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Ripping away the foundations of justice?
A sentence by Solzhenitsyn grabbed me from the depths of the Cold War and dropped me right back here in the present.
https://smithcompound.blog/2023/01/31/ripping-away-the-foundations-of-justice/
Dustland 2023
They walk on stones where no grass grows, and rake a yard where no leaves blow, since rain is gone and trees are bare, and wind is blowing everywhere.
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WV Gov. Jim Justice has tried unsuccessfully to eliminate state funding for WVPB in the past and was accused of appointing partisan operatives to the board. WVPB receives around $4 million a year in state funding.
"W.Va. journalist let go after reporting on abuse allegations" https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-state-government-jim-justice-af942f587d098b2d996cc6e01991d615
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia journalist lost her job last month after she reported about alleged abuse of people with disabilities within the state agency that runs West Virginia's foster care and psychiatric facilities.
Wanna bet this article wasn't peer reviewed?
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Cruise robotaxis recently arrived in Austin. A new video shows one driving inside a bike lane: https://t.co/sJzpwvYE4i
Cruise says "the car wouldn't have gone into the bike lane if there was a cyclist there."
That's not a valid excuse for human drivers -- nor for AVs.
Cruise also says it's now updating its maps to prevent vehicles from driving in bike lanes "in that area." That should be done *before* deploying robotaxis in a city, not after.
Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."
Conservatives. Is that what they are?
John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:
"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."
Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"
Is MAGA conservative?
Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?
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