The Affordable Connectivity Program—a federal benefit that provides discounts on high-speed internet access to low-income Americans—ends on April 30. Here's what happens next. wired.trib.al/nxZqyjt

Mr Brooks gave me my first speaking role in a motion picture.
I still remember moments of our meeting in his office at Warner, auditioning for Defending Your Life.
His invitation kickstarted the last 35 years of my life.

So happy I went with The Atlantic. It was that or take 150k from the Enquirer to kill it.

Failed to mention: This is the magazine's 150th issue. Which is pretty dang cool.

I wrote about my love of old Benzes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Albert Brooks was offered roles that went to Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Steve Martin. He turned them all down and reshaped American entertainment his own way. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

My long-in-the-works profile of Albert Brooks. I hope you'll read it: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

.The University of Chicago really showing the benefits of having clear principals around speech

'Exactly why the utterly self-defeating tumult of Chicago ’68 excites modern-day radicals is a topic I’ll leave to the psychoanalysts.' David Frum bit.ly/4deYXWP

one of the most important things I know about deep learning I learned from this paper: 'Pretraining Without Attention'

this what I found so surprising:
these people developed an architecture very different from Transformers called BiGS, spent months and months optimizing it and

A problem with algorithmic feeds is how much they distort our idea of popular opinion.

We know only people with strong feelings post & that the algorithm hides moderate views. Add to that a system that shows you more of whatever outraged you, and soon you believe it is universal

Bees play. Octopuses feel pain. Cuttlefish remember things. Many scientists now believe that animal consciousness extends far beyond what was thought.

Does this change the rights we should give them? Do we have more in common with zebrafish than ChatGPT? bit.ly/3UbcUMA

“Granddad's desire that his son be good at sports had led his son to entirely reject sports. My father often said decades later that he was only able to run truly fast once Granddad died.”

On getting faster as we get older ⁦nxthompson⁩ 🙏🏼 Beautiful. wired.com/story/marathon…

Good morning. Here’s a story to start your day about how Putin’s top deputy is even more delusional, cracked-up, and conspiratorial than his boss.
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“If Modi wins this election, his victory will surely strengthen autocratic tendencies in India. But in the unlikely event that he loses, the erosion of democracy will merely have paused.” bit.ly/3xPPNQe

'The fundamental misperception at the center of this conflict is that PEN America sees itself as a free-speech organization, while the protesters see it as a channel to express their political views.” Gal Beckerman theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

'It made me realize how anti-Semitism is not taken as seriously as other kinds of prejudice.'

This has been the lesson of the past few weeks.

Erwin Chemerinsky in The Atlantic

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'Trying to overthrow the Constitution and subvert the peaceful transfer of power is not an official act, even if you conspire with other government employees to do it and you make phone calls from the Oval Office.' theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

“What the universities haven’t done is train their students to talk with one another.”
~ George Packer, The Atlantic

'Here are a few things that Donald Trump’s lawyer says a president ought to be immune from prosecution for doing:
- selling nuclear secrets
- employing the U.S. military to assassinate a political rival
- launching a coup.'
bit.ly/3QjxVDH