bottom, slaving away at jobs we hate, because those jobs ensure that this tiny handful of jerks can go around doing whatever they want. After a
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However, driving is not a right, it’s a privilege and our social contract depends on people responsibly using this privilege. A responsible society would bar reckless drivers from driving ever again in a dense, transit-rich, populated area like San F
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But the GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative (but not angry) Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden. At the same time, we should work to elect GOP congressional majorities to block hi
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Then there's Jeff Bezos's war on his workers' kidneys. Amazon warehouse workers and drivers notoriously have to pee in bottles, because they are monitored by algorithms that dock their pay for taking bathroom breaks. The road to Amazon's warehouse in
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Every time the man who once took an oath to faithfully execute America’s laws and may next year do so again acts in ways that would bring criminal sanction to any other defendant, by brazenly and deliberately intimidating witnesses in direct defiance
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Villeneuve doesn’t dispose of body horror when it comes to the Harkonnens but he does spread it out considerably, populating Harkonnen spaces with androgynous, doe-eyed, sausage-fingered slaves, and spiderhumans in gimp suits. He disposes of the homo
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This is the problem with white evangelical identity: It’s contingent on partisan political calculations beyond its own control. What is or is not acceptable for the white evangelical mainstream changes based on the shifting winds of the current Repub
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Long after the current administration passes from the scene, President Joseph R. Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be remembered not for their bumbling, embarrassing encounters with the Chinese, nor for their steadfast refusal to negot
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