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If someone you know challenges the claim that opposition to welfare programs is due largely to white people viewing it as a benefit that Black people get, show them this.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 5h

My response to arguments along the lines of "Ai helped me navigate the drudgery of Canvas" is the same as the atheist's response to the adage that there are no non-believers in a foxhole (ie, it's an argument against foxholes)

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 6h

Another thing we can thank our techlords for: as Ai bots radically increase the number of page requests they make, web hosts respond by adding not-a-bot verifications everywhere, and scammers follow by adding their own allow-access requests to Ai slop pages.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 27/09/2026

Dammit. I hate to say it, but this is not a legit documentary since it includes a substantial amount of fabricated material.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 27/09/2026

My current least favorite word: compute (noun). Our current moment is one in which brute force is mistaken for efficiency, elegance, and ease.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 24/09/2026

Imagine if we'd invested this money in high-speed rail, solar and wind power, and indoor air quality. Our country would be cleaner, healthier, and better connected. Instead, we're replacing human interaction with computer game addiction and boiling the planet for the privilege.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 22/09/2026

Folks, I hate to say it, but I think the Golden Age of television is over

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 22/09/2026

As the FAA starts to roll out Ai air traffic control (with my beloved wife due to land at DCA this evening) I can't take my mind off the time I was scheduling an appt with an electrician and the "operator" suddenly started speaking Portuguese.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 22/09/2026

At this point, I resent having to live through this moment in history. Not because it's more difficult than the rest, but because of how much attention we are all forced to pay to a malignant, narcissistic moron and an artless, soulless computer game.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 22/09/2026

My bank just informed me that future comms might only be available in English. People really go so mad at being reminded that Spanish exists that an organization with more money than most kings can't bother to translate?

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 21/09/2026

At this point my Disney+ sub exists solely to preserve the option to rewatch Andor

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 20/09/2026

Me: Should I get back into Bears football. [Bears score 59 points in week 1 and 3 points in week 2] Me: Nope. Not paying to watch this kind of nonsense.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 17/09/2026

This is a lather, rinse, repeat situation

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 17/09/2026

In a perfect world, this all ends with Microsoft bankrupt. Along with every other company that perpetrated this wholesale cultural theft. Trashbags, all the way down.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 17/09/2026

I spoke about my book with Emma Ashford and Justin Logan at Cato yesterday. One thing I learned from watching the recording: tie your tie extra short if you're going to be seated on camera. But seriously, Emma gave terrific feedback, and Justin was an excellent host. www.cato.org/events/presi...

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The President’s Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to Americans

Chad Levinson’s The President’s Echo System details how successive administrations have collaborated with outside groups to popularize ideas that voters initially reject.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 15/09/2026

Paul McCartney's impression of Kash Patel's testimony today www.youtube.com/watch?v=lays...

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Paul McCartney Tells a Dirty Joke

YouTube video by Kevin Boyd

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 15/09/2026

Trump thought he would finally feel love from the culture set, that the cast of Les Miz would name him an honorary Jean Valjean on stage at the Kennedy Center, but instead he was humiliated when nearly every artist cancelled their gigs. Everything that has happened since then has been a tantrum.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 13/09/2026

Maybe it's a matter of over-learning childhood lessons, but 59 points just seems gluttonous.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 13/09/2026

Democratic candidates are responsible for their supporters’ online personas but Republican candidates are not responsible for their own online personas. Make It Make Sense should do a piece on this.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Rolling Scones

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I sure as hell hope that a Democratic administration, if we are ever lucky enough to have one, has the guts to rip this shit down.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 10/09/2026

Google's decision to shut it down seemed incomprehensible at the time. What company would kill one of it's most beloved services? In hindsight, we know exactly why: it gave users too much control over content, control that the company wanted for itself.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 10/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 10/09/2026

Pet peeve left over from a childhood as a math nerd: the use of “exponential” to mean “a lot”

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 09/09/2026

I've never been good about predicting which Apple products are going to succeed (except the original iMac/iBook, the candy-colored ones), but the folding phone seems like a terrible idea.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 08/09/2026

