Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing. It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.

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The most recent Dem president as of 1926 was Woodrow Wilson, a racist. There were Southern Dems in or Klan adjacent. Southern Dems opposed anything that countered Jim Crow laws. Be fully aware of history or don’t use it. Then again, plenty of Dems want to see the racism restored today.

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The Resnick family are dominant players in California's pistachio industry & have used political influence to secure vast water rights in drought-stricken regions. The doc 'Pistachio Wars' examines their longstanding backing of pro-Israel lobbying groups in order to combat a global competitor, Iran.

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maybe, just maybe, we should wait on the results of these studies BEFORE we tell each other that AI will "revolutionize" medicine/academia/the world. Im not doubting its utility for certain kinds of work, but the fantasies of AI bros are not reason to force ChatGPT subscriptions on all of us

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Just this week, I taught a lecture connecting the variolation practices of folk practitioners in Turkey/India, of enslaved Black people like Onesimus to the observations about what we would later describe as "herd immunity" underlying Jennerian vaccination, which we tend to think of as "scientific"

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