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Quick Stereo Speaker Hack
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I have a pair of Paradigm 9S speakers that sound great, but I have felt like something was lacking in them for the entire year I’ve owned them. Until about 30 minutes ago they were on the floor with my original speakers (Klipsch RB-600) sitting on top because I have no other space to store
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Sex Drugs and Teddy Bears
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Yup we should put AI in children’s toys because AI needs to be everywhere. The linked bear was willing to talk about raunchy sex stuff with kids, advise them where to get knives and narcotics. Of course OpenAI cut the company off of their API, but that doesn’t stop the hundreds of other children’s toy
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The Web isn’t dead – be gracious with your links
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Nice to see verifiable proof of this from Manuel and the impact a link can have in getting others to find a new voice to listen to. Be gracious with your links.
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The Firehose of Falsehoods is Turning Democracy into a Nazi Bar
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According to Applebaum, one of the key tactics that autocracies use to encourage citizens to opt out of any type of democratic process is a firehose of falsehoods. When presented with something bad the regime did the autocrat will produce as many reasons as possible that the bad thing, be it corruption or literally killing
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The Rich Want You Busy, Thoughtless, and Grateful for Scraps
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Like this content, become a member to help keep it coming. Today we look at doing without existing in the world, don’t delegate your thinking, and the absurdness of the wealth of some people in the world. Always Doing, Never Existing I don’t know how to exist without doing anymore. I’ve forgotten what it feels
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Anne Applebaum on Trump
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While Applebaum did reference Donald Trump a few times in Autocracy Inc, the bulk of the book was written before Trump’s second Presidency yet many of the tactics described by Applebaum in the book have clear parallels to what we see Trump’s team doing today. Want to read all my book content, join book club
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Polyphia is excellent
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I just found Polyphia last night and they are awesome. The video below was my introduction to them. Next up, purchase a few of their albums.
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Democracy for Me, Poverty and Exploitation for Thee
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We’re not even out of Chapter 1 in this month’s book and another thought has been sticking with me. Democracies love to preach the virtues of freedom – but they’ve never hesitated to install “friendly” leaders abroad when there’s profit to be made. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across the idea either. In
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People’s Rights, Play, Local Music
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Do you enjoy this, become a member or buy a book to help keep the content coming. Today we have a hard conversation about the rights of people, how play was lost, and local music. Trans Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Rights…Oh my This was a very interesting episode of Uncomfortable Conversations looking at trans rights
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Democratic Hubris
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The first point that stuck out to me in Autocracy Inc is that many democratic countries believed if they engaged with autocrats economically they’d export their clearly superior ideas and democracy would spread throughout the world. This is a very common thought because we all want to believe that our ideas are the right ones,
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