Kirk de Gooyer
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Guns kill people. There will be more Uvaldes and Sandy Hooks and Parklands and Columbines. We are at the mercy of killers who use guns, because we have allowed guns to rule us. Guns have more rights than we have.
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Gun
Bullets don’t have a conscience.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Guns kill people. There will be more Uvaldes and Sandy Hooks and Parklands and Columbines. We are at the mercy of killers who use guns, because we have allowed guns to rule us. Guns have more rights than we have.
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"The leadership of deescalation is the leadership of democracy—and political violence will only continue without it."
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Strawberries in Winter
Most Americans do not want civil war. Anyone who is declaring it should stop.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"The leadership of deescalation is the leadership of democracy—and political violence will only continue without it."
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“This constitutes a theory of the induction process”
Just as Turing had worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of computation, Putnam worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of mind.
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Just as Turing had worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of computation, Putnam worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of mind.
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Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
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September 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“This constitutes a theory of the induction process”
Just as Turing had worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of computation, Putnam worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of mind.
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Just as Turing had worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of computation, Putnam worked out an abstract, universal model of the very possibility of mind.
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Induction involves constantly reaching out. Deduction involves constantly taking in, which is why all those data centers are so enormous.
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Why artificial intelligence will not take over the world
There is an easy answer to this question, and a hard one.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Induction involves constantly reaching out. Deduction involves constantly taking in, which is why all those data centers are so enormous.
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Peter Putnam disagreed. “Man is a species of computer of fundamentally different genus than those she builds,” he wrote. It was a radical claim: He wasn’t saying that the mind isn’t a computer, he was saying it was an entirely different kind of computer
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Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
nautil.us
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Peter Putnam disagreed. “Man is a species of computer of fundamentally different genus than those she builds,” he wrote. It was a radical claim: He wasn’t saying that the mind isn’t a computer, he was saying it was an entirely different kind of computer
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Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.
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Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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July 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.
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How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
Because, to paraphrase the philosopher Immanuel Kant, out of the crooked timber of Bibi and Hamas no straight thing will ever be made
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Because, to paraphrase the philosopher Immanuel Kant, out of the crooked timber of Bibi and Hamas no straight thing will ever be made
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Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
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July 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
Because, to paraphrase the philosopher Immanuel Kant, out of the crooked timber of Bibi and Hamas no straight thing will ever be made
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Because, to paraphrase the philosopher Immanuel Kant, out of the crooked timber of Bibi and Hamas no straight thing will ever be made
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Murdoch does not publish stories unless he has enough ammo left to defend himself and his media empire. Murdoch does not suffer fools gladly. He is not a nice man.
Donald Trump may be about to find out just how not nice Rupert Murdoch is.
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Donald Trump may be about to find out just how not nice Rupert Murdoch is.
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Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Trump is in the Oval Office meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Murdoch does not publish stories unless he has enough ammo left to defend himself and his media empire. Murdoch does not suffer fools gladly. He is not a nice man.
Donald Trump may be about to find out just how not nice Rupert Murdoch is.
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Donald Trump may be about to find out just how not nice Rupert Murdoch is.
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Democrats should rejoice! Not in schadenfreude over Trump’s travails with the Epstein story, but a real celebration about our own disparate but, yes, inclusive coalition that comprises the Democratic Party.
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MAGA crack-up over Epstein shows how flimsy Republican coalition is
Democrats should rejoice!
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July 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Democrats should rejoice! Not in schadenfreude over Trump’s travails with the Epstein story, but a real celebration about our own disparate but, yes, inclusive coalition that comprises the Democratic Party.
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@timmiller.bsky.social on how manosphere podcasters are reacting to Trump's handling of the Epstein files:
“They've been mocking Trump…over the last few days for trying to play them like fools.”
“They've been mocking Trump…over the last few days for trying to play them like fools.”
July 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
@timmiller.bsky.social on how manosphere podcasters are reacting to Trump's handling of the Epstein files:
“They've been mocking Trump…over the last few days for trying to play them like fools.”
“They've been mocking Trump…over the last few days for trying to play them like fools.”
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An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!
July 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!
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Propaganda is the thing this administration does best and they don’t even do it well
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Propaganda is the thing this administration does best and they don’t even do it well
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Every time Trump hears Epstein’s name he freaks out. What’s going to happen if all the cable shows, especially those on Fox News, dump the name of Ghislaine Maxwell into the news cycle? Stay tuned for a dark wind blowing from Tallahassee.
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Put a double prison guard on Ghislaine Maxwell. She knows more than anyone about Epstein and Trump, and he knows it.
