Jesse Hicks
Roving writer and editor in The New Republic, The Verge, Vice, Atlas Obscura, Men's Health, Politico, Harper's, etc.
brother, I have seen some things
- Reposted by Jesse HicksDid you see that @booker.senate.gov had the audacity to whine to @rollingstone.com that Israel is being made to look like a villain...WHILE they're illegally using food as a weapon? Guess this is what you do after you take over $850k from Israel's pro-Trump segregationist lobby.
- Reposted by Jesse HicksA 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.
- Reposted by Jesse HicksGreat article that encapsulates everything wrong or stupid about Trump's tariffs. This excerpt in particular drills down into the inevitable, catastrophic results of his policies. Worth the read.
- The dumbest thing about Trump's desire to manufacture dolls in the US is that many of the jobs would be bad ones: Connecting plastic body parts to torsos, attaching nylon hair, etc. I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff: newrepublic.com/article/1949...
- Reposted by Jesse HicksThis is a solution and one lots of people are going to. It works. It’s also pedagogically terrible. Fundamentally ableist in structure. It assesses skills that are not the relevant skills for any meaningful intellectual activity. It represses skills that are meaningful. I don’t have an answer.
- Reposted by Jesse Hicksgrimly have to admit I think he's right about the video part
- Reposted by Jesse HicksWhat resources are distributed across the AI value chain, and to whom? Who benefits in the AI value chain, and who is harmed? In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Jesse HicksCover of the forthcoming Turkish edition of The Age of Insecurity, which the translators have renamed "Anxious New World" as a kind of echo of Aldous Huxley's beloved novel. It's always a bit magic to have your words live in languages you don't comprehend.
- Reposted by Jesse HicksDOGE's Sam Corcos, whose wife managed money for a sanctioned Russian oligarch which I wrote about for Rolling Stone, has been appointed Treasury's CIO, FedScoop reported, after former CIO Jeffrey King took the fork in the road. fedscoop.com/doge-sam-cor...
- Reposted by Jesse HicksCIA spy: sir i’m making lots of progress in Greenland nobody here has any idea i’m undercover CIA boss: great i’ll be sure to tell the media CIA spy: what
- Reposted by Jesse Hicks"The loan’s $4,000 cap is nine times higher than the limit for most payday loans, and the company charges the equivalent of a 279.5% annual interest rate. To allow lenders to circumvent the state’s interest rate cap, the legislature simply called the interest something else: a “customary fee.”
- NEW: A Tennessee lender told legislators its new product, the Flex Loan, would help residents. In the 10 years since getting approval for it, the company has sued over 110,000 borrowers. With @tennesseelookout.com
