Sure, those incentives always exist. But aren’t there also opposite incentives pushing for integrity, which can be bolstered by outrage about bad reporting? if generating outrage were the only incentive, every newspaper would already be the jerry springer show

My biggest beef with all of it is the insistence on treating public opinion as something that is stable and designed to be mined for strategy/platform rather than something that is malleable and can be shaped when you are value driven.

Just change the title and you’re good

I love this very very much :)

NYT tries to locate Mr. Corpus tomorrow

We work out interesting consequences for some puzzles in acquisition, negative concord, and how NPIs work.

This joy of a project emerged gradually from a series of brilliant undergraduate theses and serendipitous discovery of thinking along similar lines with the great @kathryndavidson.bsky.social

Like any normal Canadian, Paul just wants books by the meter

E.g. techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/m...

The ones who cared about being decent humans quit because nobody was listening to them -- because Zuck-and-co realized being decent wasn't helping "growth".

I can’t believe it left out Goorge V.W. Bush

I argued for the much less ambiguous title “The Origin of Corecepts”, but it just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it