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Ben Burgis is not impressed.

"Using generative AI in writing tasks isn't bad in itself, we just need to figure out the right way to use it" takes always feel to me like they themselves were AI-generated--they have the structure of something produced by human thought but there's just nothing there.

A lot of dumb outrages about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but the anger & disappointment over that line at the DNC is very real & shared pretty widely among people who are typically in her corner. Her team would do well to take those concerns, and this piece, seriously. jacobin.com/2024/08/anothe…

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My own two cents re: today's Tucker stuff is that Hitler was in fact quite bad, he did the Holocaust on purpose, and it's good that the Nazis lost World War II. Tune back in tomorrow for more of these hot takes.

big if true ben

The rest of this is pretty standard but "mulatto" is new!

Here's the latest clip, more of J. Myles of TIR discussing diagnalism and 3rd way thinking with Ben Burgis of Give Them An Argument With Ben Burgis youtu.be/JuL4xIlgubE?si…

Seriously. This is not 5-dimensional diplomatic chess. Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice both Palestinian and Israeli lives to preserve his own power, and will keep doing that until his cost/benefit calculation changes, which only the US can do, and which Biden refuses to.

Hebron | Israeli soldiers from the 92nd Battalion took a mocking selfie with a kidnapped Palestinian elderly from the city Posted today on one of the soldiers' social media accounts.

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It's been a couple days--has he clarified what he meant by "an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem"?

Tonight at 8 PM East Coast/5 West Coast, Matthew Vernon Whalan and Ben Burgis will be breaking down Norman Finkelstein's recent debate w/Benny Morris on the Piers Morgan show: youtube.com/watch?v=bi4zDR…

Some thoughts from Jesse Lee Peterson:

Just fyi: a majority of American mothers return to work within six weeks of giving birth. The Animal Welfare Code prohibits separating a kitten from its mother before 8 weeks