Neal Allen

Given a choice, Icelandic Sheepdogs. Stalks @annelamott 24/7. New book out - GOOD WRITING: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

Stephen Miller is Roy Cohn 2.0. It was both the single most self-destructive move Trump could have made, and his only move in the face of Epstein.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Today’s news from the garden

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Trump has gone full bunker.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Why can’t moderate Democrats admit they have the same compassionate policies endgame as progressives? Free healthcare, education, and childcare. Affordable housing. A tax code that reduces hoarded wealth. A living wage. Things most industrialized countries already have.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

When I was a kid there were still people alive who as children had met Abraham Lincoln.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@MikeLupica And having been a New Yorker, I was a fan of yours before you were a fan of hers.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@MikeLupica She would dispute that.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Milwaukee and Tampa Bay have the most AI analysts (46 and 39) on staff of all MLB teams. From scouting to training to field decisions it’s a new, hidden-to-the-fan world.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Hegseth taking his cue from jihadist terrorists. A bloodthirsty military misunderstands its sad existence as a last resort, after all decent attempts to resolve a conflict have failed.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. https://t.co/LDCCkdNYe2

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

#MaineSenate

Maine voter interviewed by the Washington Post

“I like Susan Collins… But God could be running as a Republican and I would vote against him or her because I think this country will be destroyed if Trump has another two years unfettered.”

https://t.co/tPCuDTDIgm

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@SketchesbyBoze @chriswitmer95 We’re the one major country that doesn’t subsidize films. Part of the brutality of America is its lack of interest in artistry. We’re a nation obsessed with rights, without a sense of common good or culture. We get simpleminded trash mostly.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@alphonceg181883 @ANNELAMOTT I was entertained from beginning to end.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@ANNELAMOTT I like how they collect in my kidneys!

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@NikkiMcR @propublica All corruption is private and personal. That’s why we call it corrupt.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

Wait until AI takes charge of these lives. An army of ready-made robots.

[Collin Cleary @collin_cleary]

I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching “Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.
Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears – or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.
I'll share more observations later.

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

This confuses me. You would naturally think he had used a phone growing up, and would retain some sort of body memory of talking into the receiver and holding the top part up against your ear.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@DavidCornDC It does write better if you tell it to write “in the style of …” (So do people, at first. Like youn jazz musicians learning the improvised solos of the masters.) AI’s sweet spot is imitation. Once muddled with multiple styles and sources it shifts into least common denominator.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@DavidCornDC It isn’t just that AI has digested more novels than any human, but also more literary criticism. Its editor’s notes are routinely brilliant. Less so it’s writing, maybe because AI is so influenced by the muck of speedily written genre fiction that fills its memory.

[Neal Allen @NealFAllen]

@SteveRattner @cindygallop @Morning_Joe The hoarding class only cares about not paying taxes. Their entire political philosophy: “Don’t make me pay.” Soros is the exception.