Category: politics and policy
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Bad Intellectual: The Houellebecqian Case of Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Alors, les Français sont en train de flatter l’islam bien.Sadegh Hedayat Once, one of the Iranian politicians in the Parliament of Iran during his speech accounted a brief conversation with arteshbod Hossein Fardoust, some years after 1979. Fardoust was a friend of Shah and one of the most influential figures of SAVAK—in the last meeting…
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Fix A.I. Art — a petition
If we can teach college freshman to cite their sources, why can’t we fix A.I. art generators so that they do the same? The way that creators of A.I. art generators and the way that artists both talk about A.I. art generators is wrong. And the proof emerges in calculators. Does a calculator own the…
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Central Avenue; Albuquerque, New Mexico
It was Mayor Richard J. Berry’s legacy; the chance to have his name on a plaque so future generations could see who was responsible for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) initiative. The idea was to move the bus lanes to the middle of Central Avenue and establish an express line from downtown up through Nob…