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It surprises me that at this point I'm moving toward the political left. I am by instinct a principled conservative but at this point in American history the right has totally abandoned any ethical grounding that it ever had. It has become a soulless personality cult.

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Just gonna leave this here youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

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Aaron Swartz was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment and $1 million in fines for downloading JSTOR articles, and subsequently took his life, but apparently we should allow OpenAI to have unfettered access to copyrighted material?

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GWOT operator cosplay as an element of the administration’s repurposing of the war on terror

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I think the appropriate meme here is this.

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This is a bit unclear. The person: - had access to Wiles’ contacts - spoke in her voice 🗣️ But calls came from different #. “Hack” maybe true, but sounds like AI voice spoof. 🙊 What is clear: they gutted research grants & state capacity for work in this area www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Today, 85 years ago: The peak of the "Miracle of Dunkirk," with ~ 70,000 British troops evacuated. The successful rescue at Dunkirk allows Britain to survive in 1940, which makes possible allied victory later. Lesson: You need to survive your Dunkirk before you can attack and win on your D-Day.

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HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Fearlessness is an American value.

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Yeah so....

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Surrendering economic leadership to China.

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"Confused President tries to fire person who doesn't work for him"

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Isn't the move here to just show up at work on Monday? Spend the weekend working with your broad, general counsel, IT, and security team to prepare for the inevitable confrontation.

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Isn't the move here to just show up at work on Monday? Spend the weekend working with your broad, general counsel, IT, and security team to prepare for the inevitable confrontation.

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JWST and Hubble are remarkable, concrete, and famous American achievements.

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Seriously, WTF? This is a colossal scandal.

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IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

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"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

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Oh, look, I wrote this two months ago.

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On the rise of the shallow state: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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God yes this

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Very very bad. Very very self-defeating. Idiocy posing as toughness.

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If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

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The relevant appeals court, the Federal Circuit, has zero Trump appointees on it.

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Yet very few are articulating the reform path required to fix this.

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Here’s a fun line of inquiry for journalists: Is the current commander in chief now aware that the US is bombing Somalia? Does he know who the US is bombing in Somalia? Could he articulate a defensible rationale for why the US is bombing Somalia or how it fits into some broader strategy?

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Internalize the fact that, barring some improbable set of events, none of these people will ever be held accountable because they're all getting pardons.

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Lots of R1 and R2 universities in red states.

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Whoever he nominates next will make Harriet Miers seem like a top tier choice.

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I mean, event Chat GPT gets this one right chatgpt.com/share/6835cb...

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Now the unprecedented fascist assault on contracts, the separation of powers, property rights, & the rule of law is not just about universities, but also states.

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I really don't think people want to wear a silly pendant that records everything they do.

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Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett are definitely more interesting and thoughtful than Donald Trump realized when he appointed them. This is something he will remember and correct for when Thomas or Alito retire, which I presume is fairly likely to be later this year or next.

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Liberalism is a fighting faith. Fight for your free liberal democracy. So many already died to create it.

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This fact has been and remains my strategic north star. We need everyone who's with us on the core question: should American be a pluralist liberal democracy? If their answer is yes, swallow the rest of your disagreements.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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I want to make a bot that awards points every time someone mentions VO Keys.

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This is the context. This right here. The overturning of Reconstruction-the second one, this time.

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In an information economy, universities are factories.

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My ~1998 300mhz Pentium II Gateway desktop put so many cycles into this every night.

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I want this back. I loved doing this on my PC when I was a kid. Take my compute cycles to search for extraterrestrial intelligence! Please!

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