“And I want to dispel a notion that many people have: Facebook has, from the very beginning, been a rotten, manipulative company, one that acted with little regard for users, even at times when...
“Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic ...
“This sharing of software was an important aspect of the software ecosystem. It bred a distinctive kind of culture, one that burst with pride over what you’ve made. But it was also clearly a ...
“I believe every man in a Christian kingdom ought to be equally well educated. But I would have it education to purpose; stern, practical, irresistible, in moral habits, in bodily strength and ...
“The fact is, that, of all God’s gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be go...
“I have to give Apple credit here: the video is boldly telling us the truth. Other companies hide their true agenda, or even – if they have real competition – occasionally try to make thing...
Tom Tomorrow: Trump’s war on woke
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‘Shogun’ is a complex tale of religion and colonialism—with Jesuits as villains : > “Shogun” is historical fiction, though it is based on real > people and real events.�...
“Immigrants are good for your GDP, but fuck your GDP. Honestly, that is a secondary benefit. The primary focus, I think, should be on the moral case, or the human argument, and I think there ar...
“I think that there is a humanitarian crisis at the border. All the things that both Democrats and Republicans are proposing to do to respond to that crisis—by failed policies and tactics—n...
“If you can’t come up with a business that earns enough money to pay each of your staff enough money to live with dignity, you’re not really good at business, what you’re good at is explo...
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52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes, new data finds : > Law enforcement resold guns to firearms dealers for discounts on new > equipment and...
“In National Review, Buckley gave Virginia newspaper editor James Kilpatrick a platform to assure readers that desegregation challenged American values. Black Americans had no right to the equa...
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Hey, America, are you all right?
“When you complain, people judge you. It doesn’t matter what you’re complaining about. It doesn’t matter what you’re protesting or whistle-blowing. It doesn’t matter if your life is a...
How Good, Kind, Caring People Became The Bad Guys : > There’s a story about Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker and > author. Apparently, a woman approached Ziglar at one ...