This is legitimately good advice
This is basic Emperor's New Clothes criteria: If you, as a reporter, can't make sense of a presidential candidate deciding to dance (slightly) to music for 40 minutes as opposed to answer questions at a Q&A event, you are part of the posse admiring his amazing clothes
🎯: "Reporters still seem unsure of how to deal with Trump’s stranger behaviors. Journalists are trained to take information and make sense of it, even amid chaos. The problem is that doing so conjures logic where none exists."
At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued. October 15, 2024 Is Donald Trump well enough to serve as president? The question is not temperamental or philosophical fitness—he ...
I'm glad to see people coming around to the "Emperor's New Clothes" framing of how the press treats Republicans and especially Trump. It gets at the deference to power involved, and how easy it can be to replace what your own eyes show you with groupthink.
A Prescription To Ruin Your Life "Frank was a faithful husband, professionally successful, devoted father [] spent hours playing online poker. One day he went out to buy grass seed and came home with a new car [] convicted of possession of CSAM."
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This is a great resource by some wildly talented comics professionals making the (terrifying) information clear and compelling.
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men love to show you a knife and tell you that it is technically illegal
Today is World Standards Day. Except in the USA, which will celebrate World Standards Day on Nov 14
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
TBH I think he might be the only person writing right now who can even claim the title of "public intellectual," although it's not like I keep current on stuff like that.