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"You Can See Everything is a film about the tension between two modes of deception. Holmes uses deceit to tell big lies, and Fielder uses conceit to tell strange truths. The film ends with a strangely moving shot of them playing together in the ocean. Maybe this is just another joke, with the documentarian drowning the last morsels of his reliability as a narrator. Or maybe, in the end, there’s something honest happening in the water, as two masters of artifice see in each other that rarest thing: an unerring commitment to the bit."
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Opinion | In retirement we, too, wait for Godot startribune.com/mn-guthrie-t…
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Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
"Our politics are dominated by extremes: shouting, rallies, and protests. Diplomacy, statesmanship, and finesse feel like relics of another era."
This is true even in an all-blue city like Mpls: polarization happens btwn the moderate vs. extreme left.
betterminneapolis.com/p/defi…
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We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.~ Pema Chödrön, Interview w/ Bill Moyers, On Faith and Reason
Q: “ When I worked at the record shop in college, we renamed artists. I was responsible for ‘Jethro Dull’ and ‘John Cougar Menstrual Cramp.’”
Incredible. Try to read it without crying.
The heroic dad in Bend, Oregon, who was passing the elementary school, saw the shooter fire at others and enter the school, followed him and shot him, tells his story: opb.org/article/2026/10/23/b…
Another great one from @adamcifu on the misguided enthusiasm for cancer screening tests like Grail's Galleri: sensible-med.com/p/having-my…
Mo Perry retweeted
Characteristics of *actual* banned books:
- Amazon refuses to sell bc it violates their “offensive content policy”
- online forums discussing it are filled with ‘we need to do something’ anons (FBI)
- people will fly around the world to murder you for translating it
Is the implication here that smashing shop windows saves lives?
I remember this argument from 2020 here in Mpls - that if you're opposed to destructive riots you're somehow pro-fascism.
Can we get a mandatory remedial logic course piped into everyone's feed please?
Mo Perry retweeted
Jung disturbingly observed that what we have ignored or denied inwardly will then more likely come to us as outer fate. “So, where did this outcome, this event, come from within me?” is a most critical, and potentially liberating, question. ~James Hollis
On the flip side, I had a lengthy discussion with ChatGPT yesterday that confirmed my choice to go with Cologuard instead of a colonoscopy. It concluded...
Even if AI can improve breast cancer risk prediction, will that improve patient outcomes? via @garyschwitzer
garyschwitzer.substack.com/p…
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Even if AI can improve breast cancer risk prediction, will that improve patient outcomes? via @garyschwitzer
garyschwitzer.substack.com/p…
Yes. Everywhere I look lately, the same lesson is flashing: Balance is key.
Masculine/Feminine; Compassion/Discipline; Safety/Freedom
We’re so out of balance. Teams evangelize for one pole and demonize the other, to the neglect of all reason.
I don’t know how to fix this.
The more I read about the closing of The Modern Times, the angrier I get.
I grew up around drug addiction. I grew up around mental illness.
I've seen enabling. I've seen compassion without wisdom. I've seen what happens when you don't set boundaries with addicts and the mentally ill.
This was both.
You can't just make such offerings as "pay what you can afford" to a community rife with both addiction & mental health issues.
And when those issues arrive at your doorstep no amount of compassion will solve or heal them.
I can't stop shaking my head because I still love this city but, my God, are the inhabitants naive.
"Grappling with these answers is very uncomfortable and difficult... The ‘red–green’ alliance between communist protesters and Islamist extremists feels meaningful to me, as does the paucity of the responses to this criticism from the left."
readtangle.com/france-protes…