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Quote of the Day | 0427

Intelligence has to be defined relative to goals and the knowledge needed to attain them. In any case the argument against the doomsday fear-mongering of existing AI extends to more powerful systems: any system that monomaniacally pursued one goal (such ...

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Quote of the Day | 0428

That expansion of the surveillance state, do you see that as another facet of expanding executive power? It's an enormous expansion of executive power. I doubt that they can do much with this information that's being stored. I've had plenty of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

there is a serious cost to excess certainty. Whenever an analyst or academic presents a number or a conclusion with too much precision, they reduce the demand for better evidence. Why run a pilot, set up a proper survey, if ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

With hardly any significant exceptions, religion recedes whenever human security and well-being rises, a fact that has recently been shown in numerous studies, but was suspected by John Calvin in the 16th century. He noted that the more prosperous and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0504

The idea is that if people can't be trusted to deal with risk and uncertainty, then someone else needs to do it." The approach known as "nudging", which grew directly from Kahneman's work, is just the latest example: it takes ...

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Quote of the Day | 0504

Democracies often take liberties with their values in the name of national security. Faced with real or spurious threats, governments arm themselves routinely with an entire arsenal of laws aimed at muzzling independent voices. This phenomenon is common to both ...

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Quote of the Day | 0506

“Ideas don’t float in the air, they live in your neuro-circuitry,” Lakoff said. Each time ideas in our neural circuits are activated, they get stronger. And over time, complexes of neural circuits create a frame through which we view the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0507

[...] Give the running of state prisons over to private corporations whose profits increase with the increase in inmate populations. See to it that a majority of prisoners are African-American. When possible, treat immigrants as criminals. Deplete and underfinance a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0507

There are three strands to this story. How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US. How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire. And how ...

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Quote of the Day | 0509

being British I am coy saying so, I am an expert in my field. Yes, that word. The word that Brexiteers have grown to hate. Even if the somewhat fascistic urge to attack experts, academics, intellectuals, judges and civil servants were ...

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Quote of the Day | 0512

I know that writing can express the humanity of those who are written out of life elsewhere. I know that the simple act of sending a letter to a prisoner can change him or her and how they are treated. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0515

Using words to lie destroys language. Using words to cover up lies, however subtly, destroys language. Validating incomprehensible drivel with polite reaction also destroys language. This isn’t merely a question of the prestige of the writing art or the credibility ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

Humans see what humans need to see, to stay connected with their tribe. And the problem is, first, that our tribes have never since the Civil War been so far apart, and second, that there is a business model in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0517

Jack Balkin, a liberal law professor at Yale, agrees that the increase in leak prosecutions is part of a larger transformation. “We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national-surveillance state,” he says. In his view, zealous leak ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

While the focus of Hillman’s thinking for the last quarter-century has been on climate change, he is best known for his work on road safety. He spotted the damaging impact of the car on the freedoms and safety of those ...

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Quote of the Day | 0521

The fact remains, however, that if the CRS and OMB figures for FY2001-FY2013 that follow are totaled for all direct spending on the war, they reach $641.7 billion, of which $198.2 billion – or over 30% – will be spent ...

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Quote of the Day | 0522

Countries don’t really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right—not by Peróns or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins or fill in the blanks. The nation may survive, but the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0526

Fox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in 1968. He has created a vast stage set, designed to resemble an actual news network, that is literally hard-wired into the homes of millions ...

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Quote of the Day | 0528

We want to install locks to stop the next Bernie Madoff, the next Enron, the next steroid-enhanced all-star, the next serial plagiarist, the next self-dealing political miscreant. But locking our doors against the dishonest monsters will not keep them out; ...

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Quote of the Day | 0530

Assume further that for what you are observing, at the yearly frequency the ratio of signal to noise is about one to one (say half noise, half signal) —it means that about half of changes are real improvements or degradations, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0530

John Maynard Keynes famously looked forward to a day when “economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists”. It’s a nice piece of self-deprecation, but it’s also an analogy worth exploring. We ...

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Quote of the Day | 0531

searching for answers in libraries and books is limited to but one subsection of the world’s population: students and professors and scientists and the odd intellectually rigorous laypeople. Most folks go online for “facts” and read sites like Wikipedia, which ...

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Quote of the Day | 0601

The United States has utterly failed to explain why some leaks of classified information are prosecuted and others (such as those to the prestige press) are not, leaving many to conclude that it likes some leaks (those that help the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0602

Obama has presided over a massive expansion of secret surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency. He has launched a ferocious and unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. He has made more government documents classified than any previous president. He ...

