Noam Cohen

Ex-nytimes, author of The Know-It-Alls, Moved to BlueSky

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

@brianstelter not the lede on CBS News right now, FWIW. This is the top story: "House set to vote this evening on Senate funding bill to end shutdown"

[Jeff Wise @ManvBrain]

Officials spent millions scanning the seabed for #MH370 & found nothing, gave up.

Launching today: the first new MH370 research project in 6 years. It'll cost a fraction of previous searches & could solve the mystery.

Let's make this happen! Please RT

https://t.co/dS2ui6n1Kh

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

Ain't this a pip. Somehow Facebook decided my scourging of an amoral tech billionaire is NSFW!

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

Recommend Phillip Vance Smith II in @Filmcomment about barriers to watching movies and TV in prison. Smith, incarcerated in NC, reported this story out … they’re voices from NY, NC and Calif. Tablets hold promise, but greed, censorship stand in the way. https://t.co/dEKpoKrsTx

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype https://t.co/LpXsmN2Cum

[GreatFire.org @GreatFireChina]

We created an Android app, available on Google Play, that provides an uncensored version of Wikipedia so that Russians in Russia can continue to have access to this indispensable resource:
https://t.co/ynfnXzTH8V

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

As Wikimedia Russia shuts down, a look at the Kremlin-compliant Wikipedia alternative Ruwiki, which recently went live, led by an ex-Wikimedia Russia director (@noamcohen / Bloomberg)

https://t.co/fwb4akNaPm

📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM
https://t.co/BL0ihO0Bxv

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

My look at Abdul Hassan, the other Queens politician told by Colorado that he was not fit to run for President of the United States. When he complained, a panel of judges — including future Justice Neil Gorsuch —told him tough luck. For @TheAtlantic https://t.co/ckIhYPDr0F

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

One of my favourite Emo Philips lines is, "People always come up to me and say, "Emo...Do people really just come up to you?'"
https://t.co/iLEodF2yWs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There absolutely will be.

Either their structure is valid and everyone should be doing it, because “investing” in a non-profit with pre-tax money and then extracting the IP to a for-profit would double your returns.

Or

It is not valid and the entire structure of OpenAI falls apart.

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

I wish I’d have expressed this thought as clearly as James Harden just did: “Harden ... said he felt like he was on 'a leash' playing with Philadelphia last season, adding, 'I’m not a system player. I am a system.' https://t.co/6lGH6pjd4I

[Stephen Harrison @harrisonstephen]

“Elon Musk’s hate for Wikipedia reveals his true views on free speech”

Well said, @noamcohen

https://t.co/wcSS2pDKjx

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

Musk is obsessed with Wikipedia lately. More like Wokipedia. Amirite? Or Dickipedia. Lol. The putdowns seem like familiar Muskian pettiness, but they’re meaningful. An autocrat’s lament at information beyond his control. True too of Xi, Putin and Erdogan. https://t.co/IDH6ADUR6e

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Elon Musk’s hate for Wikipedia reveals his true views on free speech https://t.co/URi1gsmi0w

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"Can an unelected judge really stop voters from supporting a candidate of their choosing? The answer is yes," @noamcohen writes. "Just ask Abdul Hassan." https://t.co/aqwc0Skbce

[Joseph Menn @josephmenn]

Free link to actual news about all the fake news on X. https://t.co/rQv0s8zavX

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

[What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphil]

new episode out now!! the wonderful @Johntheduncan joins us to talk about how absolutely awful Effective Altruism is! yes believe it or not the pro sweatshop program beloved by tech bro billionaires and hedge fund managers is, in fact, bad. you'll see 🥰 https://t.co/WAb3zrsBhD

[Noam Cohen @noamcohen]

On @14thWatch, I highlighted Trump’s recent defense of Texas AG Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial: “The voters have decided who they want!” It's a convenient way to avoid hard choices re: Paxton, Trump and others, and a far cry from a democracy should function.

[Jeff Wise @ManvBrain]

@noamcohen