One of the most noticeable algorithm updates is the shift to video-first content. Users are experiencing this as additional work, with the more curated, edited nature of reels vs TikTok. Likewise for brand marketers, it means a complete shift, or at least additional effort, across production to collate usable content for videos as the platform moves away from images.
Critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter and international superstar P!NK has dropped a brand-new track and accompanying music video titled, "Irrelevant." Out today via RCA Records, the protest anthem was written by P!NK and Ian Fitchuk, marking the first collaboration between the artist and the Grammy-Award winning producer and songwriter.Speaking about the new song, P!NK reveals, "As a woman with an opinion and the fearlessness to voice that opinion, it gets very tiring when the only retort is to tell me how irrelevant I am. I am relevant because I exist, and because I am a human being. No one is irrelevant. And no one can take away my voice."With focus on voter's advocacy, the artist is throwing support behind the organization, When We All Vote, announcing that her proceeds from "Irrelevant" will go to the national, nonpartisan voting initiative created by Michelle Obama. The advocacy group, whose mission is to change the culture around the voting process, seeks to increase participation in each election cycle by helping to close race and age gaps. To date, more than 100 million people have been educated about the voting process, resulting in increased voter registration.
One release away from irrelevance
Here, the reporter raises a concern about political corruption, and asks the politician to comment on it. Instead of doing that, the politician replies using an empty statement, in an attempt to distract listeners and shift the discussion away from the original topic.
The red herring fallacy is an informal logical fallacy, and specifically a fallacy of relevance (sometimes also referred to as a fallacy of irrelevance), since it involves information that is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. In addition, the red herring fallacy is sometimes also referred to as the diversion fallacy or the digression fallacy, since it involves the intent to divert attention away from some topic by discussing something else instead.
Meanwhile, Tune is listed at 6-3 and 220 pounds. On film, he's clearly more filled out than Purdy and has a stronger arm. Cunningham is a sudden and speedy dual-threat quarterback who will run away from some NFL defenders at the next level. That's not Purdy. Duggan is listed at 6-2 and 210 pounds, close to Purdy's measurements but clearly showed during TCU's magical run to the national title game this season that he's at his best when ripping deep shots down the field or heroically running with the football in his hands and absorbing big hits in the open field.
Well, that is except for Bennett who, in a normal, non-back-to-back national title-winning scenario, would probably have his phone buzzing out of his hand after the draft with calls from teams looking to sign him as an undrafted free agent. But for as silly as the construct is, "buzz" is absolutely real during draft season, and the heightened visibility of Bennett, along with more NFL-caliber play from him in 2022, will likely lead to him ascending boards, far away from Purdy's distinct position as "Mr. Irrelevant." And with Bennett, prepare yourself for "this guy's a winner" analysis from some, which is really not analysis at all. He's out.
Hall owes plenty of gratitude to Bennett because of how the Georgia quarterback's rise to living legend status at that program diverted attention away from the age of the BYU quarterback. Before the 2022 season, Hall received some first-round buzz yet detractors routinely pointed to the fact that Hall would turn 25 prior to his first NFL season. Of course, the internet went berserk with tweets and memes about Bennett's age during his super senior season with the Bulldogs, and he's already 25.
The Warriors' first showdown with the Nuggets wound up being just their seventh loss of the season and third at Chase Center. Klay Thompson still was about two weeks away from completing his comeback, but he was far from the only key player who couldn't suit up for the home team.
There are things to take away from this game, especially the fourth-quarter collapse. But how often is Morris going to hit a game-winning buzzer-beater? Is Bryn Forbes really going to go off for 22 points again? This was a strange one, and one where the Warriors can learn from melting down in the final frame.
Feature-based attention allocates resources to particular stimulus features and reduces processing and retention of unattended features. We performed four experiments using self-paced video games to investigate whether sustained attentional selection of features could be created without a distractor task requiring continuous processing. Experiments 1 and 2 compared two versions of the game Two Dots, each containing a sequence of images. For the more immersive game post-game recognition of images was very low, but for the less immersive game it was significantly higher. Experiments 3 and 4 found that post-game image recognition was very low if the images were irrelevant to the game task but significantly higher if the images were relevant to the task. We conclude that games create sustained attentional selection away from task-irrelevant features, even if they are in full view, which leads to reduced retention. This reduced retention is due to differences in attentional set rather than a response to limited processing resources. The consistency of this attentional selection is moderated by the level of immersion in the game. We also discuss possible attentional mechanisms for the changes in recognition rates and the implications for applications such as serious games.
It is impossible to abandon rankings outright, since the impulse to grade things seems hard-wired into human nature. Rankings also serve an important bureaucratic purpose. University administrators crave simple metrics of performance, which help guide decisions on where to invest scarce resources. They steer students and their parents toward some institutions and away from others. Finally, they help government and philanthropists make decisions about where to award lucrative grants and donations. In other words, rankings save work, eliminating the time-consuming tasks of reading of book manuscripts or carefully learning about the substance of academic fields.
It is commonly claimed that giving a fallacy a name and studying it will help the student identify the fallacy in the future and will steer them away from using the fallacy in their own reasoning. As Steven Pinker says in The Stuff of Thought (p. 129),
In recent decades, however, the U.S. system has proven quite resistant to change, even in moments of crisis. The formal alternative, shifting away from the 1787 constitution and adopting a more modern one, is not realistic in the case of the United States. It is a remarkably tradition-bound country, and is especially so now, as far as the Republicans are concerned.
It's a story for the ages if it plays out as such: a Mr. Irrelevant who gets his chance to play when the two 49ers quarterbacks ahead of him are lost to injuries and not only plays well, but wins in the postseason and his team is one victory away from the Super Bowl.
Then it all fell apart. Sean was nursing an injury from the previous season and got knocked down the depth chart. Six weeks into camp, the 49ers released Sam from the practice squad, with plans to bring him back, but that was the last straw for Sean. He and his brother had never been separated. 2ff7e9595c
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