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Quote of the Day | 0604

One virtue of our current clunky system of identification is that if data gets leaked, a person can clean up the mess. If your Social Security number is seized by an identity thief, you can get a new one. For ...

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Quote of the Day | 0604

the likelihood is that the euro will survive because a breakup would be devastating not only for the periphery but also for Germany. It would leave Germany with large unenforceable claims against the periphery countries. The Bundesbank alone will have ...

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Quote of the Day | 0604

Before the invasion, Iraq’s oil industry was sputtering, largely walled off from world markets by international sanctions against the government of Saddam Hussein, so his overthrow always carried the promise of renewed access to the country’s immense reserves. Chinese state-owned ...

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Quote of the Day | 0604

in order to carry out violence and subversion abroad, or repression and violation of fundamental rights at home, state power has regularly sought to create the misimpression that it is terrorists that we are fighting, though there are other options: ...

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Quote of the Day | 0606

Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen. Now I do. All one needs are fragile economies, a rigid monetary regime, intense debate over what must be done, widespread belief that suffering is good, myopic politicians, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0608

If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I ...

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Quote of the Day | 0609

Q: Is it possible to put security in place to protect against state surveillance? A: "You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0611

American thought doesn’t seem interested whatsoever in studying, for example, why even a nation like Spain has five years’ higher life expectancy than America now, why American democracy was so fragile, why American living standards are the lowest in the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0627

many of the most creative people in a range of fields are introverts who are comfortable working in solitary conditions in which they can focus attention inward. Steve Wozniak, the engineer who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is a prime ...

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Quote of the Day | 0627

The world is full of tremendous and terrible existential risks these days. Climate change is one. But there are many others. Financial crisis, economic ruin, stock market crashes, social catastrophes like school shootings. These risks should be distributed better in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0630

To see, as most commentary has done, the deliberate traumatisation of migrant children as a “mistake” by Trump is culpable naivety. It is a trial run – and the trial has been a huge success. Trump’s claim last week that ...

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Quote of the Day | 0702

It's an age in which even the limited rules in place can be broken with impunity by the powerful – even as journalists and activists who cross them are targeted for destruction by state-corporate alliances armed with increasingly sophisticated cyber ...

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Quote of the Day | 0708

procedures are extremely valuable, and I don't doubt any of that. The issue is how does that blend in with expertise? How do people make the tradeoffs when they start to become experts? And does it have to be one ...

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Quote of the Day | 0708

With the Iraq war over and U.S. combat operations scheduled to finish in Afghanistan by the end of next year, however, the Pentagon has begun shifting psy-ops missions to other parts of the world to influence popular opinion. Many of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0708

This “out of sight, out of mind” externalization of poverty and poison doesn’t go away just because we’ve covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality. If anything, the longer we ignore the social, economic, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0709

Listening is hard because the more you listen, the more unsettling the world becomes. It's a lot easier just to place your hands over your ears and not listen at all. 'Viewpoint: Could one man have shortened the Vietnam War?'

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Quote of the Day | 0710

The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate-wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you ...

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Quote of the Day | 0711

There’s huge money in the secret world now, too – money for fabricators who put together brilliant pieces of intelligence. We saw that with the forged documents suggesting Saddam Hussein tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. Somebody was paid ...

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Quote of the Day | 0714

If they can find out what you eat, they can find out what you read as well; from there, it's not so hard to predict your political preferences-and manipulate you. We are careening towards a future where privacy becomes a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0715

Studies by other researchers have observed similar phenomena when addressing education, health care reform, immigration, affirmative action, gun control, and other issues that tend to attract strong partisan opinion. Kuklinski calls this sort of response the “I know I’m right” ...

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Quote of the Day | 0718

“I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0719

it means that we in the west have become like foolish bit-players blundering around in a complex regional war that we do not understand. Adam Curtis, 'Kabul: City Number One'

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Quote of the Day | 0727

Despite the warnings from self-appointed experts, there is less to worry about with the Internet than there is with — well, with automobiles, guns, drugs, social isolation, aging, recessions, wars, food poisoning, or pollution. Kent Anderson, 'Is the Internet Bad for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0727

It will never be entirely possible to systematically distinguish truly dangerous ideas from good ones that appear suspicious, without trying them out. Any formal system that is granted (or assumes) the absolute power to protect itself against dangerous ideas will ...

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Quote of the Day | 0803

Acquisti imagines a near future in which you could walk in to a bar and scan through the crowd, telling your their name, interests or even their credit score. "It impacts the way you're going to approach and interact with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0805

This is a (dark) joy. All the madness you feel, you can now let it out and it’s okay. The very point of Trump is to validate the pleasure of spouting shit, the joy of pure emotion, often anger, without ...

