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Joe Davidson, a longtime Washington Post columnist, says he resigned after a column he wrote about Trump's policies was blocked for being "too opinionated" (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wapo-columni

WaPo Columnist Flames Jeff Bezos After Quitting in Protest
Joe Davidson said he left the paper after it spiked political commentary from his column.

It’s weird that the dog can tell when I’m doing (failing at) a boss fight in #silksong

It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
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Josef Hader erhält Film-Preis
Josef Hader wird für seine Tragikomödie "Andrea lässt sich scheiden" mit dem Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis 2025 des Clubs der Filmjornalisten ausgezeichnet.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-11.07.2025-josef-hader.html
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"As we approach the coming jobs cliff, we're entering a period where a college isn't going to be worth it for the majority of people, since AI will take over most white-collar jobs. Combined with the demographic cliff, the entire higher education system will crumble."
This is the kind of statement you don't hear that much from sub-CEO-level #AI boosters, because it's awkward for them to admit that the tech they think is improving their life is going to be disastrous for society. Or if they do admit this, they spin it like it's a good thing (don't get me wrong, tuition is ludicrously high and higher education absolutely could be improved by a wholesale reinvention, but the potential AI-fueled collapse won't be an improvement).
I'm in the "anti-AI" crowd myself, and I think the current tech is in a hype bubble that will collapse before we see wholesale replacement of white-collar jobs, with a re-hiring to come that will somewhat make up for the current decimation. There will still be a lot of fallout for higher ed (and hopefully some productive transformation), but it might not be apocalyptic.
Fun question to ask the next person who extols the virtues of using generative AI for their job: "So how long until your boss can fire you and use the AI themselves?"
The following ideas are contradictory:
1. "AI is good enough to automate a lot of mundane tasks."
2. "AI is improving a lot so those pesky issues will be fixed soon."
3. "AI still needs supervision so I'm still needed to do the full job."

Pete Carroll Has Seven Word Response to Geno Smith Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-geno-smith-seahawks-sign/?adt_ei=[email]

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
https://ift.tt/uZ0sobg
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken…

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken and written word plays an essential role in religion, as language is necessarily used to address the gods or God, to speak about the divine or the sacred, and to express religious feeling or awareness”. Thus, Pernot called for an understanding of the role rhetoric plays in our expression and performance of religion.

What’s the current word on the boycotting of Target?
The way they ran fleeing from DEI at the first whiff of Trump admin pressure left a bad taste in my mouth that’s not going away regardless — but is there still an organized call to boycott them specifically vs similar competitors?

Scam/phishing bericht binnen (!) de Booking.com app waarin wordt gevraagd om mijn betalingsgegevens te bevestigen, ik rook onraad, even hotel gebeld, het bleek inderdaad phishing, ik was al de twintigste die hem daarover belde.... Booking heeft beveiliging niet op orde. Via Whatsapp kreeg ik vanuit India 😆 hetzelfde verzoek, wel met vermelding van al mijn boekingsgegevens (!). Ik vrees echt dat er flink datalek is bij booking.com