Chris Parker

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Author (King James Brings The Land a Crown, Roots Rebels), Journalist (Undark, The Guardian, Billboard, Daily Beast, Variety, Village Voice), music fan, garrulous gadfly & passionate weirdo. Ex-MidWest. #Opinions™.

blocking people is something you won't be able to do on Twitter.

Wonder who that serves...

The Road To Hell is Paved & Elmo wants to take you...

@Radical_EgoCom @andwhyisit @firstprimate

That's the core libertarian misunderstanding. The history of markets is clear: when you deregulate, oligarchs buy favorable legislation.

It never stays deregulated. Ever. It just gets new regulations that funnel public money into private coffers. That's the world history of so-called free markets.

ODD: I filed a #FOIA request w/FBI for its file on James Lewis, a suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders who died in July. FBI responded to my request by stating the docs are located in an investigative file & can't be released b/c it would interfere with enforcement proceedings
the best use of AI would be seeking out tax cheats #Billions

thanks to stoller, the press was FILLED with claims the last 3 years that thanks to big tech, the GOP was "super serious about antitrust reform" now.

but they were just seeking leverage to scare tech giants away from moderating political propaganda and hate speech online.

Explain how the height of capitalism is also its nadir.

these people are the worst, Volume 74,345:

"A Texas teacher was fired earlier this month for attending a drag performance in downtown Houston... Soon after, Maris got a phone call from First Baptist Academy, where she'd taught for 19 yrs... The pastor specifically cited a line stating that employees 'will act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook and in my community.'

Maris agreed to the clause but wasn't aware attending a drag show violated it"

https://t.co/TskifMys0M

Texas teacher fired for attending downtown Houston drag show

The 19-year veteran teacher was fired based on social media posts on her personal account from a drag performance at Houston's Hamburger Mary's.

Chron

Keen insight into Russia: "There’s almost no social mobility or possibility of change in most Russians’ lives, so foreign policy has to compensate and provide the raw material — the scenography — for governance."

Makes argument we rationalize our liberal democracy technocratic cynicism when their view on power is much much different. on.ft.com/453w7nh

OpenAI shuts down its AI detection tool because it is too inaccurate. As I said a few days ago, every product in this category is snake oil.

https://decrypt.co/149826/openai-quietly-shutters-its-ai-detection-tool

OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool

Dashing the hopes of educators, OpenAI decommissions its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy.

Decrypt

Twitter Executives: We need you to hire back all the people you spontaneously fired.

Elon Musk: Okay, I will change Twitter's name to X.

Twitter Executives: Why?

Elon Musk: So we can tell all our ex-employees that they are actually X employees.