In-Sight Publishing July 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We’ve had some pretty ongoing severe cases in the United States. It is not doing well alongside Brazil, India Russia. Rick Rosner: There’s that Anna Karenina, where it starts with every happy family is happy in the same way and every miserable family …

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In-Sight Publishing July 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In terms of reform in the United States, what governance needs restructuring? Rick Rosner: Right now, in America, the focus is on fixing the police Although, the latest thing is on Trump. But what I think needs to be reformed is the news, …

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In-Sight Publishing July 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How bad is Trump? Rick Rosner: The people on Twitter have been asking each other a lot, “Would Trump be this bad?” Some were saying, “Yes, he would get us into nuclear war.” Others said, “Yes, we didn’t know the form.” I am …

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In-Sight Publishing June 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You live in a place with a lot of famous people. What is it like living in a place like that? Rick Rosner: For a long time, I worked for a famous guy who kind of got famous as I worked for him. …

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June 29, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You are really into mosaics. When we met years ago, you had a bunch. Rick Rosner: Micromosaics, Carole decided she likes micromosaics. These are very, very, sometimes incredibly, small mosaic is showing flowers, which are for poor tourists who can spend $10 or the 1920 …

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In-Sight Publishing June 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Are things better in terms of people’s knowledge of sex and sexual behaviour compared to when you were growing up in the ‘70s? Rick Rosner: Yes, I think with MeToo and with knowledge in general. Things are generally better, but the whole culture …

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In-Sight Publishing June 25, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your deal around micromosaics and surveillance? Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about it. My wife likes micromosaics, which are these very small mosaic pieces, mostly jewellery where the sliver of glass can be less than a millimetre in length and width. We’ve collected …

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In-Sight Publishing June 23, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: If Trump loses the conservative media propping him up, there are always one or two people at Fox News who are ot afraid to praise him, but the primetime news lineup supports him. Although, Laura Ingraham has criticized him for being a wimp about …

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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is Trump’s situation now? Rick Rosner: It is 19 weeks until the election. There have been 123,000 confirmed U.S. coronavirus deaths are a rally last week; Trump said that he has been trying to slow down coronavirus testing in the U.S. because …

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In-Sight Publishing June 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The best model of consciousness now, if we simplify that to a definition in one sentence, what is it in plain English? Rick Rosner: It is high-information flow, sharing information among a bunch of different analytic nodes, and a bunch of different sensory …

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