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CrashCourse

Nov 21, 2024

Should our government ignore our identities or focus on them? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we'll explore the role identity plays in politics and government, from affirmative action to white backlash, and ask, "What is fair?"

Crash Course Political Theory #3

Introduction: Affirmative Action 00:00
The Social Contract 00:57
Critiques of the Social Contract 2:40
Equal Opportunity 4:39
Critiques of Identity Politics 7:57
A Politics of Difference 9:34
Review & Credits 10:32





Another collapse...



Inside A Collapse: The Most Abandoned American Cities Ever Filmed


I enjoyed this one earlier today. Now all of you pro-vaxxers don't get a bee in your bonnet about what this guest has to say. And likewise all ye anti-vaxxers at the back, pipe down will ye.

Bob Moran was the in-house cartoonist at The Telegraph, and was fired around 2021 for not towing the government line during covid. To me, he is a very down to earth bloke. Why was there such a disconnect between him and government policy?







QuoteS3
Dec 7, 2024

Moore's law is dead — we've hit the electron ceiling. It's time to compute with photons: light. This episode of S³ takes you inside Lightmatter — the company leading the photonic revolution.

0:00 A new age of compute
1:38 From fiber optics to photonics
2:58 Dennard scaling is done?
4:55 Founding Lightmatter
7:00 Lightmatter's chips
10:24 Why this is amazing
11:23 AGI scaling
15:45 Lightmatter's lab!




Why Are US Ports Among the Most Inefficient in the World?




5 Myths about the US I no longer believe