Mike Magee Bad Bunny came to the rescue, and 135 million citizens worldwide were ready and waiting for relief. A 13 minute oasis, and WOW – the power of culture in the hands of a gifted artist. The human sugar cane set, ravaged electric grid but heads held high, joyful music and dance, choice to […]
Gemini Image Mike Magee In the 1994 classic movie, Reality Bites, college graduate and fledgling documentary film maker Winona Ryder forms a troubled bond with a troop of characters that includes GAP sales associate, Janeane Garofalo, who may have HIV; Steve Zahn who struggles to figure out how to tell his parents he’s gay; Ben […]
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Trump’s AI-Enabled Autocracy
Listen HERE Mike Magee This week, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, did it again – scaring the bejesus out of societal leaders worldwide with warnings that their grip on security and governance of human populations is dangerously close to AI extinction. Amodei’s opening paragraph in his article titled “The Adolescence of Technology” wastes no time […]
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Trump v. Lincoln
Mike Magee In the early days of 2026, we Americans find ourselves confronted by three undeniable realities: an obviously impaired President in his second term, a vaulted democracy with checks and balances that are struggling to rise to the autocratic challenge, and an ICE army of state invaders which appears ready to trigger a second […]
Mike Magee Today is Martin Luther King Day. And in three days we’ll commemorate the 53rd anniversary of LBJ’s death. When MLK was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, LBJ asked Americans to seize a higher ground. He said, in part: I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck Dr. […]
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On the Ability to “Attend.”
Mike Magee Society is so concerned with the medicalized issue of “attention deficit” that many experts jump right over a more fundamental query: “What do you attend to?” In a recent New York Times Guest Opinion piece, three attention activist members of the Friends of Attention (more on that in a moment) delve into the […]
Mike Magee If you are wondering whether AI will take over the role of doctors in America, you may be surprised to learn that the numbers are going in the reverse direction. A month ago, David J. Shorten MD, CEO of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) proudly announced that “The growing number of […]
