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Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
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.
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.
If any of this sounds good, you can read and SUBSCRIBE, for free!
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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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@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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