Douglas Wolfe

@dwolfe
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I’m not lost but I don’t know where I am.
Pro: Democracy
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New from me:

The internet is already racist. Here’s how chatbots make it even worse.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/internet-already-racist-s-chatbots-make-worse-rcna81569

The internet is already racist. AI chatbots are making it worse.

A recent Washington Post investigation found that the news sites in Google’s C4 data set include content from far-right sites like Breitbart and VDare.

MSNBC

I wonder how many members of the Washington Post editorial board actually take the DMV's shitty public transportation. Today I took Metro and trains were running more than 8 minutes apart DURING RUSH HOUR. So maybe they need to consider that before they start harping on federal workers to go back to the office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/18/federal-agency-remote-work-policy/

Scaling back remote work at federal agencies is a long overdue step

The Biden administration should take decisive action.

The Washington Post
The controversial article Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose to the Senate

The judge who delivered a high-stakes abortion pills ruling last week removed his name from a law review article during his judicial nomination process, emails obtained by The Post show.

The Washington Post
Silicon Valley Bank donated zero dollars to Black Lives Matter

Tuesday night on Fox News, host Jesse Watters asserted that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter." That was why, Watters claimed, federal regulators did not pursue more aggressive oversight of SVB's business practices. According to this theory, SVB was treated with kid gloves because it was "woke."

Popular Information
You would have no idea reading this that there is anything the least bit abnormal about these two candidates. (Yes, this is how democracy dies.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/02/25/desantis-trump-donors-supporters-2024/
From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump’s turf

The Florida governor’s show of force this weekend was part of his increasingly open encroachments into Trump's longtime support base and ideological terrain.

The Washington Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju14T4lOWs8
That’s my Rep.
Get bent, fascists.
Jamie Raskin's closing statement at Hunter Biden laptop hearing

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How extreme a position are these news organizations taking? Well, way more people think Trump won in 2020 than think both parties have a point. Way more people want to close every coal plant in America than think there are moderates on both sides.
https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/
The Washington Post is doomed without a major reset - Press Watch

New ownership, with a powerful sense of public service, could take advantage of the huge opportunity to become the world leader in U.S. political and government news presented by the abysmal failure of the industry-leading New York Times to adjust to the asymmetry of the current political environment.

Press Watch - An intervention for American political journalism

Or if you want it put another way, every American is spending in the order of $50 a year in direct lethal assistance to Ukraine, but losing about $1700 a year in indirect economic costs caused by that war.

If you had a company that sold a widget that upped a business cost from $50 to, let's say, $100, but doing so saved the customer $1700 a year, how quickly do you think VCs in Silicon Valley would jump in to invest in that widget?