Democrats go on offense as access to IVF leaves Republicans vulnerable trib.al/z5GozL1

Great team:

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

Translated: people should go to grad school because we require feudal labor for tenured faculty. We can’t downsize PhD programs—even though there are no professor jobs—because we maintain class privileges for “real” profs by offloading teaching duties onto exploited PhD students.

And universities will make such studies free, too, "out of passion" for spreading knowledge, right?

Albums and CDs were big investments in their time. Same a movie ticket. Guides added value. In the streaming age, who is served by this drivel? Not Swifties. Who cares what critics think when you can just listen for yourself? nytimes.com/2024/04/22/art…

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

Who greenlit this?

J Cole Was Shopping For A Tesla Cyber Truck , They Kept Pushing Him Away Smh They Didnt Who He Was 🤦‍♂️🎥

This can't be real. But if it were, I would have laughed out loud.

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What could go wrong?

🚨Six weeks after my ⁦Businessweek⁩ cover story on sextortion scams driving teens to suicide, ⁦Meta⁩ carried out a mass purge. Today, it announced it’s removed 63,000 (😱) fake accounts linked to sextortion scammers in Nigeria. Holy cow; 63,000. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Woot! #GoDucks

"We don't want to be abandoned again" @JeanKaseya2 Africa CDC for Think Global Health by Linda Nordling thinkglobalhealth.org/article/africa… With commentary on #mpox by Tom Bollyky for Council on Foreign Relations WHO Declares Mpox a Global Health Emergency. Why? youtube.com/shorts/RLiY-Ak… via YouTube

Time to revive my newsletter, "Sounds Bad?" bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

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What could go wrong?

Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages apnews.com/article/tesla-…

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