Meta debuted threads at Twitter Alternative that has quickly become the fastest grown social media

network in history. Can it sustain its rapid rise and what will this mean for Musk? Then we'll turn

to a pair of Supreme Court decisions upending higher education, one on student loans and the other on

affirmative action. Given that we took last week off, we have a lot to say about those two decisions

that we're going to bring on Richard Collenberg, who was an expert witness in both the Harvard and UNC cases when they were at their earliest stages.

And he was cited by multiple parties at the Supreme Court in their briefs.

And he's particularly going to talk about what's the future of college admissions and what do we have at our disposal if we want to create a more equitable college and university environment.

So all of that and more on today's episode of The Lost Debate Show, a show for Politically Ecclectics.

All right, everybody. I'm Ravi Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Ricky, where do we find you today? I am back in New York. It feels like it's been like a year and a half since we last did this, to be honest. I know. What has it been about two weeks now, I guess, since the last time? I think it's been like a week and a half, or I guess two weeks maybe. Is that right? Yeah, but that's, it just feels like eons. Where are you? I'm in, uh, Pienza, Tuscany right now. I've been here for about 10 days. Uh, it's a, it's a beautiful little town, just like, uh, an old medieval town where the internet is horrendous.

And so I think I've found the one good connection in this entire town.

So hopefully it'll sustain itself for this conversation.

You look like you're in like a cellar.

Where are you?

It's a beautiful apartment at the top of this building just in the middle of town right now.

So yeah.

But I think, you know, this is great timing because I can't wait to get your take on this thread situation.

I've yet to really see the test case for it. I signed up for it. I must admit. And apparently

more than 100 million other people did as well, which is far faster than

even chat GPT, which got to that same stat in two months. I'm trying to figure out, I haven't

posted anything and I've managed to acquire over a thousand followers. I don't really understand

that, nor do I understand who I'm following and why. No, I just don't understand.

Like, I'm following a bunch of people that I feel like I followed on Instagram and middle

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