Craig Simon

In every dictatorship, every war, every system of oppression, the denial of human dignity is the first step.
In every revolution, reform, or awakening — from Gandhi to MLK to Mandela to AI ethics — it begins with reclaiming the human soul and its right to choose.

Stargate and the others are just getting started.

Tump’s reckless exit from the JCPOA brought us here.

What’s your methodology for calculating and advancing the national interest? How does your approach fortify our country’s standing, security, and wealth?

I think you’re exploiting a complex and delicate issue to gin up your base by demonizing and dehumanizing a very vulnerable and marginal population. The MAGA movement’s habitual reliance on political polarization and performative cruelty gives me no confidence you’re here for a serious conversation.

The prospect of an America Party - or any new party - lets us rethink how parties start. I propose an experiment in first principles: 1) Assemble planks from facts, values, and propositions. 2) Promote sets of planks as platforms; 3) Parties model actionable insights; 4) Find demo at miniherald.com

The prospect of an America Party - or any new party - lets us rethink how parties start. I propose an experiment in first principles: 1) Assemble planks from facts, values, and propositions. 2) Promote sets of planks as platforms; 3) Parties model actionable insights; 4) Find demo at miniherald.com

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In 2022, over $16.7 billion was spent to win federal elections.

Most of it? Ads and consultants — not actual civic engagement.

It's time for a better system. Here's how:
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📊 #CampaignFinance #ElectionReform #GetMoneyOut #MakeCampaignsFair

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DOGE Has Decimated the Institute of Museum and Library Services DOGE has eliminated the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), placing all its employees on administrative leave.

A controversial executive order just wiped out the agency that funds U.S. museums and libraries. Hard to believe safeguarding our cultural institutions became optional overnight—talk about throwing history under the bus. 🏛️📚 #IMLS #MuseumFunding #ProtectCulture #ArtNews

Garry Kasparov: Why I’m Launching The Next Move The enemies of freedom have a plan. It’s time we made one too.

I like the idea of thinking strategically about how to act strategically. open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

You've gotta have faith, and failure will be the fault of the faithless.

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

January, 2025 data from CERES just came in. At this point, I'm just thankful for one more month of data. Anyway, the 36-month running average for albedo took a big dive to a new record low.

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

YouTube video by David Pakman Show Cult expert explains the Trump cult

Consider this when talking with Trump supporters. I believe the approach talked about here is effective if we use it.

youtu.be/uMlLTtL80pI?...

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like "GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds. GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping. See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows." and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what

This is my entire life

Yesterday's global sea-surface temperature of 21.05°C was about 4.62 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean (first 30 years of data), or about 1-in-520,000 just by chance.

I expect temperatures to reach their seasonal peak in roughly 2 weeks.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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YouTube video by NBC News Rep. Golden: Democrats had no 'leverage' in shutdown fight

The folks being set up as the front line fodder of Trump's RAGE deserve a proper answer as to why "playing chicken" and "walking the plank" are poor strategies for coming out ahead in the end. Not sure I can respond adequately, but I'll start with this www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6VH...

Prem Thakker on X: "NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” https://t.co/yry9ofzWIW" / X NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” https://t.co/yry9ofzWIW

Our waking nightmare. x.com/prem_thakker...

Mark Kelly: "The only oath I can think of that maybe Elon has sworn is an oath to his own checking account."

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

We've reduced intelligence to what people can do with computers, which is fueling the current hype cycle.