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This was a comment that got too long… but relevant to the issue of technology “learning” and institutional prejudice… (becoming more relevant daily.) Marissa Higgins featured “Colorado police detain, handcuff Black girls in mistaken traffic stop in...
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it’s not just the Russians coming… it’s the conservatives that are here From the news last night — our parallels with the UK are disturbing Boris Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network (Guardian Aug 1) (You’ll really want to read...
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Russian Investment In Kentucky Aluminum Mill Raises Questions For Some Congress Members Democratic members of Congress are calling on the Trump administration to review a Russian company's investment in an aluminum mill in eastern Kentucky. So I...
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Do we wonder why public health problems and inequality and misinformation are so rampant?
so NPR-news reported "Rural Psychological Units, Facing Regulation Pressures, Choose To Close"
Federal regulations require inpatient psychological...
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On a daily basis we are aware of the gaping discrepancy between conventional reality and Republicanism (or what we might call “reality sub-prime”) One possible explanation is that “Republicans” are actually a macro manifestation of quantum behavior......
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Regarding last nights speech to a joint session (theme: “a Tribute to meaningless Platitudes”)
so much to be underwhelmed by.... but one particular nugget:
“we have the worst economic recovery in 65 years”
to use the vernacular......
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