Dove va il mondo

“Sixty years ago this month, the Free Speech Movement was born at the University of California, Berkeley. How is that working out?” Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Andy Kessler Link: What Happened to Free Speech?

“Back home in the United States, I noticed writers, journalists and ordinary people starting to use British terms I had encountered. I’ll give one example that sticks in my mind because it is tied to a specific news event, and hence easily dated”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Ben Yagoda Link: The other British invasion: how […]

“In every field of endeavor, the phenomenon of silly season occurs. Under pressure of events or social signs, hysterical claims begin to be heard. With the presidential election in its final weeks, it’s Ukraine’s turn”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Link: Ukraine Rhetoric Veers Toward Reality

“The resignation of one of Mr Altman’s most prominent deputies, along with those of two other senior executives, is the latest in an exodus of OpenAI veterans, including most of those who co-founded the firm in 2015. It is taking place amid efforts by OpenAI to raise $6.5bn at a stonkingly high valuation and revives […]

“I co-founded Facebook in college 20 years ago, but I left California and start-up culture behind long ago for public policy and economics. As we sat over scrambled eggs, chicken sausage and whole-wheat toast, I was struck by how many of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in Silicon Valley — including some I knew […]

“The sex-case industrial complex is a place where everyone has their job, a whole interconnected corrupt society that regularly comes into contact with actual society – a boring place of rules and boundaries – but only in order to take what it wants and spin off back into the lawless ether again”. Fonte: The Guardian […]

“This highly selective fact-checking is indicative of the double standard that many in the media follow when dealing with Mr. Trump, a double standard usually justified by the supposedly awesome threat he poses to the country”. Fonte: The New York Times Autore: James Kirchick Link: How Lying Became Disinformation

“Republicans love to blame everything they consider wrong with America on an epidemic of “wokeness”, by which they tend to mean anything that smacks of virtue-signalling or political correctness”. Fonte: The Economist Link: America is becoming less “woke”

“The Air Quality Life Index at the University of Chicago, which measures the impact of air pollution on life expectancy, shows that people living in the most polluted places on Earth breathe air that has six times as much pollution as the air breathed by people in the least polluted places — and those in […]

“This week, with a rare endorsement, for his rival Vice President Kamala Harris, the prestigious magazine Scientific American argued persuasively that reality and science are on the ballot, too”. Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: Jennifer Rubin Fonte: For only the second time, a top science magazine endorses for president