@altnehgov.altgov.info I'm thinking I should submit a proposal to the Garden of Heroes NEH, perhaps a bronze of Hannah Arendt. When I asked AI to create a full body bronze sculpture of Arendt in the style of Nazi sculptor Arno Breker, this is what it produced. Then I added her most famous book.

I gotta think that Trump's AI stunt sealed the deal for an American born, social justice Pope Leo!

I just don’t get what could make such abject mortification worth it!

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

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My take on Musk: It used to be that smart alienated boys like Musk would read Ayn Rand. They’d become insufferable for a few years and then the world would give them a dose of reality and they’d grow up. Now they live in the Twitter echo chamber and become Lost Boys who break shit.

Yes! I think the internet has been particularly bad for young men. As a college prof, I've always seen the 20 year olds go all in for an ideology, but they used to emerge.

DO IT

Wow! Of the many challenges to the historical profession, I did not have Department of Defense on the threat list.

Exactly. And the abusive husband can’t stand being in the presence of a real man displaying the characteristics of courage, dignity, and a willingness to fight for his values and country.

WTAF. Can we please get an adult back in the White House who is willing to support democracies fighting against invading dictators??

This is terrifying!

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This is absurd. I've just emailed Bezos at jeff@amazon.com and suggested he read Ingrid Robeyn's limitarianism.

Bezos just obeyed. We never will open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

Light morning jab.

Back to affirmative action for white dudes!

I’m wondering if she can confirm that Elon is teaching their son that Musk the real president

Poster child for Dunning Kruger

Glad to see the meritocracy has yielded such impressive picks. 🤦

This is the best they could come up with in a meritocracy??

Oops - meant Trump is less harmful than Musk!

It's terrifying, because it means at home he is hearing that his dad is the real president. Trump is less harmful than Trump because he is incapable of coherent scheming.

And Little X telling Trump IN THE OVAL OFFICE "you're not the real president" confirms we have indeed just seen the coup televised!

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Two days after Kendrick pronounced, "the revolution will be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy" the coup was indeed televised as four year old Little X told the President of the United States, "You're not the president and you need to go away." Musk is clearly the wrong guy.

Transformative work of the day

So we’re back to “mankind,” and the masculine as the norm?

Visit me in the camps

And not surprising he upholds Indian Removal as an excellent precedent!

Limitarianism: why we need to put a cap on the super-rich In this extract from her new book, Dutch political philosopher Ingrid Robeyns proposes a three-pronged plan of action to tackle extreme wealth concentration and reduce inequality

Not that it's a quick fix, but I'm really enjoying reading Ingrid Robeyns' Limitarianism www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...