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Terry Brown Apr 27, 2025

Flipboard Apr 25, 2025

Political leaders don’t just need confidence — they need competence, and America’s problem right now is that the system can’t distinguish between the two. @Daojoan writes for her Index newsletter about the need for discernment. We need institutions, parties and leaders that know how to measure actual competence, not just performance,” she writes. “We need politicians who are humble enough to say, ‘I don't know,’ and voters who don't mistake that for weakness. And we need journalists who can tell the difference between a compelling narrative and a grift.”

https://www.theindex.media/americas-next-top-conman/

#USPolitics #Politics #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

America's Next Top Conman

Trump wasn’t an accident. He was a feature, not a bug.

The Index.

Terry Brown Apr 7, 2025

JA Westenberg Apr 7, 2025

History is the study of human mess.
And that mess matters. Because we’re not going to navigate the 21st century with clean models. The next pandemics, climate shocks, political collapses—they’re not going to play by the rules of probability theory.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-are-all-the-smart-people-so-bad-at-history/

Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History?

You know the type. MIT-trained, Substack-fluent, AI-curious. They can quote Hume, dabble in Bayesianism, and confidently wield phrases like "regression discontinuity" and "effective optimization landscape" in casual conversation. They’re very concerned about the future. Superintelligence. Existential risk. Civilizational stability. The longtermist dream: guiding the ship of humanity through narrow

westenberg.

Terry Brown Mar 26, 2025

ian bremmer Mar 24, 2025

props to jeffrey goldberg for his high standards as a professional journalist.

when he realized the conversation was authentic he immediately left, informed the relevant senior official, and made the public aware without disclosing intelligence that could damage the united states.

if you want to know why the public isn’t the media now, start with jeff.

Terry Brown Jan 19, 2025

David Jan 16, 2025

We're two years two months and two days old. Happy birthday to our little #genealogy corner of the fediverse, and thank you to everyone who uses the server to grow, interact, and have fun on their personal research journey.

https://genealysis.social

@genealogy

Genealysis.social

Social interaction for anyone interested in #Genealogy.

Mastodon hosted on genealysis.social

Terry Brown Jun 25, 2024

Megan Smolenyak Jun 25, 2024

When I was getting ready to chat with Diahan Southard, Your DNA Guide (I'll post the video in this thread), I took the opportunity to do something I've never done before - and that's take a deep dive inventory of the Army cases I've researched over the years.

Here's where things stand at the moment. It was a true gift to me because I never knew how many soldiers had been identified. Until now, I only knew that it was > 70. Turns out quite a few more!

#genealogy #DNA

Terry Brown Jun 14, 2024

Megan Smolenyak Jun 12, 2024

While the results aren't all that surprising, it interesting that someone took such a deep dive into this topic! You might have noticed in your research that when people get older, they get sometimes get much older. Many elderly, for instance, keep rounding up over time across census records so that someone who's, say, 89 winds up looking as if they're 101. Well, this explores that issue. #genealogy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2.full