We Are All Americans

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posted Oct 31, 2016


Can we all just finally get it? As this article from Upworthy shows, African Americans have been an inextricable and important part of the entire post-Columbus American experience almost from its very inception. Indeed, if generational presence here is the measure, they are more “American” than many others who are descended from...

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The Crap I Think Of!! Idea #2,479: What If Our Computers Are Already Self-Aware?...

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posted Oct 2, 2016


Many great and respected thinkers, including Stephen Hawking (I mean, c’mon!), are concerned about the possibility, and perhaps even the inevitability, that computers will become so powerful, so fast at making connections, that they will one day become self-aware. When that day comes, they fear, we will be dealing...

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Police Tactics in Black Communities Reflect Systemic Racism, Pure and Simple...

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posted Oct 1, 2016


Jon Comulada How is it that people still don’t get this? If you are a white American living in a fairly homogeneously white community it is shamefully easy for you to remain clueless that there are two very different Americas:  one for white Americans and one for black Americans.  This has been true...

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