There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

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Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

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Pretty neat chat. I had taken notice of that book on a local bookshop some minutes before listening to the podcast, and went back to buy it on the same day. Already started to read :) Thanks Patrick

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New Past Lives: I talked with the wonderful historian Andrew Pettegree about his new book, "The Bookshop." It's a delightful read that explores how authors, printers, and readers needed intermediaries to find customers - it wasn't a given that print would ever take off. pod.link/1852618120/e...

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It's full of really keen psychological insights about Stroop's obsession with order, his bone-deep belief in hierarchy of all kinds, and how that made him such an enthusiastic Nazi. The lessons are, unfortunately, widely applicable.

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