I still find this video a bit traumatizing, so my apologies for dropping it in your feed. It's important to make sure people know Trump is lying about being in the rubble of the Twin Towers. Instead, he was musing about having the tallest building in the neighborhood.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 08/09/2026

"America's Mayor" had a few charismatic moments on and immediately after 9/11, and was politically aligned with first responder unions, but he made several significant decisions that materially exacerbated the tragedy.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 08/09/2026

Did Alan Turing ever consider what it would mean if a machine could continue to trick someone into believing it was a person even when that someone knew it was a machine?

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 08/09/2026

The only reason to be on X is to get screenshots of idiot racists you can post here, where those idiot racists will never visit, never to feel the heat of your sick burns

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 08/09/2026

Carney played college hockey (ok 3rd string goalie at Harvard, but still) and the closest Trump ever came to skating is when he made a back room deal with Ed Koch to take over Wollman ice rink.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 07/09/2026

It's hard to say how much her affect is due to knowing the camera is on her, but... She is so intentionally looking him in the eyes, never breaking for longer than it takes for her eyelids to cycle closed and open again, I can't even call it blinking. youtube.com/watch?v=GGJS...

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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 07/09/2026

It's undoubtedly true that the medical establishment has blind spots. But there's a difference between "maybe de-wormer can work on viruses" and "ovaries exist."

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 06/09/2026

We knew big tech reproduces racism. Here’s one more way it is does that. Now racist filmmakers can make their racist movies without having to find any Black people to play along.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 05/09/2026

I would like to file an appeal

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 31/08/2026

Calling it Dear White People was a mistake. David Brooks thought it was talking directly to him, watched it, encountered the term "woke," and decided it would now belong to him and his people.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 29/08/2026

I just made the mistake of breaking my Meta boycott by clicking a link to a facebook post, and I was reminded that facebook wipes the tab's back-button history. It's a completely sociopathic website design choice.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 28/08/2026

When someone tells me they ONLY use LLMs for this one ethically-sound task, I picture them frothing the milk for their fancy coffee with the residual steam coming off of a Dr. Seussian forest eating machine.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 20/08/2026

Why should I pay any attention to someone who needed help writing this post?

AI Strategy, Research, and Education

The “AI is poisoning the internet” theory skips an important counterfactual: what useful content would never have been created without AI?

Human and AI collaboration can improve clarity, broaden access, and help more people contribute. The risk may be less about whether AI was involved and more about whether humans added judgment, evidence, and something genuinely new.

The internet may gain both more slop and more valuable knowledge. We should measure both.

Co-authored by AI.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 14/08/2026

Star City is SO MUCH BETTER than For All Mankind

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 13/08/2026

Just got my laptop upgrade from my employer. I have the same brand and same model, but for some reason the manufacturer decided to swap the Ctrl and Fn key locations and it's going to take me months to re-learn it. Not a big problem, but show me the person who thought this was a good idea.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 07/08/2026

When a tradesperson says "you're lucky they sent me," as he tries to sell you a massive project that nobody else thinks you need, it's a big red flag that he's trying to take you for a ride, correct?

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 06/08/2026

Paul Musgrave once wrote a piece about political science's own "lab leaks." He argued that the Democratic Peace theory had escaped international relations workshops to infect policymakers with the false idea that spreading liberal democracy promotes world peace. foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/03/p...

foreignpolicy.com

Political Science Has Its Own Lab Leaks

When ideas get out from academia into the wild, they can be surprisingly dangerous.

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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 04/08/2026

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 05/08/2026

The fact that he felt compelled to write this (or have his publicists write it) shows that he's worried

NYTimes Headline reading "David Ellison: Here's Why You Can Trust Me With the News"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm begging people to realize that since Irish & Germans immigrants in 1840s, there has always been attempts to say the current wave of recent immigrants are unassimilable and prone to crime--and fighting petty crime necessitates deportations and immigration restrictions. I wrote a book about it:

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Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York

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