But if we're going to consider music as art, isn't a lot of the value and power of art in the "eye of the beholder"? To some extent art's value is in the fact that it can have multiple interpretations. From this perspective, once it's been released, Lamar's music isn't "his" anymore, it becomes part of a broader public that will hear and interpret it as they want to. So while Lamar may go back and annotate what he may have meant at the time as an "expert", doesn't some of his art thereby lose some power in that he is tacitly stating that he apparently didn't communicate his original intent well?

By comparison and for contrast one could take the recent story of Donald Trump's speech (very obviously written by someone else) about the recent mass shootings and compare them with the polar opposite message he spews on an almost daily basis from his Twitter account. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/teleprompter-trump-meets-twitter-trump-as-the-president-responds-to-mass-slayings/2019/08/05/cdd8ea78-b799-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

I wonder how better, big data being overlaid on virtual reality may be helpful to the currently marginalized in the future? Would it be useful to have shared data about businesses and practices that tend to marginalize people further? I recall an African-American comedian recently talking about the Confederate Flag in a (Netflix?) comedy special. They indicated that the flag actually had some worthwhile uses and reminisced driving on rural highways at night looking for a place to stay. When they saw that flag flying over a motel, they knew better to keep driving and stay at another hotel further down the road. In this case, the flag over the hotel not-so-subtly annotated the establishment itself.

I perceive a lot of social slights and institutionalized racism as being of a marginal sort which are designed to be bothersome to some while going wholly unnoticed by others. What if it were possible to aggregate the data on a broader basis to bring these sorts of marginal harms to the forefront for society to see them? As an example, consider big companies doing marginal harms to a community's environment over time, but going generally unnoticed until the company has long since divested and/or disappeared. It's hard to sue them for damages decades later, but if one could aggregate the bigger harms upfront and show those annotated/aggregated data up front, then they could be stopped before they got started.

As a more concrete example, the Trump Management Corporation was hit with a consent decree in the early 1970's for prejudicial practices against people of color including evidence that was subpoenaed showing that applications for people of color were annotated with a big "C" on them. Now consider if all individuals who had made those applications had shared some of their basic data into a pool that could have been accessed and analyzed by future applicants, then perhaps the Trumps would have been caught far earlier. Individuals couldn't easily prove discrimination because of the marginal nature of the discrimination, but data in aggregate could have potentially saved the bigger group.

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This summary is not what Trump or even Barr have been indicating in their communications.

Barr's statement on the day of the release of the redacted report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aHPFh2HfSM

Since the DoJ won't indict a sitting president, here's a direct suggestion of what Congress could do.

The key words being "free press" with free meaning that we're free to exert intelligent editorial control.

Editors in the early 1900's used this sort of editorial control not to give fuel to racists and Nazis and reduce their influence.Cross reference: Face the Racist Nation from On the Media.

Apparently we need to exert the same editorial control with respect to Trump, who not incidentally is giving significant fuel to the racist fire as well.

I feel like this word captures very well the exact era of Trumpian Republicanism in which we find ourselves living.

Unpresidented is a great word for the Trump administration

Primarily people not really knowing how racisit and horrible he really was in addition to his inability to think clearly, logically, or linearly. He espoused a dozen or so simple aphorisms like "Build the wall," but was absolutely unable to indicate a plan that went beyond the aphorism. How will it be implemented, funded, what will the short and long term issues that result. He had none of those things that many others presumed would be worked out as details by smart and intelligent people rather than the "just do it" managerial style he has been shown to espouse.

Too many republicans, particularly at the end said, "he's not really that bad" and now that he's in power and more authoritarian than they expected are too weak to admit their mistake.

or in a number of tiny hands, as the case can sometimes be.

They just don't say very much or anything very good.

Sometimes it seems like Trump does this as a one man band.

But surely in the multi-millions of Republicans, they could find someone who could also appoint those judges, but not have the myriad moral failings that Trump does. For surely if they can't, then they're doomed to failure and misery sooner or later.

And this is an example of how Trump is hurting the economy.

This could make a great political cartoon... a Republican drawer full of sharp knives and a pitiful Trump plastic spoon.

just searing!

Take a look at the overlap of this philosophy with early Norman Vincent Peale's philosophy which apparently heavily influenced the Trump family.

Power of Positive Thinking is a book by Norman Vincent Peale and provides the direct link to influence on Trump here.

Also interesting to note the 17% number which can potentially be a threshold level for splitting a community or society from a game theoretic perspective. (Note: I should dig up the reference and re-read it.)

I'm curious if the DNC would provide these numbers to those candidates? Is there potentially other sources for this data?

