I really find it surprising that Katie is primarily using the "For You" tab on Twitter. That's probably responsible for 90%+ of her frustration with the platform. Switch to the follower timeline view and it's a vastly better experience.
I really liked Jeff’s bit about Myanmar and the John Oliver segment, and I’d like to hear more on that. This Rolling Stone headline shows the direction that segment went:
Jesse mentioned putting a link to his piece about Politifact in the notes; I didn’t see it in the notes but found it online here: jessesingal.substack.co…
It's too bad so many people apparently stopped listening during the first segment. The stuff after was great, especially the dunking on Facebook's AI profiles.
And Casey Newton. He's like a crossover villian for me: a symbol of over-the-top wokeness here, and a symbol of utterly credulous AI hypesterdom on the AI/tech Substacks I follow (e.g. Gary Marcus). I tried listening to the NYT "Hard Fork" podcast, and I could have maybe stuck with it if it was Kevin Rouse and someone else. But Newton is …