R. Peston: How do we make sure that these gains are properly distributed and we get out of this awful slump of stagnating living standards?
G. Hinton: Um, socialism.
Peston: Just as simple as that, is it where you just need proper socialist leadership?
Hinton: Yep.

www.youtube.com/shorts/R-b8R...

I began to write this article 6 yrs before Musk's Hitler salute and AfD's electoral success. It's about why coming to terms with the past should be a perpetual process touching every aspect of life so that we stop, in Adorno's words, fascist tendencies within (not just against) democracy.

Today is as good a day as any to reread Adorno's "What does coming to terms with the past mean?" (1959)

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is just such a wonderful read

Jason Koebler from (then) Vice quotes Detroit Police Chief in 2020: “If we would use the software only [to identify subjects], we would not solve the case 95-97 percent of the time.” It should have stopped there. www.vice.com/en/article/d...

I wrote this for a different context but the U.S. should take seriously the erosion of intraparty competition in the GOP as a consequence AND cause of democratic backsliding. Consolidating the inner circle at the expense of potentially independent voices is stg. that every authoritarian does.