Steve, here's one for you (and maybe a few others): a perilous read: The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=share_btn_url
Sent from my iPhone On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Let’s say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a freakishly > intelligent child that reads 100 papers from sci-hub and arxiv every day > and keeps doing this until she’s 40. Her comprehension is high and her > reasoning unmatched. She sees how to apply these models within the fields > where they were proposed and in others and can synthesize high-quality > engineering solutions at will. > > > > Has she stolen something? sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not > technically her copyright violation. > > Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an > autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)... > > Does that change anything? I can't say. Splitting hairs can be such hard > work! But apparently that makes it good (necessary) work! > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609
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