Donald Trump spent part of Friday visiting the site of the Guadalupe River flood in Texas and meeting with Governor Greg Abbott and families stricken by the disaster.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Every time Trump hears Epstein’s name he freaks out. What’s going to happen if all the cable shows, especially those on Fox News, dump the name of Ghislaine Maxwell into the news cycle? Stay tuned for a dark wind blowing from Tallahassee.
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First time they aren’t buying that it is either FAKE NEWS! or Obama’s fault.
July 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
First time they aren’t buying that it is either FAKE NEWS! or Obama’s fault.
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A U.S. citizen was killed abroad by a vigilante mob. Crickets in U.S. media and politics. Victim is non-white and killers are Israeli. 🤷♂️
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli settler attack in West Bank, health ministry says
A US citizen was beaten to death and a Palestinian shot and killed when Israeli settlers attacked Sinjil, the Palestinian health ministry says.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A U.S. citizen was killed abroad by a vigilante mob. Crickets in U.S. media and politics. Victim is non-white and killers are Israeli. 🤷♂️
FORCED OFF THE AIR
After decades of sharing their deep knowledge and love of jazz, longtime DJs Michael Burman and Dick Conte made an abrupt exit from the KCSM Jazz 91 airwaves last month, leaving listeners across the Bay Area stunned
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After decades of sharing their deep knowledge and love of jazz, longtime DJs Michael Burman and Dick Conte made an abrupt exit from the KCSM Jazz 91 airwaves last month, leaving listeners across the Bay Area stunned
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KCSM jazz legends Dick Conte and Michael Burman say they were forced off the air
After decades of sharing their deep knowledge and love of jazz, DJs Michael Burman and Dick Conte made an abrupt exit from the KCSM Jazz 91 airwaves, leaving listeners stunned.
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July 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
FORCED OFF THE AIR
After decades of sharing their deep knowledge and love of jazz, longtime DJs Michael Burman and Dick Conte made an abrupt exit from the KCSM Jazz 91 airwaves last month, leaving listeners across the Bay Area stunned
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
After decades of sharing their deep knowledge and love of jazz, longtime DJs Michael Burman and Dick Conte made an abrupt exit from the KCSM Jazz 91 airwaves last month, leaving listeners across the Bay Area stunned
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We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
July 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct 7
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Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct 7
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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
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July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct 7
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Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct 7
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Mel Brooks had it only partly right. It’s good to be king, but it’s hell to be president.
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Trump thought he could control Putin and Musk. They just strung him along.
Let’s try to imagine ourselves into the mind of Donald Trump.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Mel Brooks had it only partly right. It’s good to be king, but it’s hell to be president.
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The White House Liaison to NASA spent most of his professional life as the assistant manager of a Total Wines in Palm Beach, Florida. So I guess starring on the Real World: Boston is an improvement? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
July 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The White House Liaison to NASA spent most of his professional life as the assistant manager of a Total Wines in Palm Beach, Florida. So I guess starring on the Real World: Boston is an improvement? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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We can deliver affordability and fight authoritarianism at the same time. I am eager to partner with state and federal leaders to do exactly that.
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We can deliver affordability and fight authoritarianism at the same time. I am eager to partner with state and federal leaders to do exactly that.
"This is a new era for the city, and this was a realignment election, potentially elevating to power the youngest mayor in a century of this titanic, multifarious metropolis"
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Opinion | If Zohran Mamdani Wins, Then What?
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July 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"This is a new era for the city, and this was a realignment election, potentially elevating to power the youngest mayor in a century of this titanic, multifarious metropolis"
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JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
VP tries to redefine citizenship in speech to friendly think tank.
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VP tries to redefine citizenship in speech to friendly think tank.
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JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
The day after President Trump signed a bill that throws unprecedented amounts...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others
VP tries to redefine citizenship in speech to friendly think tank.
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VP tries to redefine citizenship in speech to friendly think tank.
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An honor to stand with leaders and members of @uftnyc.bsky.social this morning to accept their endorsement for Mayor of New York City.
July 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
An honor to stand with leaders and members of @uftnyc.bsky.social this morning to accept their endorsement for Mayor of New York City.
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The story of Jeffrey Epstein and the crimes he committed is not a political story. It is not something that should be bandied about by podcasters and television news hosts, or in posts on platforms like X and Facebook.
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The Epstein client list story is not political. It’s not amusing. It is tragic.
Well, another day of dancing on the damaged desktops of right-wing media figures over their freakout about the collapse of the Jeffrey Epstein files story.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The story of Jeffrey Epstein and the crimes he committed is not a political story. It is not something that should be bandied about by podcasters and television news hosts, or in posts on platforms like X and Facebook.
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