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Today’s policy statement: 1) Don’t sell American public lands 2) Don’t nuke Iran 3) We need more holidays, not fewer 4) Bring back the Falkland wolf

Look at those sweet eyes. I want one.

Because it’s not your land to sell; you are holding it in trust for future generations, and it’s much much more important to have wilderness than it is to be out of debt.

Government, but it promotes human flourishing and doesn’t try to kill you.

The front page of the New York Times on October 8, 1933. "authorize physicians to end the sufferings of incurable patients" "it shall be made possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interests of true humanity" "the act of

Do not use AI under any circumstances and certainly not to either do “research” or do any other human task.

The thing is also that the quality of Google search has dropped *dramatically* in the last 3-5 years so genuinely, knowledge is going to become less and less accessible via the internet and will be stored more and more in actual books…

You making haste haste on decay…

acton.is/4nqs7Hx C.S. Lewis and the (Extra)Ordinary Life via Jane Clark Scharl cc: Simon Horobin

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A lovely poem/postcard for a Tuesday morning.

Some Jane Clark Scharl fan fiction up Joie de Vivre today. So much fun reading Sonnez Les Matines at the festival in May. Link in reply.

Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸 Some incredible America-themed salons and socials coming up on Interintellect 🧭 for you 🧵 A New York City conversation with Professor Mark Lilla on Tocqueville: interintellect.com/salons/tocquev…

Our fifth annual poetry competition is live! Submissions are due August 31, details at the link in bio.

This shit is a bad, evil idea and nobody who cares about kids should encourage it.

Poetry used to be central to education, and people loved it because it was taught terribly. Kids memorized poems and chanted verses out loud. The words were alive: something to be experienced, performed, felt in the marrow of your bones. Then came the 1920s, when a group of

"The cost of relying on AI is a degradation of our most basic, fundamental cognitive capacities." A powerful argument from philosopher Anastasia Berg (Anastasia Berg) on the real stakes of AI in education. Watch the clip and tell us what you think.

Susannah Black Roberts Soon we'll have professors using AI to teach students, who will be turning in AI papers, to be graded by teachers using AI. There will be an exchange of "intellectual work" in which not a single human mind engaged with it at all. The university system is toast.

I must confess I don't understand the Trump admin's approach to immigration enforcement, where companies that employ illegal labor at scale get off free, millions of scammers are left alone, but legitimate asylum seekers from Iran get arrested. Stephen Miller youtube.com/watch?v=KyP3qJ…

This corner needs a restaurant with a small kid's play area attached. There are TONS of young families within walking distance and it would be an absolute smash.