Gideon Lichfield 🇺🇦🌻
@glichfield
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Formerly: EIC @WIRED & @techreview. Now: future of democracy at https://t.co/Y2PvP6Qmgz. @glichfield on threads, bsky, etc
NYC / SF Bay Area
Joined November 2008
It's not a good look for @BarackObama to say "democracy is on the ballot" in support of Prop 50. Obvs, it seeks to prevent a permanent Republican majority in the House, and thus hold back authoritarianism. But it's a nakedly antidemocratic way to do it.
theguardian.com
Former president urges support for the ballot measure Democrats say could add up to five US House seats
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Damn
TFW your book has been on sale for 65 HOURS and your editor tells you that it's just gone into its FOURTH printing.
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Essentially the same point from @ezraklein and @EdwardGLuce about where the Democrats are at rn https://t.co/ooAeELdDcD
https://t.co/ZaNRpWgJsv
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Very excited for this book by my friend (and first-ever editor, back in our student days) @Kevin_Ashton. The stories we tell define us and how we perceive the world, far more than most of us realize. This is the story of how stories evolved. https://t.co/8tFBkDp27V
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Nice round-up from @glichfield of the debate over Trump's Middle East AI gambit:
bloomberg.com
The Gulf has the resources Trump needs to expand America’s AI prowess, but there’s no guarantee the Middle East will stay loyal to his cause.
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People who claim AGI is imminent mean a wide range of different things by it. For Bloomberg, I write that this AGI hype is obscuring our ability to talk intelligently about the big changes that are actually coming. https://t.co/aIgIf4GyWU
bloomberg.com
The term “artificial general intelligence” is being bandied about by some of tech’s smartest people, but nobody knows what it really means.
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Right now most attention is on the damage. But I don't think it's too early to start thinking about what could rise from the ashes. One day—maybe a long way off—people will realize they want a functioning government and better ways of having a say in it. https://t.co/0nhFIwNYQt
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"When hackers penetrate a computer system, security experts patch the vulnerability within hours. Trump has been using the same exploit for more than eight years. What’s our excuse?" In which I analyze Trump's Gaza plan and the media's response. https://t.co/LYiig6cHm1
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In which I wrestle with the problem of how to explain "public AI" to the public and decide that the best metaphor might be... supermarkets? https://t.co/YjXz1gXoca
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But this is a classic example of Trump supporters taking him “seriously but not literally”
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And the award for most garbled nonsense of the day goes to @SenatorRounds
https://t.co/vHwl0duiDR
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If I’m reading this right, the headline everyone should be writing but nobody has is: “Trump Decrees That There Are No Transgender People Any More” https://t.co/tu6nBB2gGz
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SO good from @glichfield covering “The HOW we need now” report from @pahlkadot & Andrew Greenway @NiskanenCenter
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With Trump's inauguration just days away, I took a look at something the incoming administration ought to love: a report from the Niskanen Center on how to make the US government less bureaucratic, slow-moving, crufty, and generally incapable. https://t.co/FPyxaJG1JV
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Newsrooms could regain conservative audiences in 2025. There are things they could try, and publications doing this successfully. But they mostly won't. This is my gloomy prediction for @NiemanLab this year. The reasons are cultural. https://t.co/9gsLUI1q7H
niemanlab.org
"It grieves me to predict that even the newsrooms who say they want to serve all Americans won’t do any of this. At best, they will mostly continue to ignore the problem. At worst, some journalists...
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I wrote about how "mainstream" media has made a similar mistake in covering the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder as in covering Trump, which is part of the reason it's becoming less mainstream to a lot of America https://t.co/sSzGmz5jUR
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“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.” - @glichfield
https://t.co/rVgPUJoDM8
#journalism #pressfreedom
niemanlab.org
"We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn't agitate for democracy is an oxymoron."
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I wrote a thing about motorcycling across the U.S., and motorcyclists hate it https://t.co/kJI1WhuZo1
bloomberg.com
US bike sales never recovered after the recession. To figure out why, a new citizen put an American tradition to the test.
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This is an excellent analysis. And if you wrote it at 1am even more so
A big part of why the Democrats will never “build their own Joe Rogan” is bc democrats want a media ecosystem that they can control and is loyal to the Democratic establishment. Leftists content creators are at odds with that
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