[FRIAM] Strange Bedfellows! Trump & Julian Assange

[Gary Schiltz]

"Hopeful upbeat solutions"? You must be young and/or naive :-) Bless your
heart.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good point glen. Maybie agree to some kind of middle ground then? Just off
> the top of my head before taking a much needed shower.:
> Try to focus more on hopeful upbeat solutions.
> Or Link to a blog that has hopefull ideas
>
> Just
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:32 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Heh, of course you can politely ask.  And as much as I agree with you,
>> particularly about Trump, it damages _us_ as a whole to avoid talking about
>> such messes.  As Marcus lays out nicely and has been pointed out variously
>> across time (e.g. "the only thing necessary for evil to exist is for good
>> people to remain silent").  We must talk about it.  To avoid talking about
>> it is tantamount to condoning the messy state.
>>
>> Plus, as things like AI rise, it's our obligation (those of us who know
>> some little bits about AI) to place the political mess in that context.
>> What does it mean to have a tech-illiterate in control of our country?
>> What does it mean when a tech-illiterate cites a narcissist techy like
>> Assange? ... and takes advice from another narcissist like Thiel? ... and a
>> globalist like Tillerson? ... etc.
>>
>> These tech-centric issues are inside our wheelhouse.  Further, this sort
>> of topic is right in line with "applied complexity", one of the supposed
>> foci of the list.  When you're over-loaded, just hit the delete key.  We
>> all get over-loaded sometimes and have to unplug for awhile.
>>
>>
>> On 01/05/2017 09:19 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>> > Can I politely ask that those who want to keep track of america's
>> infurating polotical mess agree to email eachother.
>> > The topic quite litterally leads me to have migranes about BS I have
>> very little say in. I suspect others might be the same.
>>
>> --
>> ☣ glen
>>
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