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Told to stand down and step back and give people their space. allow them to express themselves in this mostly peaceful way. what happens if police are no longer engaging in active enforcement? what happens if they are sitting in their patrol cars and not walking around, not getting to know people in different communities? not keeping people safe? then yes, more people are going to have guns and that is what you get when you create this environment. people like chuck todd have lived in his little...

Told to stand down and step back and give people their space. allow them to express themselves in this mostly peaceful way. what happens if police are no longer engaging in active enforcement? what happens if they are sitting in their patrol cars and not walking around, not getting to know people in different communities? not keeping people safe? then yes, more people are going to have guns and that is what you get when you create this environment. people like chuck todd have lived in his little...

Regular marketplace, with an invisible hand of adam, smith again we have the digital hand of zuckerberg, that everybody has to appeal to, that is a new species of power, when it talks about three billion people who are plugged into that system. >> again, its not the algorithm, the key point is here is that the algorithm is just a very efficient means of aggregating pre conscious attentional desires. which is to say, all the algorithm does, is surface the stuff that grabs our olympic system, in t...

>> very disturbing. coming up, the man you saw in sarahs piece, tristin harris, who was featured in the social dilemma, and also testified before congress about the dangers of big tech, joins us next. >> the natural function of these platforms is to reward conspiracy theories, outrage what we call the race to the bottom of the brain stem. its the reason why all of you at home have crazier and crazier constituents who believe crazier and crazier things and you have to respond to them. ♪ hands...

By them, gmail product manager that is designed -- product philosopher. his job was to study the way screen applications in black the with the users of their product. -- i overall aptitude, health. in 2013, the internal -- on the ethical role responsibility of tech companies. that presentation started dialogue, it wasnt enough. in 2016, he decided to leave google and pursue change in how we direct interact with technology, eventually cofounding the center for humane technology. it appeared in th...

Something messed up here. how broadly is that? and of the people you think that are working inside? >> oftentimes you hear from people who leave the company and say wow i feel like i was working on a cult. they didnt realize that they were inside of the belief. system because the rhetoric is so strong. facebook is really good for free expression i want to be clear. its not just about one company or facebook, its about the business model that treats, like we were talking earlier, the modification...

They speak far louder than any arguments can. whenever they show you a large group of people at the border, it is because the images like this are meant to scare you. theyre meant to tell you, you americans sitting at home watching the tv that these people are coming to take what is yours to overrun you, and to stimulate the deepest part of your brain in the brain stem that is scared, of strangers and foreigners, a part of brain we all have. its a very profound and effective form of politics, no...

But even more concerning — the cameras reveal how the kill is sometimes far from instant. when you slaughter a horse, what youre looking to do is get the bullet so that it destroys the brain stem, which is where the consciousnesses is and kills... stops the heart and the breathing as well. youve got to get the angle right in order to hit that bit of the brain. and the easiest way to do it is to be right up close and then you get the angle quite right. here the slaughterman shoots the horses fr...

Of the rules 26 times. but even more concerning — the cameras reveal how the kill is sometimes far from instant. when you slaughter a horse, what youre looking to do is get the bullet so that it destroys the brain stem, which is where the consciousnesses is and kills... stops the heart and the breathing as well. youve got to get the angle right in order to hit that bit of the brain. and the easiest way to do it is to be right up close and then you get the angle quite right. here, the slaughter...

The Atlantic A poem for the end of Donald Trump’s presidency You came in to the sound of oligarch chuckles and bullies at gas stations cracking their knuckles. And now, now that every trigger finger is itchy, you’re going out like an exorcised Liberace. Hectic, comedic, toxic, alone, a flaming meringue on a tide of brimstone. How we adored your escapades. We swallowed your words like ghosts swallowing grenades. The dusty construction guy made common cause with the lawyer licking his paws an...