This is a fancy ass way to say class conflict.

The editors at New York Times Books recommend VICTIM as one of 6 new books to cop this week. I must say, I agree!

this is a great science article - and i think Levitz is probably right that while the causal argument is weak, there is a 'signficant' relationship between psychology and digital life (how cd it be otherwise?). the question is what we collectively do with 'significance' of 1/

1) I did a deep dive on the debate over whether social media is ruining teens' mental health. TLDR: The evidence is much weaker than Jonathan Haidt suggests, but not as negligible as his critics claim.

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This issue came out really well. Among others, I highly recommend the lead editorial from David Broder and the featured articles from Tyler Austin Harper and Lauren Fadiman.

Until ChatGPT is capable of outperforming a human at esoteric Straussian readings of First Lady attire, we will not have achieved artificial general intelligence.

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Tyler Austin Harper maybe: leif weatherby At my own alma mater, the history department had to relocate to make space for the Koch funded Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. 😬

They should have called that Cut piece the Three Body Problem what are we even doing

They still refuse to show us the painting. Please someone do an investigative journalism.

You wrote a whole book about how the Democrats should ignore the backwards South and today the party only controls the Senate because Georgians elected the pastor of Rev. King's church and a millennial Jewish dude. You're just engaged in bigotry. twitter.com/schaller67/sta…

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people who drive 150k trucks and wear carharts w no smudges on them are part of a class outside both legislative and discursive democratic norms and attached to a vision of pure exec authority - they are not rural but rep wealth that they imagine untethered from the body politic

Interesting piece from Tyler Austin Harper. Wrote a paper on a related topic with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki earlier this year: how you define rural matters a great deal for what rural areas encompass, who lives there, and the challenges rural areas face jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas…

One of the most amusing developments of the last few years has been the growth of “public history” and “public humanities” initiatives at wealthy private tax-evading institutions in states with deeply underfunded public higher ed systems.