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You might ask this question about E.J. Antoni: How did a guy with zero academic publications become Chief Economist at a "think tank" with a $100 million yearly budget?

Because the Heritage Foundation is just a bunch of hacks, and that's who the right values and elevates.

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

Es impresionante q algo q podría haber sido baladí (q se hará uso de la potestad reglamentaria, así fue q salió el copago 0 en Fonasa) se transforma, xq él es muy autoritario, en ese tipo de frase.

Opinion | The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional.

I have to disagree with Tufekci here. The way to stop misinformation is with critical thinkings--specifically, relying on sources you can trust.

Misinformation is not new. It was also rife when print started. People can learn how to find trustworthy sources.

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Durante casi 20 años mantuve el blog de Meditaciones Sociológicas y ahora -que mi host me avisa del cobro- creo q llegó la hora de cerrarlo.

No estará de más mostrar qué fue lo q más se leyó de ese blog a lo largo del tiempo.

Look at all the ways the #BrokenPost tiptoes around calling fascism fascism. Mussolini said fascism is the merger of government and industry. Il Dumbo is "CEO of America," taking a "personal approach to running the economy," which "departs from traditional conservatism," a "risky role."

This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist

The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

Exactly, and he is putting political pressure on the journal and authors

"El libro de los amores ridículos", Milan Kundera

Politics gets a lot clearer when we accept that "right wing" means petty and shallow.

It's just hard at first to accept there's enough of that to float an entire political party.

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

Something I think about is how the same libertarian technologists went blood and soil MAGA are the same libertarians who don’t believe in age of consent laws and who are also the same libertarians that run off to underdeveloped LatAm countries to do God only knows what illegal and vile activities

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

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Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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—A ver, sí, la IA consume grandes cantidades de recursos y causa una contaminación brutal, pero a cambio de eso, genera un producto que empobrece culturalmente al mundo y hace más difícil que los artistas se ganen la vida. Decí todo.

This is my personal favourite example of multiple people reading something and neglecting to check whether the reference actually said what the article claims.

I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

NYT yesterday: "University officials...concluded...a deal could help Harvard to avoid more troubles" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

WSJ *today*: "The Trump administration is blocking all funding that flows to outside health researchers—billions of dollars in funding" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Honestly if there are sniper holes in the foreheads of children, I don’t care if your own reasoning allows you to sidestep the G-word, there is no logical parsing that can justify these acts, there is no gentlemanly symmetrical warfare based on some colonial guideline, this is mass human hunting.

A description of researcher initiative that is both accurate (imo) + unflattering

Algo tarde, pero fui a ver Superman y me gustó (la de 1978 sigue siendo mi versión preferida). Algo de sermón a veces, pero el tono optimista es el de Superman y en general todos los personajes bastante bien.

Yes, indeed. And it's 2025 and Mississippi still leads the way on the desire to turn back the clock.

🧾 When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970) | Open Culture share.google/9r2y85vIjiSZ...

Not a single US institution has been up to the task. At some point it looks like they want authoritarism.

LOL, absolutely wild.

Hilarious getting fact checked by the cited author but anyone who has glanced at ancient demography could tell the data there is hallucinated BS - the evidence simply does not exist to estimate those figures.

Grok just parroting white nationalist propaganda because of course.

Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

La acción racional no es lógicamente superior a otras modalidades de acción

Acaba de publicarse un grandioso artículo mío (si uno no se da ínfulas, quién) a propósito de la acción racional. En realidad, sobre uno de los argumentos q circula al respecto q nunca me terminó de convencer, la idea q es una 'mejor' explicación per se.
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Finalmente lo leí y... decepcionante. No está a la altura de otros textos de Nussbaum, y una cosa es q sea introductorio y otra q argumente de forma muy superficial. Q la simplicidad no lo es.