New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟‍♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA.
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So yeah, I wrote a book about the incentives that turn influencers into reflexive contrarians and Gurus….wellness is particularly prone to this.
Anything that a government PSA has ever advised you to do is now something to actively reject. Mammograms are bad, too.
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In keeping with his recent trend of settling lawsuits as long as they're w/MAGA, Zuckerberg has settled an AI defamation lawsuit w/"anti-woke" activist Robbie Starbuck *and* made him an "anti-political-bias" advisor.
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) also has had some notorious issues. There are subreddits dedicated to having AI romantic relationships. People get very attached to their chatbots…even “productivity” bots.
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My favorite example of this was Marc Andreessen using chatGPT to vibe-lawyer exotic legal theories on how he might get my Stanford colleagues & I prosecuted for "censorship" (tracking election rumors), posting the equivalent of sovereign citizen crankery publicly, and not realizing it was utter BS.
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Insurance companies should intervene here. It’s ridiculous. There’s no reason why they should be paying for experimental cures for the voluntarily unvaccinated. You wanted this “natural immunity”, pay for it yourself.
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Another thing that needs a spotlight: that the antivax rhetoric & conspiracy theories about the CDC (and covid vaccines) were started by the crackpot profiteer who is now Secretary of HHS and his propaganda org, Children’s Health Defense
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