Edward ChampionAaron Gell deserves a special prize for writing the most ridiculous puff piece about Ezra Klein imaginable. Deep.thinker and thirst trap? Are you serious? Nobody I know likes or respects Ezra Klein. Nobody.
Even by the admittedly shoddy sycophantic propaganda standards upheld by Penske outlets, this is one of the most embarrassing lie-infested puff pieces I've read this year.
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Jonathan EmmesediThe Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism -- The Ezra Klein Show
https://youtu.be/YHYBLxMPMok?si=zRk8xIwopZneCVkf
“The Lost History of Liberalism” by Helena Rosenblatt sounds like an interesting work of intellectual history but a dreadful starting point for developing a new left of center politics in the USA.
Education and "character development" as a political focus is a path into campus moralism and culture war. Concentrate instead on arguments about redistribution and collectivism with regard to health care, housing, and income security.
The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism | The Ezra Klein Show
Yappari#EzraKlein gives us some reasons for #optimism and #hope about #AI and the #economy.
“the relational sector” of the economy…will explode. Instead of so many human beings working with computers, they will work with other human beings.
The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/ai-jobs-unemployment-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.fRhA.fLyD-UVfqq0n&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
The Bad Placeqwant news | Video: Opinion | The Hypocrisy of OpenAI and Palantir
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A super PAC funded by co‑founders of Palantir, OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz is spending millions on attack ads against New York Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running for Congress and advocating federal AI regulation; on “The Ezra Klein Show,” Bores argues that while these tech leaders publicly claim to support thoughtful AI oversight, their financial assaults reveal a gap between rhetoric and action, noting that OpenAI’s recent policy proposals differ in emphasis—favoring post‑deployment solutions and future audits—while the industry’s “Death Star‑like” political power is being used to oppose the very regulations they say they welcome.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010844899/the-hypocrisy-of-openai-and-palantir.html
#AlexBores #GregBrockman #OpenAI #Palantir #EzraKlein
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Video: Opinion | The Hypocrisy of OpenAI and Palantir
A super PAC that’s funded by co-founders of Palantir, OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz is spending millions on attack ads opposing Alex Bores’s campaign for Congress. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the New York state assemblyman explains how tech companies have targeted his pro-regulation positions, despite publicly claiming to welcome A.I. oversight.
Kaito"I’m always struck, looking at Trump, by the way a lot of his actions are not those of a rule maker but those of a guy who still thinks that the rules are actually being made somewhere else, and that he needs to get something out of it."
Will Iran Break Trumpism? | The Ezra Klein Show
the roamerWow, yes, a very thoughtful and on first reading compelling argument. Also, a (to me) new and deeper look at the Narcissus myth and its relevance. Bookmarked for repeat-reading!
Intensive use of AI tools changes the user and makes them speak _to_ and _for_ the AI, and that in turn changes the person's subtle pre-conscious germination of ideas and makes them lose creative spaces within themselves:
" ... deeper reliance on A.I. would desiccate those less legible aspects of myself, ...".
An important essay. Thank you for the link.
#EzraKlein #noAI #StopTheAICorruption #MarshallMcluhan #Narcissus
RobThis conversation between Ezra Klein and Jack Clark of Anthropic is well worth your time.
Strypey"... when you talk to people in Beijing, they will ... point to 2 sources of really extraordinary dynamism in the US economy; 1 is tech and the other 1 is fracking. The other one you might add, thirdly, would be financial engineering. These are all zones in which [US]American capitalism ... doesn't encounter much regulation or obstacle, and is worldchanging, or at least has pretensions to be worldchanging."
#AdamTooze, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html
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