David Parry

This was indeed a wonderful result. Malone did a good job of highlighting how Musk and DOGE are hurting local voters.

I would pay a lot of money to see video of musk being told about Malone winning.

3 left I think. One is Mannheim township which is good for Malone. The other two good for parsons.

Students solutions are mostly individual, like teaching people to not produce or consume. This is emblematic of larger problem I encounter with students where they cannot imagine social or collective fixes.

I’m teaching about AI sloop today and its likely effects on content consumption. And then asking students what can be done.

You can follow @bradstulberg.bsky.social and @stevemagness.bsky.social Although don’t know of growth equation is on here. Brad shapes my thinking on public policy a lot. Probably one of the most valuable voices in my media landscape

Yep. Recommend Growth Equation. One of my most important reads.

I’ve taken to having ChatGPT generate images for me for slide decks. I asked for ChatGPT:
Need a picture of a gender neutral person looking at two public bathrooms, one that is labeled mens and the other womens

I also wonder how this will affect the hyper realistic photo style which is seen as culturally valueable in part because it is super difficult...now AI can get most of the way there

But I think the general point about "educated polished text" being a certain kind of credit is where we are headed, being able to write educated is no longer a way to signal virtue

This case is interesting, as I didn't take these to be AI generated, having some expertise here, so from a knowledgable background these still had cache (I thought they were artisitically amazing) but from a gloss there is collapse