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 hadnât 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 donât pay much attention to musk but this isâŚcompletely unhinged. like, if someone said this to you in person youâd be speaking to their family about how they need to get help
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"
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 â figures first reported by The New York Times.
I wrote earlier this month about O'Connor's investment history â 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. Itâs 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:
you can debate whether Biden stepping down was the right decision, but it's important to understand that a major force behind the push to oust him was a group of wealthy donors who were unhappy with him for policy reasons - including Khan - and hoped to replace him with someone more pliable.
My latest: New polling shows that roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Joe Biden's star antitrust enforcer. www.wired.com/story/ftc-ch...
New polling shows roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Lina Khan.
one of the pernicious things about the tyrannical rule by the SCOTUS Gang of Six is that voters - especially low info swing voter - don't understand that it's happening or who is responsible for it. The media then helps them sell this lie by inventing Trump's fake "moderation" on abortion