@aselrod.bsky.social New challenge. You’re imprisoned in a tower by an insane AI bot. You have a great stereo system and the bot allows to only listen music from one musician. If they only show up on one track, you still get the whole album.

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You can quantify the number of deaths in a year and attribute some number to COVID. If the excess margin is similar to the deaths attributable to COVID, then what you've identified is not a complex, dynamic social phenomenon. It's just the number of people who died from COVID.

For the last decade, America has been polarized, not according to parties or ideologies or left & right, but into two opposing consciousnesses: those who think Donald Trump’s ascendance is a moral emergency for the country that exceeds other political and social considerations, and those who do not.

I wrote the poem below two and a half years ago, as part of a longer series, which I posted on Substack: jeffreyquackenbush.substack.com/p/sonata-for... Zelensky is the political hero of our times.

Something I wrote today, thinking of our national predicament...

Something I wrote today, thinking of our national predicament...