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A thoughtful beta testing, creative digital art exploring gal that you may have encountered thinking-out-loud, across the social web. 🖌️✨🖼️
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building on that, i argue that the Trump-Musk feud is not so much a distraction as it is evidence of a societal tendency toward abstraction, even obfuscation. A cage match is easier to watch than a discussion about who deserves benefits and resources.
Of course, nobody is. Rao’s most salient point in his essay is that this state of forever beef is a consequence of a societal rot. It’s a stalling tactic of sorts, one that prevents us from deciding who we are, both individually and collectively. If that sounds overwrought, it’s worth remembering the genesis of Musk and Trump’s feud, a funding bill in Congress that would result in roughly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, while offering a similar value in tax cuts to high earners. Millions of people could lose their current coverage through Obamacare if the bill passes. These details are vaporized by the size and scale of this particular beef. The Trump-Musk feud is not so much a distraction as it is evidence of a societal tendency toward abstraction, even obfuscation. A cage match is easier to watch than a discussion about who deserves benefits and resources. It is certainly more cathartic than an ideological stalemate about the world we want to build. Maybe Trump or Musk will find a way to win or lose their spat. The rest of us, though, will probably not be so lucky, destined instead to spectate fight after fight.
June 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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How AI Is Changing Hollywood’s United Talent Agency
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March 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
whimchic.bsky.social
SV and Ai dominance. 💭 Wondering 🤔 about all integrations. #SocialGraph, BI, gov’t integrations (vaccine delivery, HHS, etc. etc.). Grok, & all the other key ai co’s. data data data 🤖. Uninformed, yet curious 👀 where the emergence of all this leads. Ai infrastructures, etc.
March 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM