And whether humanity can “grow up” and thrive by living in reality and not fantasy.
- Infrastructure note about More tags;
- Paul Krugman on why the right would see AI as “communist” — because it’s reality-based;
- (Aside: another arc of history is how the discoveries of objective facts about the universe have steadily undermined the religious and ideological fantasies that humans have lived by)
- Should people cut off contact with their MAGA relatives? (With a perspective of my own.)
- Amanda Marcotte on MAGA’s tantrum about the new Superman being woke;
- How Stephen Miller thinks immigrants didn’t build the Empire State Building (he’s wrong).
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Today I spent more time than I expected to insert “more” tags into posts that I had not already done so… without realizing I had not done so since April. It took a surprisingly long time, because I also discovered that some image links had gone bad — ones from Salon. I went back to the original articles and got revised image links and updated my posts. Why would they change the image links…? Anyway, I fixed quite a few, but I’m sure there are others I didn’t see.
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A Paul Krugman piece from a few days ago about whether AI would be communist.
Paul Krugman, 17 Jul 2025: The Road to MechaHitler, subtitled “Reality still has a well-known liberal bias”
