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Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything

This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything

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Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?

The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?

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Rescuing the Future | Is the attention span of people dropping? | Then how do we explain the success of podcaster Lex Fridman?

Do you know about Lex Fridman's podcasts where he interviews interesting people - for hours? An AI researcher at MIT himself, Fridman got this idea of interviewing interesting people in depth. He began it with his 2018 interview with MIT physicist Max Tegmark, the Swedish scientist who is also deeply involved in the progess of … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Is the attention span of people dropping? | Then how do we explain the success of podcaster Lex Fridman?