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@johnddavidson A book being put on a weed list isn't book ban. Sorry to crush your victimization complex.

Further proof that the left doesn’t really care about book bans and censorship. They celebrate when a book they dislike gets banned, as they did here when Amazon briefly de-listed a new edition of “The Camp of the Saints.”

@thewarzonewire @RAeSTimR From the demo the touchscreen looks. slow. Better than the TDC joystick but not as good as it could be.

Boeing’s AH-64E Apache can swap the traditional glass cockpit for a large-area touch screen display. Our Jamie Hunter got a hands-on demonstration of the new system at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit:

@mattyglesias This data doesn't even make sense Mark Zuckerberg very obviously went to Harvard where he started Facebook, but Meta is in the "no college" category. Many of these CEOs also went to different grad schools. Throw this whole chart in the trash

Ideally, in college you would learn why this does not make sense as a statistical analysis.

Battlestar Galactica cinematographer validated

@Noahpinion When I was a child and didn't realize my parents were lying to me when they said we weren't rich.

When was this affordable

@PolybiusChamp @_Jason_Dean_ @mattyglesias Spirit going under is really irrelevant. You would have the same outcome if Spirit was allowed to merge. The only thing different now is that Jetblue now gets a discount when buying Spirit's assets because of the bankruptcy.

It should be a consideration. Ms. Kahn will have caused an airline to go BK reducing competition & jobs - with her concern about competition. In high cash burn/low margin businesses it’s pretty hard to foster truly high levels of competition. A real world, rather than pure academic, perspective should also be considered.

I continue to find it puzzling that we've looped around to antitrust enforcement as an "affordability" strategy without revisiting the debate over the consumer welfare standard.

@lawprofblawg @mattyglesias Well, a big reason for the pushback against the consumer welfare standard was the rise of tech companies giving away free product (apps, web browsers, etc.) that didn't neatly tie into the theory of harm. With these media mergers, that debate isn't as relevant.

@mattyglesias There has been extensive debate about the consumer welfare standard, as well as detailed critique of that standard. See, e.g., papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@mattyglesias Why is that puzzling? You only need to revisit the consumer welfare standard when people generally feel economically secure. You need some other justification for robust antitrust enforcement (the somewhat esoteric view that competition itself needs to be protected).

@charliebilello @BrianSozzi Comparing these two metrics is kind of pointless. Because of the time value of money the S&P always goes up. Whereas consumer sentiment is normalized. It can never exceed a given range. It has happened that consumer sentiment has been low and the S&P has been at all-time high.

The S&P 500 is at an all-time high while Consumer Sentiment is at an all-time low. We've never seen a gap this wide between Wall Street and Main Street.

Do we need Jonathan Chait as a writer? At what point does it become incumbent on us to admit that he’s describing — and offering prescriptions for — a world that simply doesn’t exist. It’s like if I, as a writer for car fans, devoted myself to the horse as a means of transport.

@haricurrent @kareem_carr Yep this is where I am at. They are great at pulling papers I vaguely remember with a short description. They are good at summarizing. They are ok at identifying gaps in my reasoning. But I wouldn't trust them to do anything new or novel in academia.

@kareem_carr Yes, you are meant to steer them and use them as tools to ultimately decide upon the truth by examining as many possibilities as you can consider. They are research assistants.

I've been talking to AI models a lot, and I don't think they reason at a PhD level at all. They seem to be good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D. They're extremely bad at anything involving what I would call mature scholarship. Basically where A, B, and C are partially confirmed to various extents in the literature, and there are multiple conflicting, competing perspectives on what might be true. When it comes to this, they reason like naive undergrads. They try to force everything into one box called "the truth". If a framework is a standard part of their training data, like Bayesianism, they do seem to be able to write about things from that perspective. But if they need to construct perspectives on the fly, and keep track of competing frameworks, based on a novel research direction, they easily get lost about who is saying what and why. This is basic scholarship. The ability to apprehend the state of the literature on a given topic. It is literally the minimum of what you need to do to be a PhD level scholar. And AI models are terrible at it.

From @TheAthletic: Tiana Sumanasekera, an elite gymnast at UCLA, has incorporated Bollywood classics into her routines. Her performances have gone viral in South Asia, and she's heard from fans as far away as Sri Lanka. nyti.ms/4mz9GQP

@FrankMtnMan @FurkanGozukara Delusional.

That is not what I heard him say. He did say Trump “might” have to settle for the BS treaty that Obama fucked us with…. But Furkan (mother must have hated you) Trump holds the cards so why would he take a bad deal like Obama did. Just saying it makes no sense and that is not the man Trump is, he is no Obama thank God!

Former US Congressman Harold Ford Jr. points out a stunning contradiction on Fox News. He confirms the Trump administration is desperately crawling back to an Iran nuclear deal that looks exactly like the one Obama negotiated. Trump started a disastrous war for nothing.

@PremiseLens @brontyman @FurkanGozukara @ravencallin Cult logic. JCPOA prevented Iran from getting a nuke until Trump ripped it up. They started enriching uranium past civilian use after Trump ripped up the deal. Please educate yourself.

You gotta be kidding me… A meme is only funny if there’s an element of truth in it. This is totally meaningless. Obama’s deal led to an Iran that was almost nuclear armed. Only Trump stopped it. And if you think that this excursion was a waste of time, maybe you want to talk to Iran’s neighbors who are grateful for American presence and grateful for American oversight. It’s dirty scoundrels like the UK, the Clintons, the Obama’s, they keep stirring unrest in Iran, forcing the most extreme regime there. Because these crooks love a destabilized world.

@MAGA_Starman @FurkanGozukara What are you talking about? Trump is planning to release nearly 6 billion in frozen funds for his ceasefire.

@FurkanGozukara LOL You clowns have no idea what's on the table... And we sure as FUCK won't be giving them BILLIONS of dollars in cash on wooden pallets to take back to their bunkers like Barack Hussein did.

@mattyglesias Completely inappropriate. The man is so bound up in his particular form of theology that he is willing to abuse his position to enforce it. He needs to remember that this is a democracy.

Sounds like a man ready to call some balls and strikes

@Bethie010 @mattyglesias Please actually read the article before commenting.

@mattyglesias Progressivism precisely expects judges to legislate. Thomas is calling that out.

@alangblake @thedaywar90 Libya was already unstable before we intervened.

@thedaywar90 So the destabilization of Libya and the refugee crisis it created for Europe was strategy? Confirms that Obama hated the European colonial powers. Probably thought his deadbeat dad would like him for it. Funny how he and Bush both have daddy issues.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: "It is shocking that Trump said no one informed him that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. I find it unbelievable that one of the fundamental pillars of geopolitical strategy in the Middle East was ignored. That was the first thing we assumed Iran would do. It is their main tool of global leverage. We are now seeing the consequences of a foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy.

@chucktodd Except the motivation for Biden pardons was the fact that Trump was the president elect and he was obviously going to go after people regardless of actual crimes committed. Trump is pardoning people before he knows who the next pres is because they know they broke a ton of laws.

Perhaps Trump would have done this regardless, but let’s not forget Biden created this pre-emptive pardon precedent. The only good news that might come out of this pardon corruption: we will get a bipartisan supported Constitutional amendment to create a Congressional nullification process for all presidential pardons.

@LoriLu76 @OmarBaddar @mattyglesias You need to actually persuade people and the movement failed to do that.

@LoriLu76 @OmarBaddar @mattyglesias You actually had zero leverage. That's what you don't understand. Why would she take a minority position on the left when the other party has no intention of seeking those voters? You traded someone who might see facts on the ground the same way you do for someone that never will