NO KINGS [Human Banner-SF Ocean Beach] · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

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Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.

Two thoughts after reading this piece: 1) our degrading reasoning skills probably played a big role in the last Presidential Election and 2) in an age of advancing technology and rapid change, thinking and reasoning are paramount - and the US is probably screwed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Just came across this quote from Geoff Dyer, a favorite writer of mine: "I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily..." As the saying goes, I resemble that remark...

Roman Holiday, Part I:  Portugal Jennifer just started a class in Paris that will be keeping her busy for most of the next five months, and my schedule in Paris is suddenly quite a bit more active (more on this in my next blog pos…

New travel blog post about recent trip to Portugal: vijayfrance2024.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/r...

Greetings from Florence. "We have a room with a view"

A Moveable (AI) Feast I sometimes fancy myself as living out my own version of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s lovely (and controversial) memoir of his salad days in Paris roughly 100 years ago. Indeed, just last we…

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Wondering if anybody I know has used Notebook LM or something similar?

Change the World Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics.

Just happened to come across this article from 2012 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.... Perhaps I liked it better when the Silicon Valley elites were largely oblivious to politics...

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