Politics

What do you love about the US Constitution?

Recently I’ve noticed bumper stickers, mostly on pickup trucks, calling out a love for the Constitution. What do I love about the Constitution? Rural states with tiny populations automatically control the Senate. The ten least populous states have a total population of 9.6 million. California, the most populous state, has —>> read more –>>

Human Nature

Explaining Trump – tribal mismatch – a podcast

Trump received 74 million votes in 2020. This amazed and upset me a lot. The ongoing global warming crisis and the exhaustion of earth’s resources continue to arouse my concerns about our future. I wrote a longish essay on the subject in early 2022. Here is the positioning statement from —>> read more –>>

Technology

AI an Existential Threat? – a suggestion for more immediate action…..

This is a reprint from UNDARK: AI Creators Want Us to Believe AI Is an Existential Threat. Why? June 22, 2023 by Ryan Calo The warning consisted of a single sentence: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics —>> read more –>>

Capitalism

The Waterworks of Money – how money and the financial sector work

  By chance, I saw an exhibition titled “The Future of Money” (thru 9.9.2023) at the Art Museum of The Hague, Netherlands in May 2023. The central work is a very large drawing that illustrates the flows of money through the economy. Now there is a video tour of this —>> read more –>>

Politics

Reading Trump Indictment 2 – the Mar-a-Lago document case

Following comments in the media that the indictment document was “a readable narrative” as opposed to a dull legal document, I downloaded it for a read-through. Here is a link to the indictment “USA vs Trump & Nauta“. The first 27 pages of 49 provide a detailed narrative. In fact —>> read more –>>

Technology

A lawyer takes ChatGPT to court

If you are still enthralled with ChatGPT in its variations and many competitors, here is an amusing story from the NYTimes: “The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself.” The story details the sad, delusional, ignorant story of Steven A. Schwartz, the lawyer who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief in a —>> read more –>>

Politics

Your Rights Guaranteed Only by the Supreme Court

Propublica has a great story, “Supreme Risk: An interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established — and could take away“(6.1.2023), enumerating a long list of rights that are the results of Supreme Court actions but not supported by actual laws passed by Congress and signed by a President. —>> read more –>>