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Why would one of the best golfer's in the world choose to make YouTube videos instead of playing on the PGA Tour? I wrote about it for TPM's mini-magazine, The Weekender, which also has great stuff from @allegrak.bsky.social and @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Highly recommend you listen to this conversation. Understanding LLMs to be a cultural technology and interrogating them through the humanities, Leif’s work may change (or blow) your mind with regard to the current super intelligence discourse around AI. The other guys on the pod aren’t bad either.

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In the TPM Weekly newsletter, I wrote about the concept of “winning the internet” and how it’s ridiculous to critique liberals leaving Twitter as “abandoning the battlefield of ideas.” Given its relevance to Bluesky, I've threaded it below to bypass the paywall.