Love this from j soma (and not just for lovely shout out). Bracingly and necessarily sceptical. This isn't about first mover advantage. Innovation isn't just deploying new tech. It has to be about problems we perceive through expertise and fitting the right tech to it...

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Having some feelings today about the secretary of transportation applauding America's first high speed rail project not for providing alternatives to driving/flying, but for ... giving the people who work on it enough money to put 'a new car or truck in the driveway.'

For a decade, Hollywood hasn’t aggressively fought piracy because it saw people would pay if they made them a good deal.

But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry wants to stop them. disconnect.blog/hollywood-is-r…

compression is more important than resolution

dynamic range is more important than resolution

clarity does not equal resolution

resolution is not as important as you think

The media is advancing a false narrative of ‘rising antisemitism’ on campus by ignoring Jewish protesters

mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-me…

“Bush and Blair are my villains. They formed my politics,” he says. “The Iraq War was a moral catastrophe like nothing we’ve seen before — until Gaza.” E. Alex Jung (probably) on Mehdi Hasan is your must-read of the day.

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Damn who could have predicted this

“He’s…just a kid. No older than my son.” 😭😭😭😭

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The White House scrambled to condemn hundreds of interfaith American young people protesting violence.
But over the course of 6 months, it has yet to issue as direct of a statement on Israel attacking every university in Gaza & killing thousands of teachers and students.

It’s the “real people” line that slayed me. 😂

I am looking forward to seeing her alongside Steinfeld and Vellani eventually though, and her being able to have some fun with character because she does have great range.

someone should tell Amodei that software that can 'replicate and survive in the wild' is generally called a computer worm

futurism.com/the-byte/anthr…

it's wild that the world's most popular podcast includes lengthy segments discussing scientific topics in which the host, whose background is in comedy and hosting game shows, is actually the more informed of the two discussants

Comparing the images of *hundreds* of energized kids at the encampment to the 9 sad weirdos watching this professor experience a nervous breakdown in real time really drives home how insane this whole thing is.

Did a memo go out to all these people who haven’t said a word about anything to all of a sudden start jumping on this nonsense? What videos are they referencing that show while antisemitism, exactly?

But for real, this is on my mind weekly.