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Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game

The New Yorker

He catches nascent changes in the political weather. "During early, he kept telling me, 'Crime--there's something here,' " DeBoo told me. DeBoo studied the latest crime statistics and saw nothing unusual. He brushed off the worry. Then new numbers came out, showing a large pandemic spike in shoplifting and car theft, and concerns about crime exploded into the headlines. Last March, judging the winds, Newsom launched a podcast, "This Is Gavin Newsom."


Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive

The Guardian

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Young men shifting to political right is causing women to distrust dating apps, says Atlantic writer

FOX News

Atlantic writer Faith Hill claimed that women have developed a distrust of dating apps due to young men becoming more conservative during an appearance on CNN's "The Assignment with Audie Cornish" on Thursday. Young men's shift to the political right has complicated the dating world and led to distrust by women of dating apps, according to The Atlantic writer Faith Hill, who appeared on CNN on Thursday. Hill argued that women's growing distrust of dating apps stems from men -- young men in particular -- becoming more conservative while young women are becoming more progressive, leading to the sexes "growing further apart in a lot of ways." "You see that young men are moving further to the right. And I think for a lot of women in particular, it can just sort of feel like, 'This is not a time where I trust men -- I feel respected by men. I don't necessarily want to go out and meet strangers who are men,'" Hill said.


If You Think Men Are in Crisis Now … Just Wait

Slate

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Men, you may have heard, are in crisis. The causes are many, and the left and right identify different villains (toxic masculinity, according to the former; feminism and gynecocracy, says the latter). But there seems to be a growing consensus that something is rotten in man-land. And across the political spectrum there is at least a consensus that male despair and disconnect is fueled in large part by dramatic changes in society, the economy, and the family--all of which have left many men feeling dangerously unmoored, isolated, and purposeless.


DAVID MARCUS: Andrew Tate is the woke Left's misogynist Frankenstein

FOX News

The Tate brothers left the Sunshine State Thursday ahead of an expected court appearance in Romania, but influencer and former MMA fighter Andrew Tate says he'll be back. Andrew Tate is back in America, forcing us to confront his perverse messaging to a subset of America's young men. But what we really need to come to grips with are the social conditions in our culture that created an opening for this men's rights Frankenstein. Tate, 38, is a former professional kickboxer facing sex trafficking charges in Romania, serious enough that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis insists the podcast star is not welcome in the Sunshine State, where he landed earlier this week; the Florida attorney general is now investigating Tate and his brother Tristan. ANDREW TATE SAYS HE PLANS TO LIVE IN FLORIDA DESPITE'HEE HAW' OVER RETURN TO US SOIL Tate made a fortune off of a "webcam model" (read: porn) business, then began selling online courses ostensibly teaching alienated boys and young men how to become alpha males.


Refining Sentence Embedding Model through Ranking Sentences Generation with Large Language Models

He, Liyang, Liu, Chenglong, Li, Rui, Huang, Zhenya, Ruan, Shulan, Zhou, Jun, Chen, Enhong

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sentence embedding is essential for many NLP tasks, with contrastive learning methods achieving strong performance using annotated datasets like NLI. Yet, the reliance on manual labels limits scalability. Recent studies leverage large language models (LLMs) to generate sentence pairs, reducing annotation dependency. However, they overlook ranking information crucial for fine-grained semantic distinctions. To tackle this challenge, we propose a method for controlling the generation direction of LLMs in the latent space. Unlike unconstrained generation, the controlled approach ensures meaningful semantic divergence. Then, we refine exist sentence embedding model by integrating ranking information and semantic information. Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves new SOTA performance with a modest cost in ranking sentence synthesis.


Elon Musk stands accused of pretending to be good at video games. The irony is delicious Keza MacDonald

The Guardian

Last year on Joe Rogan's podcast, Elon Musk claimed to be one of the world's best Diablo IV players – and surprisingly, the leaderboards backed him up. For those that haven't had the pleasure, Diablo is one of the most mercilessly time-intensive video games out there; you build a character and carve through armies of demons, spending hundreds of hours refining skills and equipment for maximum hellspawn-cleansing efficiency. I played it for maybe five hours last year and immediately quit, for fear that it would consume my life. Most of the people who play it are young, often male, and have plenty of time to themselves to spend on the internet and playing games – so, the exact demographic of many Musk stans. It suited these hardcore gamer guys to believe that someone who tweets all day and runs several businesses was also an elite player who poured hundreds of hours into Diablo.


Why a Technocracy Fails Young People

TIME - Tech

As a chaplain at Harvard and MIT, I have been particularly concerned when talking to young people, who hope to be the next generation of American leaders. What moral lessons should they draw from the 2024 election? Elite institutions like those I serve have, after all, spent generations teaching young people to pursue leadership and success above all else. And, well, the former-turned-next POTUS has become one of the most successful political leaders of this century. The electoral resurrection of a convicted felon whose own former chief of staff, a former Marine Corps General no less, likened him to a fascist, requires far more than re-evaluation of Democratic Party policies.