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• Our (grim) Yuppy Legacy [the Triumph of Homo Economicus]

  Dylan Gottlieb, How Yuppies Changed America, NYTimes, May 4, 2026. So much of what we take for granted today — from our meritocratic rat race to our gentrified... Read more

  4 hours, 38 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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  CULTURE, SOCIETY

• The White House Endorses Research on Psychedelics

  Andrew Jacobs, A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs, NYTimes, May 3, 2026. Mindbending may be just the word to describe the... Read more

  15 hours, 55 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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  CULTURE, SOCIETY

• Perhaps AI Won’t Suck up All the Jobs

  Ezra Klein, Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen, NYTimes, May 3, 2023. Economists, I’ve found, are quite skeptical that mass joblessness is on... Read more

  The 03 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Three Hoboken Views

  

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  The 03 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Presiding Over a Declining America, Trump Hastens the Descent

  Two from today's (May 3, 2026) New York Times. First, China is on the rise and ready to move beyond America. Then we have the decline of the American empire. Read more

  The 03 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Eleventh Street Flower Beds, Hoboken

  

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  The 02 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Social Learning for Food Among Cockatoos

  Kate Golembiewski, What’s Safe to Eat? Birds of a Feather Learn Together, NYTimes, May 2, 2026. By watching their peers, dolphins learn to capture fish in... Read more

  The 02 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Elon's Lawyers Are Not Allowed to Invoke AI Doom in His Lawsuit Against OpenAI

  Yesterday, a federal judge barred Elon Musk's lawyers from arguing that AI could threaten humanity in his lawsuit against OpenAI. OpenAI was founded as a... Read more

  The 02 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Interesting Action at Academia.edu

  

  Here’s four successive months: January 2026: It’s relatively constant, with a peak at 49 and three troughs at 10. February 2026: There’s a rising trend through... Read more

  The 01 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Why Do I Like Veronica Mars? [Media Notes 178]

  I watched the series when it first aired back in 2004-2005 and liked. It seemed a bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not with the mythology and such, but in... Read more

  The 01 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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