MorguninWhen reading about #Trump‘s „deeply evil expectorations“ as Frank Bruni recently wrote in his #nytimesopinion column, I automatically think that Trump is what Germans call „unwählbar“. Looking up the translation, my sources say „ineligible“, which is, I suppose correct. There is another connotation to the word in German, however, that I feel gets lost in translation. „Unwählbar“ also implies that a vote for Trump is unjustifiable and goes against basic human decency and reason.
Mike McCaffreyCurrently listening to #EzraKlein (who seems determined to sink to the level of his #NYTimesOpinion peers) point to #JoeBiden's more somber tone in the most recent campaign kickoff as definitive proof of age-related decline.
ShantiS@luckytran For anyone who wants to really dig into the history and hear both sides of the Israel Palestine conflict, Ezra Klein of #nytimesopinion is doing a fantastic series on his Podcast. #GazaWar #IsraelPalestineconflict
Hippasus500 aka jwn2Farhad Manjoo begins his NYT column today with:
“I’ve got 99 problems with A.I., but intellectual property ain’t one.”
He conflates learning by LLMs with learning by human beings. This is wrong on at least a couple of levels (see subsequent posts).
If you read his column, and are in a position to contact him directly, it might be worth your while to try to educate him.
U.S. Politics in Real TimeWe Need to Talk About Overturning the Dobbs Decision
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/opinion/dobbs-overturn-strategy-abortion.html
#NYTimesOpinion #DobbsDecision #AbortionRights #SupremeCourt #ReproductiveJustice #OverturnDobbs #Politics #News
Leisureguy@uspolitics This is an important step in moving the US to an authoritarian nation: by making individual states authoritarian.
#NYTimesOpinion #TexasPreemptionBill #VoterSuppression #DemocracyUnderThreat #TexasPolitics #SilencingTheWillOfVoters #Politics #News
Texas Is Silencing the Will of Millions of Voters
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opinion/texas-preemption-bill.html
#NYTimesOpinion #TexasPreemptionBill #VoterSuppression #DemocracyUnderThreat #TexasPolitics #SilencingTheWillOfVoters #Politics #News
Clarence Thomas Can’t Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-legitimacy.html
#NYTimesOpinion #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourtLegitimacy #JudicialActivism #PartisanPolitics #DemocracyUnderThreat #Politics #News
trentskyI keep returning to this Carlos Lozada #nytimesopinion piece from a couple of months ago. Government as a "Big Joke" explains so much of where we are today.
