Deferred Thursday Tweets -- in appreciation of the New York Times Pitchbot

If anything Marshall undersells his point. As far as I can tell, no one in a similar position has ever gotten anywhere near the early build-up  that DeSantis did from both the right wing and the mainstream press.

I continue to marvel that anyone thought Ron would be a thing, that people continue to think he might be. He has to rank up w Fred Thompson, Rudy & I guess maybe John Glenn as one of the most epic flameouts in modern electoral history. Likely greater than any of those three.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 9, 2023

Yeah but Mickey Mouse roughed up by the cops and crying in a puddle of his own urine makes up for a lot.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 13, 2023

 

The First Amendment prohibits the government from placing restrictions on speech. In this essay, I will pretend that it also prohibits companies and other non-government entities from doing so.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 12, 2023

Had to double-check this wasn’t @DougJBalloon pic.twitter.com/kn0qthHHyq

— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) July 12, 2023

"the Pew data shows that a larger percentage of voters who supported Trump in 2020 cast ballots in November than those who backed Biden did."

given that Trump's was the out-party in Biden's first mid-term, this is precisely what you'd expect https://t.co/8ytXDCta8a

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 12, 2023

2) The idea that the GOP having one of the worst midterm performances for the party out of power, ever, despite high inflation and with a President with low approval ratings, is a red flag for Democrats is simply absurd.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) July 13, 2023

The US economy is not headed for a recession. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 13, 2023

This is an oversimplification, but not by that much.

Actually, unemployment is the lowest it has been in 50 years, inflation is cooling, and instead of the predicted recession, #Bidenomics got us a soft landing.

47% of the public holds this ⬇️ view because the feckless media won't report the good news that #BidenomicsWorks https://t.co/awSwT53F5Z

— HawaiiDelilah™ 🟦 (@HawaiiDelilah) July 13, 2023

Fallows' tic analogy is remarkably perceptive.

First image: NYT last week. Second: Politico today.

It's like a tic; they can't hear themselves. Or think this is a sign of being "tough-minded." pic.twitter.com/4Xv4YtVQVu

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 13, 2023

As is this.

There’s a reflexive negativity in the New York Times’ coverage, as if the journalists think their skepticism makes them look smart.
The headline reads: “Despite Successes at NATO Summit, Divisions Remain.”
What if it said “Despite Divisions, NATO Summit Achieves Successes”? pic.twitter.com/SfNafFk2cw

— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) July 12, 2023

NEW from me: A popular right-wing dating podcast is now embracing Holocaust denial https://t.co/AGQL7oiJ4y

— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) July 12, 2023

Close To 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged In Georgia—Almost All By Just Six Right-Wing Activists https://t.co/J5xmpIZUJi via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 13, 2023

But honestly, the Biden snark is kind of refreshing. He doesn't whine about how the press is unfair, he doesn't dodge the question - he responds in a way that makes it clear he thinks the question is dumb and then immediately moves on.

— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) July 13, 2023

People on the left like Noam Chomsky and AOC talk a good game about fighting against capitalism, but Elon Musk and David Zaslav have done much more to destroy the public's faith in capitalism than they ever have.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 13, 2023

 For those who just walked in, Elon really does talk like this...

"To understand reality" and "the true nature of the universe."

My god, is this guy full of shit.https://t.co/5jFO58Lmcp

— Economic Man ("Muskago Delenda Est") (@EconomicManBlog) July 12, 2023

And like this...

To quote Carrie Fisher, "Things were getting worse faster than we could lower our standards." https://t.co/AmISRz8SQJ

— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) July 10, 2023

I'm amazed by the hypocrisy of the shitlibs at Threads depriving Elon Musk, who I do not support, of his First Amendment free speech rights.

by Elon Musk

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 13, 2023

Says the man who pays himself $25 million a year, deplatforms his company's shows and movies to stop paying residuals, and tried to get the feds to clean his mess for him. THAT sounds more disturbing to me that a strike. #WritersStrike #WGAStrike #SAGAFTRA #UnionStrong https://t.co/ZOcdT2kaqg

— Gilbert 🏳️‍🌈 #NewDeal4Animation 💙💛 (@discord12395) July 13, 2023

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”
—studio executive (making $10 million per year)

