HeyJaredSimply Put by Ed Elson
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Drug Dealers (opens the original)
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You’ve probably seen the Sydney Sweeney ad by now. If you haven’t, you’ve certainly heard the outrage it caused around the world. Her lack of clothing led many to accuse her of “sexualizing women’s sport.” One Olympic athlete dubbed it a “kick in the face” to women. Hundreds of thousands of fans unfollowed her overnight. Another Sydney Sweeney ad, anothe
The Dumbest Conversation of the Year (opens the original)
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On September 8, a 27-year-old British researcher named Jacob Coxon sat down on a park bench in San Francisco’s Alamo Square and drafted his resignation from Anthropic. The people building AI, he wrote, believe it “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” In less than two days, his post had been viewed by more than 150 million people.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U6f7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
The Education Crisis (opens the original)
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Last week, as the world bickered about whether or not AI will “kill all humans,” a much more serious story went unnoticed. A story grounded not in rumors, but data. A story that explains not what might happen in the future, but what’s actually happening right now. It didn’t get clicks because it didn’t use phrases like “civilizational catastrophe,” but be clear: that is exactly what’s on the table. Because if we don’t do something about this </spa
Masochism, Inc. (opens the original)
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Last week, I returned from a two-week holiday in the Tyrolean Alps (awesome). My mission was to completely dissociate from work. That meant no TV, no Twitter, no news, no nothing. In scrolling’s absence, my mind was reoccupied with other important things such as health, friends, food, and family. It was a refreshing reminder of what actually matters, and why I work so hard.When I returned to work, I was bombarded with everything I’d missed: a bond market meltdown, a trade war with Canada, anothe
Plastic Surgery (opens the original)
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“Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.”-Karl LagerfeldTwo weeks ago, the world’s most significant economic indicator was revealed: Big Tech earnings. The results were remarkable. Microsoft and Amazon increased revenues by around 20%; Meta and Google, closer to 30%. For companies that already generate hundreds of billions of dollars a year, that level of growth is unheard of.Beneath the surface, however, lurks some unsettling numbers. While Google’s cloud business nearly dou
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