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Another Baseball Season Winds Down (opens the original)
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Several years ago, I was on jury duty in New York. During the voir dire process, I was asked if I had any hobbies. I paused because I don’t think of myself is having hobbies in the conventional sense, but I also thought it would be strange to say that I had no hobbies at all. Instead, I responded truthfully “I’m a pretty big baseball fan.” The attorney nodded in and asked me something like whether I rooted for the Yankees or the Mets. For me, baseball is more than a hobby but it is not at all vo
We Need to Defend Against Real AI Threats Now (opens the original)
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Asserting anything has a ten percent chance of killing all humanity within a few years is an extraordinary claim. Even a ten percent chance of something terrible but less global would lead to action. For example, if you knew that a flight across the country for a business trip or a vacation had a ten percent chance of crashing and killing everybody aboard, you would never get on that flight. Similarly, if you knew that a meal you ordered at a restaurant had a ten percent chance of poisoning you,
The Trump Children’s Corruption (opens the original)
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The level of corruption in the Trump regime is not only without any remote precedent in American history, but there are few examples of corruption on such an extraordinary scale anywhere in the world. Most estimates are that the Trump regime has enriched themselves to the tune</
Deconstructing Trump’s Washington After Fascism (opens the original)
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As this Trump presidency stumbles toward its third year and Trump himself staggers along in his ninth decade, it is apparent that, one way or another, the MAGA ascendancy will end. It may not happen as quickly or smoothly as some may assume and many of us hope, because we can no longer count on free and fair elections, have no reason to think Republicans will accept defeat or facilitate a smooth transition if they lose, and will have to reckon with the enduring presence of MAGA in the media, Rep
Dana Nessel and the Jewish Vote in Michigan (opens the original)
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, recently commented about the US Senate race in her state that Jews need “to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival.” And that we need “to sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity.”The comment sounded like it was calculated to infuriate some Jews for suggeting we should support El-Saye
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