It seems to me this makes factual claims that are simply untrue. Not contestable claims about politics, but statements about events that did not in fact occur, intended to manipulate the recipient.
Why is that permissible in political advertising?
Screenshot of e-mail: From: Lara Trump Subject: My father-in-law was asking about you! To: Steve Waldman, Reply-To: Lara Trump FROM THE DESK OF LARA TRUMP This is Lara Trump and my father-in-law was just telling me about how much he LOVES YOU!
"The lurch back towards that early web is a deep hunger for the personal web. The web that made you feel like you were part of this crazy but exciting endeavor that suddenly connected you with some other person across the world… We want something that feels more…real. Something authentic, not performative… We don’t want a content treadmill, we want online presences that are idiosyncratic and intimate, peculiar and distinctive." @rscottjones https://rscottjones.com/its-not-about-nostalgia-its-about-human-connection/
no death is pedestrian.
@taber there might be a control on your car’s audio systen which, when connected by bluetooth, let’s you go back 30 secs (or some other duration, it’s app dependent). hopefully, turning car audio off also pauses the audiobook. these two elements are enough to make audiobooks followable when i drive. i go back a bit after my attention was drawn elsewhere and i’ve missed something. i turn audio off when i know my attention will be needed elsewhere.
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When your targeted ads are funerary, you start to wonder what the algorithm knows that you don’t.
“ten things I like about Scala 3” @eed3si9n https://eed3si9n.com/10things/
This is pretty terrible news.
The SAVE plan has always been a bigger deal than forgiveness of past loans. (As a policy matter. Forgiveness of past loans is a BFD if you are among the indebted!)
I hope it survives via appeals, but I expect it will take Congressional action. It’s pretty gross states got standing because they’d get less money from servicing loans not even owed to them.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4737997-courts-block-biden-student-loan-repayment-plan/
"innovation should be rewarded enough to preserve incentives, but the skew of the wealth distribution has become increasingly bizarre… corporate profits + extreme wealth, particularly among mega-cap companies, have become a sort of “capture” or “rent” that reflects network effects, social dynamics, and general technological efficiencies that were no part of that entrepreneur’s invention, and might be better characterized as public goods." #JohnHussman https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc240623/
if i were the mayor of Athens, every Halloween would be the Zombie Acropolis.
@Jonathanglick i’d say purpose. i think states misunderstand this + do too little of it. method suggests that it’s something they’d know to do to achieve other state objectives. even tho it obviously would help achieve other state objectives, states do too little. if it helps to frame it as method, for national security or higher-trust prosperity or whatever, i’m for it. it’s definitely a method to achieve human flourishing at scale. i see states’ purpose as to pursue that method.
@LesterB99 no, but they will seek to become oligopolistic if they are not prevented.
economists like to imagine Cournot competition under which firms compete themselves to penury is normal, sustainable. but of course firms do not like this, and human institutions are good at coordinating, so in fact maintaining anything like Cournot competition requires continual state activism.
@LesterB99 the status quo of law is not just what's on the books, but degree of enforcement. 1/
@LesterB99 changes in degree of enforcement provoke strategic responses by those affected. right now, Democrats are mobilizing against threats to abortion in stronger enforcement of the Comstack Act. 2/
@LesterB99 if, as you say, a bottleneck to consumer protection enforcement is correspondence burden, and ChatGPT reduces that, firms will act strategically to try to counter the change. 3/
@LesterB99 that may take the form of lobbying to change the letter of the law, but that can be hard if the public is paying attention. 4/
@LesterB99 it can take the form of personnel changes at relevant agencies, how NLRB, FTC, and FCC have typically been made nonenforcers of the laws they are charged to enforce. 5/
@LesterB99 in the current space, it can also take the form of the AI providers weakening the text their products are willing to generate in these domains. 6/
@LesterB99 overall, so long as the architecture of contemporary AI remains "concentrated wealth owns the firms that shape the models", I think expecting liberation from the afflictions of concentrated wealth through them is betting on technological affordances that would have to be extremely strong, for the technology not to immune from shaping to protect its owners' interests. /fin
@river don't worry. you only rented it.
@LesterB99 i think that depends what we do. i certainly think if there's any kind of automatic or default tendency, "benefiting consumers" is unlikely to be it, so i guess we kind of disagree. but this is about outcomes to create, not predict.
@LesterB99 who themselves will be automated. a strange game of pinball that occasionally hits some automated court of law and mails giant checks to some random human.
@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika Individual journalists choose whether to be employable.
Under plutocracy, what those overarching structures define as employable, who they hire and promote, who they slough off as unprofessional and unreasonable, is shaped by the plutocrats who ultimately own them.
Sure, we should hold the plutocrats morally culpable, more than the individual journalists who have to eat. But plutocracy shapes choices and outcomes at every level.
@Hyolobrika Depends how much the humans like food, shelter, health, and education for their children?
"Like money" sounds like luxury, like you can just choose not to be greedy. I think that's not a great characterization of the situation.
"Emotion canceling", a new miracle of AI. via #RobHorning https://robhorning.substack.com/p/o-flesh-how-art-thou-fishified
the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — the less likely journalists are to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
it becomes ever more uncomfortable to be the comfortable's affliction, and ever more comfortable to cheerlead, rationalize, and deflect from all that the comfortable afflict.
