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AI Eats Itself

August 27, 2024

AI Eats Itself

August 27, 2024

The 8.27.2024 NYTimes featured this interactive ar —>> read more –>>

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Technology

Could a court really order the destruction of ChatGPT? The New York Times thinks so, and it may be right

January 25, 2024

Could a court really order the destruction of ChatGPT? The New York Times thinks so, and it may be right

January 25, 2024

This article is republished from The Conversation —>> read more –>>

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Books

Tightrope – Americans reaching for hope by Kristof and WuDunn – book review

May 1, 2020

Tightrope – Americans reaching for hope by Kristof and WuDunn – book review

May 1, 2020

Tightrope provides a well-written description of the American crisis through personal stories and hard data. Unfortunately it falls flat in its call for action.

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Briefly Noted

Recently Noted – “Across America, working-class people are dying of despair”

January 17, 2020

Recently Noted – “Across America, working-class people are dying of despair”

January 17, 2020

Essay explores the grim reality of life in one small corner of America within the broader landscape of the bottom 90%.

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Thanksgiving – a bit of a corrective history telling and turkey adaptation

November 22, 2017

Thanksgiving – a bit of a corrective history telling and turkey adaptation

November 22, 2017

Corrective History The NYTimes posted a bit of Tur —>> read more –>>

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Recently Noted – “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer”

November 7, 2017

Recently Noted – “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer”

November 7, 2017

The NY Times published an interesting article by M —>> read more –>>

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Recently Noted – “Making Affirmative Action White Again”

August 13, 2017

Recently Noted – “Making Affirmative Action White Again”

August 13, 2017

Ira Katznelson (see my earlier post “Affirmative Action for Whites – began in the 1930s”) wrote a brief opinion piece in the 8/13/2017 NYTimes, “Making Affirmative Action White Again” that encapsulates the real history of affirmative action for whites.

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Justice/Jails

Justice in America – Not

April 5, 2017

Justice in America – Not

April 5, 2017

A central dogma of American politics and culture i —>> read more –>>

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Security State

Dangers of the US Security State

June 16, 2013

Dangers of the US Security State

June 16, 2013

There are those, in response to the recent revelat —>> read more –>>

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Economy

Thomas Friedman’s It’s a 401(k) World – facile, misleading

May 21, 2013

Thomas Friedman’s It’s a 401(k) World – facile, misleading

May 21, 2013

Reading this op ed leaves one with the notion that these changes have arisen through some immutable forces of nature. He fails to mention that in parallel with the individual being more and more alone in the world, big corporations and governments are becoming ever more well integrated, feeding at each others’ troughs.

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Briefly Noted

Economic Inequality – Does It Matter?

May 9, 2012

Economic Inequality – Does It Matter?

May 9, 2012

It is fairly widely known that income and wealth i —>> read more –>>

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Justice/Jails

America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy

June 12, 2011

America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy

June 12, 2011

Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Las —>> read more –>>

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  • Topics Overview
  • Keystone Essays
    • – American Delusions – introduction
    • – Our Social Nature and the Future
    • – our history – the intentionally forgotten
    • – capitalism and free-market Ideology
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      • – financialization – from production to extraction
    • – healthcare system
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    • – racism in america – white supremacy
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