DShannon
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The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
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Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
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futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
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Stephen Miller is to blame for the evil ICE is doing. Trump is to blame for listening to Miller. The Republican party is to blame for supporting Trump. MAGA voters are to blame for re-electing Trump. There's enough blame for all of them to share.
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Stephen Miller is to blame for the evil ICE is doing. Trump is to blame for listening to Miller. The Republican party is to blame for supporting Trump. MAGA voters are to blame for re-electing Trump. There's enough blame for all of them to share.
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
theonion.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Another case of AI being more of a nefarious management excuse for evil people than useful personal technology: Get used to "Oh that drone strike? The AI told me to. But me? I had nothing to do with that."
Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Another case of AI being more of a nefarious management excuse for evil people than useful personal technology: Get used to "Oh that drone strike? The AI told me to. But me? I had nothing to do with that."
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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Trump is promising billionaires tax cuts while openly vowing an authoritarian second term.
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...
Trump Finally Reveals It: Billionaires Get Tax Cuts, We Get Autocracy
Donald Trump's comments to wealthy elites show that he's offering them a corrupt bargain that is likely to end very badly for everyone.
newrepublic.com
April 10, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Trump is promising billionaires tax cuts while openly vowing an authoritarian second term.
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...
On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly thought they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders.
It gets dark:
newrepublic.com/article/1805...