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Everyone who has access to Netflix should watch the incredibly well made film, "Dark Waters.” You will learn in great detail how DuPont has betrayed the entire world! If you don’t have access to Netflix, “The Guardian” has written an excellent summary...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Fri May 10, 2024 at 12:33 AM PDT
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Everything has a cost, even the most revolutionary, positively transformational costs. Socrates worried that the invention of writing would ruin people’s ability to memorize things, because writing would create “external” memories that would reduce the...
by javiinitiate
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 02:37 PM PDT
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In an era marked by unprecedented connectivity, the erosion of trust stands as a defining tragedy. When social media influencers Sheena Melwani and her husband, “TRID” spoke about how they met, they described how TRID’s father had gone through the...
by antiempire
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 05:40 PM PDT
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My first experience with understanding how internet algorithms work to supply content that aligns with our tastes and preferences started in 2009 when I began marketing our medical software distribution company on Google. I was able to get us to #1 in...
by Wandering In The Desert
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 01:29 PM PDT
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This is a follow up story from the other day on how misinformation is proliferating via social media and the internet and finding a home in public discourse. There is a corner of the gym where some guys who are retired or not working congregate and...
by Wandering In The Desert
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 12:53 PM PDT
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I’m a very different, and I hope interesting guy, I do believe that I’ve had some success in creating a formula that helps make sense of things — and it’s a democratic, open formula that allows each person to be their own social scientist in...
by leftcoast ron
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 03:03 PM PST
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The headline unemployment number is not the number of people who cannot find a job. It is the number of people who are actively looking for a job and cannot find one. �It does not count people, many ...
by angryea
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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DON’T DIE WITH YOUR MUSIC STILL IN YOU I remember hearing this statement for the first time from renowned psychologist and author Wayne Dyer. I thought about it as I was watching a video yesterday of Stevie Nicks, who is in her mid 70s giving a R&R...
by Wandering In The Desert
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 09:22 AM PST
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The least discussed, and probably most important issue in America today, is the prevalence of right-wing threats against people working in or with the government for the greater good. �These threats ...
by angryea
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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by angryea
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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I saw this the other week and was reluctant to bring it up. �I do not especially like tit-for-tat kind of articles, but this newsletter is more of the techno-utopianism that strikes me as at the ...
by angryea
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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In the “not-particularly-distant” and “just around the corner” future, many repetitive tasks that we humans often do will be able to be done by AI and AI-powered robots. This is going to create a foundational shift in our economy and society. We need...
by Evolution
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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SOMETHING WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IT SEEMS. I used to think that when people received additional information which contradicted an assumption it would be a catalyst for changing their beliefs. This gave me some comfort and I was motivated to write for...
by Wandering In The Desert
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 12:20 PM PST
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I don’t just post about individual action. When I post “Join us in building a resilient, regenerative, and equitable culture for all life. Regenerative life Mass movement becomes revolution” I’m posting about society-wide action. I can’t post an entire...
by Gardening Toad
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 06:03 AM PST
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Niki Haley, demonstrating just how far into white supremacy the GOP has fallen, refused to say that slavery was the cause of the American Civil War. Needless to say, slavery was the issue that brought blood to the table during that time period, and the...
by angryea
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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I unabashedly love this story about designers celebrating the return of the “worm” logo at NASA. �It is a silly little story about a meaningless design change but the people in it are just so ...
by angryea
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by angryea
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There is a very good article in the MIT Technology Review that discuss how to fix the internet. �The theme is a bit of a misnomer, as the “fixing” portion of the article is both wrong and very ...
by angryea
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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It looks like we are going to do another round of “tech will save us, if you let rich people do what they want!” nonsense, and it is all so, so tiresome. �The latest trigger for this is Marc ...
by angryea
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Good Wednesday morning all Ye Seekers of Good News, Uplift and a corner of the Internet where you DON’T have to grit your teeth or brace yourself, mental filters on and emotional defenses dialed up. This is the DailyKos Good News Round Up, with the...
by WineRev
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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- A lot has changed since I first wrote about E-bikes back in 2020. Today sales of E-bikes are vastly outpacing sales of electric cars. Seems like they’re everywhere now. In 2023 roughly 40 million E-bikes were sold worldwide. I was just at the local...126 comments 230 Recs
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