HeyJaredHoist the Black Flag
An exploration of politics and current events. Follow me on Twitter at @HTBF1968. If watching someone meltdown over the performance of the Ottawa Senators is more to your liking, try @orphmi.
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Who Gets To Vote? (opens the original)
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History is biased.This should come as no surprise since history is written by people and all people have biases.Despite this, the public readily accepts most of what they are taught in school as being “the whole truth.” The possibility that they are being fed many simplistic narratives, semi-truths, and outright lies rarely enters their minds. In their defense, they’re usually school-age kids when this starts so who can blame them?There was a time when I would have said, “most of this is uninten
AI and BS (opens the original)
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We’re all going to die!Ya, I know, I’ve said that before and we’re still here.Am I crying wolf?That depends on who you ask, I guess.Let’s take the “many” researchers in AI companies as an example. Earlier this week, an AI researcher at Anthropic, the “makers” of Claude.ai, quit his job and “accused the company, and its chief rival, <a href="https://www.cnbc.
Arms Race (opens the original)
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What follows is a second chapter in a fictional world I’ve been working on.It is not a political or cultural opinion piece, but a work of speculative fiction.By posting it here, I hope to accomplish two things:1. Offer something extra for my paid subscribers.2. Find an audience willing to provide constructive feedback as the story develops.There is no set schedule for these chapters as they’re more challenging than what I usually write. I’m trying to set aside two days each week to work on this
Tolerance Does Not Bind (opens the original)
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I don’t know about you, but to me August felt very slow. Maybe it was the couple of days of vacation I took. Or perhaps everyone else was taking some as well. Or maybe Substack is screwing with the algorithm again. I do know they changed the dashboard again. Moving buttons around and changing a layout that worked perfectly well because... well... <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!stEE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
The Common Good (opens the original)
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So, META has agreed to pay $16.7 billion over 10 years to a coalition of states to settle a case accusing the company of harming children and teenagers through Facebook and Instagram. “Texas was not part of the group settlement and agreed to a $1 billion payment separately.”<source type="image/webp
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