A friend wrote to me about a job interview,

“Today, we had an online interview and we found the guy was answering our questions using ChatGTP and had a browser open. We asked him to share the screen to do some coding (after 30 minutes discussion) and we all saw his chat.”

Because we’re good friends and he likes a story, I wrote back the following.

This world we have created is an unmitigated catastrophe.

It did not begin with AI. The groundwork was laid when we built a world where results... [More]

Just a few months ago, I published Two excellent lectures by Norman Finkelstein. Since then, I’ve watched a few more that I found useful.

First off, the article In Praise of the Houthis by Norman Finkelstein (Substack) writes,

“In the 1930s, when the enlightened West abandoned the Spanish Republic, international brigades of volunteers went there to fight the nascent forces of fascist barbarism. They covered themselves with glory. (Fully three thousand Americans joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, more than a third of them... [More]”