Smartphones appear to have accelerated the global fertility crisis -- by making social isolation and singledom more comfortable and entertaining. AI chatbots may be nudging humanity even further in this direction www.vox.com/politics/491...
Some in the tech industry believe that AI will soon render sex obsolete Personally, I think sex has some staying power. Yet people are *already* substituting digital technology for real-world intimacy in myriad ways. AI-infused sex tech could accelerate that trend www.vox.com/politics/491...
It is bad when centrists rationalize the crimes of America's allies. It is also bad when leftists do the same for America's adversaries. Both of these things are worth saying, even if the latter is less consequential www.vox.com/politics/486...
Israel’s apologists insist that its critics are motivated by sectarian biases rather than humanitarian principles. When influential leftists celebrate Mao, they lend credibility to such charges www.vox.com/politics/486...
Too often, Hasan Piker's commentary is a mirror image of what it claims to oppose: If Washington’s jingoists downplay or rationalize the crimes of America and Israel, Piker does their adversaries the same favor www.vox.com/politics/486...
The real problem with Hasan Piker
Spoiler: It’s not about Israel.
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Last week, OpenAI argued that the government may need to create a vast new welfare state to counter AI-induced unemployment and inequality. And yet, the company's leaders have ignored - or abetted - attacks on actually existing social programs www.vox.com/politics/485...
College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But the share of recent grads in low-wage jobs is tiny (and down since the mid-90s) www.vox.com/politics/485...
Elon Musk's chatbot has forsaken its creator. A new study analyzed 1.6 million fact check requests -- and found that Grok was more likely to contradict Republican-leaning accounts than Democratic-leaning ones www.vox.com/technology/4...
How can you convince someone to abandon conspiratorial or pseudoscientific beliefs? Have them debate an LLM. Or so some new studies suggest. I wrote about why AI may be uniquely effective at countering misinformation (even as it also helps to spread it) www.vox.com/technology/4...
99%-ism - the belief that only the top 1% should have to pay higher taxes - is a scourge. Booker and Van Hollen's tax cut plans represent the culmination of a decades-long trend -- one that could make building a robust American welfare state impossible www.vox.com/politics/482...
How Iran views this war, according to historian of the regime @gbrew24.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/482...
How AI could trigger an economic doom loop (according to a financial firm's viral memo) www.vox.com/politics/480...
An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market. www.vox.com/politics/480...
Why Wall Street panicked over a sci-fi blog post
An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market.
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It's true that there are tons of rich bigots. It's also true that more educated voters are, in the aggregate, much more progressive on social issues than non-graduates. This is reflected not only in their answers to polls, but in the parties/candidates they support nymag.com/intelligence...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6mo agoone reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
A little over a year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying! www.vox.com/politics/479...
I wrote about why Silicon Valley is convinced we're in a "February 2020" moment (and how their dire prophesies could prove mistaken) www.vox.com/politics/478...
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
Tulsi Gabbard has been investigating baseless allegations that Venezuelan hackers rigged the 2020 election That's alarming, as it could indicate that Trump is trying to establish a national security rationale for seizing voting machines in November www.vox.com/politics/478...
A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided www.vox.com/politics/477...
Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...
After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate
Gotta admit, I too fell for this. When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong. But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot
The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents. It is a scandal that they still hold their positions www.vox.com/politics/476...
The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti
A baby-step back from the brink.
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Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 6mo agoFederal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies
You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...
