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Elon Musk telling the NYT ‘s Aaron Ross Sorkin he enjoyed being hated. The Economist gave us a classically sloppy piece last week, telling us that we need the mega-wealthy types like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The argument is largely tautological. It points out that the mega-rich have been responsible for the diffusion of important technologies. There is considerable truth to that, but this is because we have structured the economy in ways that allowed people to get super-rich by gaining control of important technologies. If we had structured the economy differently, we wouldn’t have super-rich people responsible for…
When AI Finds Every Flaw, Who Controls the Internet? Source link
IL Democrats Push Redistricting 'Reform' To Maintain Own Power Source link
Zoologist by career, TV celebrity in the 1960s, renowned surrealist painter, and bestselling author of more than 70 books, Desmond Morris left a legacy that enlightened our species, answered taboo questions, and made audiences around the world look at behavior with renewed eyes. This is a tribute to one of the greatest observers of human behavior. He never shied away from controversy. His first popular book, published in 1967, proclaimed on its cover what at the time was seen as offensive: that we humans are “naked apes.” The logic was compelling: if one were to place close to 400 primate…
President Donald Trump is loudly trying to convince two critical audiences – Iran’s leaders and the American people – that he’s calling the shots in the war. Source link
Stealing is bad, and you shouldn’t do it. It’s really as simple as that. Children understand this, even from a young age, and it’s taught to them by their parents, grandparents, teachers, and other mentors. Some people, of course, find themselves in desperate circumstances, and are forced to steal to survive. We may empathize with them, and we may even decide that their situation mitigates the blameworthiness of the offense. That doesn’t change the wrongness of stealing, though. If you catch your kids snatching a candy bar from the grocery store checkout line, you invariably punish them. You don’t commend…
Image by Juli Kosolapova. Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that’s slipping through their fingers. Instead of another of the great victories the empire won at its peak of power, however, such military misadventures only serve to accelerate the ongoing decline, erasing whatever aura of imperial majesty remains and revealing instead the moral rot deep…
For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in the legacy media have spread the damnable Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town. Of course, the opposite is true, as Trump actually said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.” Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans descended upon Charlottesville and represented some…
Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout and the Manhattan Institute’s John Ketcham debate the resolution, “Mayor Zohran Mamdani is likely to fulfill his campaign pledge to make New York City more affordable for most residents.” Taking the affirmative is Teachout, an attorney and professor of law at Fordham Law School. She is the author of two books, Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money and Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United. She’s also formerly served as special adviser and senior counsel for economic justice at the New York…
My only loyalty is to humanity, and being on Team Human in today’s world means being against the US empire and against Israel. Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran. I hope this war collapses the entire US empire. My only loyalty is to humanity, and being on Team Human in today’s world means being against the US empire and against Israel. I hope the empire falls. I hope the apartheid state of Israel is dismantled. I hope humanity is able to pry the…