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Chris Braunsdorf

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I contain multitudes.

  1. the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

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  2. In the dark humor department: a majority of Americans think that AI will generally lead to a decrease in job opportunities - and a large majority also aren't concerned these job losses will impact THEM personally.

    Good luck with that....

    poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

    "Americans are wary of AI's impact on daily life. In classrooms, the concern only deepens. But the mood shifts when AI enters the hospital or the crime lab - most see promise in medical innovation and...

    The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans Wary Of Impact On Daily Life, See Harm To Education, Benefits To Medical Advances, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Americans Expect AI Will ...

    "Americans are wary of AI's impact on daily life. In classrooms, the concern only deepens. But the mood shifts when AI enters the hospital or the crime lab - most see promise in medical innovation and...

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  3. What's baffling is how so many US corporations and elite institutions took Trump's election victory in 2024 as some kind of decisive and permanent shift in the national ethos, instead of a tentative and highly divisive outcome primed for huge overreach and backlash.

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  4. I say this with sincerity and not malice: we have too many people at the top levels of government who show significant symptoms of mental illness, with delusions and personality disorders topping the list.

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