Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 22nd/23rd June 2024
How Hamas Ends a Strategy for Letting the Group Defeat Itself by Audrey Kurth Cronin
“The war in Gaza has settled into a mind-numbing pattern of violence, bloodshed, and death. And everyone is losing—except Hamas. When Israel invaded the territory last fall, its stated military objective was to destroy the terrorist group so that it could never again commit acts of barbarity like the ones it carried out during its October 7 attack. But although the war has culled Hamas’s ranks, it has also vastly increased support for the group—among Palestinians, throughout the Middle East, and even globally. And even though Israel was fully justified in taking military action after the attack, the…”
The war for AI talent is heating up by San Francisco
“That reflects not Mr. Altman’s leadership but a broader trend in the technology industry, one that OpenAI itself precipitated. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the market for ai labor has been transformed. Zeki Research, a market-intelligence firm, reckons that around 20,000 companies in the West are hiring ai experts. Rapid advances in machine learning and the potential for a “platform shift”—tech-speak for the creation of an all-new layer of technology—has changed the types of skills employers are demanding and the places where those who possess them are going. The result is a market where ai talent,…”
Jerry Seinfeld’s Teflon Legacy Could Finally Be at Risk by Seth Simons
“And as Seinfeld himself acknowledged, the left’s path of destruction has yet to temper the spread of deliberately offensive stand-up comedy, a field that includes many proud right-wingers who consider it their business to make comedy racist, sexist, and transphobic again. So what, exactly, is the creator and star of one of the greatest sitcoms of all time complaining about…”
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