If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Are Platforms Making Us Evil? Working my way through Nicolas Carr via the lens of teaching.

When I first taught Nicolas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" 17 years ago I was fairly confident it could, but it didn't have to and therefore wouldn't. I'm much less confident in where our digital tools are taking us now. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

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A worthwhile read.

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eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

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A single 1” tall splitgill mushroom grows off the end of a broken branch, upturned so it’s underside can be viewed against a brown forest background All photos by me

Here is a nice mushroom

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Happy to share this unprompted maker of my day.

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