I have no problem with an AI company, large or small, paying for the content it feeds its models for training. The leader in the market has often taken the approach of not paying so that it could capture as much market share as possible and pay the fine later.
But will there be enough f2f to create enough of a sense of shared reality so that our policymakers will do positive things? Probably not. The shit show likely only stands to get worse. AI is a major threat to social cohesion.
So long term, the only way to prevent flagrant contempt of court by the executive branch is to remove DOJ control from it by law? And if so, which branch of government would the DOJ operate under ideally?
3/ It’s important to understand that average people hurt the most in an economic downturn since they will struggle more than rich people to pay for necessities. They will be most at risk of losing assets like businesses and homes. Then rich people come in and buy those assets at discounted prices.
The SB performance a couple years ago with the rap OGs—Dre, Snoop, 50-cent, Eminem—was so much more enjoyable. Kendrick’s raps were indeed mumbled. I could make out maybe 10% of them.
Could the media’s coverage of inflation have impacted low-information voters’ tendency to blame the incumbent? You say yes, but I’m not so sure. Low-information people can hardly grasp how inflation could’ve been caused by the pandemic. They are, by and large, simple minded.
Great work from the Wired team staying on top of this incredibly important issue!
It’s like Mars: Even if science can establish settlement there, will the limitations on life be worth it? I doubt it will.
Made billions on paper. Owning 80% of the coin means that the price can spike up quite easily but also can drop quite rapidly whenever a sizable share is sold. That said, the coin will likely serve as a conduit for indirect payments—large buys that raise the value—from those who want to curry favor.
This is certainly nowhere near the importance of excessively aged presidential candidates or SCOTUS judges. That said, the committee will be very busy and, likely, visible during the upcoming Trump term, so having a young party star at its helm would be good politics.
Geriatric isn’t always bad—Pelosi has kicked much ass as an elder stateswoman. But yeah, some youth in the leadership would be good.
drastically raising taxes on the rich, particularly the billionaire class. It must be policy objective #1. A New Deal 2.0 would mean little if it just ballooned our national debt. Government revenue has to go up so that future generations don’t get hit with economically crushing debt.
Keep sharing each year, because there’s always someone like me who then discovers it for the first time. “That’s what Vietnam did to me” lol
But nobody will fail because they cancelled the period, right?
Regardless of where he ate, he obviously underestimated the distinctiveness of his very thick eyebrows. Had he trimmed those down and ditched the mask post-shooting, he might still be on the loose.
How were the “terrorists” going to weaponize a group that distributes food? It’s not like they have weapons or classified info to steal, right?
You were my favorite columnist at The Times. Thanks for your good work! I look forward to seeing what you have coming next.
And in a wealthy area of the country where police departments should, I would think, be well funded.
They decide what they want first, then attempt to rationalize it second. It’s idiotic. It’s selfish. It’s shortsighted.
Yes, I’m hoping @bsky.app has solid means to keep bots from having access to this platform in the first place. Users having to block them isn’t the ideal way to combat their annoyance.
The postmortem is simple: Biden should have been pressured not to run a year and half ago. A full primary would have allowed Dems to pick, through a democratic process, a candidate who could be critical of the not so popular Biden admin in some ways while pushing our generally superior policies.
I’m sure Elon knew that anti-Trump folks like to block disingenuous and crude Trump folks more than the other way around. It was a power play, and the reason I deactivated on X and came here.
Also, his stump speeches are likely to people already dedicated to him. Alternatively, podcasts attract many people who aren’t (yet) but are curious.
The interview format works much better for him than his rambling stump speeches that are not guided by an interviewer. Many more young people likely experienced him in an interview format than they did stump speech. I think the Joe Rogan interview got 40 million views on YouTube before the election.
Many young voters are tuned out from legacy media and watch a lot of YouTube/podcast media, which means Trump became much more familiar to most of them, leaving many to likely wonder, “I know what he stands for but I don’t know about her.” And because these sorts of interviews tend to be more… 5/
more voters, especially younger voters who make up a large share of the audiences of the podcasts Trump appeared on. In short, this was a tactically brilliant approach, and makes one wonder how the Harris campaign didn’t see the ramifications of letting him outshine her in this medium. 4/
Trump had a lot more speaking time across each of these three appearance categories. This is especially important in the realm of the highly accessible podcast/streaming mediums, where Trump logged nearly four times as many hours as Harris. Ultimately, this likely put Trump in front of a lot… 3/
Harris had 45% more in-person events than Trump, but Trump had twice as many TV and radio interviews, and he had two and half times more podcast/streaming interviews. 2/
Answering in the affirmative to any of these things is saying one is okay with moving towards a dictatorship. Why has the Republican Party become so much more comfortable with that than the Democratic Party? Where people get their information has a lot to do with it. 5/
