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Friday Nite Videos | March 10, 2023

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Trump's Nightmare: Indictment | Brian Tyler Cohen. Chemical Apocalypse: What We Saw in East Palestine. Ted Lasso — Season 3. The Largest River On Earth Is in The Sky. Ron DeSantis | Last Week Tonight.

Tidbits – Mar. 09, 2023 – Reader Comments: Police Culture; Woke Origins; Women; Announcements: Mumia Abu-Jamal; New Deal for CUNY; Love Rising Benefit Concert – Tenn; Reclaiming Water for the Public Good; Celebration of Dr. Antonia Pantoja;

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Reader Comments: Police Culture; Woke Origins; Women; Announcements: Mumia Abu-Jamal; New Deal for CUNY; Love Rising Benefit Concert; Reclaiming Water for the Public Good; Centennial Year Celebration of Dr. Antonia Pantoja; Cartoons; more ....

The Arctic Is the Next Frontier in the New Cold War

Renate Bridenthal Geopolitical Economy Report
Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.

How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier The Nation
The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

The Surprising History of International Women’s Day

Sarah Pruitt History
Though International Women’s Day may be more widely celebrated abroad than in the United States, its roots are planted firmly in American soil where efforts were made to separate it from its socialist origins.

Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT

Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull The New York Times
We know from the science of linguistics and the philosophy of knowledge that AI minds differ profoundly from how humans reason and use language. These differences place significant limitations on what these programs can do, encoding them with ineradicable defects.