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This will not end well, redux
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For anyone who, like me, wanted to read both, here's the Bouie piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
And here is the Yglesias piece:
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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My go to for this is Pusha T.
(Incidentally the only person who can credibly claim both to be a 90s rapper AND to have a better Drake beef track than "Not Like Us".)
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This has been the hot topic today at my Cincinnati-based employer.
My opinion was chided "for being far too nuanced for a Skyline debate"
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My kid's favorite sports, in order:
1. Women's basketball
2. Women's soccer
3. American football
4. Mom playing pickleball
5. Men's soccer
Many parenting failures on my part but this is not one of them, even if it's not the order I intended to curate.
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I know you stopped watching football americano and I totally get why but it can be a real Sunday night MVP when you need it.
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100% agree with you here.
However, I think Oremus is a bit off on his analysis. The "savvy" critique isn't that misinformation is overblown, it's that the existing "solutions" to misinformation don't work, and sometimes introduce misinformation in their own way.
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I tend to go with these guys as my default.
www.evidenceaction.org
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On my list! Have a couple library books I need to get through but I think I can have it read by February.
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Check your email.
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I honestly think this is a delightful exercise for pretty much every Phillip Seymour Hoffman movie.
Though perhaps that's as much a credit to PTA as it is him.
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I'm so here for that.
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Legitimately think the reason to pick Beyonce over Taylor is because it's wrong-but-defensible and it drives more clicks than the other way around.
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I'm actually surprised they went with Beyonce. To me she's the clear number 2 after Taylor. No one else is remotely in their stratosphere, at least in the US.
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Personally, I mostly use it to clean messy datasets. Your mileage may vary there.
But I could see having it write a review of a movie you just saw. Consider that review a good example of mediocre, conventional wisdom. Now write your review with a better angle that avoids those pitfalls!
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I mean, if it means dramatic advances in the field of cancer research but it means even more rote blockbusters then that's good with bad! (I don't know if it means either of those things yet, for the record.)
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So please, do your future self a favor and do play around with it. Use it to augment some of your tasks. Talk to it a bit. Ethan's guide is a great place to start: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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For sure. Built to Spill, in particular I tend to base off of this. Mountain Goats too.
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I have been going to a lot more shows of late of bands I merely kinda like. For them, I've been checking the setlists of recent shows expressly to see if they're likely to play the 2 songs I actually know well and decide based on that.
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Objectively, you may have better taste in art.
Thankfully, I don't have to operate in that world. Subjectively, my taste is tops. Tailored perfectly, over decades, precisely for my needs and wants.
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I am interested because a) I want to hear it for purposes of music discovery and b) also because I will be constitutionally unable not to find something on it that incites me to rag on you for your pretentious and/or middlebrow tastes
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Seymour Skinner.
(Chaya Raichik was going to be my answer until I realized that was 100% realistic.)
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Turns out the book was written in 2018, so I guess I've only been thinking about it during two interregnums!
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I have found, in the last three interregnums between the presidential election and Jan. 20th, that I think a lot about "Come West and See", a collection of short stories by Maxim Loskutoff.