It's the same old same old criticism: we shouldn't do a small thing because we can't do a big thing. We used to be >1%, not <1%, but we did something about it, and we should go o… (View Post)

It's a good essay for the gullible. Generative AI will have important impacts, but most of that is fantasy. (View Post)

Those YouGov findings are really important. The radical right has done a very good propaganda job of convincing people that most immigrants are illegal and coming for benefits. Instead of pandering t… (View Post)

We might get lots of results like this in a 2029 election, but it does feel like the electorate will sort itself out and start clustering around a smaller number of options. Maybe that happens locall… (View Post)

Thomas Quincey in "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821): "the children of bishops carry about with them an austere and repulsive air, indicative of claims not generally acknow… (View Post)