The poison of #ToxicMasculinity: "Whether it's radical Islam or #MAGA vitriol, the appeal is obvious. They allow the troubled man to blame others, especially women and "woke" culture, rather than look to themselves. They offer a false promise that their ideologies will transform followers from losers to heroes. What they actually sell them is more of the same poison that led to their problems in the first place: toxic masculinity." #AmandaMarcotte
Read the story of "D' and weep. An #EMT who doesn't have health #insurance who nevertheless is so committed to helping others in emergency health situations that he sticks with it. As Nathan Robinson says, "So don’t tell me this is a “good economy.” Don’t tell me this is a functional country. A system that treats D this way is totally dysfunctional."
"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
You might want to cancel your #WashingtonPost subscription after reading this most recent attack on free speech.
Essential
#journalism by #TheTexasObserver that illuminates the ubiquity of #Nazis (and this doesn't even include #Musk) on X. They have a lot of followers. These are the names of the pariahs spreading hate: Cyan Cruz, Michael Gramer, Robert Thorne, John Anthony Provenzano. Some are followed by these pariahs in gov't: Sen. Thomas Massie of Kentucky & Arizona State Senator, Wendy Rogers. Among other horrors, one of their acronyms is JQ -- the Jewish Question.
Wow. "A Republican congresswoman from Texas [Kay Granger] has not cast a vote in the US House since July while she has been living at a memory care facility – something she did not disclose to the public, according to a Dallas media outlet that figured out the reason for her prolonged absence."
I understand today's #NYT has an article about #FTD. If anyone has a subscription and would be willing to share a gift link for this piece, I'd be very grateful.
#Dementia
#BruceMiller
I said no. The first request was for a volume I edited (not one of my monographs) that had many contributors. They were not contacted.
"Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) is taking an opt-in approach — the UK publisher has contacted 20,000 authors for permission to license their content to technology companies developing LLMs. . . . only a few authors have declined to license their content."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04018-5
#AI
#CambridgeUniversityPress
