looking forward to the @chrislhayes.bsky.social book on attention. there seems to be--I certainly feel it--an all out assault on our ability to pay sustained attention to anything, particularly complex texts
"In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
you know i don’t pay much attention to musk but this is…completely unhinged. like, if someone said this to you in person you’d be speaking to their family about how they need to get help
Eh, somewhere in between. There are definitely things that get glossed over. One exercise a high school teacher I know did involved comparing a chapter of A People's History to the textbook--no flat-out contradictions, but a very different emphasis.
In order to determine whether a 15-year-old volleyball player was transgender, Florida police sought out her medical records to determine any changes in her body weight and asked her teammates if they had ever seen her nude. One detective referred to the girl as "it"
Ehhh, I mean, one thing about polling is that the pollsters fiddle to make things more like their prior polls and more like everyone else's. They are not-infrequently off by more than the margin of error.
Is it ethical? No. But does it produce reliable results? Also no. Ahh! But does it make an obscene profit? Again, absolutely not.
Friends, I can promise you zero return on your investment, which is $5B better than these clowns. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/o...
CNBC has confirmed that OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year — figures first reported by The New York Times.
I wrote earlier this month about O'Connor's investment history — which is extremely robust for a federal judge *and* circles around Elon Musk a bit more than I would be comfortable with were I a federal judge in his position.
Although Judge Reed O'Connor's Tesla stocks were in the news in August, his investments in recent years circle around Musk more than previously reported.
Trump is openly running on election fraud, weaponizing DOJ, deporting 6-8 percent of the population, crippling tariffs, and imprisoning dissenters. It’s the most authoritarian, anti-freedom platform in modern presidential history. This is the November cover of the leading libertarian magazine.
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
