Despotic Machine

Oh yes, Jeffrey Sachs, who’s 2023 hot take on the Ukraine war so appallingly inaccurate that 340 of his economist colleagues wrote an open letter condemning him for it. They stated:

Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts and subjective interpretations, and propagate the Kremlin’s narratives.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230806172854/https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/20/open-letter-to-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/

When your world news comes from youtube, chances are you are getting the wool pulled over your eyes.

Lost or spammer?

Recently read this guy’s posts here - good stuff on this topic:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156951112

This most recent article is about LLM’s specifically, but the previous articles deal in more fundamental terms with human agency in the modern tech world. Definitely a good read IMO.

Fair enough. I’ve done worse in my time as a keyboard jockey.

Why don’t you use chained commands, or better yet simply create an alias that chains down/up, then use the alias instead?