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melissa flashman

@melflashman

Literary Agent @janklownesbit Brooklyn by way of Kentucky

New York, NY Entrou em Nisan 2008
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Elena Saavedra Buckley
Elena Saavedra Buckley@elenasb_·
"Musk, for example, has expressed a desire to 'destroy the woke mind virus.' As Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue in a forthcoming book, it does not require a great logical leap to suspect that he sees Neuralink as part of a way to do so." nytimes.com/2025/11/14/mag…
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melissa flashman@melflashman·
As a reader & lit agent I didn’t think a piece abt a journalism scammer would hit so hard. Reporting,writing & editing are muscles you build over time. Alarming reminder of what we lose when we devalue skills thelocal.to/investigating-… via @TheLocal_TO
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Joe Bernstein
Joe Bernstein@Bernstein·
The reason it's fun to read about infidelity is that it's all about lying — which writers and shrinks know is the truth. The reason it's mind-numbing to read about polyamory is that it's all about honesty — which writers and shrinks know is a lie.
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melissa flashman@melflashman·
@MatthewSitman Ah yes, we Kentuckians remember that shot well. In the late ‘90s I worked at a commercial radio station hub where Kentucky’s forward Sean Woods also worked. To think he hit the potential game-winning shot moments before Laettner’s. Epic game and cool yr pops was there with you.
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Matthew Sitman
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman·
Every year when March Madness arrives, I think of my dad quitting the factory job he hated (with its brutal swing shifts and punishing work, see below) so he could spend more time with me and my sister. It's why, on March 28, 1992, my dad wasn't working third trick but, instead, giving me a high five as we both lost our minds after watching Christian Laettner make the greatest shot in college basketball history
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Ben Recht
Ben Recht@beenwrekt·
A crash course on optimal control and how it obscures the power and perils of feedback. argmin.net/p/maximum-prin…
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Ben Recht
Ben Recht@beenwrekt·
19th-century nutritionists were as obsessed with protein as we are, but University of Wisconsin legend Stephen Babcock knew dairy cows needed something more. argmin.net/p/a-single-gra…
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Charlotte Alter
Charlotte Alter@CharlotteAlter·
Say it again louder for the folks in the back: AI makes you stupid
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT. What they found should concern every single person reading this. ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months. Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months. The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time. Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there. It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed. Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch. The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own. MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back. The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

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Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes@brhodes·
Ro Khanna has led on Epstein, Iran, and the West Bank. In doing so, he is far more in line with Democratic voters than those Dems who have hedged,
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna

No dumb wars. No elite impunity. These principles led to @RepThomasMassie & my work on the two most consequential matters of this Congress. The Epstein Transparency Act & Iran WPR. We are standing with the people against a corrupted government that has sold us out.

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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
I agree with the spirit here but as I’ve written about before: universities aren’t avoiding cracking down on AI because they’re afraid of their students, but because they’re punch drunk on EdTech—and AI *is* EdTech—because it lets them cut labor costs: e.g. human writing tutors.
Alan Levinovitz@AlanLevinovitz

A BIG FUCK YOU TO THE AI COMPANIES THAT RELEASED THEIR PRODUCTS INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT EVER CONSIDERING THE CHEATING CRISIS THEY WOULD CREATE AND TO THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER ED FOR NOT CRACKING DOWN HARD BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF STUDENTS

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Rick Hasen
Rick Hasen@rickhasen·
#ELB: My Interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air:” “President Trump is trying to make it harder to vote. Here’s why that matters” ift.tt/2QgFx4T
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Tim Miller
Tim Miller@Timodc·
Still trying to wrap my head around Kash firing a unit that specializes in Iranian counter-intel LAST WEEK -- when they knew war was coming -- because the agents were involved in the Trump classified docs case. ms.now/news/kash-pate…
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Christopher Shay
Christopher Shay@ChrisBurkeShay·
This is mostly a fact-checking internship. That means you spend most of your days reading interesting things and telling interesting people that they’re wrong. I think it’d be fun!
Samantha Schuyler@sdschuyler

Applications for the summer/fall 2026 session of @thenation internship are now open! 🔴 $20/hr, 35 hrs/week 🔴 6 months long, starting June 22 🔴 application deadline April 19 thenationfund.org/internship-app…

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Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer@danpfeiffer·
Barack Obama reached a deal that prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump ripped up that deal. Now we are at war with Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon.
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