Democracy & Strength
How do we preserve political freedom while rising to meet urgent challenges?
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40 notes · The Stream →There’s a story I heard years ago, on This American Life, that I think about often. A hot dog factory, here in Chicago, moved from their old factory to a gleaming new one and found that their hot dogs lost the bright color and snap that was their trademark. For a year and a half, they experimented with ingredients,…
Read noteSix months ago, the New York Times hosted a podcast casually defending theft. Last week, they topped it with one casually defending autocracy.
Read noteTrust-fund kids are in the news.
Read noteA short note on the glaring contradiction in the first sentence of Anthropic’s evaluators announcement.
Read noteWas it misalignment?
Read noteThis tweet thread about leaving Anthropic has gone viral. In brief, the poster, Jacob Coxon, left because he saw the extreme recklessness of 1) believing that AI can (or will) destroy humanity and 2) building it anyway.
Read noteNan Ransohoff argues that we’re at the dawn of the third wave of American philanthropy.
Read noteFor me, as for many in my generation, the Iraq War was a defining political event. I was 19 and in my second year of college when the Bush Administration began to press its case, and the first political event I ever attended was an anti-Iraq War rally in downtown Chicago. Those of us opposed to the war saw in those…
Read noteHow does a nation endure?
Read noteOn July 4, I wrote about Ezra Klein’s conversation with Bryan Stevenson, and what it means to love America despite its faults.
Read noteGraham Platner is once again the political story of the week, this time for defeat rather than victory.
Read noteHappy Fourth of July.
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