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Plato’s Defense of the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily
Plato’s Defense of the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily
by Scott SamuelsonI was a freshman in college when I first read Plato’s Apology, his version of the event that probably made the biggest mark on him: his
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Plato’s Defense of the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily
Watching the watchmen – RANGE Media
Watching the watchmen – RANGE Media
Editor's note: A deeply-reported series on the Flock cameras tracking your movements.
·rangemedia.co·
Watching the watchmen – RANGE Media
Explosive Return to Normal — Superversive
Explosive Return to Normal — Superversive
Confidence Game The Great Financial Crisis was a crisis of confidence. Due undisciplined lending and risk modeling disconnected from fundamentals, financial firms had lost trust in counterparties. They didn’t believe that partners in the ecosystem were “good for it”, resulting in margin calls and
·superversive.co·
Explosive Return to Normal — Superversive
Confusion wins
Confusion wins
I left the election season and didn’t send this newsletter for a few weeks. Mostly because I was fiddling with the tool to send it with, was traveling and...
·buttondown.com·
Confusion wins
AI and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
AI and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way. In 2008, social media was just emerging into the mainstream. Facebook reached 100 million users that summer. And a singular candidate was integrating social media into his political campaign: Barack Obama. His campaign’s use of social media was so bracingly innovative, so impactful, that it was viewed by journalist David Talbot and others as the strategy that enabled the first term Senator to win the White House...
·schneier.com·
AI and Voter Engagement - Schneier on Security
The Grift Bubble
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
·snyder.substack.com·
The Grift Bubble
A Letter to America
A Letter to America
From an American with Love
·notesfromthecircus.com·
A Letter to America
There is Only One Way Out
There is Only One Way Out
I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy Serkis’ character, Kino Loy, delivers one of the most stirring monologues in contemporary screenwriting.
·notesfromthecircus.com·
There is Only One Way Out
You Can Shape Reality
You Can Shape Reality
Thoughts on the artist's role in cultural change.
·everyonescreative.net·
You Can Shape Reality