Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Reticent. A few weeks ago, and I was about to publish

zero trust information that basically made the argument that you would think would not be a

controversial opinion, but that there might be some upside to social networks, you know,

in that you can surface information that might not be surfaced otherwise. And I actually told you before I published it that, oh, this is going to be

a controversial one. And you were like, why? Like, what's going to be controversial? And I ended up

being right. It was controversial. At one point, I had three journalists from a particular

newspaper attacking me at the same time on Twitter.

For literally not attacking, I didn't say anything about, anyhow, neither here nor there.

And so in that case, sort of I saw it coming, right?

So fast forward to this week, I wrote a couple of pieces about sort of this moment.

I mean, it's almost hard to know how to characterize

what's going on. We added the way the start of our podcast, so the helicopters that over

your house could move on. To be fair, I was out there protesting. With COVID and everything, I felt

like it was necessary to go out with suitable precautions. But yeah, I was out there a couple of hours

earlier. Yeah. and I felt that

I needed to write this piece. And this first one was about growing up in Madison, the sort of

idyllic sort of city, ranked the number one city to live in America. Remember that came out

when I was in high school. Everyone was very excited about it. And it turned out it's not necessarily

a great place to live if you are African-American and to understand the history of that

and things like redlining. And you can still see the scars from that today. And you can see it

very clearly in a place like Minneapolis where, you know, the murder of officially a homicide right now

of George Floyd and, you know, the racial covenants that were in place in Minneapolis,

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