Friday Open Thread

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1. Sara Cooper – She's Baaack!

   Black-splaining dub-tape.

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   1. I feel heard. 🤣

      I’m guessing there will be another attempt at secession after November?

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2. Trump is being AI-ed to sound better. From Brad Delong

   This is a good article on “Sundowning” in the Republican Party.

   "In a very strange world with very strange Republicans, this is perhaps the weirdest thing of the week—Trump’s people using MAMLMs to edit his speech post-production to make him sound less slurred than he is:"

   Jeff Jarvis: ‘Trump has himself A.I.-ed. He knows. His speech reveals something he doesn't want revealed…. He's covering it up. And reporters aren't reporting on this: Donald Trump: “My conversation…. Because of the complexity of modern day equipment, and cellphone technology, my voice was, in certain areas, somewhat different and strange. Therefore we have put out an actual, and perfect, recording of the conversatio"n”…

   Peter M. Davies: ‘I would think “Joe Biden's team is doing post-production sound edits of his interviews to make his voice sound better than it is" might generate some, oh I don't know, absolutely ballistic news coverage? but what do I know”

   And

   “Late Republican” & “do something wild” = take Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix as a model to be emulated. Sulla overthrew the Roman constitution by armed force, remade it to his own desire, and in the process murdered 5,000 Samnite surrendered prisoners and 500 Roman aristocrats, including almost every magistrate elected between the years -88 and -82:

   JD Vance: ‘We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with…

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