Love that CNN has adopted the Dominos pizza tracker format for trial updates pic.twitter.com/eiiFlmJNo2
— Tyler (@BalloonFlavour) May 29, 2024
I don't know what the impact of RFK jr is going to be in November (nobody knows) but for someone funded in large part by Trump supporters as a stalking horse, he's certainly spending a lot of time playing to the right.
"When you say there are a 'huge amount' of abortions that would necessitate federal intervention, where is the proof of that?"@RobertKennedyJr: "I would have to look at the data again... Do you think you should be able to abort a perfectly healthy child at 9 months?"
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 26, 2024
"There's… pic.twitter.com/qjnTdTj80n
Been a long time since I've seen a good Martha Mitchell reference.
Some real Martha Mitchell stuff here, except less cooperative w press
— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) May 25, 2024
On Jan. 20, 2021 — the day of Biden’s inauguration, which the Alitos did not attend — Barnes went to their home to follow up on the tip about the flag. He encountered the couple coming out of the house.…
It’s Blame-Your-Wife-at-Work Day. https://t.co/L9qIJHMjsU
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 29, 2024
Remember, don't blame the reporters for the headlines, blame the editors. (Guess which editors we're talking about this time.)
This unintelligible headline is insulting to @jodikantor who has a Pulitzer for her investigative reporting. It deliberately leaves out the conclusion of her “interviews” that show Alito appears to have lied to cover up his support of a right wing political movement https://t.co/Fjmb0yFAFX
— Jamesetta Williams 💕 (@jalexa1218) May 29, 2024
Even my considerable reserves of snark wouldn't be up to this.
Donald Trump is considering an advisory role for Elon Musk, in the event the former president and presumptive Republican nominee reclaims the White House https://t.co/BwoBQ5aPkW via @WSJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 29, 2024
I taught math/English at the high school and junior high level and math/statistics at the college level. If my students didn't know basic facts, I considered my responsibility. How much responsibility does the press have for the what the public doesn't know?
If only there was a profession whose job it was to inform the public about the ideas espoused by the parties and not think it is the job of said parties to drive narratives instead. https://t.co/ccgGrkEIbn
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) May 29, 2024
There's a new narrative in elite-media circles: Trump supporters don't read what we write so don't blame us. I still blame them. https://t.co/VpUPe1ae3S
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) May 29, 2024
What the fck happened to Felix Salmon? He used to be so good.
The press locked into a doom narrative and it proved comically wrong but rather than admit it, they're changing the meanings of the words. Anything to keep the vibecession going.No objections to the 2nd paragraph, but not a fan of the 1st one which imho is at best provocative trolling (and possibly just plain wrong) pic.twitter.com/84VSD0s52f
— Guy Berger (@EconBerger) May 26, 2024
For those saying that Americans are righteously angry because the level of prices is up even though the rate of inflation has fallen, a history lesson pic.twitter.com/2n5zQS84aD
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) May 27, 2024
I saw one cable newser reporting on the massive travel increase both air and road and then noting that people are staying home because of gas prices. They can't stop. https://t.co/U8pHbi2YiO
— digby (@digby56) May 25, 2024
Public Misinformed, Says Prominent Member of Public-Informing Industry https://t.co/sGanAz2Te2
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) May 24, 2024
We should have kept up better with the education reform story. Lots to talk about.
It’s not to give average people competitive options. It’s a tax break for rich people already going to private schools, a windfall for the schools, a nuke for public schools, and complete destruction of state budgets. https://t.co/7loRnZFdLJ
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 27, 2024
And while on the subject of ed reform, how about a Goodhart callback?
Did anyone else get to the SEO section and think Goodhart's Law?
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 28, 2024
How Google RUINED the Internet https://t.co/ZTC6NzhREW via @YouTube
Between quotes on abortion and clips like this, the Democrats might want to outsource all of their ads to Republicans this year.
Marco Rubio in 2016:
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) May 29, 2024
“I will make this promise to you today, I will do whatever it takes....Donald Trump, a con artist, will never get control of this party...We cannot allow a con artist to get access to the nuclear codes of the United States of America.” pic.twitter.com/H0iZ9dz37U
Also useful for those "I can't vote for Biden" leftists.Nikki Haley: “Look at what happened to the Republican party…No longer is there any talk about fiscal responsibility…You got Donald Trump who put us on $8 trillion in debt more than any other president…Donald Trump is basically saying he’s going to tell Putin to go invade our… pic.twitter.com/HeEQCLm1SR
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 22, 2024
Flown to Israel on Miriam Adelson's plane https://t.co/gAmlLNgOlf
— lizweil (@lizweil) May 29, 2024
We've talking about ratcheting of the right for years. Good to know we're on the same page.
This is just part of his wind-up but it's very good: https://t.co/rAgfKMM6RX pic.twitter.com/6vJba1YMsI
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) May 29, 2024
Being disowned by DSA would be the best political gift they could give to @AOC. https://t.co/PYOOdUF5dp
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) May 29, 2024
Let's see how things are going back in Arkansas.
