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I am not opposed to AIs making certain kinds of decisions. They probably can do them more reliably than people for specific tasks and use cases. But there *needs* to be a human-on-the-hook for these, it needs to be explicit and it needs to be clear who they are.

There is literally no one at DOJ who thinks Comey was actually threatening the President. These attorneys are corrupt, plain and simple.

“.. We are not ready to suggest that the SpaceX IPO was the top of the market for big tech, but it seems like a strong signal now,” Gilbert said. @bloomberg.com $SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

Nobody has to love Nolan's Odyssey and there's nothing wrong per se with being persnickety about faithfulness to original texts. But that's not what right wingers are doing, even when they stop complaining about casting decisions and start cloaking their complaints in pseudoliteracy.

Read this post by @brianbeutler.bsky.social that I inspired. With a nod also to Homer and Christopher Nolan www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

It’s a big salary bump without (as a first step) going full Fox or déclassé subscription model. And since there’s still a lot of affirmative action for right wing commentators at mainstream outlets, his options post Weiss flameout are wide open.

Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU&t=599s

"What kind of person experiences an allergic reaction to any art that doesn’t serve as a trick mirror, reflecting back to them whatever they believe they and the world should look like?" www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

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We shouldn't reward them with give and take in the discourse. There's a difference between finding modern moralism a bit tired for movie purposes and rejecting modernity whole cloth as anti-white, anti-male propaganda. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

Ayup!

Beauty. "If it weren’t for the wokes, I could be Conan the Barbarian! They direct their anger at Nolan and Nyong’o and Page, but their true beef is with reality."

But new rightists are basically at war with the latter, at all times. In part because they hate others; in part because they hate what they know about themselves. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

All we need for good-faith discourse is people who can appreciate the difference between (on the one hand) stories we to enforce norms, values, etc. and (on the other) reality. Including the durability and imperfectness of the human conditions. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

But new rightists are basically at war with the latter, at all times. In part because they hate others; in part because they hate what they know about themselves. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

All we need for good-faith discourse is people who can appreciate the difference between (on the one hand) stories we to enforce norms, values, etc. and (on the other) reality. Including the durability and imperfectness of the human conditions. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

We shouldn't reward them with give and take in the discourse. There's a difference between finding modern moralism a bit tired for movie purposes and rejecting modernity whole cloth as anti-white, anti-male propaganda. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

Nobody has to love Nolan's Odyssey and there's nothing wrong per se with being persnickety about faithfulness to original texts. But that's not what right wingers are doing, even when they stop complaining about casting decisions and start cloaking their complaints in pseudoliteracy.

Personally, I'm way less interested in grappling with the text of the right-wing freakout over the Odyssey than understanding what these hysterics are up to. Because it isn't "cultural criticism," at least not as their good-faith interlocutors understand it. www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...