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When Their Idea of Liberty Is Your Idea of Death
The 2024 election shows every sign of becoming a partisan battle to claim ownership of the concept of freedom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/opinion/biden-trump-desantis-2024-freedom.html?smid=em-share
Supremely Arrogant
Are these men interpreting the law or settling scores?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/opinion/supremely-arrogant.html?smid=em-share
Wonking Out: In Defense of Debt Gimmicks
Debunking bad arguments against platinum coins and all that.
From The New York Times:
The Unfortunate, Unintended Consequence of the Inflation Reduction Act
The I.R.A. will spur the takeover of our infrastructure by private entities, particularly large global asset managers, with likely negative consequences.
Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
Congress shouldn’t be able to invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president to do its bidding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/debt-limit.html?smid=em-share
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/
Web Content by and for the Masses
When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she has traveled safely. And if every picture tells a story, that may be only the start. At Flickr, the popular Web photo-sharing service where Ms. Fake, a co-founder, posted the photo, it can be tagged with geographic coordinates for use in a photographic map, or become part of a communal database of images that can be searched for certain colors or characteristics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/web-content-by-and-for-the-masses.html?smid=em-share
Storks Don’t Take Orders From the State
Falling birthrates, pro-natalist policies, and the limits of population control
https://reason.com/2023/05/02/storks-dont-take-orders-from-the-state/
Politics Can’t Fix What Ails Us
Solutions to social problems lie close to home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/politics-civility.html?smid=em-share