Americans haven’t hated the rich since the 1930’s, but it’s very possible it’s coming around again. https://t.co/1ap2NxgJOi

— Marshall Herskovitz - @mshersk somewhere else (@MHerskovitz) July 12, 2023

Translation: We floated a trial balloon in the trades on the eve of the SAG-AFTRA deadline hoping to intimidate those workers on strike and those who may join them. We used savage, cynical terms to describe the poverty we intend for them. It played poorly. Now we have regrets. https://t.co/vYkBHyFzrY

— David Simon (@AoDespair) July 12, 2023

(The Wire is on my short list for greatest show, period.)

 

"They proposed that our background actors should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan, their image, their likeness and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation."

— Russ Fischer (@russfischer) July 13, 2023

Following this to its natural conclusion, in the fullness of time there would be no need for human background actors at all. https://t.co/7lxXuUky5T

— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) July 13, 2023

HOLY CRAP I WAS BEING SNARKY!

"SAG-AFTRA Issues “Do Not Work” Order For Scott Baio-Kristy Swanson Movie It Says Failed To Follow COVID-19 And Child Actor Rules"https://t.co/dxGoAeuFbb

— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) July 13, 2023

You can donate directly here
(choose "GROCERIES FOR WRITERS" from the drop-down):https://t.co/e04kguwgqL

— Charles Gaba isn't paying for this account. (@charles_gaba) July 12, 2023

"In the West, whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting over."

68% of Utah's water goes to grow a crop (alfalfa/hay) that represents just 0.2% of the state's GDP (the same as amusement parks). Why? Politics, bad policy, and incentives:https://t.co/C5XwfCco53 pic.twitter.com/pqkt2MtAII

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 13, 2023

London Wants American Crypto Refugees https://t.co/C71nVmvNdw

— WIRED UK (@WiredUK) July 6, 2023

Google's Greg Corrado saying the quiet part aloud: we need to offer medical LLMs to the poor, but I don't want my family subject to them.https://t.co/XnU7WPo11B

— Alex Hanna (back at alex@dair-community.social) (@alexhanna) July 11, 2023

"AI" scientists need to stop LARPing at conferences and since they haven't, journalists need to stop covering these interactive fiction events as if they were news. Please. https://t.co/1FRjkl9q87

— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) July 9, 2023

If you're a journalist or news editor covering AI, please consider reading this.
Thanks to @HilkeSchellmann for including me, @ArijitDSen & @sayashk for their work, @Abebab, @ndiakopoulos, @emilymbender, @jonathanstray, @random_walker for your insights.https://t.co/Yh56o6MNu0

— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) July 7, 2023

Wow, @nitashatiku 's piece on Longtermist/AI Safety recruiting on elite college campuses is just damning.https://t.co/rW9PI8VVLE

Some highlights:

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— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) July 6, 2023

For more on "AI art" and why the resistance that artists are putting up against the massive data theft that is behind so-called "generative AI" is so important, listen to this excellent episode of @techwontsaveus with @mollycrabapple https://t.co/cHT9w1xTuY

— @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@emilymbender) July 6, 2023

Most of the time, I am an optimist, confident in the resilience of the human spirit.

But then, I read absolute drivel such as this, written by Hayes and amplified by Pratt, and I have my doubts.

In the standard model of physics, there is no law of conservation of foolishness. https://t.co/kULRwGE93c

— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) July 10, 2023

SHOCKING news!https://t.co/Jgt8sStmtR

— CommonSenseSkeptic (@C_S_Skeptic) July 13, 2023

If you’d told me that between Barbie and Oppenheimer, one would start online discourse about on-screen age gaps and the other would lead to international controversy rooted in 1940s Asian geopolitics, never in a million years would have I guessed which one would yield which.

— Siddhant Adlakha (@SiddhantAdlakha) July 9, 2023

"The Magic 1089"

1. Write down a 3 digit number where the digits are decreasing (e.g. 421)
2. Reverse that number and subtract it from the first number
3. Take that answer and add the reverse to itself
4. 1089 will appear! pic.twitter.com/RlqJ6xu6B6

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) July 12, 2023