And if "that reflects more on their intelligence" - cool, yeah, except not having fascism right now fundamentally depends on persuading a population, 50% of which is, definitionally, of below-average intelligence. About important things, we must be blunt. And this is an important thing.

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Editing on the new Philosophy Tube episodes is going well! I should have two up on Nebula within a couple of weeks, with YouTube not far behind

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Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

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I so appreciated his willingness to say everyone in the room knows why he's asking. None of the indulgent little fucking dance these guys count on.

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I usually hate "Watch this conservative dumbass get OWNED!!!1!!" vids, but this one is so deeply soothing and satisfying because El-Sayed says so calmly and eloquently the kind of things I usually get too angry to articulate in my own interactions with such people Watch!

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