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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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As we mark the 80th anniversary of WWII's end, I’ve come to believe that in losing that Greatest Generation, we are losing more than just the memories of combat. We are losing the memory and experience of what it means to fight fascism and authoritarianism. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation
It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.

zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
An interesting commentary on the state of modern corporatized engineering/IT:
Fabio Manganiello (@[email protected])
Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...
manganiello.social
June 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I saw someone post, apparently seriously, “we don’t need NOAA, we can just ask ChatGPT to predict where and when hurricanes will hit.”

I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.

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May 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Man, this is some shady behavior.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 15
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Probably people with paranormal powers good at reading the mind of Trump and members of his inner circle. Or maybe just a lot of lucky people. I’m sure nobody leaked the announcement to anyone. That would be illegal.
April 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb
April 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America is the battered girlfriend who can't seem to stop returning to the abusive ex-boyfriend.
Opinion: Those hoping for prosperity under Trump have had an unpleasant shock. on.ft.com/42wROh2
April 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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It would be very on brand for 21st century America for us to experience the strongest post pandemic economic recovery of any country in the world and then promptly Ouija-board ourselves into a recession because we hired a criminal and his merry band of incompetent losers to “fix the economy”
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Still processing the fact that Zelensky asked Vance “Have you ever actually been to Ukraine?” and his response was that he’s watched and seen some videos.
March 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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BLOG: This debacle - an attempt at bullying on a national scale - confirms that Russia and the other fascist state - the United States - seek to carve up Ukraine. All democracies must reject this outrage. The US is not Europe’s ally, it is its enemy. Act now! www.jandehn.com/post/molotov...
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 2.0
The Putin-Trump Pact is eerily similar to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
www.jandehn.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Perfectly said: "The now-confirmed and rumored additional cuts to come at NOAA/NWS are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters."
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.
JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
America has turned on its friends
Donald Trump’s abandonment of allies is real and will endure
www.ft.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.

“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I can't listen to this stupid shit for 4 years. How the hell do you turn a tragedy into an opportunity to assail your political enemies and DEI when that has nothing to do with anything that happened? 😡

Nevermind, don't answer that.
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Since last April 6th, the Los Angeles Intl Ap has received only 51% of the typical precipitation expected .... for Death Valley.
January 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
- President Josiah Bartlet

"Before I look for anything, I look for a mind at work."
- Sam Seaborn

#Voted #MakeTheAdsStopPlease
November 5, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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82 days until Election Day. You can check to be sure you’re registered to vote, or register for the first time, at vote.gov/register/

Be sure to check your status well before Election Day, especially if you live in a place where election laws have changed! #VoteScience
August 15, 2024 at 8:42 PM