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Tucker gives some really good insight into mediocrity masked as authority using Klaus
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HARRIS: “Jordan Peterson is definitely Trump adjacent. He’s in Conspiristan.”
MAHER: “What’s something he says that I would object to?”
HARRIS: 🦗🦗🦗 https://t.co/3UrpkzqEQd
Chief Nerdx.comSecond, given the nichification of everything, whether by subject matter or sensibility, I am not surprised that the New York Times is finding it difficult to sustain an opinion section purporting to represent all sides of an issue. This isn’t the pre-Internet era, when only a few publications had the reach to plausibly claim they had a duty to... See more
stratechery.com • Never-Ending Niches
Fact-checking would come to take on new meaning in the 2016 campaign and beyond as code for discrediting Donald Trump. Democrats would open new war rooms devoted to “fact-checking Trump in real time.” They would coin the term factivist and successfully pressure journalists to adopt aggressive tactics that result in almost never proving Trump
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Why the Tech Elite HATE Art w/ Ruby Thelot | Middlebrow Podcast
youtu.beWhile most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Generative AI’s chief export may not be image slop or voice clones, but unearned, entitled audacity, Charlie Warzel argues.
The generative-AI revolution began in earnest two years ago with the public beta launch of DALL-E 2, which signaled a new technological era, Warzel writes. Where has it gotten us? Social networks... See more
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