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[Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures]

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: https://t.co/gyGncIWHsz 📷 Evan Vucci

[Max Read @readmaxread]

Gotta stand up for normal people here: we like walking around outside too

[Linus Mixson @LinusMixson]

What's highlighted is very bad, but I think it's really funny that Dario has "walking around outside" listed as a major locus of life pleasure, something that sounds totally natural to a certain species of autist and pseudo-autist, but absolutely insane to normies. I get it, man!

[Max Read @readmaxread]

ive looked into this and it checks out

[mark @kramnotmark]

the current state of new media

[Max Read @readmaxread]

you wouldnt believe what else has a long track record of massaging social science findings to support whatever point (the disciplines of social science)

[reason @reason]

HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.

[Max Read @readmaxread]

we had @JohnCarreyrou back on to answer listener questions about elizabeth holmes, theranos, and You Can See Everything... plus @realrobcopeland told us about what it was like to report on billy evans and "theranos 2.0" last year https://t.co/gfdT8ZYhIk

[Max Read @readmaxread]

we had @JohnCarreyrou back on to answer listener questions about elizabeth holmes, theranos, and You Can See Everything... plus @realrobcopeland told us about what it was like to report on billy evans and "theranos 2.0" last year https://t.co/gfdT8ZYhIk

[Max Read @readmaxread]

good piece. seems worth emphasizing that invoking fukuyama here implies that "AI" is not a rupture but a continuation (to ezra a "sharpening") of the same processes that have led to "the end of history"

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

The most revealing part of this conversation between Jon Stewart and Jacob Coxon wasn't Coxon's warning about A.I. doom, but his description of A.I. utopia, and Stewart's incredulous response. I wrote about it — and Francis Fukuyama's "Last Man," and A.I. easily solving the problems that bedeviled my father's field of mathematics for decades — here: https://t.co/J9tvxigcu8

[Max Read @readmaxread]

@nocontextb0jack Clues By Sam !!!

[Max Read @readmaxread]

"discovery of php vulnerabilities" probably not the example i'd choose of "material changes to ordinary life." the main effect on me in my capacity as a normie has been that my favorite daily logic puzzle didn't record my score today while the dev fixes his backend :(

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

Life is basically the same as it was in 2021. This is a normal experience caused by a normal technology. Ordinary people are experiencing no material changes from this mildly useful office productivity software people are calling AI.

[Max Read @readmaxread]

@MattZeitlin comparatively easier to end neoliberalism than to end The Neoliberal Subject

[Max Read @readmaxread]

"His favorite film is a different Cruise vehicle, Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky, a notoriously polarizing fantasy-versus-reality thriller that he estimates he’s seen upwards of 85 times."

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

all of the answers i was hoping i would get about YCSE from that nathan interview are actually in this (fantastic) profile of lance oppenheim: he explains how [redacted] got involved, holmes' relationship dynamics IRL, and whether nathan was being real https://t.co/KHFcm8CP2d

[Max Read @readmaxread]

hit tweet. listen to my interview with john carreyrou about YCSE here https://t.co/VTMaoEGgaR

[Max Read @readmaxread]

bk twitter: wow. finally a movie exploring truth and representation...

sf twitter: chilling investigation of a sociopath (amanda seyfried) ...

abbott and costello twitter: anyone know why they showed the (inferior imho) '58 version and not the longer '45 performance?

[Max Read @readmaxread]

Extremely excited that @JohnCarreyrou will be joining us on Hard Fork again this week to answer audience questions. Anything you’ve been dying to ask him after seeing YCSE? https://t.co/7lmxT1gIxC via @NYTimes

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: https://t.co/2fZL4aMM7d via @NYTimes

[Max Read @readmaxread]

no spoilers but there is one scene in "you can see everything" where i had to make a concerted effort not to shout THIRD BASE! at the screen

[Max Read @readmaxread]

great essay

[helmet girl is @ home @sbodrojan]

Elizabeth Holmes pursues honesty through pathological lying, total power over her own narrative by manipulating men by letting them rob her of her own voice. in the end, she is content to have “won” on her terms; only one person in the entire film can see that she has still lost.

[Max Read @readmaxread]

was thinking the same thing

[Umesh Kumar @itsumeshk]

The Roadster could genuinely be a lifesaver in situations like these.

[Max Read @readmaxread]

I wrote a short newsletter about "You Can See Everything" which is rich and remarkable. Strongly recommend seeing it this weekend so you can experience it pre-discourse. Parents--I would describe it as "worth a babysitter."

https://t.co/Amz6dPiMQk