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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely. Mathematically more harm that good! I don't understand how people don't see it as obvious. In case you're interested, my (wordy) attempt to explain: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/a-critical...

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A Critical Re-Framing for Artificial Intelligence

It’s not Doomerism, It’s Nature: The Inevitable Reality Of an AI Future

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pride in calling myself American, especially growing up overseas, has always centered on the idea that we were, at least most of the time, the good guys, or tried to be. Now we are evil. The American "we," not the you-and-I "we." But that's how it stands. "We" are now the evil.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not "everything" USA. Every nation and everyTHING is a mix of good and bad. Support the good, shun the bad. Just as in applying the scientific method to data. That's how order emerges from chaos and how the best elements of a system can prevail over the destructive elements.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dubya looks quite the patriarch here. Why am I not surprised?

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Misanthropic Billionaires? Receipts Here:" projectpodcast.substack.com/publish/post...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And "his" Supreme Court: A Court Fit for a King: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There are important distinctions between a true cult and mere "fandom," which any political figure attracts some of. @jasonstanley.bsky.social has explained this in detail.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think he has a point. For one thing, conservative ideology is invariably linked to a preference for heirarchical thinking, and there's nothin more starkly heirarchical than a cult.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's not your best work. It's as though you have an intuition about data centers but aren't willing to express it cleanly. My guess is that like practically everybody else, you don't really understand how to parse their benefits, or much more importantly, their costs.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Certainly not. Considering NIMBY in all the shades of gray everything important contains, this the Platonic ideal of NIMBY as a morally correct force: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/a-critical...

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A Critical Re-Framing for Artificial Intelligence

It’s not Doomerism, It’s Nature: The Inevitable Reality Of an AI Future

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm still convinced the most comprehensive perspective is this one: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/a-critical... (It's reasonable to see all the current dystopian symptoms and signals as subsets).

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A Critical Re-Framing for Artificial Intelligence

It’s not Doomerism, It’s Nature: The Inevitable Reality Of an AI Future

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you think it's an accident that the most successful nation in the history of the world is also by far the most diverse large nation in the history of the world, I think the problem is in your head - not in the diversity, in the equity, or in the inclusion.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"A Court Fit For a King" Read, listen, and share everywhere. People need to understand this Court's disordered state: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Humility: The only really important virtue; the others all follow. The basis of morality, starting with the golden rule. I am no more important than anybody else, therefore all are equally deserving of civilization's fruits. If we could wave a magic wand to spread it, all our problems would resolve.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know everybody here already gets this - the question is how to go beyond preaching to the choir. Of course share Marc Elias' work with everybody you can, but share these as well: "What is the Supreme Court Doing to America?" projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This sounds like a great idea if you want people wielding the most powerful scientific tools we've ever had, and no idea why.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And if you know people who don't realize how important judges are, please share the following with every one of them: What is the Supreme Court Doing to America? projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Those graphs from 1945-1980/1990: Widely thought of as America's golden age. From 1990-today: Should be called, by future historians, the "Hollowing Out" period. Dying middle class, dying small towns, dying civic culture, dying commons, dying shared identity. ***Not a coincidence***

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Literally Upton Sinclair and "The Jungle." Who needs meat inspections?

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Every American should be educated on this but so few know more than the absolute minimum. Here are expert accounts of current SCOTUS in shareable form, please send to everybody who needs to understand: projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If anybody in your life isn't sufficiently alarmed about what data centers are doing to our land, people and resources, share this to edify: Big Tech Is Draining Your Town Dry for AI Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... open.spotify.com/episode/1mDP...

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Erin Brockovich: Big Tech Is Draining Your Town Dry for AI

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"This is the right perspective. So apparently did the three dissenters." Wow! I sure nailed that sequence of sentences!!! 😂😂😂

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

^^^ I will leave that there as a perfect statement. ^^^

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you. My understanding of fascism has been that it's an expression of cultural fundamentalism. My idea of capitalism is different, contains more nuance and broad spectra over which it can operate. Trying to understand the relationship better.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'd really like to see a rigorous explanation of this. My understanding, it mirrors Mussolini. But why does it work that way? Can you point me to a source?

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the right perspective. So apparently did the three dissenters. But how do we get the message to people who aren't hearing it? This is my attempt to do that with shareable expert interviews: “What is the Supreme Court Doing to America?” projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This should be called the Einstein tax.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe this is a good place to put this. "What is the Supreme Court Doing to America?" projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Of course I agree with everybody else that the pathologies on display are obvious and probably tragic - on at least a couple levels. Personal and... say, end-of-civilization levels are the ones that come to mind.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

... Rex Stout's novels. The capitalization is pure Trump, but historical documents sometimes had similar capitalization for emphasis. I'm not sure that's a terrible adaptation.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just as a writer, I wouldn't be proud of that writing, but I wouldn't necessarily be embarrassed. The grammar is almost perfect, the spelling is almost perfect. This is not what we usually see from MAGA. The run-on sentences could be a fair attempt at a style, they even remind me slightly of...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This story needs to be understood much more widely. "What is the Supreme Court Doing to America?" Please read and share! projectpodcast.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Surveillance and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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HHS RIF running list

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) • Division of Reproductive Health • Division of pop health • Behavioral and clinical surveillance branch • Epidemiology ...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Appeasement did not work with Hitler, it has not worked with the Republican party and it won't work with Donald Trump either. All of the olive branches, reaching across the aisle, and both side-isms brought us to this point.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

They've been told for forty years that the most successful structure of governance in the history of the world is wasteful and useless. Somehow our success as a nation is DESPITE our government. It's literally the biggest lie ever told.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Outstanding metaphor from @chrishayes18.bsky.social: you can only get where you want to go by harnessing the energies available. Also demonstrates the damage of purity tests and doctrinaire absolutism which work to tear down the sails, only allowing their use in perfect uncorrupted winds.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If in doubt hear it straight from an actual originalist/textualist judge who probably should have been on the Court himself: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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“There Is No Republican Party” (recorded live with Judge Michael Luttig at the Texas Tribune Festival)

Podcast Episode · Talking Feds · 09/19/2024 · 41m

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It's stunning to me how even serious people still consider him sort of an oddball genius. It's a serious indictment of the way we've been conditioned to regard business success, even when it results from sociopathic behavior.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Not only that but this is a case where 1 + 1 = >2 By a lot. Stifling that potential would be, and is, massively destructive. A crime against progress, no matter how you define progress. A crime against humanity. But gratifying, I gather, to the more fragile among male egos.

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm willing to repeat this message because I have actually walked through those cemeteries, and seen those graves, without even having realized why there were so many.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?

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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

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Glenn Addison @projectpodcast.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You just reminded me my copy of @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's "On Tyranny" is late. So now I shall return it, and another person can read it! What a great idea!

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