Last week, OpenAI argued that the government may need to create a vast new welfare state to counter AI-induced unemployment and inequality.
And yet, the company's leaders have ignored - or abetted - attacks on actually existing social programs www.vox.com/politics/485...
College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers.
This is a popular narrative. But the share of recent grads in low-wage jobs is tiny (and down since the mid-90s)
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As he put it in his inimitable fashion
Elon Musk's chatbot has forsaken its creator.
A new study analyzed 1.6 million fact check requests -- and found that Grok was more likely to contradict Republican-leaning accounts than Democratic-leaning ones www.vox.com/technology/4...
How can you convince someone to abandon conspiratorial or pseudoscientific beliefs?
Have them debate an LLM. Or so some new studies suggest.
I wrote about why AI may be uniquely effective at countering misinformation (even as it also helps to spread it) www.vox.com/technology/4...
99%-ism - the belief that only the top 1% should have to pay higher taxes - is a scourge.
Booker and Van Hollen's tax cut plans represent the culmination of a decades-long trend -- one that could make building a robust American welfare state impossible www.vox.com/politics/482...
How Iran views this war, according to historian of the regime @gbrew24.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/482...
How AI could trigger an economic doom loop (according to a financial firm's viral memo) www.vox.com/politics/480...
An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market. www.vox.com/politics/480...
It's true that there are tons of rich bigots.
It's also true that more educated voters are, in the aggregate, much more progressive on social issues than non-graduates. This is reflected not only in their answers to polls, but in the parties/candidates they support nymag.com/intelligence...
A little over a year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying!
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I wrote about why Silicon Valley is convinced we're in a "February 2020" moment (and how their dire prophesies could prove mistaken) www.vox.com/politics/478...
The argument of the piece is that any attempt at interference will likely fail, in part for this reason, and that the odds of Trump even attempting it are low -- but that the administration's recent actions indicate that the odds are higher than 0 percent, which is both outrageous and concerning.
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
Tulsi Gabbard has been investigating baseless allegations that Venezuelan hackers rigged the 2020 election
That's alarming, as it could indicate that Trump is trying to establish a national security rationale for seizing voting machines in November www.vox.com/politics/478...
oh god we're doing it again aren't we
A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance
And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
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Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...
After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate
Gotta admit, I too fell for this.
When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.
But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents.
It is a scandal that they still hold their positions
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Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
I don't know what to do with the fact that my government is giving federal officers permission to summarily execute protestors at will -- or the knowledge that thousands (if not millions) of my fellow citizens are eager to lie in service of such violence
I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies
You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...
Wall Street buying up single-family homes is good, actually
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Won't somebody *please* think of the landlords who own only 10-to-12 properties
* Swing voters tend to have unusually weak (or conflicted) culture war allegiances, and are therefore more likely to vote based on economic conditions/messaging than the broader public is
Imo, three things are true:
*News consumers (/social media users) are a small minority of the voting public with eccentric preferences (generally, more ideologically coherent/extreme)
*Culture war cleavages increasingly determine partisanship (/whom voters trust on the economy)