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High school history teacher. curmudgeon.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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not really sure how this was wrong

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Sums it up…

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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.

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Read my latest, which has prompted three men to angrily email me:

The case for candidate Kamala Harriswww.thehandbasket.co She has name recognition, experience, and perhaps most importantly, money.

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Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem. 1. Impeach some justices 2. Impose term limits 3. Expand the courts 4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives 5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.

Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my [NOT IN WORD LIST]

Well well well. Looks like I pronounce all the words correctly.

Well goddamn if they didn't have me pinned. Gift link if you want to do yours. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

@premeemohamed.com I just finished The Butcher of the Forest and it was fantastic. I wanted 200 more pages of the Elmever. Please tell me there’s a sequel in the works.

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These lottery tickets will pay for themselves when I hit the jackpot

Bill Gates says artificial intelligence will "pay for itself" when it comes to its associated greenhouse gas emissions as the technology will help push forward the energy transition

Bill Gates Says AI’s Green Benefits Will Outweigh Its Emissionswww.bloomberg.com The Microsoft Corp. co-founder says data centers will be less energy-intensive in the future as artificial intelligence makes computations more efficient.

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Admirably clear www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/in...

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If you needed a handy infographic on just how much journalistic malpractice is going on at everyone's favorite publications

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Very nice headline now let's see the pull quote

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Again, I find it strange how much of this stuff is taking over the human side of things rather than the boring grind work. mrgan.com/ai-email-fro... is an interesting take. And, IMO, quite sad.

How it feels to get an AI email from a friendmrgan.com Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.

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Make a band less mild Johnny Cryptocurrency

Make a band less mild Observe Dragons

I don't want to participate in society anymore, I want to draw dinosaurs in my bedroom all day like I used to

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"The child wasn't following the man's orders, the story reported." Cops, bombs, billionaires, gun maniacs, and other luxurious cruelties we've been sold. Things we never could afford that we should stop paying for. www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries

Cruel Luxurieswww.the-reframe.com Those who insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution. Things we could never afford and should stop...

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Neat little research project here I blame law school and excessive social media use for my results 😂 yourmist.streamlit.app

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Apparently Witch King is $1.99 on some US ebook retailers right now www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Witch King ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobowww.kobo.com Read "Witch King" by Martha Wells available from Rakuten Kobo. Nominated for the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkabl...

My favorite part of getting old is every once in a while when I’m shopping my brain will call up 1980s prices and I’ll get outraged. That candy bar costs $0.65 why am I being charged $2.50? What do you mean it’s not 1987 anymore?!

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Pure rizz.

I fucking hate Arial. Whenever I’m working on a document and I question what is this disgusting font, the answer invariably returns: Arial! People who use Arial should be arrested!

Make a movie milder: Annoyed Max

Make a movie milder: The Shawshank Improvement

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Under Biden's administration crime is out of control.

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HWELLO and good morning! Catching up on 4 billion emails from a busy weekend BUT may I add that THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST -- my novella about a rescue mission in a dangerous magical forest -- is ONE DOLLAR NINETY AND NINE today on Kindle and Kobo! In Canada, anyway. www.amazon.ca/Butcher-Fore...

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I will never apologize for a post