Historian, wrote _The Origins of American Religious Nationalism_; Eagle Scout, Wisconsinite.

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A day in the life of an Effective Altruist.
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I still think about this often
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Francis Fukuyama on how he keeps contact with the working class at Las Vegas casinos ft.com/content/75f7de79-c3c7…
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It's fine to say machines aren't people and don't have agency, and that CEOs are people and do have agency.
The whole "don't anthropomorphize AI" thing is very Woke 1.0. People trying to police language that is perfectly natural in some cases and ending up in a web of contradictions.
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Medieval mental health: Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music via #KatherineHarvey aeon.co/essays/the-curio-cab…
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Yeah if there’s one thing people want it’s more vague moralizing and less material change!
Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Socialist electeds have made real progress for working people, but some still opposing nuclear energy remains a baffling blind spot. You can't build a reliable, 100% clean, public grid without firm baseload power. Nuclear is an objective good, not even a necessary evil.
🚨 NEW YORK SOCIALISTS OPPOSE NEW NUCLEAR 🚨 In a depressing new state filing, all of the DSA Socialists in Office slate serving in the state legislature have joined other state Dems in opposing the governor's landmark Nuclear Reliability Backbone initiative. Specifically, they "oppose the use of any taxpayer or ratepayer subsidies to support the construction of new nuclear power plants in New York." Why? Because, they argue, nuclear is too expensive, too slow, and what-about-the-waste. The same old New Left shit. When will Zohran's abundance left approach be applied to energy? When will DSA abandon its green NGO advisors on energy issues? documents.dps.ny.gov/public/…
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Everything the Right calls 'Marxism' is anything but. The prevailing 'far-left' thought is one or more of these (in increasing order of wrongness)
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Oh hell yeah
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s former bodyguard and romantic partner is arrested after allegedly breaking into her home and throwing 22 paintings into her pool. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kyr…
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Mamdani is planting trees and giving away opera tickets, while Netanyahu is screeching about "likes" on Instagram at the UN. I think it's fair to say the latter's savvy about US political society and media has lapsed.
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Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism
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This is a good point. I’ve always traced the dominance of neoliberalism to the fall of communism, but not the rise of identity politics. But this makes sense.
The obsession with identity came from US Cold War triumphalism. Class and society were pegged as "Marxist" and irrelevant, while culture and race and psychology became the coin of the realm.
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If he knocked on 100,000 doors of any voters and asked them their top three issues, "tell a moral and ethical story" would never come up. Utility bills. Losing SNAP. Having to live next to a data center. Hospitals closing and insurance costs climbing. Potholes. The list goes on
Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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August Nimtz: WEB DuBois and CLR James never rejected class analysis, never identified this way, "Black Marxism" is really an invention of Robin Kelley and Cedric Robinson and its gives us a cartoonish, depoliticized and ahistorical Africa. jacobin.com/2026/09/nimtz-ro…
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Surprised to learn the impresario of the 1619 Project would disregard counter-evidence.
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Bach and Jeffrey Epstein wrote excited emails to one another speculating about differences in "race" and gender and IQ. Here's Bach writing to Epstein on how women are dumber and Chinese people are deferential and Jewish people are smarter. journaliststudio.google.com/…
The claim that "LLMs cannot think" is unscientific, unless supported by a very difficult argument about non equivalence of causal structure producing anthropomorphic outputs. The claim requires a formally rigorous definition of thinking that captures how humans mentally manipulate conceptual structure. Since LLMs can reproduce all kinds of human output that require operations that are typically considered to involve thought (eg. scene understanding, text summarization, translation, computer programs, mathematical proofs, common sense arguments, spatial cognition, theory of mind), it has to be shown that LLMs reach these results in fundamentally different ways than human minds. In principle, this is not impossible (given that thinking is still relatively poorly understood by cognitive neuroscience), but would be surprising, because it has been shown that the causal structure of computer vision models is structurally equivalent to what neuroscience discovered about visual cognition in primates. In any case, saying that LLMs don't think cannot reasonably mean that LLMs are inferior to human cognition (since that this evidently not true), but that LLMs discovered an equivalent yet at least equally powerful mechanism.
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Here's Bach sounding exactly like a Nazi: "African music has lots of beats and little development - no accident. It mirrors their learning process... climate change may be a good way of dealing with overpopulation."
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More Bach to Epstein: "In the US, black children outperform white children in motor development... but they lag behind (and never catch up) in cognitive development."
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I lived in Cairo for two years, after two years in Beirut. It would be hard to exaggerate the decline in quality of food from Beirut to Cairo.
NEW: Egyptian food's reputation has long been in tatters. @newlinesmag Middle East Editor @kshaheen makes the case for mahshy, molokhia in duck stock, koshary — and tamiyya over falafel. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in…
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This would have been cringe worthy in 2017. These people are totally useless.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Robert De Niro pledge to defend the U.S. Constitution in new campaign to protest Trump. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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