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Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy. This economic reality gives blue states leverage that could reduce federal dependence. States can’t be forced to implement federal programs. Blue states are finally learning you don’t need federal permission to govern.
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy. This economic reality gives blue states leverage that could reduce federal dependence. States can’t be forced to implement federal programs. Blue states are finally learning you don’t need federal permission to govern.
Turns out it's possible to use AI to write stories quoting people that don't exist. This is a real risk for time-pressed editors today: people can easily not be who they say they are and can just make up whole stories that sound almost legit using AI. We need to verify things like never before.
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
pressgazette.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Turns out it's possible to use AI to write stories quoting people that don't exist. This is a real risk for time-pressed editors today: people can easily not be who they say they are and can just make up whole stories that sound almost legit using AI. We need to verify things like never before.
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It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!
August 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s Back-To-School Month! Remember, reading is fundamental for ages 5 through 79!
This is the story of how making microchips became a team sport. It’s the story of how the tech world was unbundled. Because the biggest breakthroughs didn’t come from working in isolation. They came from borderless collaboration.
Inside TSMC, the $1 Trillion Ghost Foundry Behind Nvidia's Crown
How a chip factory powers every AI boom, and the future‑ready playbook no business can ignore.
howardyu.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is the story of how making microchips became a team sport. It’s the story of how the tech world was unbundled. Because the biggest breakthroughs didn’t come from working in isolation. They came from borderless collaboration.
Most HUGE A.I.companies are NOT founded by engineers or developers, but by $$$ people looking for immense ROI. Similarly, Matt Damon’s military character in Oppenheimer mentioned how the US was spending a Billion dollars to develop the bomb. The ROI was all about control! A.I. is / was the same!
A.I. has become an invasive weapon of mass submission — AT4Y Publications | Always Think for Yourself
The result: an invasive weapon of mass submission.
What is an ‘Oppy Moment’?
There is an interesting video of a discussion between physicist Brian Cox and Oppenheimer’s Director, Chris Nolan. They di...
at4y.ca
July 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Most HUGE A.I.companies are NOT founded by engineers or developers, but by $$$ people looking for immense ROI. Similarly, Matt Damon’s military character in Oppenheimer mentioned how the US was spending a Billion dollars to develop the bomb. The ROI was all about control! A.I. is / was the same!
Bold truth. Freedom of the press.
July 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Bold truth. Freedom of the press.
Here's a thoughtful and inspiring story about fly fishing - in particular, women accomplished in the art, who are eager to share its pleasures and possibilities by instructing other women. Of course, it is about more than fishing ... Enjoy!
Adventurous women: The sisterhood of fly fishing in the Yampa Valley
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the July/August edition of Yampa Valley Adventures Magazine. “You don’t need beauty or brawn to fly fish — you just need a willingness to wet a ...
www.steamboatpilot.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Here's a thoughtful and inspiring story about fly fishing - in particular, women accomplished in the art, who are eager to share its pleasures and possibilities by instructing other women. Of course, it is about more than fishing ... Enjoy!
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I know the text is small, but you need to understand what this regime just rammed through.
The combined ICE-CBP-Palantir operation will create the same internal system of repression as the CCP and Russian Federation.
The combined ICE-CBP-Palantir operation will create the same internal system of repression as the CCP and Russian Federation.
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I know the text is small, but you need to understand what this regime just rammed through.
The combined ICE-CBP-Palantir operation will create the same internal system of repression as the CCP and Russian Federation.
The combined ICE-CBP-Palantir operation will create the same internal system of repression as the CCP and Russian Federation.
Miller once proposed using predator drones to “obliterate” ships carrying migrants seeking to land on U.S. soil. It should be no surprise that as Miller moves to fulfill his most vile nativist anti-immigrant fantasies, he’s ensured himself a cut of the profits.
Stephen Miller Has Financial Stake in Company Helping ICE With Deportations: Report
Stephen Miller reportedly has a financial stake in Palantir, which is helping ICE deport undocumented migrants.
www.rollingstone.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Miller once proposed using predator drones to “obliterate” ships carrying migrants seeking to land on U.S. soil. It should be no surprise that as Miller moves to fulfill his most vile nativist anti-immigrant fantasies, he’s ensured himself a cut of the profits.
The best influencers tell the truth. To themselves, and others.
This one also upholds enduring, admirable values.
What does inspired leadership look like? Read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...
This one also upholds enduring, admirable values.
What does inspired leadership look like? Read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...
The C.E.O. Other C.E.O.s Turn to for Advice
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The best influencers tell the truth. To themselves, and others.
This one also upholds enduring, admirable values.
What does inspired leadership look like? Read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...
This one also upholds enduring, admirable values.
What does inspired leadership look like? Read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...
Fascinating perspective on manufacturing's wealth-building push by politicians. Economists have a more studied approach. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Can bringing back manufacturing help the heartland catch up with 'superstar' cities?
In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.
www.npr.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Fascinating perspective on manufacturing's wealth-building push by politicians. Economists have a more studied approach. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
All crypto is bullshit, but memecoins are consciously bullshit.
