I waver between thinking Debord, Virilio, and some others were prescient than "god these tech bros thought these were instructions."

Really good point on Carol’s car—it’s a very well-thought-out series in terms of allegory. That helps accent her ethics of freedom—who is she to contest these people who seem so happy? Then the scenes with the “concubines” are difficult to watch, but throw the balance back toward her view.

So the idea is, from the first ep, this was some alien race virus sent to pacify us (and literally eat ourselves)? Admittedly, I stopped thinking of the larger rationale since I was easy to distract with the freedom/commune as utopia/dystopia plotline.

Could be the one big tech of my lifetime that wasn't said to be the great disruptor of education. (But maybe I forgot about the "great segway classroom" experiments.)

This NBER was updated just this past week. It suggests the real gains from holding stock come with movement into leadership: www.nber.org/papers/w34524

No parent I know, including myself, of kids with differences doesn't talk about the endless paperwork, cajoling, calls, etc., plus meeting with "I took a course" decision-makers to get the basics of what the law requires.

One sees this all the time in philosophy classes. You might think it relevant there, but the assignment might be "Describe democracy in Aristotle's Politics" and then have to figure (as the instructor did here) a nice way to say "um, you can have your Biblical beliefs but the assignment is..."

I imagine the ultimate Faustian bargain is "You get a podcast...but you have to edit it."

Between this and the former Nicaraguan president’s pardons, they don’t even bother with a press release I’ve seen about righting some injustice. I’ll just take the opportunity to drop another related LC piece: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-grift-so...

The rhetoric is usually one of being almost a non political arbiter stepping in only to restore order. Thailand is an example that keeps coming into and out of constitutional order.

We do in fact have various digital mapping services available here. The maps work fine. It's the streets that are the problem.

Obv you know there are various Constitutional and legal mechanisms meant to enforce that norm (though the "enforce" part requires at least the threat of the use of force by the very thing meant to be subservient), but it's a fascinating discussion, crucial in histories of many regimes (Weimar, etc).

Very convincing rhetoric for those who like getting rained on.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Yeah who sniffed out his soccer career? Did that mean he had to turn to nascar and get sponsorships all over his jacket?

Anyway, a real shift from Breaking Bad since it's about two forms of Breaking Good (Carol and the Kantian Afflicted).