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#Pundits

SameGirlie
5 days ago

Edition 3 of the #SameGirlieShortList of ACTUALLY ACTIVE large Mastodon accounts with a legit presence here and important content. Check out those shiny new Newspaper server instances too! Holy Moly!!! 😍

@andrew Andrew Leahey
@DataDrivenMD Dr. Jorge Caballero
@mattburgess
@samlitzinger
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel

#FollowFriday #FF #Mastodon #Law #Medicine #Politics #Tech #InfoSec #Disinformation #Disinfo #Pundits #Journalists #News #Resist

salix sericea (@Ripple13216)
2 weeks ago

Found a solution to being lectured about #AI by people who have never trained a model:
I will simply ask "do you do math using a slide rule?"

A "no" will disqualify.

For those of us who find it scary that #students might do #homework using #AI, please note:
1) There was a thing called #internet before AI.
2) Absolutely, introduction of the hand held calculator 50 years ago totally means none of the math you see today is real.

#hype #education #fear #pundits

ShawnT 🐀
3 weeks ago

#Pundits don't actually tell #puns.

They sit at a #news desk of #LIES.

danso 🌱
1 month ago
Some regrettable public figures (think #politicians, #pundits, businesspeople...) are rich, yes, but in many ways still live in our world. They depend on their jobs for an audience, or on large telecoms or social media platforms, or on sponsors, or votes, etc.

Their influence can be threatened by spotlighting them, by giving them negative attention.

On the other hand, some rich people just have effectively infinite money. They *cannot* be #cancelled; they exist in their own world, completely immune to public opinion. We can do nothing to stop them. I think it's best to not give them any attention at all.

also #TaxTheRich
OddOpinions5
1 month ago

It is really hard for me to understand why people like @ezraklein or @mattyglesias are popular

take this
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/economy-construction-productivity-mystery.html

He skimmed one paper, talked to one guy, and decide that workers dying on the jobsite was not important

it is almost a parody of the #NYT as a right wing newspaper

whatever

#pundits

SameGirlie
2 months ago

Another #SameGirlieShortList of ACTUALLY ACTIVE bigger accounts worth your follow for excellent content 😍

@decodingtrolls
@juddlegum
@MeidasTouch
@PCMag
@TomWellborn Tom Hates Fascism
@harrylitman

#FollowFriday #FF #Law #Politics #Tech #InfoSec #Disinformation #Disinfo #Pundits #Journalists #Resist

salix sericea (@Ripple13216)
2 months ago

Has anybody searched #Cheney's basement for #classified #documents yet?

Or are they afraid they might find something else altogether?

#Sunday #Talkshow #pundits

Veirling | #MMIWG
2 months ago

@vegetablegremlin @AnarchoNinaWrites Was beyond strange listening to NPR pundits chew glass tonight while trying to figure out where their beloved good, governing Repubs™ are in all this, then finally figuring out there aren't any.

"Oh, McCarthy's people still want to investigate Hunter Biden? hmm... sh1t..."

#ExistentialMoments #NPR #Pundits #McCarthy

TammyGentzel
3 months ago

@stevesilberman Exactly the same. #Post seems more like a place to go to read #journalists and #pundits as they opine, whereas #Mastodon is a place to engage and discuss.

Ronan
3 months ago

Ronnie Whelan on RTÉ not having any of these calls "not a free kick. He's made contact with the ball"
Unfortunately for Ronnie the rules have moved on from the 80s and assaulting someone while also kicking a ball is not accepted anymore #worldcup #irish #pundits

Wolfgang 🎶= Me + Dog ☑️
4 months ago

One thing should not be too controversial, correct me if I'm wrong.

The mantra that #Kanye is #mentallyill minimizes people with psychiatric challenges and does not excuse the fact that he is a pompous ass who got lucky in the #capitallism lottery and has a malicious personality.

Peeps( #Vaush) speculating that he 'needs lithium' or 'antipsychotics' don't know what they are talking about. #physicians won't lightly diagnose remotely nor should #pundits.

Cured, he'd still be a jerk.

Itza Notha-Newday
4 months ago

Shout-out to all the #journalists, #pundits, #scientists #artists, #personalities and all #talents taking time to check this place out and give it a real shot. #leadership #difference

Thelonious08
4 months ago

#DeSantis gains a lot by letting people speculate about his #2024 run for #POTUS.

He will not give a definitive answer for a very long time.

#Pundits will yap about him endlessly. That is a ginormous chunk of free publicity.

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#xp

Clara Listensprechen
4 months ago
#Garland #SpecialCounsel #pundits #why

Don't know why this weekend's talking heads didn't grasp the obvious of the DOJ move to appoint a Special Counsel at this point in time and not previously, but it IS quite obvious in the cause-effect department. Prior to declaring candidacy, Trump was a plain vanilla citizen getting no special treatment from the DOJ that wouldn't have been afforded any other citizen. Trump's declaration of candidacy changed that, and was therefore the cause of the appointment. #DUH

Pundits making the argument that there was an obvious conflict of interest all along are ignoring the fact that thusfar Trump wasn't running AND was no longer in office since almost friggin 2 years ago. Regular hoi polloi citizen like every other citizen.

It's his filing for candidacy that changed the situation, people. Really. DUH.
quatrezoneillles
4 months ago

Serious #deepthoughts

Being right for the wrong reason is not being right, it's just being lucky.

So whenever politicians or #pundits says "You see, I was right", try to check the arguments they gave at the time they made their pronoucements.

Charles
4 months ago

I see Dave is still running with the narrative dems can’t win. When do the pundits just be quiet since they have clearly been wrong. They didn’t and still don’t consider the power of gen Z #genZ #elections #pundits

Charles
4 months ago

I see Dave is still running with the narrative dems can’t win. When do the pundits just be quiet since they have clearly been wrong. They didn’t and still don’t consider the power of gen Z #genZ #elections #pundits

Charles
4 months ago

I see Dave is still running with the narrative dems can’t win. When do the pundits just be quiet since they have clearly been wrong. They didn’t and still don’t consider the power of gen Z #genZ #elections #pundits

Charles
4 months ago

I see Dave is still running with the narrative dems can’t win. When do the pundits just be quiet since they have clearly been wrong. They didn’t and still don’t consider the power of gen Z #genZ #elections #pundits

the irreducible
4 months ago

All right, tootas. It's bizarre #food #photography while I don't listen to #pundits or watch #polls. So I make this #dessert out of winter squash, one onion, a glug of stock and about one ocean of brown sugar and butter. Yup. Dessert. Then I ladle it over a nice banana bread and there you go.... you've reached a new high score in the Calorie Olympics.

Five Gold Nugget squash are showcased on a luxurious but vaguely hippie-like woolen shawl just bursting with paisley, or fleur-de-lis, or some motif of whatever. The one in front looks a little like it's winking. There's an onion perched atop, a sure sign the poster is a class-A weirdo.
Shannon Curtis
4 months ago

here’s a thought for anyone who is feeling tempted to succumb to worry about the US #election on Tuesday (👋🏻):

no matter what the #polls say (they’ve been increasingly inaccurate in recent years),

no matter what the #pundits say (the incentive of big media is to keep us freaked out, keep our eyes glued to them for ratings & ad cash),

the future is not yet written.

*nobody* knows what will happen on Tuesday.

keep your head down, keep working all the way through the finish line, and #VOTE.