Is every memecoin just a scam? Experts on whether Andrew Tate and Trump are fleecing their followers
After I was turned into a memecoin, I looked into the hype behind the crypto that only a tiny percentage of people profit from
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
All crypto is bullshit, but memecoins are consciously bullshit.
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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox
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2. Diphtheria
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7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox
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May 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
To those firms who tried to save their own skins by sacrificing integrity and the rule of law, a big raspberry to you cowards.
Judge strikes down Trump order that targeted US law firm WilmerHale
Richard Leon deems order unlawful as firm says ruling ‘strongly affirms our foundational constitutional rights’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
To those firms who tried to save their own skins by sacrificing integrity and the rule of law, a big raspberry to you cowards.
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We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.
The Survival of Democracy Depends on Our Willingness to Fight
Justice Riggs is right. We should not have to fight for democracy. But the reality is that we must.
www.democracydocket.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.
Terrifying stupidity wielding power they are unfit to manage
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Terrifying stupidity wielding power they are unfit to manage
Imported products also help to employ American workers.
Port, trucking, and warehouse employees are being paid. The conversation is only about manufacturing jobs, not about all the other jobs that are alive because we can make it in other countries and sell it for a price people are willing to pay.
Port, trucking, and warehouse employees are being paid. The conversation is only about manufacturing jobs, not about all the other jobs that are alive because we can make it in other countries and sell it for a price people are willing to pay.
What a Texas showerhead salesman discovered about 'Made in the USA' labels
A Texas showerhead salesman wanted to know how much more customers would pay to buy a product that's made in the USA. The answer could pour cold water on President Trump's plan to encourage more compa...
www.npr.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Imported products also help to employ American workers.
Port, trucking, and warehouse employees are being paid. The conversation is only about manufacturing jobs, not about all the other jobs that are alive because we can make it in other countries and sell it for a price people are willing to pay.
Port, trucking, and warehouse employees are being paid. The conversation is only about manufacturing jobs, not about all the other jobs that are alive because we can make it in other countries and sell it for a price people are willing to pay.
Ruth Asawa of forms and growth. A dose of morning beauty and inspiration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJ5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJ5...
Ruth Asawa | short film
YouTube video by Modern Art Oxford
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ruth Asawa of forms and growth. A dose of morning beauty and inspiration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJ5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJ5...
Letter-writing among African American families is a centuries-old tradition. The Black family has constantly been under threat, their unions neither protected nor acknowledged in a court of law. Nevertheless, they wrote during slavery and some more to find loved ones after the civil war.
Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how
In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Letter-writing among African American families is a centuries-old tradition. The Black family has constantly been under threat, their unions neither protected nor acknowledged in a court of law. Nevertheless, they wrote during slavery and some more to find loved ones after the civil war.
That expression “The things we own, own us” isn’t wrong – we’ve just been conditioned to not clearly see how freaking owned we are.
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I like the idea of gaining for time, instead of spending it on shopping or searching for nonessential things. There's the real value in this exercise.
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I like the idea of gaining for time, instead of spending it on shopping or searching for nonessential things. There's the real value in this exercise.
I saved $36,000 by not buying anything new – here are seven reasons you should do the same
Life was genuinely better once I got off the consumerist hamster wheel, and it could be for you too
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
That expression “The things we own, own us” isn’t wrong – we’ve just been conditioned to not clearly see how freaking owned we are.
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I like the idea of gaining for time, instead of spending it on shopping or searching for nonessential things. There's the real value in this exercise.
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I like the idea of gaining for time, instead of spending it on shopping or searching for nonessential things. There's the real value in this exercise.
Worth the read***Enrage to engage is a strategy. It’s not just the bots that are gaming the algorithms through mass amplification. It’s also the algorithms that are gaming us. We’re being subtly manipulated by social media. We know it. But we keep on scrolling.
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment
Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.
www.fastcompany.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Worth the read***Enrage to engage is a strategy. It’s not just the bots that are gaming the algorithms through mass amplification. It’s also the algorithms that are gaming us. We’re being subtly manipulated by social media. We know it. But we keep on scrolling.
Alarmed by declining birth rates, modern eugenicists hope to repopulate their ideal world via "selective breeding" and restoring the "natural hierarchy", where men dominate.
They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?
Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Alarmed by declining birth rates, modern eugenicists hope to repopulate their ideal world via "selective breeding" and restoring the "natural hierarchy", where men dominate.
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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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Stay loud
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stay loud
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stay brave
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stay brave
Nawfal is the prime example of news brokering. News-focused influencers on X are taking content and limelight from newsrooms during major breaking news events. X is a paradise for them because they don't do any screening. Nawfal said it's not his team's job to vet posts for accuracy.
How Elon Musk's favorite news influencer is capitalizing on his clout
The Australian crypto entrepreneur now hosts chats with world leaders. "If [he] is sharing a story, there's a good chance that U.S. policymakers are reading it — and acting on it," said one analyst.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Nawfal is the prime example of news brokering. News-focused influencers on X are taking content and limelight from newsrooms during major breaking news events. X is a paradise for them because they don't do any screening. Nawfal said it's not his team's job to vet posts for accuracy.