Dan Phillips

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Writer. Reader. Educator. Singer of The Stalloners.

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Here's a free gift link for non-subscribers to my review of last night's House of the Dragon, which felt like vindication of everything I've ever written or said about this world and its story.

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 4: Fire in the Skywww.nytimes.com This week brings all-out warfare and the death of a key character.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Joe Biden's refusal to step down and let someone else take the reins, when the stakes are as high as democracy itself, is an indictment of his character in a career full of selfish and narcissistic decisions. From @rickperlstein.bsky.social:

Say It Ain’t So, Joeprospect.org With democracy itself on the ballot, a statesman with character would know when to let go of power.

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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

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throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one

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This'll calm them down

People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, a new analysis suggests.

Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson’s diseasewww.washingtonpost.com Researchers compared people 50 and older who were diagnosed with a first episode of anxiety between 2008 and 2018 with a control group without anxiety.

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If you remove regulation, a lot of decisions still have to be made, so something has to replace it. What replaces it is corruption.

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One of the things I can’t get my head around watching the Biden/Trump debate prep from afar is everyone in the media treating it as normal. Just another Presidential debate. The first debate between a sitting president and a felon and insurrectionist is not normal. It should be watched with horror.

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Cities, "Not overdrawing the power grid is a matter of personal responsibility, don't use your AC!" Every tech company, "LET'S ADD MORE AI SUCKING UP POWER" Cities, "Great idea! How about you do it here and don't pay taxes?"

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one of the best to ever do it

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Saying there’s no point attempting to tax the very wealthy because the very wealthy will avoid it is like saying there’s no point making murder illegal because murderers might kill you. You still have to do it. Because they’re toxic, there’s more of us, and you don’t let them set their own rules.

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Justice Clarence Thomas took several more trips on the private plane of GOP megadonor Harlan Crow than were previously known, a top Senate Democrat has revealed.

Clarence Thomas took more trips on GOP megadonor’s private plane than previously known | CNN Politicscnn.it Thomas traveled on Crow’s private jet during trips in 2017, 2019, and 2021 between various US states

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He voted *yesterday* against a Dem bill to protect access to IVF. It is staggering how they just lie brazenly now, knowing they are protected by the media bubble their voters live in.

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There is something deeply unsettling about a former president having plans to reinstate the draft and deport millions of people and potentially end elections forever and the institution most tasked with sounding the alarm about it hooting brainlessly like the audience at Jimmy Fallon

The political press we need: hounding trump & republicans endlessly about his felony convictions, his history of sexual violence, and his attempts to overthrow the government The political press we have:

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Went to a seminar on AI in arts today, the speaker did an OK job addressing some of the drawbacks, but he talked about how AI will “democratize expertise” which I guess yes, in that after a generation or two, nobody’ll have real learned expertise in anything anymore and will all be equally clueless

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One thing I occasionally like to point out is that capitalism is no less prone to irrational mania among its practitioners than any other cult. You saw it with the crazes for crypto and NFTs, you're *really* seeing it with the frenzy to force an AI product that does not work on everyone, & now this.

We don't have the final results yet but it looks like we can dispense with the idea that Tesla can ever be anything other than Mad King Elon's personal domain of fraud and abuse. He is the company, and the company is him. www.ibtimes.co.uk/tesla-shareh...

Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Votingwww.ibtimes.co.uk Early voting results suggest Tesla shareholders approve Musk's controversial $56 billion pay package.

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All of this is error-filled bullshit designed to offload faulty discipline and punishment onto machines so no human is accountable. This will move into law enforcement and everything else. Generative "A.I." is immoral, unethical, anti-democratic, anti-human trash.

We’ve reached the Voight-Kampff test stage of “ai” detection in student writing. “The tool’s AI bot asks students five questions about choices they made while completing an assignment. Depending on the answers, the bot may ask five more questions. It then sends the answers to the instructor.”

Another AI plagiarism detector comes on the edtech scenewww.insidehighered.com Institutional interest prompted the creation of the new AI tools even as debate rages over AI verification.

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Oh damn, the first expedition into Area X was more f*cked up than previously known. I wonder how much more f*cked up it got. To find out, you'll have to preorder my novel Absolution from your favorite bookstore. Out Oct. 22. Meant to blow your mind and rearrange your atoms.

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New York is one of the only U.S. cities where tenants have to pay for a broker they did not hire. Here's what we know about the latest attempt to regulate broker fees in NYC: www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/11/b...

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Strange things are afoot at the Amazon sewing products algorithm.

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#ImpeachHochul

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If only there was something the governor could do to discourage unnecessary driving this summer

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In ruling that bong water is a drug mixture, the Minnesota Supreme Court justices relied, in part, on the testimony of a state patrol officer who claimed that drug users keep bong water “for future use… either drinking it or shooting it in the veins.”

Fargo woman facing 30 years in prison for bong water • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com Last year the Legislature decriminalized drug paraphernalia, even if it contains drug residue. The change represented a step back from the drug war tactics of previous decades, with an eye toward trea...

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"Don't worry, parents who already know 'AI' is synonymous with 'garbage that doesn't work and makes your children fail classes,' this tutoring program is *NOT* AI!" -my normal-ass school district, earlier this week "We're going all in on AI!" -mind genius Tim Cook, today

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While GBH was laying off 31 people, the high salaries of 16 top execs were left untouched. Top-paid host Jim Braude, who makes $345k, tells The Bostonn Globe: “We all would have been willing to take pay cuts to save costs if we had been asked.” So why weren't they asked? #journalism #Boston

At least nine GBH executives had salaries of over $300,000 last year. Reeling from layoffs, employees have questions. - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The untouched, high salaries have prompted criticism among current and former employees about the organization’s choices in confronting a budget shortfall of $7 million for its core business.

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a stupid poem

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“Over 90 percent went to roads, and less than one percent to projects primarily focused on public transportation, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Green New Deal Network and reviewed by New York Focus.” nysfocus.com/2024/02/05/b...

New York Spends Biden Cash on Highways Over Public Transitnysfocus.com The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.

Holy shit, Furiosa managed to be everything I wanted and completely unexpected. George Miller is a great artist. Hemsworth’s best role. I gotta see a double feature with Fury Road.