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Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He wrote a piece after the election about Elon Musk's impact on the Trump brand. Here's a small excerpt to chew on. It’s hard to overstate the success that a Trump-Musk axis has already had in rebranding Trump’s image.... In the company of Musk—redolent of angular Cybertrucks, reusable rockets, and humanity living on Mars—Trump appears not as an elderly, increasingly …
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In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods see everywhere. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In his pithy and spot-on book, On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt writes about the above lines of poetry, “The point of these lines is clear. In the old days, craftsmen did not cut corners… These craftsmen did not relax their thoughtful self-discipline even with respect …
"The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted." - Statement on AI Training Musicians, actors, and writers worldwide are signing their names to a statement opposing artificial intelligence companies and developers using their work without a license. According to Billboard, the statement …
In Texas, the Attorney General's office has a nasty habit of using the courts to interfere with citizens groups, churches, and others working for the common good. Now, Florida is taking the litigious path. The state's Surgeon General's office wants to bring criminal charges against any broadcasters airing an advertisement it doesn't like. Right now, the far-right administration in Tallahassee doesn't like ads …
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I'm impressed by the quality and consistency of messages from the Harris-Walz campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris, in particular, is addressing the hard topics of our day with a straight-on, level-headed fierceness and compassion that's both remarkable and refreshing. For millions of voters, a woman's right to choose is at the center of the 2024 campaign and Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman and survivor of …
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Nebraska is in the news, and I'm happy to say, it's for the right reasons. The Democratic candidate for Vice President is from small-town Nebraska. A Republican State Senator from Omaha joined with his Democratic colleagues to defy attempts to change how the state awards its electoral college votes (by Congressional district). University of Nebraska's football team is on its way back. And Independent …
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The Culture War is the war that never ends. One side is hell-bent on denying American citizens their rights to bodily autonomy, gender identity, even books, and a decent education. To this end, the National Republican Congressional Committee unveiled its first Texas ad of the general election last week, accusing U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, of pushing “sex changes for …
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Toxicity is at an all-time high, according to unnamed experts. There's toxicity in the workplace, toxicity online, and toxicity in the air. Toxicity has even seeped into entire industries. As a result, Virgin Active, a chain of health clubs in the U.K and beyond, is calling on people to rebel against the toxicity of the wellness industry in a new global campaign from Amsterdam-based agency We Are Pi. The new …
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