A poem by Ken Smith.
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Lise Meitner | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Yes, Britannica, you can write it this way, softening the focus, blurring the details in that decade of mounting atrocities: “Because she was Jewish, she left Nazi Germany in the summer of 1938 to settle in Sweden.” It’s not as though she trotted over to a travel agent on her lunch break and casually booked her travel across international borders to safety.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lise-Meitner
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“All of this confirms that when Trump threatens a bloodbath he means a bloodbath.” The Bloodbath Candidate – by Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-bloodbath-candidate
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Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter by Tim Berners-Lee
” . . . and to overturn the online world being dictated by profit to one that is dictated by the needs of humanity. It is only then that the online ecosystem we all live in will reach its full potential and provide the foundations for creativity, collaboration and compassion.”
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The History Press | The unique joys of Speakers’ Corner
“The incident was a perfect illustration of the difference between real public debate and the usual, carefully choreographed appearances of our elected politicians.”
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“We use words to try to alter the course of events, to save people from humiliation or death.” –Elie Wiesel, Against Silence
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He is like King Lear, who trashed everything in his family and his nation. “Self-awareness isn’t among the former president’s strong suits.”
“Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.”
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How far you’d need to drive to see the 2024 Total Eclipse in early April.
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In 2006, @ARusbridger described the current threat to newspapers as a threat to society. As AI innovation undermines new industries, this will also be a composition played in two registers.
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On non-technical topics, if you harass ChatGPT 3.5 with enough follow-up questions you can get it to put aside its glib reliance on confident exaggeration.
Ken Smith 