Teaching critical thinking: What evidence do you have to support your claim? How do you know that evidence is true? Have you considered the opposing evidence? How do you know that evidence is false?

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Are Maine Democrats Backing the Wrong Jackson? Celebrity psychic La Toya could help the party foresee economic trends, and negotiate with Mitch McConnell from beyond the grave.

Morning #YYC. Time to check your yards again. Sheds, under decks, in trees/bushes, in any space a child could fit. Parker's family needs him home, and he needs his family.

Update #5: Missing child - Parker

We continue to ask for the public's help in locating Parker, 11, and are providing an update on the extensive search and investigative efforts underway to find him.Today, search efforts are also being...

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We are experiencing the world's worst air quality, and we're getting absolutely no response from leadership other than announcements about building more pipelines. Do not normalize this.

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 4w ago

Insofar as US swing voters think the Democrats are "out of step" with them on climate change, the vast majority say that is because Democrats are "not fighting hard enough/need to do more." Yes, really. 5/n

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 4w ago

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

My ancestry is British but seeing as their top football stars are friends with Donald Trump I'm all in on Norway.

Dublin Fire Brigade@dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 4w ago

Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.

Is California going to reciprocate by buying Canadian steel, aluminium, lumber, autos, etc. that have been heavily & illegally (under CUSMA) tariffed by your federal government & cost tens of thousands of Canadian jobs? Yeah, I thought not. Until those tariffs go, the booze stays off the shelves.

It deeply embarrasses me that as a society we continue to support Zuckerberg and his lieutenants by using their products so broadly.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · last mo.

Horrific “The ads, seen by the BBC World Service, use terms including "rape video" and "child video" and link users to channels on the messaging app Telegram, where they can buy the material for as little as 99 rupees (about 80p).”

i can think of no finer summary for michael barbaro's career than that it's the safest space for bari weiss

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · last mo.

Making me feel really good about never listening to “The Daily.”

The way they are uncritically reporting this blatant obvious lie is proof that the mainstream media is long past any hope of redemption

PBS News@pbsnews.org · last mo.

A top official at the National Park Service says the liner of Washington, D.C.'s famous Reflecting Pool was cut with a knife or razor earlier in June.

I applied for two new roles that are promotions last week and advanced to the first interview for both! Feeling ecstatic.

I didn't vote for Farkas but I've been impressed. He's been a great mayor.

Jeromy Farkas@jeromyyyc.bsky.social · last mo.

A beautiful day for a ride into work before the storm rolls in! I hear events are being cancelled this weekend due to the bad rain

They found Popeyes. 😭

A regular CBC contributor in the Catherine Tait era.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last mo.

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

alright, who did this? #hatm

Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.

The fact that most of the wealthiest people in the world are awful illustrates that the key requirement for extreme, obscene wealth isn’t “genius.” It’s shamelessness/ruthlessness.

I feel like not enough Canadians appreciate how much damage Catherine Tait has done at the helm of the CBC.

#4 would be an enormous difference maker in a positive way.

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people. But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.

Scaffoldgate.

I haven't eaten at Red Lobster in 30 years and it's looking like another 30 at this rate.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2mo ago

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