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The new Times expose on Ukraine is shocking, horrifying, enraging. Everyone involved with this caper needs to be sent up the river
Gazans have hit the streets in unprecedented numbers to challenge Hamas rule.
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France is one of the world's oldest democracies; it's now in grave danger. A court has convicted the presidential front-runner, a populist nationalist. A court alleges she misallocated staff time. But a court acquitted the Prime Minister, charged with the same crime, last year.
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The success of Substack Notes suggests that long-form blogging is symbiotic with short-form tweets. Tweets are mutation, follows are selection, posts are memory. Mutation + selection + memory = memetic evolution. Without memory you get noise (X).
The more social media you consume the more your output sounds and feels like AI. Model collapse also happens to you. You can't avoid being unconsciously influenced by all the slop you put into your brain and then your brain has no choice but to infuse your imagination with that poison. Stop scrolling and start creating. For your own sake and ours.