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Michelle Teheux

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Freelance Writer at Freelance

Writer. Thinker. Interested in everything. Author of The Trailer Park Rules. Writes on Medium. Publishes Untrickled on Substack.

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  • 5 days ago | medium.com | Paul J. Maglione |Michelle Teheux

    Is there any way to stop this train? In Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed 2013 post-apocalyptic action thriller film Snowpiercer, the last people left on Earth following a catastrophic failed attempt at climate engineering can only survive by endlessly traveling across the resulting neo-Ice Age landscape on a special 1,001-car train.

  • 1 week ago | walterrhein.substack.com | Walter Rhein |Michelle Teheux

    Hello Everyone!I’m finding that each conversation leads into the next one. In last week’s Movie Break, we started discussing the stories that aren’t represented in American literature. That made me think of Michelle Teheux’s wonderful book The Trailer Park Rules. Also, a story that I’d sent to Michelle’s Medium publication Minds Without Borders has been performing well. So, I thought I’d reach out.

  • 1 week ago | medium.com | Dustin Arand |Michelle Teheux

    TECHNOLOGYHow pre-modern ideas inform our thinking about intelligent machinesRecently, one of the co-founders of OpenAI claimed that “predict[ing] the next token” in a string of text “means that you understand the underlying reality that led to the creation of that token.”This is false. Even for human beings, the ability to intelligently converse about an underlying reality doesn’t imply that we understand it, as the whole history of disproved scientific theories shows.

  • 2 weeks ago | medium.com | Michelle Teheux

    ECONOMICSHow interest keeps the poor paying and the rich earningImagine you’re a young adult from a non-wealthy family. You need to pay for college, a car, a place to live and perhaps to eventually raise a family, but you make entry-level wages. That means one thing:DebtHow much will the average American pay in interest fees over their lifetime? It’s a shocker: $649,068, according to Self Financial Inc. The poor stay poor because they are paying interest.

  • 3 weeks ago | medium.com | Michelle Teheux

    A thoughtful look at how culture, society, politics, media and economics affect us all. Follow publicationMONEYOligarchs are milking our country for profitsImagine you’re a cattle farmer. When you wake up, you don’t ask yourself, “What can I do to make my cows happier?” You ask, “How can I maximize profit from my herd?”This should have been obvious all along. Under Trump, it’s an inescapable conclusion.

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