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Nick Barrowman
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"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, s̲he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

John Muir (with underlined edit)
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. —Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter From Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963 Quoted in The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life by Eviatar Zerubavel
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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YES! Bookmarks!
September 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This Wikipedia article on the Curse and Mark of Cain is fascinating and troubling. I find this statue depicting Cain after killing Abel very moving. (See the Alt text for more information.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_a...
"Caïn venant de tuer son frère Abel" (Cain after killing his brother Abel) by Henri Vidal, Tuileries Garden by the Louvre. Photograph by Joe deSousa, 2017.
July 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Cartoon panel: Woman looks out her window at a sihouette of a city and says “What a stupid time to be alive.”
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Temperature change in Ottawa Relative to average of 1961-2010 [°C]
June 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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One does not simply fill in missing data
June 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A helpful error message
Error message box repeatedly saying "Creation of this signature could not be completed."
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Proposed Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities www.interactioncouncil.org/publications...
Article 6 Disputes between states, groups or individuals should be resolved without violence. No government should tolerate or participate in acts of genocide or terrorism, nor should it abuse women, children, or any other civilians as instruments of war. Every citizen and public official has a responsibility to act in a peaceful, non-violent way.
June 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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War is horrific. Unless you’re a weapons manufacturer, in which case it’s a playground.
May 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Fixed it for you

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
Paragraph from New York Times article. (Quotes added to the word antisemitism.) Drafted in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel in 2023 and the mounting protests against the war in Gaza, Project Esther outlined an ambitious plan to fight antisemitism by branding a broad range of critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered “open society.”
May 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Once again, the New York Times gets to the heart of things
New York Times page with article titled “What Will Happen to the Handbags?”
April 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Oh, things are getting out of hand now!
Protest sign saying “EMPATHY IS GOOD”
April 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Meanwhile, in the New York Times…
March 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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“Surveys confirm that for many workers, AI tools like ChatGPT reduce their productivity by increasing the volume of content and steps needed to complete a given task, and by frequently introducing errors that have to be checked and corrected. A study by Uplevel Data Labs tracked 800 software engineers using Copilot on GitHub and found no measurable increase in coding productivity, despite this exact use case being the one pointed to the most by AI companies. And even productivity gains may come at a cost: Microsoft researchers concluded that workers became more productive using generative AI tools but their critical thinking skills declined, presumably because they were offloading the”
March 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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March 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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From a Tesla Takedown protest in Mt Kisco, NY
Sign at a Tesla Takedown protest. “PORSCHE: FAST FERRARI: FASTER TESLA: FASCIST”
March 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Soothsayer: ‘Tis an ill-favoured day today!

Me: Huh?

Soothsayer: Beware the Ides of Musk!
March 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

Just depraved.
Excerpt from a New York Times article: In interactions some described as “demeaning,” Mr. Grimes asked employees to justify their intellect by providing test results from the SAT or an IQ test, said four people familiar with the evaluations. Some were asked to do math problems, like calculate the value of four to the fourth power or long division.
March 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The Gartner Hype Cycle model is a useful way to think about how new technologies often generate over-excitement, followed by a correction, before good sense eventually prevails. But it’s critical to remember that the shape of the curve can vary enormously.
March 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Gandalf declaring "You shall not add another analysis!"
January 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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From the project “Out of Gaza” Israel’s invasion and bombardment of Gaza left many with life-changing injuries. Some made it out for treatment. They included, clockwise from top left: Mahmoud Ajjour, 9, who lost both hands; Ruba Abu Jibba, 19, who lost her eye; and Nusaiba Kleib, 9, whose leg was amputated.
December 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Rafah, Gaza, Feb. 28 Children in a burned-out car. A United Nations official said that at least a quarter of Gaza’s residents were “one step away from famine,” and that one in six children under 2 in northern Gaza were acutely malnourished.
December 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Hey Siri, is there a vaccine against stupidity?
Aaron Siri, a lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee during a livestream in June of the hearing on the Covid-19 response.
December 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Dr. Mark Perlmutter Orthopedic and hand surgeon, 69 years old, Rocky Mount, N.C. "I saw several children shot with high velocity bullet wounds, in both the head and chest."
October 11, 2024 at 10:23 AM