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Quote of the Day | 0809

Corporate power is now concerned that the extremists they helped put in office may in fact bring down the edifice on which their own wealth and privilege relies, the powerful nanny state that caters to their interests. Noam Chomsky, 'America in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0810

in previous periods of instability the assumption was that if only political power was in different hands, or if key institutions like the police modified their behaviour, things would be better. Now what small glimmers of optimism there are come ...

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Quote of the Day | 0820

The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood the absolute threat to journalism ...

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Quote of the Day | 0821

It was not the scope of NSA surveillance that led to Snowden's defection. It was hearing his boss lie to Congress about it for hours on end. Simon Jenkins, 'So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now ...

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Quote of the Day | 0822

In 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are creationists is 46 percent. Adam Frank, 'Welcome to the Age of Denial'

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Quote of the Day | 0823

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. Think that's too strong a statement? If so, you're not paying attention. Barry Eisler, 'David Miranda and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0828

I have come to the conclusion that email is fundamentally insecurable. If I want to have a secure online conversation, I use an encrypted chat application like Signal. By and large, email security is out of our control. For example, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0905

But the layering of it: it was hard to pay attention to while the Education Department was trying to destroy education and undermine Title IX protections when the Housing Department was trying to destroy public housing while the Environmental Protection ...

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Quote of the Day | 0909

[...] playbooks for decoding the 2008 presidential campaign. We may expect the following. Language will be carefully crafted. Advertisements will focus on personal narratives. The campaign will employ “attack” advertisements that emotionally sway voters [...]. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0914

the question is whether most Think Tanks may actually be preventing people thinking of new visions of how society could be organised - and made fairer and freer. That in reality they have become the armoured shell that surrounds all ...

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Quote of the Day | 0916

while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are ...

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Quote of the Day | 0919

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Quote of the Day | 0922

In this elite culture not all corruption is financial. When it comes to the top of British politics, sound character and a clean record do not make you an asset. You’ll have a hard time joining unless they can confirm ...

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Quote of the Day | 0928

If you want to influence a mass audience, for instance, you can try to do what the Pentagon does and subtly bake slanted information into entertainment products such as movies and television shows. If, on the other hand, you ...

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Quote of the Day | 1001

We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn’t realise how dim-witted and ...

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Quote of the Day | 1005

most people possess almost no useful information about policies and their implications, have little desire to improve their state of knowledge, and have a deep aversion to political disagreement. We base our political decisions on who we are rather than ...

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Quote of the Day | 1017

At bottom, we are pattern recognizers who seek escape from ambiguity and indecision. If a major brain function is to maintain mental homeostasis, it is understandable how stances of certainty can counteract anxiety and apprehension. Even though I know ...

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Quote of the Day | 1017

he worries that the field of medical research is so pervasively flawed, and so riddled with conflicts of interest, that it might be chronically resistant to change—or even to publicly admitting that there’s a problem. John Ioannidis, as paraphrased in ...

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Quote of the Day | 1017

Adam, why is so much of modern TV journalism rubbish? “One important thing has risen up”, he says. “And that is emotionalism. We live in an age in which emotions have been given primacy. They just have. Primacy over reason, ...

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Quote of the Day | 1023

the balance between privacy and transparency is especially in need of adjustment in times of rapid technological change. That balance itself is a political issue par excellence, to be settled through public debate and always left open for negotiation. It ...

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Quote of the Day | 1025

Mr. Assange is guilty of one of the worst offenses in American culture: challenging deeply-held beliefs about the benevolence of American foreign policy with facts. It's no wonder that American media outlets immediately turn the spotlight onto him, and not ...

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Quote of the Day | 1028

The American troops are like a powerful drug, he says, that cures a disease. It had bad side effects. But we can't get rid of them - because of all the money they are pouring into our country. Hamid Karzai, as ...

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Quote of the Day | 1029

So the short answer to the question “why are (some) drugs illegal?” is simple. It’s because the editors of powerful newspapers want it that way. They see getting drugs banned as a tangible measure of success, a badge of honour. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1029

[...] now, in terms of what’s going on around the globe – all at the same time – this year would be the big bad trend of my lifetime.” He pauses and reconsiders his answer. “Actually, I suppose someone who lived ...

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Quote of the Day | 1030

For two decades the world seemed to be convinced that all indicators pointed in the same direction: more democracy, more economic openness, more human rights, more international cooperation. Optimists believed it would happen fast, while pessimists warned of possible setbacks. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1030

when Donald Trump lies, when Vladimir Putin lies, when corporations and power lie about climate change, about refugees, about our world, it is not simply that they are lying about a particular issue. It is that they are saying the ...

