Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Also host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast. Views my own.
My blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
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At the used games store, they had a Neo Geo for $150, and I seriously thought about it, a gift to 11 year old Aaron, who desperately wanted one. But, man, the games are *still* crazy expensive.
The fact that “character attacks are not persuasive anymore” is at the heart of our present crisis in this country.
Today on @liberalism.org, we have a new piece on how to think about foreign policy, by my old colleague @emmamashford.bsky.social. www.liberalism.org/p/realism-idea…
Google's new Lyra 3 Pro can generate a complete song from a prompt, and it sounds… fine. Instruments sound right, vocals sound real, structure works. If it played in a coffee shop, you wouldn't notice. But "wouldn't notice" is exactly how this tech fails in its aims. 🧵
It’s striking how many of the (many) replies to this don’t seem to understand what it is and assume, because the word “AI” is in the title of the post, it’s Bluesky deciding to inject AI slop into your feed. Ideological intensity and a desire to grandstand corrode reading comprehension.
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
Alan Elrod
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Sure, this is dumb, and it’s not like Wuthering Heights requires some master level of literacy to parse, but it’s just an update on the old Classics Illustrated. What’s perplexing is the “experience literature the way it was meant to be read” part. Brontë, for example, would probably disagree.
