In The Weekender:
@allegrak.bsky.social on “the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend” and the bad advice Dems get for winning elections.
Me on what AI detection software Pangram is really selling us.
Also, a great Hunter Biden tweet and more!
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In today’s Weekender:
A Trumpian arch
Bitcoin boosting
Republican rake-stomping
A galaxy-brained book on truth
A sighting of the Trumpuffalo
Along with some trivia and some very bad tweets.
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Why would one of the best golfer's in the world choose to make YouTube videos instead of playing on the PGA Tour?
I wrote about it for TPM's mini-magazine, The Weekender, which also has great stuff from @allegrak.bsky.social and @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social.
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Highly recommend you listen to this conversation. Understanding LLMs to be a cultural technology and interrogating them through the humanities, Leif’s work may change (or blow) your mind with regard to the current super intelligence discourse around AI. The other guys on the pod aren’t bad either.
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16/ If the internet is real life now, the goal shouldn’t be winning it. It should, rather, be to create a place worth living in. And if that place is good enough, you might even persuade others to join you.
15/ The fact that “debate me bro” shows are popular with young and influential voters doesn’t automatically prescribe that the left appear on these shows or make one of their own. To influence culture you often have to change it, and that means offering something new.