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Mark Morgan Ford

Trump, AI Dangers, and Why Bad Actors Can’t Change: 20 Quick Takes
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Trump, AI Dangers, and Why Bad Actors Can’t Change: 20 Quick Takes

Oct 20, 2025 2 min read

A Longish YouTube Piece and 20 Short Ones * Piers Morgan Confronts Murderer Amber Wright Run Time: 45 minutes This is haunting: A 15-year-old who lured…

Why I Do What I Do
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Why I Do What I Do

Oct 20, 2025 1 min read

Why I Do What I Do From KR: “I want you to know that since finding you through the Early to Rise newsletter back in 2001, you have been and continue to…

How Smart Are Crows? The Surprising Intelligence of Corvids
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How Smart Are Crows? The Surprising Intelligence of Corvids

Oct 20, 2025 1 min read

How Smart Are Crows? An animated TED-Ed lesson about the incredible intelligence of corvids and how they express their aptitude for many things

Israel and Palestine: Could This Be the End?
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Israel and Palestine: Could This Be the End?

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

I’m back from a week in Myrtle Beach, golfing with nine of my high school friends. Well… that’s not true. I hardly golfed at all. Just nine holes on…

What Golfers Really Talk About: Friendship, Aging, Careers, and Life Beyond the Game
Travel

What Golfers Really Talk About: Friendship, Aging, Careers, and Life Beyond the Game

Oct 14, 2025 4 min read

I was in Myrtle Beach last week for a get-together with nine of my high-school friends. We’ve been meeting there every October for about the last 30…

Is There an End to the Arab-Israeli War? Trump’s Peace Plan, US Security, Media Shifts, and Power Politics
Politics

Is There an End to the Arab-Israeli War? Trump’s Peace Plan, US Security, Media Shifts, and Power Politics

Oct 14, 2025 6 min read

“If Trump pulls off this peace treaty, will you say he did a great thing?” I asked. He knew, and I knew, that he could not. TDS is a malady that…

A Poem That Sounds Like AI (But Isn’t)
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A Poem That Sounds Like AI (But Isn’t)

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

This poem was written by Oliver Baez Bendroff, the author of three poetry collections, including Consider the Rooster, a finalist for the 2024 National…

How Acting Quality Transforms a Scene from Lackluster to Spine-Tingling
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How Acting Quality Transforms a Scene from Lackluster to Spine-Tingling

Oct 14, 2025 2 min read

Acting Counts: Lackluster… to Not Bad… to Spine-Tingling I’ve made three movies. One was so bad I destroyed it after I showed it to my 12-year-old son…

A Mural of Central American Masters
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A Mural of Central American Masters

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

Hint: It’s on the outside of the building where I have my main office. It was inspired a bit by Diego Rivera’s mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in…

Robin Williams Explains Why Golfers Throw Clubs in Ponds
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Robin Williams Explains Why Golfers Throw Clubs in Ponds

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

The Man Who Invented Golf If you want to know why so many perfectly good athletes are never happy with their golf scores and are frequently seen…

Why I’m Writing About Politics Today
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Why I’m Writing About Politics Today

Oct 7, 2025 1 min read

Apologies in advance to readers who tell me that they wish I wouldn’t write about political and social issues. I’ll be back with lighter and brighter…

Antisemitism Is Spreading Worldwide: From Ideology and Media to Violence and Murder
Social Issues

Antisemitism Is Spreading Worldwide: From Ideology and Media to Violence and Murder

Oct 7, 2025 2 min read

I’m writing this on Friday, October 3. Two days earlier, I wrote the following in my Journal, in anticipation of writing a longish essay about the…