Here is where we're likely to fail in the United States by following the example of Donald Trump, who ostensibly has survived solely off the wealth of his father's dwindling empire. With that empire gone, he's now turning to creating wealth by associating with the government. We should carefully follow where this potentially leads the country.

This sort of framing is fascinating to me.

"We're on the 66th floor again."

He really used 8 exclamation marks in a six page letter. Has any president used this many in an entire term I wonder?

This would seem to play out in current American culture which seems to be welcoming of an authoritarian president.

If this is the case, then where is this "new" playbook? And can they point to specific pieces on that timeline that indicate that they're actually performing better than the prior playbook? Let's see the evidence here.

Searing words.

And in an over-saturated media space, this is exactly the sort of thing that lands us a narcissistic and incompetent president.

And nearly twenty years later, isn't that roughly what we've got? (aside from the digital nirvana, which didn't work out so well.)

Given his past history of insider trading and stock market manipulation, I can't help but think that Trump makes statements and does activities like this to influence the markets directly like this.

The question is who is colluding with him and where is the money going? How is it being hidden? Is it foreign (Russian) investors? Is he dumb enough to be doing it from within his own company?

Part of the broader cultural eschewing of science as well? Is this part of what put Trump and celebrities in charge?

Thomas, K., & Rabin, R. C. (2020, October 4). Trump’s Treatment Suggests Severe Covid-19, Medical Experts Say. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/health/trump-covid-treatment.html

Perhaps the best defense against active measures is a little bit of activism of our own

Ausführliche Sendung über Desinformationstechniken vor allem im Umkreis der Trump-Kampagne, viele Hinweise auf weitere Ressourcen

New America. ‘People With Disabilities Are Getting Sidelined in Pandemic Aid Talks — Again’. Accessed 2 October 2020. http://newamerica.org/weekly/people-with-disabilities-are-getting-sidelined-in-pandemic-aid-talks-again/.

Ich würde das, was du hier diagnostizierst, als Epistemic Crisis bezeichnen. Ich nehme sie genauso wahr wie du, und ich bin auch darüber entsetzt. Das erste Warnsignal, das ich ernst genommen habe, war der Brexit, das zweite die Wahl von Trump. Beide habe ich vorher nicht erwartet, weil sie jenseits des Horizonts waren, in dem ich Entwicklungen erwartet habe. ich muss also auch an der Art und Weise zweifeln, in der ich politische Entwicklungen verstanden habe.—Später kam dann für mich der Aufstieg der Freiheitlichen hier in Österreich, bis hin zur Regierungsbeteiligung, und die rechtspopulistische Welle (wenn man es so nennen will) in Frankreich und Italien.

Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19. (n.d.). POLITICO. Retrieved September 14, 2020, from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809

Seth Abramson on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 8, 2020, from https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1303059307378995210

Spencer, S. H. (2020, September 1). CDC Did Not “Admit Only 6%” of Recorded Deaths from COVID-19. FactCheck.Org. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-of-recorded-deaths-from-covid-19/

Trump Rally Hands Scientists a Test Case for Superspreader Event. (2020, June 18). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-18/trump-rally-gives-scientists-a-new-virus-laboratory

Emanuel, E. J., & Offit, P. A. (2020, June 8). Opinion | Could Trump Turn a Vaccine Into a Campaign Stunt? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/trump-coronavirus-vaccine.html

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Über den weiß-nationalistischen Diskurs im Trump-Lager, maßgeblich promoted von Stephen Miller. Einiges zu dessen früheren Aktivitäten bei Breitbart

Es fällt schwer, nicht an die Straßenschlachten im Deutschland der frühen Dreißiger zu denken.

Hurst, D., & Murphy, K. (2020, June 22). Trump’s misleading information enables China to sow discord among allies, research finds. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/23/trumps-misleading-information-enables-china-to-sow-discord-among-allies-research-finds

The Trump administration must stop sidelining the CDC. (2020). Nature, 583(7818), 660–660. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02231-6

Kiely, E., McDonald, J., Gore, D., Robertson, L., & Rieder, R. (2020, July 20). FactChecking Trump’s “Fox News Sunday” Interview. FactCheck.Org. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/factchecking-trumps-fox-news-sunday-interview/

Nature. (2020, April 17). Coronapod: Troubling news. https://play.acast.com/s/nature/coronapod-troublingnews

Togoh, I. (n.d.). After Hydroxychloroquine, Trump Is Now Seeking To Get Another Unproven Drug Approved By The FDA: Report. Forbes. Retrieved August 22, 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/08/17/after-hydroxychloroquine-trump-is-now-seeking-to-get-another-unproven-drug-approved-by-the-fda-report/

Who is behind the Qanon conspiracy? We’ve traced it to three people. (n.d.). NBC News. Retrieved August 18, 2020, from https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531

Beschreibt, wie die Trump-Administration versucht, die internationalen Medien der US-Regierung (wie Voice of America) unter Kontrolle zu bringen und propagandistisch umzufunktionieren. Manches erinnert an Orwells 1984. Es ist auch deutlich, dass hier Steve Bannon eine große Rolle spielt. Eine Schlüsselrolle hat dessen Gefolgsmann Michael Pack.

