It Could Happen Here Weekly 251
Summary
This compilation episode features Dan Al-Kurd analyzing West Bank settler violence as a state policy executed through deniable proxies, arguing that livestock theft and sieges function as de facto annexation. Garrison Davis then discusses the AI industry, critiquing recent calls for a "slowdown" by OpenAI and Anthropic as regulatory capture while advocating for government-mandated pauses and public ownership. The episode concludes with a segment on the critical loss of biocultural diversity, linking the extinction of species and languages to broader human activity.
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