@ombudsman4truth @grynbaum You falsely claimed they were "dangerous cartel members"
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abbenm
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abbenm
@abbenme
Rhymes with cabin. Opinions are my own.
Maine, USA Katılım Mart 2011
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Bari Weiss just addressed the 60 Minutes situation on CBS News’s 9 a.m. editorial call.
She says the pulled “60” segment on a Salvadoran prison “did not advance the ball.”
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@CaralhoPhilly @EoinHiggins_ The segment already features multiple clips of White House officials commenting on it, officials were already offered the chance to comment, and there's no standard or principle that suggests it's necessary for a complete story either in general or in this specific context.
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@EoinHiggins_ Her reasons were wanting to let White House defend it lol
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Weiss’s excuse for killing the story falls apart the instant you look at it outside a vacuum but I will give her credit for muddying the waters enough that the nation’s most credulous oafs will believe it
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
I've published on the CECOT story, I want more Americans to know about it (read my piece!), I want 60 Minutes to cover it, and this memo seems... like normal and plausibly sound reasons to delay its broadcast.
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@ombudsman4truth @grynbaum You falsely claimed they were "dangerous cartel members", and SCOTUS already ruled 9-0 that these CECOT deportations are violating due process
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@ombudsman4truth @grynbaum Most of them had no criminal records per ICE's own data
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@grynbaum The important missing context, besides the fact that these are illegal aliens, not "migrants", is that you can't just deport illegal aliens, you have to have a country willing to take them. Because these particular illegal aliens are dangerous cartel members, no country will take
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it's genocide (@Oxfam)
Calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide hurts my feelings (@MelanieLatest)
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Never forget the time CNN used holograms to report the news.
youtube.com/watch?v=thOxW1…
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@gadboit @ArgonGruber @davidbessis Exactly. If they're all the complaint against GEB amounts to it's a huge nothingburger over an offhand phrasing that's not even essential to any particular argument. There are lots of egregious misuses of Godels proof, but none in GEB
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@ArgonGruber @davidbessis That's just quibbling though. Hofstadter does understand Gödel's theorem and explains it very well. That's nothing like the real nonsense you hear about Gödel's theorem all the time.
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Some Hofstadter's fans respond that his book isn't really about mathematical logic or Gödel's theorem. But here's what he said in a recent interview..⤵️
David Bessis@davidbessis
Strong disagree here. GEB does *feel like* a phenomenal "big idea book", but at the core it is utterly stupid and will set you back 20 years in your understanding of mathematics and logic. I read it at 17 and loved it, and I do recommend it for this specific usage: as a cool pop math "toy book" for young geeks. But it should come with a public health advisory: the book is fun, well-written, engaging, it is highly stimulating and will teach you a lot of interesting things *BUT* its philosophical premises are idiotic and the author has no clue what he is talking about. I do think having read the book *impaired* my understanding of mathematics and slowed my career.
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@davidbessis @stanislavfort You keep saying "no clue how it truly functions" but his explanation of Gödels proof is accurate, and outside of that it's unclear what exactly you are alleging. I didn't take him to be making any controversial statements about the nature of math. 🤷♂️
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@stanislavfort Quite possibly. I have no objection to people having original ideas and sharing them. My issue with GEB is its focus on mathematics while the author has no clue how it truly functions.
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Strong disagree here. GEB does *feel like* a phenomenal "big idea book", but at the core it is utterly stupid and will set you back 20 years in your understanding of mathematics and logic.
I read it at 17 and loved it, and I do recommend it for this specific usage: as a cool pop math "toy book" for young geeks. But it should come with a public health advisory: the book is fun, well-written, engaging, it is highly stimulating and will teach you a lot of interesting things *BUT* its philosophical premises are idiotic and the author has no clue what he is talking about.
I do think having read the book *impaired* my understanding of mathematics and slowed my career.
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@davidbessis @AndrewCMyers That musing on paradox doesn't seem to be saying much but also seems pretty orthogonal to the main ideas in the book. What would give me pause is if the key ideas about self reference were mistaken in some fundamental way or if it misrepresented Gödel or something
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@AndrewCMyers See this and below it.
