Ari Weitzman

Some of us don't grow up, we just get bigger.

@reggaepete @cowboyurbanight @powers_of_psu Welsh transfer if a fair criticism, but Mitch is not a great example since he transferred from Cal Baptist because they shut down their wrestling program.

@cowboyurbanight @powers_of_psu They also act like welsh just happened to transfer. Messenbrink got a feeling he could just transfer from a bottom tier d1 program to Penn state? Naw lol

Cael Sanderson used his post-tournament presser to deliver a pointed message. While he didn’t mention any names, it was directed toward Oklahoma State. He did not like the way a high schooler was pulled from the middle of his senior year in high school & inserted into a college lineup. He’s also unhappy with the Cowboys actively recruiting his past and current players (Ryder, Facundo, Steen, etc.). Sanderson is also displeased that David Taylor did not mention PSU once during the tournament. While the likes of Tom Ryan & Mark Manning praised them beforehand & congratulated them afterwards. Cael turns 47 in June. He is in charge of the only dynasty in sport. It is unprecedented. David Taylor turns 36 in December. He is in charge of the school with the most national championships in the history of the sport. He has revived a fan base & their donors. This generation of high schoolers actually remember his gold medal. This is exactly what the fringe sport of wrestling needs. Rivalries in sports were/are good. Cubs/Cardinals. Yankees/Red Sox. Celtics/Lakers. Flyers/Pens. Steelers/Browns. Michigan/OSU. Cena vs The Rock. 🎥: @MarkWogenrich

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@TallBlondeGuy @TangleNews I probably visited your Marti Straka page at some point!

@arijoe19 @TangleNews btw Ari - 1) if tangle had daily tweets for each article I'd RT that instead! 2) regarding your sports piece last week - I literally ran a "Martin Straka Fan Club" Yahoo group and Geocities site so I cannot express my delight in you rattling off Czech Guys.

I liked @arijoe19's writing on Iran, and it was neat to see progress from a thought on @TangleNews's "Suspension of the Rules" podcast to a full-on "take". Been reflecting on embodied knowledge a bit: his big idea is that there is basically none here. readtangle.com/update-war-in-…

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@Comixace @wottle @Ike_Saul Unironically this is my favorite thread.

@wottle @Ike_Saul @arijoe19 Can it smell like Marcel Proust smells?

This piece is interesting. I also think it's deeply flawed. One thing I've noticed, and h/t to @arijoe19 for articulating it so well, is that computer code is a really structured language, and software is a defined problem space with a lot of defined patterns, so software people tend to think everything is a pattern and AI being really good at their job makes them overestimate how well it can do everything else. The truth is there is a lot more disorder, unpredictability, and humanness in so much of our lives — and our work — that I don't think AI applications will always (or even often?) be able to account for. Matt, for instance, lists journalism as a job in trouble thanks to AI (not that our industry needs more trouble). And it's true that AI can read documents fast and do incredible research and even write clean copy and edit -- it will probably eliminate or reduce the need for some jobs! But you know what it can't do? It can't work a source over for years on end. It can't / doesn't / won't bear witness to live events. It reminds me of the famous Good Will Hunting scene, where Robin Williams is chastising Matt Damon about being such a smart ass but not being able to describe what the Sistine Chapel smells like. Damon is the AI. I say this as someone who has experimented a ton with the latest versions of ChatGPT Matt is writing about here. I can feed it limitless writing of mine from my archives and then have it write a take about a new current events story; I've tried, actually, because if it were good it would save me hours of work every day. But it is *always* useless. Not sometimes; always. Why? Because the AI still can't predict when certain emotional elements of a story drive me away from a previously held position; because it doesn't know what happened to me that week, or what stories I've read about the topic at hand, or an experience my grandmother had that my family always talked about that informs my view on, say, antisemitism or Israel. It just predicts where I'd land on an issue based on what I've written before, which is actually not a great way to understand humans who are always moving in new and different directions. It just doesn't know. People think humans are finite numbers of neurons and processes and thoughts and learning but I think that is wrong — we are all constantly changing every day, every second, thanks to new inputs and new experiences. So yes, I buy that AI will be able to read documents better than your typical lawyer. But can it build a relationship with a client? Or look at a jury and guess what argument might move them to "guilty"? Or know when to cross the lines with a judge or when to step back? I don't really think so. And those limits, to me, are so under-discussed in this dialogue that it kind of discredits everything else.

I love my wife.

@ljcox1 @Ike_Saul Yep — this is the take until something incontrovertibly replaces it.

@Ike_Saul @arijoe19 I have said this from the start and stand by it - A.I. won't replace you in your job, but someone in your domain using A.I. will replace 10 people that don't use it.

Incredibly sad. Rest in peace, Erin Crider, one of the most fun frisbee players in a community known for being fun — and I just learned the only woman who knew how to maintain the White House HVAC system!? Thinking about you today. Will be putting on a Steely Dan album in honor.

Chris Boswell is a CIA asset who missed that extra point on purpose because he know Loop couldn't handle the pressure of a make-or-break moment. His magnum opus, a legend in his own time.

@DKThomp Was discussing this today, and how the phrase "The States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government" is this story's version of "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Animal Farm, except it's about an anti-woke right that - makes fun of libs for coalescing outrage, attention, and moral energy around single issues (Current Thing) - grabs the reins of power - proceeds to coalesces outrage, attn, and moral energy around such urgent issues as restaurant graphic design

I don't know that anything else needs to be said other than this. Chef's kiss, @JonahDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…

Look at Callie, man. 9.8mi round trip, 2900 ft elevation gained. 11 years old. What a talent.

The only people who said "cloud seeding isn't real" are the conspiracy theorists who were told that skeptics were saying that. x.com/search?q=%22if…

@NormieUtah @Ike_Saul "They" being "The Dispatch" here.

@Ike_Saul *he got dogpiled…. Not “they”. He is just one person and got dogpiled.

So: The Dispatch hired a brilliant economics writer who I've been following for a long time who has less than 50,000 followers on X. Because she's trans, they got dogpiled with hate/cancellations, her kids got doxxed by Babylon Bee, and it's so bad on X she's leaving.

@kmele Damn dude.

Elon v Trump is Gen Z’s Pearl Harbor.

@Feezy29 @Ike_Saul @kmele @TangleNews "The Brownsing of the Steelers," by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman

@Ike_Saul @kmele @arijoe19 @TangleNews Will we be getting what the right is saying, what the left is saying, and your take on this signing?

Buried in the Trump-Elon drama was the news that Aaron Rodgers signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers this afternoon. Here’s the moment me and @kmele informed @arijoe19, diehard Steelers fan, in the middle of the @TangleNews emergency pod. Ari then Immediately spilled his beer. 😂

@Ike_Saul @kmele @TangleNews Russell said today's the day to dump your embarrassing news, to be fair to the Steelers and to me

@mattforney @SchimmerCollege I have no dogs in this fight. I am just here to say that there are no em dashes in this post, only hyphens.

@SchimmerCollege good job on telling ChatGPT to get rid of the emojis, should have also asked it to get rid of the em dashes