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Ben Schmidt

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Just to pick a fight—it’s not clear to me that if you believe in and want to engage in *political* speech this is a useful place… I’ve been more and more funding this a great replacement for the mythical “faculty lounge” but like what’s even of the point of criticizing Kathy Hochul here?

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Ben Schmidt's avatar Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social
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(Speaking of course as someone who still posts on that site almost exclusively to advance their own material interests as a shareholder of an AI company).

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James Tauber's avatar James Tauber @jtauber.com
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Oh I mean academics engaging in their field there! Posting CFPs, etc

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Ted Underwood 🦋's avatar Ted Underwood 🦋 @tedunderwood.me
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Just to help you pick a fight: I think I agree with that argument, but it's refuting a theory I'm not offering. I don't think social media was ever a very good mode of political engagement. It seems likely to me that any actual political significance lies in the form of the medium and not content.+

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