News, A. B. C. (n.d.). Trump, DeVos downplay risks of reopening schools, claim children don’t spur transmission: FACT CHECK. ABC News. Retrieved August 9, 2020, from https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-devos-downplay-risks-reopening-schools-claim-children/story?id=71950023

Barrios, J. M., & Hochberg, Y. (2020). Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27008; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27008

Desmet, K., & Wacziarg, R. (2020). Understanding Spatial Variation in COVID-19 across the United States (Working Paper No. 27329; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27329

Dave, D. M., Friedson, A. I., Matsuzawa, K., McNichols, D., Redpath, C., & Sabia, J. J. (2020). Did President Trump’s Tulsa Rally Reignite COVID-19? Indoor Events and Offsetting Community Effects (Working Paper No. 27522; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27522

Appears to be an implicit reference to the Anti-Riot Act.

Graham, A., Cullen, F. T., Pickett, J., Jonson, C. L., Haner, M., & Sloan, M. M. (2020). Faith in Trump, Moral Foundations, and Social Distancing Defiance During the Coronavirus Pandemic [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/fudzq

Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Rosenthal, S. A., Kotcher, J., Bergquist, P., Ballew, M. T., Goldberg, M. H., Gustafson, A., & Wang, X. (2020). Climate change in the American Mind: April 2020 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8439q

Nay, Olivier, Marie-Paule Kieny, Lelio Marmora, and Michel Kazatchkine. ‘The WHO We Want’. The Lancet 0, no. 0 (5 June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31298-8.

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Buranyi, S. (2020). Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor—Rushed but useful. Nature, 582(7813), 478–479. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01839-y

Zhang, C., & Fedor, L. (2020, May 7). Most Americans trust governors over Trump on reopening, poll shows. https://www.ft.com/content/f1a86b43-391e-42bf-8686-d74d6433e336

Wow. This is a side of the fandom I wouldn't want to touch with a 20 foot pole. However, it provides interesting information about the darker sides of the furry fandom, so it would be good to pore over.

I am reminded of "Arkansas":

Wong, E., Rosenberg, M., & Barnes, J. E. (2020, April 22). Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/coronavirus-china-disinformation.html

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The Wikipedia page for this is found here.

Information on Trump's decision making process:

Yet another example of Trump anchoring himself in lies and disinformation.

Ivanka's restatement of the Board's four goals, stated in more detail elsewhere.

Here's how Trump's now infamous possible misstatement has been transcribed, not as a mistake, nor with a slash ("to save time & words"), but with an em dash, suggesting that Trump was thanking both Tim, and his company Apple, together in shorthand.

This smells like circular "logic".

Hi Dick!

the claim that russian oligarchs purchased trump assents to help him finance the campaign is a HUGE claim yet somehow muller dint got that or if he did he let trump in power to this day

The start of Corey DeAngelis's reactions to Trump's 2018 State of the Union address.

This seems to presume that public funding is the reason public education is "failing".

The evidence of Trump’s involvement in the payments is legally significant, as it backs up Cohen’s claim that Trump directed payments that were found to have been in violation of federal law. The most damning evidence of all, however, isn’t just regarding Trump’s involvement in the payments, but the details of discussions of a cover-up.

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This is problematic for Trump, as campaign finance violations, such as illegal corporate contributions or donations that exceed the maximum allowable amount, require willful violation of federal law. Trump’s denials and discussion of how to keep his name out of it would help support allegations that he knew the payments were illegal.

Source: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/what-the-bombshell-report-on-stormy-daniels-karen-mcdougal-payoffs-means-for-trump-legally/

Like many of us wish/think 21st century America has

very interesting article on Kanye's Trump visit, and how being outrageous/disruptive/'savage' is how you succeed these days.

trump isn't taken seriously want for profit of war/ money in general public 1/3 in favor republicans 50% trump doesn't give up easy

This is a remarkable statement.

almost any...?

In other words, Trump picked this fight—obviously poltical—because he thinks he can win it, that it works for him.