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Quote of the Day | 1102

there’s something grotesquely captivating about trying to stay abreast of what’s happening, a sense that you can conquer or make sense of the horror by knowing everything, by plumbing the depths. I did think it was somehow necessary to do ...

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Quote of the Day | 1103

Should we be worried that violence on a mass scale, of the kind we saw in the last century, will rear its head again? I think we should worry. I don’t think we will necessarily see it on the same scale, ...

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Quote of the Day | 1105

So we must weigh and measure, bargain, compromise, and prevent the crushing of one form of life by its rivals. I know only too well that this is not a flag under which idealistic and enthusiastic young men and women ...

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Quote of the Day | 1106

The warrant system with skeptical judges, paths for appeal, and rules of evidence was built from centuries of hard won experience. When it works, it represents as good a balance as we've got between the need to restrain the state ...

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Quote of the Day | 1110

It is difficult to impose ideas onto people on the level of argument; people will resist, often outright and without consideration. The natural, critical, conscious mind serves essentially as a spam box, trapping and discarding the vast multitude of input ...

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Quote of the Day | 1111

A divided Europe, with the leaders of France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and others now pro-Russia, anti-EU, and funded by Putin, overrule calls for sanctions or a military response. NATO is slow to respond: Trump does not want America to be ...

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Quote of the Day | 1112

How does one get privacy these days? Just ask any hacker: only by studying how the right tools work. Privacy is no longer something to be taken for granted or enjoyed for free: you have to expend some resources ...

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Quote of the Day | 1116

What matters, though, is the way it misses the point. The idea of Europe as a soft-Nazi superstate was vividly present in 1975, even when the still-emerging EU had a much weaker, less evolved and less intrusive form. The imaginary ...

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Quote of the Day | 1117

then there is the rapid casting aside of ancient, wise rules. Our irreplaceable liberty and justice, which took a thousand years to create, are in shreds thanks to hasty and emotive measures that did no good. And now we have ...

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Quote of the Day | 1119

Judgment and shame have always been a way to try and control women. And it works. There’s a reason why, for the first three decades of my adult life, I kept my head down. Why I couldn’t speak in public. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1122

there is a reason, that I suppose has somehow made itself too obvious to mention. The reason is that some people are addicted to money and power, many of them pathologically so, and we let them do what they like. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1128

Just as environmental scientists have become alarmed about the many sources of data that point to the possibility of global warming, some social scientists are becoming worried about the possibility of "conscience cooling."Lynn Stout, 'Selfishness threatens both our happiness and ...

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Quote of the Day | 1129

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. David Levien and Brian Koppelman, "Rounders" screenplay, 1998 From Esquire's 70 Greatest Sentences.

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Quote of the Day | 1130

Highly structured organizational fields [presidential campaigns would qualify as one, but so would large news organizations] provide a context in which individual efforts to deal rationally with uncertainty and constraint often lead in the aggregate to homogeneity in structure, culture ...

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Quote of the Day | 1201

the checks and balances governing domestic politics are sadly absent in the realm of foreign affairs. Max Frankel, 'WikiLeaks: Secrets shared with millions are not secret' Zie ook: de WRR-studie Aan het buitenland gehecht [pdf] [persbericht [pdf]]

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Quote of the Day | 1204

if we look back to what’s a earlier example of the worst penetration by an intelligence apparatus of a society, which is perhaps East Germany, where up to 10 percent of people over their lifetime had been an informer at ...

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Quote of the Day | 1205

Now is the time to counter lies with facts, repeatedly and unflaggingly, while also proclaiming the greater truths: of our equal humanity, of decency, of compassion. Every precious ideal must be reiterated, every obvious argument made, because an ugly idea ...

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Quote of the Day | 1207

At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind. Here in Germany you will remember these martial songs; they are ...

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Quote of the Day | 1208

in most countries, populist parties get only a minority of the vote because they represent only a minority of the people, but those people believe that they are the majority. Cas Mudde, in: The best books on Populism

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Quote of the Day | 1210

for all their enthusiasm — so many CIA, FBI and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat. 'World ...

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Quote of the Day | 1211

The iron route to understanding the modern state is to follow the money flow to the professions. Simon Jenkins, In its mania for jailing people, Britain has declared trivial offences crimes

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Quote of the Day | 1212

Afghanistan needs help, encouragement, advice, money. It’s just that next time we think about military intervention in a foreign country that hasn’t attacked us, it might be worth running a thought experiment to work out at exactly which moment, in ...

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Quote of the Day | 1216

The late AJP Taylor liked to joke that the reason so many books about the decline of the West were published in the first half of the 20th century is because economic circumstances had forced academics and intellectuals to do ...

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Quote of the Day | 1217

It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease ...

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