I think Colbert has been using music in one of the most personal ways to engage with art, which is to allow it to reflect back your own feelings in a way that clarifies them. Your circumstances are new, but—in this case—your defiant frustration mixed with exuberance is legible to other people.
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
The most horrifying part of this is buried at the end. Like half the “citations” are just slapped on to give a false veneer of credibility.
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
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The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”
So compliance and performativity are in and curiosity(all forms including intellectual) is out. Cool cool cool.
(I'm grateful our students aren't succumbing to this garbage approach to their education.)
Linda Holmes
Karl Bode
Politico
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Matt Seybold
This is fucking epic and actually made me burst into tears.
Fight fire with fire.
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"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
KEXP, KCRW and The Front Porch mornings on WBOK, New Orleans
Thanks again for jumpstarting this project!
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Yes--after occasional (but very effective) narrative pivots in TV just after the lockdowns (The Morning Show [oddly] and TV movie Help, for instance) now there's just crickets.
There was also a decent COVID arc in The Good Fight and a whole season of Grey's Anatomy. I found the GA season nearly unwatchable (for various reasons) but they absolutely took on COVID and what it did to hospitals and medical workers.
This is catastrophic.
Katie Moylan
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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