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Jeffrey Vagle
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Law professor | Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI*, Technology and Society, National Security | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Apropos of certain complaints re LHR bouncing around today, I’m reminded of Douglas Adams’ thoughts on the design of airports.
“They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve-jangling colors, to make effortless the business of separating the traveler forever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveler with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the location of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not.”
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Ok, if you know anything about the business/financial relationships between SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, you will immediately see the circular pattern here.

www.ft.com/content/5f04...
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Trying to cancel YoutubeTV while simultaneously trying to find a way to watch MNF.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Or for the truly dedicated
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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They’re coming back, baby!
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Attaboy, Dems
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Gearing up for the holidays with some innovative recipe ideas
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Happy 250th, Devil Dogs
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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wut
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Yes! We need to get back to the good old days of military service, where rules meant nothing!

By way of example, here's a picture of my USMC senior drill instructor ensuring that each recruit in our platoon was acting independently. Anyone caught following rules or regs was sent to the quarterdeck.
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Man, this is good.
Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite? It’s a storied gambit of the right at its most grimly predictable. “People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003. Anyway, it was clearly time to get the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation up and running again.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Seriously
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Seriously.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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No doubt that life was hard for Carl and his family, but given 160 acres of land to farm made things a bit easier to build a foundation (literal and figurative) upon. /3
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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And then there’s this bit, where he likens empathy to slavery.

graymirror.substack.com/p/if-i-post-...
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM