A well formulated article relating the current situation in the US with Nazi and post-war Germany, the country I grew up in and whose history I read a lot about, worthy to be my first tweet: “Resistance is a long game” theconversation.com/resistance-is-… via The Conversation U.S.

My instinct says politics used to be about values (not about winning at all cost) & public opinion held in check by responsible media (no Fox and SNS), therefore easy to explain why we’ve entered this mess ... or not? vox.com/policy-and-pol… via Vox

Purpose of prayer: 1. To convince God your plan is better than his. 2. To educate and inform an omniscient god. 3. To let the source of morals know that something is wrong and should stop. Have I missed anything?

Seems AI is further advancing along the nightmare scenario, wished these voices would make it into the headlines: “Escalation Risks” up to even nuclear war (!) “from Language Models in Military and Diplomatic Decision-Making” arxiv.org/abs/2401.03408