Pivot

It began as an Atlantic article in 2015, and it was one of the top five most read at that time.

What I've come to see after that, it was describing a change in culture that happened first on campus.

I absolutely love this one. It's The Coddling of the American Mind by our guest today, Jonathan Hyde. Not only talks about social media, but also talks just about raising kids and what it means to have productive, civic-minded children.

I think John McWhorter is fantastic.

John McWhorter who wrote Woke Racism. We've had him on before. I think he's a very strong thinker.

his new book, Woke Racism. I had him recently on a Twitter space. It's hugely popular. He's got a lot to say.

In his new book, Woke Racism, he argues that anti-racism has become a new religion on the left and it's hurting the people it claims to serve.

So talk about your book, Will Grayson.

It's about analytics and sports.

I'm like how on earth are they gonna make a movie and they made a fantastic film out of something I never thought could be made into a movie.

I'm reading Fried Zakaria's, what's it called, Age of Revolutions

If you look at the United States, the group that has fallen furthest fastest is young men, but if you look at globally the group that hands down has ascended the fastest over the last several decades is women.

And this is both a professor Guyatt and Fridt Zakaria's new book, "The Age of Revolutions," I think it's called.

I actually think there's a lot of evidence that he's gonna come back. I think pretty much every night he comes on her back. Is that wrong?

Well win is we're both gonna be watching Shogun on tonight right? You totally love that show.

I love that show it's the final show. I think it's too late for tomorrow night.

Yeah but you'll be doing your book thing, but I'll be paying attention to Shogun. You'll be watching Shogun?

I loved the original one, which was kind of, if you look back on it, it's problematic, but the book was James Clavell.

They've remade it, it's getting astonishing reviews.

It's focused a lot more on the Japanese experience in it, rather than the white guy.

But the white guy is important in it also, but it's supposed to be fantastic and I am so looking forward to it.

And Zoe works for Casey Neut, who's a very good friend of mine. Both amazing reporters.

Twitter books are here, everybody. Welcome. Two people I have great regard for. Kurt used to work for me a long time ago. And Zoe works for Casey Neut, who's a very good friend of mine. Both amazing reporters.

Zoe Schiffer is the managing editor of platformer, a former star of red reporter and the author of the upcoming book Extremely Hardcore inside Elon Musk's Twitter.

You can pre-order Zoe's book extremely hard core inside Elon Musk Twitter before it comes out on February 27th.

Mehdi Hassan is the author of When Every Argument, The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.

Your book, Win Every Argument, The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.

And I talk a lot about the phrase good faith in the book and about the need.

I was gonna write a chapter in the book on when to walk away from argument.

I say that openly in the book.

I haven't had a response to a tweet like that from kind of crazy right wingers for a long time.

I think it's because they read it as some kind of admission of a conspiracy by the liberal media to stamp out this story when in fact they're very opposite.

So the point of the book is to say here is a skill set that you can learn that should help you win any argument you choose to win.

I actually think the more important than anything else, I have a chapter on it, is confidence building.

Unless you have confidence, you can't do anything. You can't listen. You can't speak. You can't engage. You can't take a position.

Hi, Karen, Scott. This is Dr. Joy Boulamwini, the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and the author of Unmasking AI, my mission to protect what is human in a world of machines.

My prediction for AI in 2024 is that companies adopting AI systems that have been built on data taken without consent and compensation will face a growing number of class action lawsuits and that companies concerned about the climate impact of training AI systems will start exploring green AI pipelines.

The mask makes sense. Like it can't see you if you don't have a white face essentially.

So I think about notions of the male gaze or the white gaze coming from various scholars, which is to say who has power? Who gets to decide what is viewed as worthy? What gets the spotlight? And also who has the power to shape the priorities of the technologies we see? So like men have had power and white people have had power, hence the male gaze and the white gaze. Here I'm putting those cousin concepts into the notion of who has power when it comes to shaping AI.

It's the pale males I often talk about, you know.

I actually start the book as the daughter of an artist and a scientist and feeding cancer cells in my dad's lab. And so those sort of protein folding structures, you'll see with AlphaFold when I was a little girl, I would see that in my dad's office and he wanted me to get into chemistry and computer aided drug development. And I kind of went a different route. But I do think that offers exciting potential.

I feel like any of these would be an endorsement.

What's interesting is that it's also comes with a Michael Cohen book, which I think is even more accurate about Trump, right?

even though he's what happens when a liar tells the truth like that's the problem like a persistent and pernicious and awful.

it sort of reminds me of the mob when they turn on each other, right? So he's the lower guy, you know, who turns on the boss. That's really what's happening there.

Number four, Fareed Zakaria, 10 lessons for a post-pandemic world. This is nonfiction? You remember eight nonfiction? Seriously, Fareed Zakaria number four. His book, 10 lessons who was a gas for a post-pandemic world.

the biggest lesson that I think I'd like people to understand is the way we are living now is we are embracing a lot of risks to the planet and the planet is now fighting back.

it's not nature. It's what we are doing to nature.

book sales are actually up. Book sales are up I think somewhere between 10 and 15% compared to before the pandemic.

It is the small mom and pops, the independence.

the bigger gonna get bigger, the smaller gonna get wiped out.

When the Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa ordering his assassination, that was the reaction to his 1988 book, The Satanic Verses.

When the Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa ordering his assassination, that was the reaction to his 1988 book, The Santanic Verses.