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Even though US reactionaries like Ron DeSantis are obsessed with trying to destroy the Disney Corporation, Disney has recently produced a semi-documentary…
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Unhealthy societies tend to develop unhealthy people. 20th century philosopher Adorno once said, wrong life cannot be lived rightly. One indication of…
Perhaps it was not quite a revolution but the last decade or so ā from 2010 to 2022 ā has seen an…
In two recent state elections ā Bavaria and Hessen ā voters took a strong turn toward the radical right. Voters in the…
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Recently, the ugly head of German Nazism ā beefed up by a heavy dose of antisemitism ā roared its brain-dead head. Meanwhile,…
The word intelligent maybe far fetched when connected to artificial intelligence (AI). If anything, the term machine intelligence might be a better…
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