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New @NYMag column is about American violence
My question is: did he make this video of all the impressive musicians praising and following him? If so, I can call it now; he will never be great.
Good pick imo
I’m honored to serve as the President of PEN/America, which has been defending free expression and celebrating literature for over a hundred years.
pen.org/press-release/award-…
The latest from my genius friend @AvaKofman: a bewildering and disturbing tale from the world of gestational surrogacy. Told with extraordinary care and complexity — as a five-part podcast series.
First (incredible) episode linked below.
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The guy who released a song called “Heil Hitler” *last year* has a concert scheduled at one of these stadiums in November
The venues reported by Rolling Stone that didn’t allow concerts to proceed with Macklemore on the lineup.
Lincoln Financial Field/Philadelphia
Gillette Stadium/Foxborough, Massachusetts
Mercedes-Benz Stadium/Atlanta
Lucas Oil Stadium/Indianapolis
Bank of America Stadium/Charlotte
AT&T Stadium/Arlington, Texas
Raymond James Stadium/ Tampa
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Some absolute blockbusters in here including the new definitive piece on the fate of Orbán intellectualism by @BrianKGoodman thedriftmag.com/the-last-day…
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The full phrase I most often hear is "taught to use AI responsibly," which is less naive about the state of usage but unfortunately assumes a whole apparatus of moral education from which the modern academy deliberately divested
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I'm the guy trying to blur the distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and the first responders to the attack. Everyone in the building was the same to me. If you were in there you were probably up to no good. This is called "Building Theory" and I learned it in woke college
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I have complicated and rapidly evolving feelings about AI existential risk but I find this argument extremely unconvincing – we achieved this ability in the mid-1950s and have come very close to using it several times. (And many important nuclear alarm-raisers were religious.)
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Decision Desk HQ projects David Morales wins the RI Providence Mayor Democratic Primary
#DecisionMade: 8:34 PM EDT
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This is really just how everything is now. Footnote of the year. nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev…
new @KnowYrEnemyPod: Jacob Silverman joins to walk us through the insane levels of corruption — via crypto, insider trading, tariffs, and legalized fraud — in Trump world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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What’s remarkable about this is that @JGreenblattADL could easily say “we were a sponsor of this event but the hateful comments made about Muslim Americans isn’t in line with the @adl’s values. We condemn these comments.”
But he doesn’t.
Why?