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Just another crab pondering its immortality
Genealogy, Music, Bass guitar, songwriting, historical fiction, world travel, Applied and Analytical Psych
Genealogy, Music, Bass guitar, songwriting, historical fiction, world travel, Applied and Analytical Psych
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A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:
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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
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Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
The Invention of the Police
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
nyer.cm
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.
And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.
And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
My Facebook account was disabled last week. I have no idea why.
Rather than file an appeal - which I have looked into but cannot find the option to - I am going to leave it alone. No more FB addiction.
Please contact me if you were a contact there.
shannonlinden.ca/face-to-face...
Rather than file an appeal - which I have looked into but cannot find the option to - I am going to leave it alone. No more FB addiction.
Please contact me if you were a contact there.
shannonlinden.ca/face-to-face...
Shannon Linden | Face-to-Face, not Facebook
shannonlinden.ca
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My Facebook account was disabled last week. I have no idea why.
Rather than file an appeal - which I have looked into but cannot find the option to - I am going to leave it alone. No more FB addiction.
Please contact me if you were a contact there.
shannonlinden.ca/face-to-face...
Rather than file an appeal - which I have looked into but cannot find the option to - I am going to leave it alone. No more FB addiction.
Please contact me if you were a contact there.
shannonlinden.ca/face-to-face...
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF
October 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF
Reposting here, as my FB profile was disabled less than a minute after I went to this site.
Thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for referencing this in her nightly newsletter yesterday.
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...
Thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for referencing this in her nightly newsletter yesterday.
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
steadystate1.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Reposting here, as my FB profile was disabled less than a minute after I went to this site.
Thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for referencing this in her nightly newsletter yesterday.
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...
Thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for referencing this in her nightly newsletter yesterday.
steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...
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Employers have started using AI to “read” résumés and conduct interviews—and applicants are using it too. Ian Bogost on how AI broke the job interview:
People Are Using AI to Cheat in Job Interviews
Who can blame them?
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Employers have started using AI to “read” résumés and conduct interviews—and applicants are using it too. Ian Bogost on how AI broke the job interview:
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An important article by David Brooks in @theatlantic.com , People thinking the USA will snap back after Trump are dangerously naive. The damage inflicted and the power accumulated can fundamentally change the country unless a powerful opposition emerges now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
An important article by David Brooks in @theatlantic.com , People thinking the USA will snap back after Trump are dangerously naive. The damage inflicted and the power accumulated can fundamentally change the country unless a powerful opposition emerges now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
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Happy 4th of July, Batman.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Happy 4th of July, Batman.
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Happy 4th of July, 2025. Try to enjoy what's left of our freedoms ...
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Happy 4th of July, 2025. Try to enjoy what's left of our freedoms ...
I’m only 8 in dog years …
June 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I’m only 8 in dog years …