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"On a November afternoon in 2019, I was sitting at home when my phone pinged to announce the arrival of an email from one of the most famous musical figures of the past half-century. It’s not every day—or indeed any day—that U2’s frontman contacts me. But back in the late ’80s, when the Irish band arrived to play in New Zealand in the first flush of their global conquest, we had exchanged some words. And this, it turned out, was what he wanted to discuss."
David Cohen on U2 at fifty, and on being wrong in public.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury gave an interfaith award to a cleric who once praised bin Laden. On the 9/11 anniversary.
@Singhtwo2 on why the Church keeps getting interfaith politics wrong.
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"There’s no rule of God that says 'thou shalt invite anyone to this country.' We can do whatever we want."
- Misha Saul on Australia's dysfunctional immigration policy
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An OpenAI agent’s breach of a Medicare portal shows that the real danger from AI is a mundane one—and the labs’ fixation on a coming machine god is making it worse.
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The insights of Robert Trivers are obvious once explained, yet eluded great minds for ages; simple enough to be stated in a few words, yet with implications that have busied scientists for decades, writes @sapinker.
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TIL the genocide libel is nothing new. The Left has been using it to describe any war or conflict they disagree with for decades. But of course, it's only "genocide" if the West is doing it. Violence committed by what they see as nobel savages always gets explained away.
Maia Zelkha in @Quillette
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In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
Maia Zelkha on why today's Gaza accusation follows the same script.
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A Methodist minister in Hiroshima wrote down what he saw on 6 August 1945. The manuscript sat in a Yale library among John Hersey's papers for decades. @michaelmrosen on Kiyoshi Tanimoto's lost memoir, and the silence in the Peace Park.
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Anglophone teens are drinking hot water, practising tai chi, and concluding that China is governed better than we are.
Aaron Sarin on Chinamaxxing, and why it owes almost nothing to the Communist Party's soft-power strategy.
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Looking forward to interviewing @DanielleHaas01 for the @Quillette Cetera podcast this arvo. She spent 14 years as a senior editor at @hrw but publicly walked out after October 7, saying the organisation had "surrendered its duty to stand for human rights of all." She has an insider's understanding of just how biased and unprofessional these NGOs are-- not just when it comes to Israel but whichever other topic doesn't pass the woke, third worldist litmus test.
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Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
A review by @michaelmrosen.
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Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
A review by Marilyn Simon.
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A federally funded museum in Winnipeg is telling the story of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war without the Arab rejection of partition, the Mufti's Nazi broadcasts, or the Jews expelled from Arab states.
Historian Jeffrey Herf went to see it, this is his review.
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Elon Musk says money won't matter by 2036. Shalom Lappin went back and compared the AI revolution with the century that gave us antibiotics, the tractor, the telephone and the aeroplane. He argues the older one wins, and it isn't close.
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Misha Saul always has interesting insights (and was a great poaster here) & his @Quillette discussion here with @clairlemon is essential viewing for every Australian & for those wanting to avoid our recent sclerosis and intellectual malaise #Auspol
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Bernie Sanders wants to outlaw "artificial superintelligence." The risks are real, but you don't tame a powerful technology by banning it. And China won't pause, writes @aziz0nomics.
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Marilyn Simon reviews Pascal Bruckner's new book 'I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the Victim as Hero' for @Quillette
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Misha Saul wrote that "One Nation are a bunch of nincompoops." Has he changed his mind?
In conversation with Quillette founder @clairlemon
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