01:00 People are turning to AI chatbots for empathy and advice, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist
04:00 2Way: “He Is Salting the Earth”: Trump’s “Coming In and Laying Waste to These People With the Sword”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0V9iSiTgeg
15:00 Axios: The robot empathy divide, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist
17:00 FT: My date used AI to psychologically profile me. Is that OK?,https://www.ft.com/content/b21eaff7-7189-49a2-b791-209e8de98494
26:15 Michael joins to discuss online dating, https://x.com/Michaelmvlog
28:00 Trump vs the institutions
46:00 I asked AI to psychologically profile me, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=160253
50:00 “They Turned Around and Bent Over”: Trump Forces Liberal Law Firm Paul Weiss To Surrender, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkgPN1ysq9M
52:00 What are the top 5 right-wing institutions in America?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=160265
1:05:45 Loser of the Week? Democratic Law Firm Paul Weiss That Caved To Trump: “They’ve Destroyed America”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAQPyQVnPrA
1:07:30 Stephen Miller has the juice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXQZVZHzLE
1:23:50 NYT: Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump.html
1:27:00 What’s more important? Abstract principles or concrete interests? I’ve changed my mind on this.
1:35:00 Aaron Renn: How the Right is Finally Learning to Take Over Institutions: The right is moving beyond defensive strategies to deploy aggressive takeovers of existing institutions, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/institutions-and-the-right
1:40:20 Andrew Weissmann in Crosshairs as War on Big Law Continues, https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-exclusive
1:42:40 How Trump Is Scaring Big Law Firms Into Submission, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dcCjp2Ad2c
2:12:00 NYT: With New Decree, Trump Seeks to Cow the Legal Profession – A presidential memorandum aimed at lawyers everywhere struck a menacing tone., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/trump-memo-lawyers.html
2:19:40 Ann Coulter talks to Heather MacDonald, https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/the-incomparable-heather-mac-donald
2:27:00 What does your sex life say about your character?
2:37:30 The chthonic realm
2:39:00 Gashmius and Ruchnius, https://guardyoureyes.com/articles/chizuk/item/difference-between-gashmius-and-ruchnius
2:44:35 The Battle Of Narratives | View from the Danube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7J4tRUhmAg
2:47:00 Philosopher Peter Boghossian on George Floyd, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boghossian
2:55:30 Amy Wax talks to Ann Coulter about affirmative action, https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/my-most-politically-incorrect-interview
3:08:00 Talking to Grok about Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=160212
3:24:00 Trump’s 2025 seeks to reverse LBJ’s 1965, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/22/trump-2025-reverse-lbj-1965-civil-rights-poverty
3:28:00 Biden Joint Chiefs Pick To Purge White Men from Officer Corps., https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/biden-nominee-for-joint-chiefs-chair
3:29:00 Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority, https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2023/05/next-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-wants.html
3:30:00 When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, https://www.amazon.com/When-Race-Trumps-Merit-Sacrifices/dp/B0BXFBLY9M/
3:33:45 He Called America Racist, Now He’s in Charge of Our Nukes, https://www.frontpagemag.com/he-called-america-racist-now-hes-charge-our-nukes-daniel-greenfield/
3:44:00 WP: Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example
3:51:00 Video: Why Trump Must Wean America Off Foreign Students and Labor
4:03:00 Ann Coulter talks to Mickey Kaus Nov. 1, 2024
4:09:20 Young straight white men used to win literary prizes
4:13:45 The Sound of Cinema: Ennio Morricone & Cinema Paradiso (Cormac)
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