In the US, it was the technological creation of the modern cotton gin that accelerated the Transatlantic slave trade — from 700k enslaved Black Americans in 1790 to 3.2 million in 1850.
It upsets AI enthusiasts when I point to this history as offering a lesson for technology today.
The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/8OP0up3
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
This is really something, and I expect it will stick with me more than the hyped 2025 movies I have largely forgotten.
Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.
This needs to be read and understood by as many as can still read and understand.
I do not stand for the wave in a stadium. But I do concede that it was, once, cool.
New piece defending the applied turn in analytic philosophy. I say what the applied turn is, how it differs from the social turn, and why it isn't just left progressivism cloaked in the language of analytic philosophy.
open.substack.com/pub/rbnmcken...
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
n.pr
A young nephew thought I was a flossifer. Very close. But I am in the business of mental hygiene. To prevent truth decay.
