The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes “the assault on the Capitol is his platform. He’s calling convicted criminals like the woman at the New Hampshire diner patriots. They’re his voters. He loves them and they love him.” writes that “while this may sound alarmist to some, consider the connections between the current white Christian nationalist movement, conspicuous during the January 6 insurrection, and fascism.” writes “Typically for authoritarians, amassing more power has only made him more arrogant… He also treats many of his fellow Florida Republicans as rivals to be shut out, humiliated, or brought to heel.” writes “Musk’s micropayment proposal is doomed to fail because he seems to surround himself with people unwilling to say, ‘Hey, this is a bad idea.’” writes “sir, complaining that a woman has agency under the law and that she’s exercising that agency to yeet herself out of her union with you isn’t making the point you think you are making.” writes that "taken together, these provisions could effectively bring an end to the majority of gender-affirming care in the state." writes “what I’m struck by is Teixeira’s evident lack of purpose in leaking documents other than to show off—and his chatroom pals’ utter indifference to the eye-popping documents and failure to report the breach, according to reports.” writes “AI makes it possible for content mills to create a nearly infinite amount of content, which other machines then optimize, which still other programs A/B test. Automatically.”2 Comments
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Good lord. It’s hard to remain optimistic about the future of humanity, much less of our country, reading piece after piece like those included here.
And here I thought Substack was different. Looks like the polarized folks polarize here as well. Alarmism when they see something wrong with the other pole, radio silence when someone on their polar extreme does something wrong.