Indeed, stranger than fiction
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Indeed, stranger than fiction
Daniel Dennett: ‘I begrudge every hour I have to spend worrying about politics’ You quote your colleague who suggests the Google autocomplete, which uses AI and machine learning, could be controlling the way that we see the world. Is that what you think? That the robots are already controlling our minds in ways we don’t…
The Maoism of Donald Trump May 2016: In many respects, ordinary people in China, or the “old hundred names,” as they are called—a colloquial catchall for those commoners who didn’t make it into the history books—are not unlike the largest segment of Trump supporters: of limited education, dispossessed, and frequently overlooked because of their distance…
Are Farage and Trump really fascists? | Kevin Passmore “Yet whatever the similarities, we should think twice before interpreting the present as a re-enactment of the past. For one thing, fascism is notoriously hard to define. Decades of research have not enabled academics to agree on a definition. The problem is that fascism – like…
The View From 2050: Donald Trump Changed Everything “I, too, didn’t quite realize how quickly a country could move backward, dragging the world with it. I watched helplessly as the Trump administration toppled one scientific enterprise after another, like a sullen child kicking over the sand castles of other kids. As soon as he took…