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I voted early. Here’s what I didn’t vote for
Not “who” I didn’t vote for, but what. As always, innundated with campaign brochures — my Congressional district has lots of people on the ballot — I developed a way of absorbing and evaluating certain attributes and ideas of candidates … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Lawyers, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged charisma, charter schools, doppelganger., political campaigns, political dilettantes, political endorsements, public school education, teachers unions, unions
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Campaign sightings
Tuesday, there was George Conway walking south on Broadway near Lincoln Center. He was rumpled and looked perplexed and somewhat down. Nobody but me noticed him. Just a half hour ago, I spotted Micah Lasher in front of Fairway, a … Continue reading
Posted in Government, political campaigns, The Facts of Life, TV commercials, voting and voting rights
Tagged Fairway Market, George Conway, Jerry Nadler, Manhattan, Micah Lasher, NY Congressional District 12, Upper West Side
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How craztupid are things getting? I had to invent a word for it
Yesterday, I read a talk Paul Krugman had with Azeem Azhar about A.I. There’s either very, very little or almost nothing I understand about A.I., except that I believe I’m using it when asking Perplexity.com to find some fact for … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Government, Judiciary, MAGA, Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life
Tagged AI, anecdotal data, Azeer Azhar, Craig Koniver, Dhruv Khullar, FDA, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Paul Krugman, peptides, Perplexity, The New Yorker
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