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David Bessis@davidbessis
To GEB fans challenging me in the comments: I can't reply to you all. My take is that of a mathematician with strong views on math cognition and the role of logic. Check my Substack if you're curious, or my book (this passage documents my hatred of paradoxes, fueled by GEB.)
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@abbenme @TechFinanceer @mehdirhasan Population growth when a massively superior military is supposedly trying to genocide you is definitive proof that no such genocide is occurring frankly.
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I don’t deny the Holocaust. It was one of most evil acts in history. A genocide; a campaign of industrialized slaughter of Jews.
Now, can you condemn the Gaza genocide? …Oh wait, no you can’t. In fact, you participated in it, as a spokesman for it. The Hague awaits, Eylon!
Eylon Levy@EylonALevy
But you’re a Holocaust denier
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@TeddyWilla70706 @FreshPrinceAus @mehdirhasan Myanmar made the same argument you are making and it was dismissed by the world
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@FreshPrinceAus @mehdirhasan I don't have more expertise than them.
What I would say is that, if this was genocide, it seems inconsistent with everything else we've ever been taught was genocide.
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@TeddyWilla70706 @mehdirhasan Well said. The population of Gaza actually GREW since Oct 7, 2023!
And that’s according to Hamas’ own biased numbers.
There were literally more births than deaths.
Calling this a holocaust is patently absurd.
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@adamjohnsonCHI Other chemical pathways to fire exist that don't involve oxygen... but in human engineered conditions
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People got legit pissed at me. I had one guy insist fire is more of an aesthetic than a distinct physical phenomenon.
Chaos Is A Ladder@CallMeJBlxck
What did you do to make the TL hate you?
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@jrobertsbsbl I thought Nathaniel Lowe was actually pretty good for the Sox down the stretch. He slashed .351/.458/.432 in his final 48 PA to end the year.
Started hot, ended hot, with a slump in the middle
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@longlive_jahh @JayDeads @DudespostingWs Even that's conceding too much because I think this is good technique *and* genuinely satisfying.
Color isn't necessarily better than black and white, but it has a huge advantage due to its richer expressive range.
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@JayDeads @DudespostingWs Do you know what technique is? Doing a specific technique and it not sounding good to the ears doesn’t mean anything about opinion you are objectively talented if you can do things like he did becus it’s very advanced. Idk how to explain it but a child wouldn’t be able to do it
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This is the kind of good thats so good that people who dont know whats good think its bad
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@JayDeads @JimC453 @DudespostingWs There absolutely is such a thing as technical sophistication not cashing out as an enjoyable listening experience. But I found this clip deeply satisfying, because it's loaded with good taste textural flourishes. It's the difference between a croissant and wonder bread.
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@JimC453 @DudespostingWs Yep. I understand that. Totally mislabeled. My bad.
But "good"?
"Breathtakingly"?
LOL I certainly support your right to think so.
Technical jazz only sounds good to people who like technical jazz. I think it sounds like a garbled mess.
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@thepine64 website says refurbished pinephone pro is already out of stock! Is that right? I'd been checking the store since I knew the refurbs were going to be listed. If they're truly out of stock, it seems like they sold out extremely fast
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@TimONeill007 Bluesky is centralized just like Twitter. (It intends not to be but it is). Mastodon is decentralized, that's why it's hyped.
I hope you make both, and I can follow you on masto if and when you make the leap
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As awkward as it would be, given the number of great followers I have here, I'm thinking of joining the exodus and leaving for Blue Skies. Thoughts? Could we organise a mass departure of the Hisotry for Atheists community from here to there? I despise Elmo - so, time to go?
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@billmckibben Would love to see you over on Mastodon! Federated social media, no one person owns the whole network
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First of all, gratitude to so many here, who have been illuminating, entertaining and educational. I've enjoyed much of my time here since 2009, and I've done my best to be a good citizen of this space
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