Dystopian but necessary:
“To protect against AI-generated voice cloning, election officials should establish practices… One common low-tech best practice involves incorporating private passphrases known to election officials and which change on specified time intervals.” @foreignaffairs.bsky.social
End of the year book lists are the best part of the season. If you have a list or book you want to share, please add it here!
Henry Kissinger, a foreign policy thinker and statesman whose influence rivaled that of presidents, has died at 100.
“…Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.” From this interview with philosopher Byung-Chul Han
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An excellent read on Foreign Affairs, which also appeared on Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver over
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“The growing tendency of artists to pronounce on everything from microaggressions to macropolitics shows that we need a fundamentally different understanding of the role played by artists and their institutions.” —Nina Power on the role of Art in a time of war
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This by Keren Yarhi-Milo on “Why Smart Leaders Do Stupid Things” is stellar
“All leaders, after all, think their theories, ideas, and choices are consistent, logical, and well supported—and there is rarely an objective test that can prove otherwise.”
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