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Assisted suicide advocates are rewriting the English language—not least, by demanding we not call suicide "suicide."
As @historykev argues, we mustn't let them:
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The two new films about Charles de Gaulle will stir an emotion you had forgotten how to express, intelligent patriotism. I watched the final secnes of the second film through a mist of tears. Why does anyone bother with Christopher Nolan's dullsville epics?compactmag.com/article/dont-…
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“De Gaulle revived his country with no weapon apart from his personal force and belief.”
@ClarkeMicah reviews the new de Gaulle biopics: compactmag.com/article/dont-…
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“Individual human greatness can force open the grimmest, most unassailable fortresses”
@ClarkeMicah on Charles de Gaulle
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Two-thirds of Indian Americans are born abroad, and more than half entered the country after 2010.
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For many young women, male-on-male tales are displacing stories of male-on-female romance.
How “Boys Love” conquered the world:
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"In 1980, Indian Americans were 0.17 percent of the population. Today they are over 1.5 percent. Two-thirds of Indian Americans are born abroad, and more than half entered the country after 2010." via @razibkhan & @compactmag compactmag.com/article/the-t…
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"Why in East and Southeast Asia, and now South Asia and Latin America, did male-on-male tales displace male-on-female romance?"
R. Taggart Murphy on the popularity of "Boys' Love": shows about gay male relationships pitched at a largely female viewership: compactmag.com/article/how-b…
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"Why does the largely female fan base of Boys Love want to read about or watch boys and men in lust or in love with each other?"
R. Taggart Murphy on the sensational popularity—in Asia, and increasingly, beyond—of the "Boys Love" genre:
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"Not only do Indians today arrive with different values and mores, something observed even by Indian Americans who were born in the US, they come to a nation less self-confident than in earlier generations."
@razibkhan on "the Indian question":
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Indian Americans have an average household income of $151,200, compared to $83,700 for Americans more generally.
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Indian Americans still only make up barely more than 1 percent of the US population. So why have they been a flashpoint of recent immigration debates?
@razibkhan examines the "Indian question":
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"The TESCREAL Bundle," by @timnitGebru and @xriskology, has become a major paradigm for understanding the culture of the AI industry and AI safety. While it gets some things right, the story it tells about our anti-human moment is too reassuring:
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Effective altruism appeals to a much more widely shared utilitarian mindset
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"AI development is racing towards an inhuman future. But the attempt to locate this antihumanism in an explicit transhumanist ideology misrepresents the problem and suggests the wrong kinds of solutions."
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"The TESCREAL authors mistake the origins of these ideas for how they are wielded today. Only by understanding how these ideas escaped the small transhumanist circles in which they emerged can we reckon with the influence this thinking exerts today."
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How Britain Defeated ‘Assisted Dying’ compactmag.com/article/how-b…. Good piece. A difficult subject but it comes down to wishing that assisted dying can be made to stand up morally, a difficult ask @ddhitchens @compactmag @angelo_bottone @ECLJ_Official @PatsyMcGarryIT
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