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Kate O'Neill

@kateoneill.bsky.social
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"Tech Humanist." Future-ready strategy. Founder & CEO, KOInsights.com. Host, The Tech Humanist Show (thetechhumanist.com). Thinkers50. CSP. Ex-Netflix. Keynote speaker; 6x author (WHAT MATTERS NEXT); bylines Fast Company, WIRED, et al. Vegan, bi, linguist.

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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How long does an idea live in someone's mind? @tamsenwebster.bsky.social and I talk clarity over certainty and ideas that travel on #TheTechHumanistShow: 🌐: www.thetechhumanist.com/2026/09/17/s... 🍏: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/7Ibu... 🍿: youtu.be/RDRuMEuj62E?...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/09/2026
Teachers and professors are throwing out old assignments, installing new policies and protocols, and incorporating AI built for the classroom, rather than feeling forced to choose between returning to pencil and paper or acting like the AI police.
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These teachers fight AI cheating with classes that force students to show they are learning
Instead of relying on AI detectors or going back to pen and paper assignments, educators said they redesigned classes to make students prove they are learning.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
These themes have been showing up repeatedly in the film camera profiles @robbiequinn.bsky.social has been doing over on IG. Definitely something in the zeitgeist.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everything can’t be reduced to a network effect. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I mean we just watched the almost complete fascist capture of data and the internet. Surely that's a reason to reconsider.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Place still matters. It’s probably about to matter a whole lot more.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I really struggle with the idea that all we need is love and the internet to build community. I don’t know how we failed the next generation so badly on this but yall materiality matters. Very much.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem did so much. The rest is up to us now. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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Gloria Steinem obituary: second-wave feminism campaigner
The co-founder of Ms magazine and bestselling author once described as ‘one of the best dates to take to a party’ has died aged 92
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/09/2026
“I can hardly think of a more important and urgent issue than knowing whether we are passing major climate tipping points,” writes Tim Palmer. “If humanity works together, this issue can be resolved quickly”
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The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
If it is affecting circulation patterns that determine how and where anticyclones form, it could accelerate alarmingly, warns Tim Palmer
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hard to believe Pixels and Place came out TEN YEARS AGO today. This was my first business and technology book, and a LOT happened once it was out in the world that might never have happened without it. (1/4)
a stack of copies of the book Pixels and Placea screenshot of the Amazon listing of Pixels and Place showing it as the #1 Best Seller in Human-Computer Interaction
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
Nothing new in this piece, but somewhat noteworthy that a site like realtor dot com is featuring “should you be concerned about flock cameras” content.
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A Complete Guide to Flock Safety Cameras
What are Flock's Automated License Plate Readers, and should you be concerned about the use of these cameras in your community?
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are still plenty of hope-filled stories around human-centered uses of AI. Worth observing that many of them have origins that predate this ChatGPT-led LLM era. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights
For Ari, a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties in Jamaica, artificial intelligence (AI) opened the door to something many children take for granted: reading a book in his own language. Thousan...
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just saw that someone followed me via this starter pack, so I checked it out and, wow, it's really good, you guys. Highly recommend following this group of folks. go.bsky.app/ECWQzUA
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If you're looking for a playlist with a little in-spite-of-it-all patriotism, a little call to revolution, a little hopey-changey nostalgia, and a whole lot of vibes, I offer this one — and I welcome your suggestions for additions: open.spotify.com/playlist/6Hh...
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America: Idea & Experience
Playlist · Kate O' · 38 items · 2 saves
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
On this thought-provoking episode of The Tech Humanist Show, as America turns 250 years old, we explore its future. How do we build trust and coherence in a polarized society? Insights from experts Patrick Doherty and Brandyn Keating. Listen/watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo0u...
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America @ 250, feat. Patrick Doherty & Brandyn Keating | The Tech Humanist Show with Kate O'Neill
YouTube video by Kate O'Neill | The Tech Humanist
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wishing you a wonderful three-shower day
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy National Sunglasses Day from me and my sunglasses-ist book amzn.to/4xT61CO
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A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World
A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World - Kindle edition by O'Neill, Kate. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hard to overstate what a huge deal this is for NYC residents--just a massive "I did exactly what I said I'd do" moment for the mayor. Can't wait to see who denounces or downplays it.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How should I celebrate my #TEDx video hitting 200,000 views? I would ask AI for ideas, but that would be too bitterly ironic
screen shot from YouTube of Kate O'Neill's TEDx talk with a blue arrow pointing to the view count over 200,000
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TechCentral.ie @techcentralie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
[PODCAST] Tech Humanist Show host Kate O’Neill on helping businesses get in touch with people
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Tech Humanist Show host Kate O'Neill on helping businesses get in touch with people - TechCentral.ie
This week Dusty breaks down Apple’s WWDC, including a hint at a foldable iPhone, and what SpaceX’s flotation has in common with Ticketmaster’s demand-led pricing. We’re also joined by author and host ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New post about the choices we make, even in a world where the systems seem outside our control. open.substack.com/pub/koinsigh...
text image that says "Constraint is what turns preference into priority — and priority is how you find out what you actually believe."
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Props to @streeteasy.bsky.social for this clever campaign, inviting people to make reservations at iconic NYC places 20 years into the future. This is to celebrate their 20 year 'birthday' as well as, they say, to encourage people to commit to being "Forever New Yorkers." www.reserveyourfuture.nyc
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StreetEasy — Reserve Your Future
Book a reservation for 2046 and be a Forever New Yorker.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/04/2026
"Why Politicians Lie About Trade" is now available in paperback! Get the book critical reviewers on Amazon called "Funny but not interesting" and "interesting but not funny." www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...
