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Opinion | America Is No Longer a Stable Country Trump is playing with fire, which is just how he likes it.

David French
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump admin is spoiling for a street fight. Saturday, after a protest against Immigration & Customs Enforcement arrests degenerated into violence, the admin reacted as if the country were on the brink of war.
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Some aged/aging humor to get ready for Father's Day. www.youtube.com/shorts/yk8lm...

Springsteen widely reported remarks about how “a majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. www.wsbtv.com/entertainmen...

As they say:"Springsteen is a truth teller. His greatest songs chronicle the dissonance between the American Dream and our American reality — with a rousing honesty and an almost stubborn hope that a better tomorrow is always coming into focus. ”

"A direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and IQ loss"

So uhm fluoride raises one's iq?

Current NASA budget plans aren't going to make America scientific again.“an extinction-level event for NASA science,” said Casey Dreier, Planetary Society, “It cancels new missions currently being built, wasting billions of taxpayer $ in the process. This is neither efficient nor smart budgeting.”

Example of the Jevons paradox— efficiency leads to more use of a resource, not less - cheap urban light is now a pollutant. Some, like MS's Satya Nadella worry that as "AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of.”

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Signs of a new Gilded age: consumer confidence is going down while in the C-suites the promise of tax breaks has their future looking rosy.

Formerly in idea: "I follow the constitution."
Now moving in: "I'd kill (for) you, sir."

It may escape general notice but I think our politics has just slipped from the classical world into the quantum uncertain world with the new formulation of semi-fired. Of course there may be some associated use of this, such as semi-peaceful solution, semi-sovereignty and semi-friends.

An AI said '"Semi-fired" is not a standard employment term,it's deliberately vague & intimidating.boss is likely using it to:Create anxiety and urgency: The ambiguity of "semi-fired" is designed to make you nervous & compliant imply a serious consequence w/o outright termination: job is in jeopardy"

UNIT 7: THEORIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EFFICIENCY - SlideServe UNIT 7: THEORIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EFFICIENCY. THEORIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. Meaning and Relevance of ‘Social Justice’ in Planning. What is Social Justice?

Social Justice is hard &associated with creating an egalitarian society that understands &values human rights, and recognizes the dignity of every human beings. THEORIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EFFICIENCYwww.slideserve.com/easter/unit-7-theories-o...

Leader of cultlike, violent ‘Zizian’ group arrested in Maryland Three members of a group linked to six killings, including of a U.S. border patrol agent, were arrested in Western Maryland.

A new, violent group The Zizians, composed mainly of people devoted to a weird combination of beliefs. It's as if several pairs of dice with cult-like beliefs were scrambled - Veganism, transgender issues and the potential threat of artificial intelligence. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...?

We are & will be losing - dealing with cancer: a laboratory focused on speeding up cancer drug discovery or finding a way to block a protein that helps cancer cells survive,
"At NIH, between 1,000 -1,200 people received letters as of Sunday afternoon"

So many things out (mostly): scalpels, while In: axes.
'“The CDC should be treated with a scalpel, not an axe,” Mandy Cohen, who led the agency under Biden, wrote in an op-ed last month.'

What do people think of the circling confusion of:
"Making your own determination on whether you have a conflict of interest is itself a conflict of interest." ?

Just next to the snack aisle, I assume.

George Orwell captures today's version of perpetual war between power blocks & allies (Ulkraine-Russia &Palestine-Israel). This succinctly highlights the manipulative power of totalitarian regimes, where truth is distorted & history is rewritten to serve the interests of those in power.

Yes, but like most research the benefits may be down the raod a bit and so easy to ignore for a while.

In the new year some groups have an Out vs. In items. I've crafted some late addition to the new year.
Out "new world order". In "new world disorder".
Out "critical thinking". In "UC..
or unintended consequences".
Out "retired" In "purged"
Out "nation building". In "Gaza Riviera hotel building.."

Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.

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Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.

Contextual background to the recent initiative aimed at depleting the civil service: 'The email sent by the OPM — titled “Fork in the Road,” echoing one sent by Musk to Twitter employees in late 2022 — instructed workers to reply “resign” if they wanted to accept the offer, which expires Feb. 6.'

A question for secular and humanist friends out there. Who are your favorite humanist influencers on social media? #SECULARHUMANIST #ATHEIST #freethinker

Trump is a Dumb Person’s Idea of a Smart Person There is an episode of Seinfeld in which George, while being dumped, is hit with the “It’s not you, it’s me” breakup line. Forgetting about the rejection, he immediately obsesses over the fact that it...

Among Friedman's views is this - 'Trump “thinks economics is everything”? ' A reader responded:
"What nonsense. Trump doesn’t have a clue about economics." I agree. It's more an attraction to profit, power and finances. Also noted - "Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man."

Opinion | I Never Felt Like This in China Before America must compete with China, but there’s also a complicated reality that both countries have to face.

After the miss with "The World is Flat" Tom Friedman is at it again with large scale soceo-tech forecasting again branded with a "sputnik moment". www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/o... Maybe another miss, although the robotics of "dark factories" seems a likely trend. #nyt #china #techforecasting

Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’ | Owen Jones So-called moderates are mimicking populist demagogues, with potentially disastrous consequences, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Trend for our time? "More than a decade of Tory economic policy has brought about stagnating living standards &crumbling public infrastructure. Unwilling to fix problems of its own making, the party has used divisive topics to divert public attention & create scapegoats to shoulder the burden.."

Arctic is changing dramatically, and 2024 report card shows worrying trends | Opinion In the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of t...

The 2024 Arctic Report Card has much to worry about . The study brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire & sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic environment.
#climate #climatechange #risk www.pennlive.com/opinion/2024...

#booksky #giridharadas