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Monthly Archives: June 2026
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Interesting Read
via the American Affairs Journal:
An Iron Lady for Our Times: The March of Conservatism in Meloni’s Italy
by Paul Starobin
published in their Fall 2025 edition
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Britain’s electrical network is in even worse disrepair than America’s. I am not sure if it is a geopolitical asset to be able to stiff-upper-lip one’s way through ineffectual government. Maybe it’s more of a liability. But my experience of criticizing Brits resembles my experience of criticizing lawyers.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Comedy Break
via Breanna Banaciski
h/t @tampa_bre
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Campus Life at the
University of North Florida
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Anthropic has branded itself as the AI company with humanity in mind, drawing red lines with the Pentagon over using its AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, supposedly for moral reasons. But Claude was already used to abduct the leader of Venezuela and send missiles to targets in Iran.
~ Joe Hagan via Vanity Fair.
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Midday Music Fix
David Bowie – Modern Love
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Worth The Listen
The AI End Game: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru
The AI End Game: The Ethics of AI
Chris Hayes interviews Timnit Gebru
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Campus Life at
Stony Brook University
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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