I've been following the Huckabees for around thirty years and I can tell you, they're soulless, every damned one of them.This is Senator Tedd Budd's watch in the photo he tweeted posing with Gov. Sanders at the Coca Cola 600.
— Nate Bell (@NateBell4AR) May 29, 2024
His watch must be a few hours fast or else someone's story has holes in it.#arpx https://t.co/YJ66nxYB2W pic.twitter.com/12mtdxrJHv
“‘Eight people killed in tornadoes this morning and Huckaf-- is in NC. …. Sarah is a governor [who] doesn’t have much interest in governing.’” https://t.co/GByVjeH5zT
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 27, 2024
And check in with my birth state.
Texas gov Greg Abbot succeeded in knocking out rural Republicans who opposed school vouchers by swamping them w/ attack ads that never mentioned vouchers https://t.co/gsRXLT0uV1
— Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) May 29, 2024
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office. https://t.co/bwDX51U60X
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 25, 2024
We are truly living at the intersection of the darkest times and the dumbest times.
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) May 26, 2024
Conspiracy theories and right wing agendas in healthcare are going to continue to get women killed. pic.twitter.com/BuSmOW4Mzy
This one connects to at least a couple of threads I've been meaning to do about the meangirling of Harris, the growing realization on the sensible left that this was a big mistake, and the general sharpening of the mind we're seeing in a lot of quarters.
What @RealDLHughley did is commendable. The fact that he is big enough to admit he was wrong about @KamalaHarris record coupled with public efforts to reverse the damage from his past criticism, earns my respect.
— Owning My Space (@OwningMySpace) May 25, 2024
Thank you, DL. pic.twitter.com/wUH8bOnbtC
Polling news
want to use polls to steer policy? enlighten lawmakers? advocate for the interests of the common american? bad, polls are dumb, we're a republic not a democracy.
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 29, 2024
oh trump's winning in these polls? hell yeah take out a twitter ad!
Take a minute to think through the implications. The narrative about the election is driven directly and indirectly by "data based" analyses which rely on a misunderstanding of "accuracy" (see below) and consist largely of noisy crosstabs and issue preference data. https://t.co/oXqQ3aqMVH
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 27, 2024
Because of the role that luck plays in determining close political outcomes, Performance Above Replacement Analyst (PARA) for a partisan pundit is close to +0.2 in the short term. However, like in financial markets, over the long term their skill usually reverts to the negative
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 23, 2024
My long-held prior on these attention estimates has been that they are almost certainly an upper bound on the true population share, since interest in news is correlated so strongly with answering surveys. In the past this bias has been bigger with online samples https://t.co/QkGDVoKnXR
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 29, 2024
This sums it up. In the national aggregate, the 2022 polls weren't bad. But they were pretty bad at predicting close races. As Nate says, they had a GOP skew in some key races, but nationally that error was balanced out by having a Dem skew in noncompetitive states. https://t.co/cGh0s6onPO
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) May 23, 2024
AI -- As long as there are tech bros, we'll all have a reason to drink.
Bonus: in 20 years people will think of drinking as antiquated and humorous as attending a seance. "How did people think that was a good idea?!"
— Jonathan Ross (@JonathanRoss321) May 29, 2024
I wish there were more economists involved in discussions of the implications of unicorns. https://t.co/Y7h1HB1bGH
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) May 28, 2024
it's hard to overemphasize this: Google and OpenAI have no plan for how or why people will generate *new, correct information* in the age of generative AI search https://t.co/M2S6RhEQBQ
— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) May 23, 2024
Where AI hype comes from pic.twitter.com/Q0VC00DE99
— 📙 Alex Hillman (@alexhillman) May 26, 2024
Some of these screenshots are likely fake but go viral because people are no longer skeptical that Google could be this broken. Given the non-deterministic and transient nature of AI responses there's no way to know for sure. 25 years of trust flushed down the toilet. https://t.co/lFW34Ntkg2
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) May 25, 2024
Misc
Two thoughts: (1) To Serve Man. (2) It's a religion, and its acolytes are prophesying a superhuman savior. https://t.co/6ktQCsMnHw
— Jason Colavito (@JasonColavito) May 29, 2024
Hey, remember when Pixar's Elemental "flopped" according to experts, and it went on to make half a billion dollars in theaters alone? And major media outlets had to publish articles not-quite-admitting they jumped the gun? https://t.co/c9LRnMcCNU
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) May 29, 2024
Jimmy Carter, on the time that he had a Japanese audience in stitches pic.twitter.com/8pZLkW5THA
— Tom Whipple (@whippletom) May 24, 2024
Great thread for the ag and forestry nerds in the audience.
Healthy forests don't just happen- they need maintenance!
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) May 24, 2024
Especially right now when we have new pests that NC's native trees aren't evolved to deal with; changing weather patterns; more development, roads, & foot traffic in forests, etc. pic.twitter.com/gNDJ6ynYbQ
This is a pretty one.
Here's the proof: x³-1=(x-1)(x²+x+1) and this number is composite unless x-1=1 ⇒ x=2 and x³=8 pic.twitter.com/kHwtnO41ig
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) May 25, 2024
What's the point of having a micro-blogging platform if you can't have clips of puppies attacking door stops?
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 25, 2024
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