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Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It
Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It [Grozoubinski, Dmitry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its AI models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in ‌internal memos..."
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Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...
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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Meta is *so fun right now* "We're gonna track your every move so we can train bots before a 10% layoff next month. Europe won't let us cuz it's illegal, but you US employees understand! Kthx!" arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/m...
arstechnica.com
Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees' mouse, keyboard use
Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Great piece. See also our discussion on #TheTechHumanistShow a few months ago: www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/10/30/d...
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Designing for Dignity: Privacy, AI Ethics, and Democracy with Dr. Carissa Véliz – The Tech Humanist Show
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways. Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇
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Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“It’s not just that the rules are degrading. It’s that policy has become vibes-based — and vibes can’t be modeled.” Trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski (@explaintrade.com) on what’s different about this moment. Brilliant new #TheTechHumanistShow episode: www.thetechhumanist.com/2026/04/16/t...
The Tech Humanist Show promo image with Dmitry Grozoubinski and Kate O'Neill
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I love when you’re watching a show set in NYC and a character mentions their favorite food or store or whatever, and you look it up and it’s real and it’s still there and now you have tomorrow’s itinerary all planned out
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Good piece on "Frankenstein citations" in academic publishing, illustrating why the scale of the problem has proven hard to quantify, and why coming up with technical fixes like submission screeners remains more troublesome than it would first seem www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
o hai, my least favorite day of the year on the internet 🙄
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Oh the irony of getting this prompt while logging into my own website for my own podcast about technology’s impact on human experience
Screen shot of a “do this math problem to prove you are human” type of prompt
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is cool, and it’s VERY #PixelsAndPlace (throwback to my 2016 book). Niantic’s using Pokémon Go’s crowdsourced city-scale imagery to help robots navigate with centimeter-level precision: www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...
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How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This image. Wow. (@economist.com has the full story on what's unfolding — and it's a lot: www.economist.com/interactive/...)
image from Iran shows a missile embedded into the ground and a few people gathered around looking at it (Reuters)
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
75,000 views, 3,200 likes, and 100 (almost entirely thoughtful!) comments — it's been quite a journey for my TEDx talk on AI, human meaning-making, books & cats & grief, and learning to use tech mindfully, toward what matters. Have you watched it? Shared it? Thank you! youtu.be/7fHjbqWRL4E?...
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We cannot leave meaning up to machines | Kate O'Neill | TEDxWalden Pond
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Dang, @economist.com not mincing words or making nicey-nice with their news summaries today 🫡
screen shot of an email update from The Economist showing the top news story about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being arrested in relation to Jeffrey Epstein, described as "a dead sex offender"
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My US event briefings from speaker bureaus often refer to me as the "talent." My UK briefings often refer to me as the "artiste." As in: 18:45 - Artiste to arrive for the evening 20:20 - 20:50 - Artiste session One must pair this with sufficient reality checks to keep one from getting a big head
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Boycotting Big Tech may not dent their bottom line, but that's not the entire point. When you participate in a boycott, you're claiming an identity that aligns with principled resistance. You're making your values visible and refusing complicity.
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Ambitious anti-ICE Big Tech boycott has begun in America: will it work?
Small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE but professor Scott Galloway says that a boycott of Big Tech companies could be more effective.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Have barely heard a peep about Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night the other day, and have to give him at least a small shoutout because "Joy to the World" was absolutely UBIQUITOUS when I was a kid, and it's astonishing that the same voice sang "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "One" and "Shambala."
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Do you think the “no is a complete sentence” people understand what miserable life guidance that is?
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
not sure I have the sequence right but it feels pretty close
butterfly man meme: technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this emergence?butterfly man meme: the media reacting to technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this intelligence?butterfly man meme: the public reacting to the media reacting to technologists reacting to unexpected LLM output: is this our AI overlords?
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Curious about businesses supporting the strike by closing or by extending flexible arrangements to workers and/or the community
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There was a guy on one of my flights yesterday with a patch sewn onto his backpack that said "I may seem calm but in my mind I've already killed you three times" and I mean, huh? but also: what kind of mentality chooses THIS, of all things, as the identity to externalize on one's luggage?
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Are climate action & economic growth actually at odds—or might they be deeply aligned? In this episode I sit down with innovator & investor Tom Chi to challenge conventional thinking about climate solutions, innovation, and the future of planetary restoration www.thetechhumanist.com/2026/01/15/r...
Tom Chi and Kate O’Neill
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“ICE used an AI tool to scan resumes and mistakenly grouped applicants without law enforcement backgrounds with candidates who were previously law enforcement officers” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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AI error pushed new ICE agents into the field without proper training: report
The AI mistake took place this past fall during a recruitment surge, according to the report
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump’s threat of the Insurrection Act flips the script, as Torey Van Oot points out at Axios: troops sent against a governor’s wishes to crush protests of federal actions—not to protect civil rights. Sets precedent for federal force against dissent. Read at Axios: www.axios.com/2026/01/15/t...
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Trump threatens Insurrection Act for Minnesota
The president warned he may deploy the military without state consent.
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Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I was booked for a media interview today and the host canceled because he’s in Minneapolis and he said ‘it’s crazy here right now.’ I certainly empathize, but I’m also realizing that that might be the first time I’ve ever had a media appearance or meeting canceled on account of state violence.
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