Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBSâall are less profitable now. But theyâre political investments that increase the value of the new ownersâ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and thatâs one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
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Conspiracy is what fills the gap between reality and racist fantasies about how the world should be.
I was going to repost this with alt text but as i was describing the image and I got to âhonestly, itâs so perfect it looks AI-generated,â the light bulb finally went on
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
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Ryan Enos
I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what theyâre really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldnât be able to vote.