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...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Minnesota's Mesabi Bike Trail - A 2025 Review

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This past weekend, over two days with a night in Virginia, a friend and I road Minnesota's newest old trail - The Mesabi Trail across t...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Prediction: A post-AGI American democracy will be socialist

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I hope AGI is decades away. I fear it is years away. If AGI comes in the near future we will have widespread unrest and turmoil. From that o...
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...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

On DOGE and government efficiency: bad software, bad regulations, underfunded commitments and more

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I spent six years as a mid-level (regional) federal bureaucrat in VHA. I'm also a tech and economics geek with 20 years experience at a ...
Monday, December 02, 2024

Link resolution in the broken web - embed a fallback search string in the URL

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Geeks know the web has been dying for over a decade. Google was one on the killers, which is ironic since now the near-dead web is a problem...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

On performative block culture in social media

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I am told Oligarch Musk did something that made blocking less effective on X.  I don't care about what he did, but I think our would-be ...
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...