Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Funding journalism through public micropayment tokens

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Let us assume that the ai project "fails". We do not create superintelligent or sentient machines; current capabilities only impro...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

MAGA anti-science and public dissatisfaction with science - public surveys as input to funding priorities

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The GOP/MAGA opposition to science is based on theocracy, class resentment, future shock, social and economic despair, and on not understand...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

How to defeat MAGA brutal medicaid access restrictions: fund an AI agent for paperwork completion

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In a solid interview with the esteemed Jonathon Gruber  K proposes a mitigation for the GOP's reduction of medicaid access through burea...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

When and why did the America Republic derail? A citizen perspective

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Historians will debate when America derailed and why. They may be interested in the perspectives of an everyday generic citizen. Well, futur...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Tesla Takedown - how I think about it

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TeslaTakedown (#TeslaTakedown) events occur nationwide. I put those in the MSP metro region on the nokings.kateva.org calendar. The TeslaT...

No Kings: A calendar of Twin Cities (MSP) events for the resurrection of American democracy

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nokings.kateva.org  lists Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) metro region events supporting American constitutional democracy and governa...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

When the MAGA say "woke" they mean "secular humanist"

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I've long wondered what the MAGA mean by "woke" and why they hate it so much.  A recent essay by the scribe of the technarchy...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

Project 2025 - the Perplexity Summary

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I don't have the patience to dig through Project 2025. I was hoping a journalist I follow would do an opinion-free overview but I haven...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Repairing a broken America - where the Trump oligarchy is vulnerable

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I expect it will be transiently reversed, but the Jan 21, 2025 federal informer program was a historic marker. Nobody will be able to say t...

The Jan 21 2025 Federal OPM informer program is a historic milestone

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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informer program launched within government on Jan 21 2025. This is a historic milestone.  [1] “… I...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Ed Lotterman - American's best economics pundit - and a sample column excerpt (immigration)

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What? You've never heard of Ed Lotterman, the Minnesota economist  whose web site was last current around 2020 ? At one time he was an a...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Mass disability measured: in 2016 40% of OECD workers could not manage basic technology tasks

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It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Chaos times: American oligarchy

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1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...
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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Muskism, Vance, AI and the American choice between oligarchy and an imperfect democracy

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In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

What is Great Replacement Theory?

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 [Copied over from a tweet stream .] So now I'm trying to figure out what Great Replacement Theory is. It seems to be one part true and ...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Biden's essential task is to help the Left Behind

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This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy

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I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Biden's lost agenda

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In the Fall of 2020 the American people decided to dump Trump. Americans didn't agree on much else; voters rejected significant change. ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

How I think about the Trump voter and America

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A few days ago I listed about 25 reasons that Donald Trump should not be President . Any one of them is sufficient by itself. There are lots...
Friday, November 06, 2020

The Trump I remember

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It's Nov 6, 2020 and I believe Trump's presidency is ending. I look forward to forgetting him, but one day I'll be asked what al...