We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
In many ways it's a blessing that Mamdani can't run for President because it means everyone else will have to learn from his example rather than wait around to be rescued
I’m not intimidated by AI. I’m repulsed by it. I’m not jealous of AI art. I know it’s predictive rather than creative, and built on stolen content. I’m not scared of new technology. I’m scared of a world without trees, bees, fresh air, and clean water.
After noting that the Supreme Court majority seemed oddly reluctant to include any examples of Trump's "repellent and racially inflected" statements about Haiti in its TPS ruling that downplayed them, Justice Kagan provided some receipts:
Imagine how dope the America 250th would have been if Kamala had won. Massive concerts, foreign dignitaries, millions of visitors to DC, a year long celebration culminating in a huge party on the 4th. Instead, we get meth head Kid Rock, a Gatorade colored reflecting pool, and a traveling carnival.
A lot of discourse hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s ‘problematic’ to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting & you can’t run?
“Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.”
If the Establishment Democrats were truly confident in their hold on the party they’d be handling these victories in a very different way. They’d be measured, reserved, and calm.
Instead they’re going on national television and threatening open ‘war’ with progressives.
Scared.
Rep. Jerry Nadler on this: "I've known Brad Lander for years, and he will make an excellent Member of Congress. For Bruce Blakeman to invoke the Holocaust to smear a fellow Jewish man is beyond the pale — it is a grotesque desecration of the memory of six million Jews. These comments are disqualifying, and they show exactly why Bruce Blakeman must never be Governor of New York."
Vance is a paradigmatic example of a new kind of religious conversion. He doesn't agree w the institutional authorities of his new faith or many of its official doctrines, but likes the aesthetics & perceived politics. Religion as post-truth consumer lifestyle.
I have never seen more effort from Dems to delegitimize the will of the voters than in these NYC elections.
When Trump won, they immediately tried to pivot right, self-flagellated about losing their way, etc. But in the wake of Tuesday, they impugn voters as “transplants” etc
Now Lander responds to the comment: “We named our son after Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. That’s how seriously I take the legacy of Jews who fought Nazis. I don’t know where Bruce Blakeman went to Hebrew school, but I was taught that ‘Never Again!’ means never again to anyone. Standing up for Palestinian human rights doesn’t make me any less proud to be Jewish, or any less serious about fighting antisemitism. New Yorkers, including Jewish New Yorkers, will resoundingly reject Blakeman’s far-right MAGA bigotry this November.”
Dude is a genius politician. And part of that is having a keen understanding of leverage and messaging. He blends the two seamlessly. This is a perfect answer. What can James actually say in response to this without looking bad?
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas