Joy Brennan

Love how Mamdani then basically affirms it without saying any words that can be pinned on him later. Amazing talent.

that'll be 10 seconds before the Epstein files are released.

And by "that", i mean providin’ delinquent individuals the help they need to become productive members of society

Try that in a small town...

Dispatch from a wellness summit My weekend at Eudemonia

Reagan’s trickle-down theory failed for many reasons. Big Wellness functions under the same illusion—and will certainly yield the same results.

derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

I hear you. But I also think it is actually stupid to think me getting mine and others can go die in a hole is going to work out for "me" in the end.

To be fair to the yokels of the world, a lot of wealthy people and professionals also thought "he should lead us." A rich student at the college for rich white kids I teach at told me her dad, a cardiologist, voted for Trump because of how much he'd do for the economy. Morons come in many varieties.

Why aren't the people who lie about everything not lying about this? Anyone have a theory?

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC

Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.

It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

Ugh

When double indemnity means double jeopardy: An examination of Google/Microsoft/OpenAI’s… by Neil Turkewitz

You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI.

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I am interested! Thank you.

The stuff companies will argue in court because they know most of their users will never hear that they said it. I still try to tell old Fox-news loving ppl about how they went to court and argued that they do entertainment, not news, and therefore neednt be right about anything...

I think that is right. I also think it's right that we have to train our characters in order to distinguish silly-sounding but good topics from silly-sounding because actually silly topics. I think about this a lot.

It is extremely silly. The philosopher Jo Wolff posted on here a week or so ago some quotation where Hans Jonas says we have to train our characters to discern what technologies are good to use.

I am not sure my position is sustainable, but for now I simply decline at every turn to engage the question because I simply do not want to talk to people who sound like those people in that comment section.

So OpenAI is saying that its users are criminally liable based on doing the thing with its product that OpenAI made & marketed the product as being able to do for users?

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

presented without comment

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I went to Lilith Fair as a 16 year old teenage girl and it was awesome. Really want to watch this. Thanks for posting.

Where is the thread? Any leads appreciated.

Need help finding a person/old Twitter thread. Please repost to amplify.

A few years ago someone had a thread on the Right's methods of cultivating leaders, esp. tracking how they've used academic institutions as part of their pipeline. Also described why there is no equal on the left. Who was it?

I was kidding, just to be clear. Of course I agree with you.

Well we can't know what's in his heart, so though he walks like a crook, talks like a crook, and does things that conform to crook-ish behavior, we will never really know if he is a crook.

It's unbelievable!!!

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

Yes! Right in between doing nothing and a mob of us tearing these m-effers limb from limb.

Damn. This is a lot. Says so much that is so real: that people are often focused in and good at pointing out a thing that is in fact their own biggest blind-spot.

And already having moments of 7.

I'm at 5!