In today's issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, I look at the very selective Covid wars under way—and what's left out of this ongoing fight. Plus, how we got the latest George Santos scoop, and Dumbass Comment of the Week. And much more.
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Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.
It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.
It's worth reading all the way to the end.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
For #throwbackthursday, here's a group of semi-feral horses I saw in Denmark last summer, just a minute or three from the sea.
Guess so, since it gave the Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, plenty of space to say things that are extremely deceptive, if not outright lies. The gist of Riedl’s piece is that it will not be possible to sustain Social Security and Medicare without tax increases on the middle class. Much […]
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