Fast Takes: Mamdani cant define working class, dont blame AI for your problems and more

Mayor Mamdani, tribune of the “working class,” couldn’t “define” it with any specificity, marvels Rob Henderson at the Free Press.The mayor suggested “having to work to pay your bills” was a good start, but then wouldn’t agree that anyone making “about a million dollars a year” is not “working class.” This “embarrassment” reflects the self-regard of his political “base,” which wants to identify as working class despite its “social class,” because it’s “easier to discuss income than educational pedigree, accent, hairstyle, clothing, taste, or zip code.” What “makes someone working class is not income” even if they are “financially strapped.” No matter where Mamdani draws the line, real working-class folks “know that he and his base are on the other side of it.”After a nearly fatal “‘pulmonary embolism’ intensified by blood clots that might have been linked to his lack of movement,” Florida man Scott Winters “is suing ChatGPT” for suggesting he “remain ‘recliner-bound’” to treat dizziness and blood pressure issues, reports Reason’s Nick Gillespie.

Yet ChatGPT “constantly tells users” it’s not a medical authority and to “always consult” doctors.Fact is, AI is not “a complete replacement for the existing world”; it’s “up to us” to use it wisely.

“Winters didn’t nearly die because ‘ChatGPT acted like a medical authority’” but because “he didn’t take responsibility” for his own health.“If that sort of basic abdication gains the force of law, we’ll create a world that no technology will be able to fix.”The “Bernie bros” and their allies in the Democratic Socialists of America seem intent on “repudiating” the effectiveness of “recruiting [congressional] candidates with ‘authentic’ broad-based appeal,” laments Rahm Emanuel in The Wall Street Journal.

When the DSA pushes safe Democratic districts further left, “Democratic candidates in ...