UNC Civic Life

 Hard to sort this out; hard to know what to think.

Chef Andre gets it just right!

 He captures the essence of why food is important to us and to our world, at minute 42:05.

Hard to imagine this working

 Ca va?

Critical AI issue

 He sounds right to me!

Greenland, US, and Europe

 We all need to develop a concrete strategy to bring the US in full support of recognizing national boundaries and sovereignty. I believe it can be done, but it will require fresh thinking and concrete plans to do this state-by-state in the US. Absorb some pain en route and plan toward success in the months ahead. That's how I would deal with this. Throwing rolls of paper towels or bottles of wine back and forth across the Atlantic is only going to result in soggy towel and spilled wine. 

I hope the EU decides to take this course in the hours ahead. 

This might have been a good idea, but they ruined it with limitation on organizations worthy of donation! Awful.

 Givewell.org

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-elie-hassenfeld.html

May be the most important issue of our day + many days ahead!

 AI - especially the conversation with WITT.....

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/deep-fakes-data-centers-and-ai-slop--are-we-cooked 

Crypto Criminals

 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technology/how-a-cryptocurrency-helps-criminals-launder-money-and-evade-sanctions.html 

The Washington Post is making a mockery of itself

 This chips deeply into what made the WP a great newspaper.