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Former law professor, author, founder CCCL Film Festival https://en.ccclfilmfestival.com/about and founder of the Moore Prize https://www.cgmoorefoundation.org/home
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‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #2

Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...

Preparing for life in an illiterate world is mandatory for survival. x.com/NoContextHum...

From the Guardian: "These are despicable people, lacking even the morality of the hoodlum – and now they run the country we have regarded as our closest friend since the Edwardian age." tinyurl.com/5d7u6xj3

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

We are in a literacy freefall and have been for some decades. Neil Postman - PBS Currents (Literacy Lost) youtu.be/VWNHLKW7n5c?... via @YouTube

We are in a literacy freefall and have been for some decades. Neil Postman - PBS Currents (Literacy Lost) youtu.be/VWNHLKW7n5c?... via @YouTube

Now that Trump and the US wish to adopt an isolationist stance, why don't they take their dollar and printing press with them?

He has the world in a tight grip. He's tightening his fist. The US dollar is the global currency, and Trump can print money knowing that non-Americans have little choice but to use the US dollar to buy oil or other commodities under the current international trade regime.

However, Trump has shifted away from this rule-based system and withdrawn from international institutions to a system based on his personal values, desires, or whims, where no law, regulation or institution stands in his way.

After WWII, an international rule-based system was created. Following these rules and international institutions that benefited everyone, including Americans.

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We are delighted to announce the winner of the #2024MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing: Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil (translated by Joshua L Freeman. Congratulations to Tahir and Joshua! #nonfiction #literaryprize #books #China #Uyghurs

I'm another (in a long line of) Twitter refugee seeking asylum from the fire that Musk/Trump have set in the democratic forests of the world. My interests include climate change, human rights, cultural perspectives, history, politics and philosophy.