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Land, ag, climate, systems thinking, history. A Holocene, if you can keep it.
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Yup, and a lot of northern Scandinavia was also Christianized very late, even as late as the 16th or 17th century in the more remote regions with the Lutheran missions. Compared to most of Europe, pre-Christian up there wasn’t even that long ago!
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Ganz had a great short essay about this a couple years ago, the histories of both the NYPD and LAPD illustrate what you’re saying so precisely. And so many PD’s at other scales of course. We’re really going to have to grasp and grapple with this in any serious effort to fix policing policy.
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He’s my Senator and I do have a lot of appreciation for him, one of the most consistent climate hawk votes in the Senate among other things, but yeah I would support a “thank you for your service, time for a new generation now” primary challenge.
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Fully agree on all three counts here.
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(…) very large overleveraged empty bag, and they want to leave the public holding it instead.
That, and many of them are true believers in what is essentially a new religious movement around AGI’s supposed imminent, world-reordering arrival.
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(…) returns is to structurally embed LLM’s into government, military, and finance, therefore d) the alternating messianic/apocalyptic language is a tool to generate a sense of inevitability with the decision makers in those sectors. Because otherwise VC’s are going to be left holding a (…)
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My read on this is a) venture capital is massively pot committed to AI, b) current LLM applications are producing marginal to moderate productivity improvements in some specific applications, but nothing that could produce the level of returns VC’s expect, c) the only way they’ll get those (…)
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I haven’t been tracking systematically but I do think it’s getting worse.
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It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
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My greatest critique of modern commentary is they don't understand how far humanity can fall from here. They don't know.
I understand proclamations that it can't get worse. But it can.
How even the greatest battles are won by people who don't have enough food.
Against people who don't have any.
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Holy moly.
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jesus
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We have *got* to aim to influence the de facto, on the ground reality, not just to win in the courts and on policy (we need to keep winning those too but they're far from enough on their own!) www.liberalcurrents.com/a-practical-...
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Ah, really? Feel like expanding to Seattle + Vegas and shifting Minnesota into the EC has been looking like the likely thing, maybe I’m missing something though
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They do, and it’s because they cannot tolerate their place in the (already highly materially unequal, *in their favor*!) social order the country has generated over time.
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Yuuuup, Ender’s is (though imo pretty well written and interesting!) ideologically awful for a lot of reasons, but in at least some of them it’s looking more and more prescient-bad.