SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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That feeling of being able to breathe a bit more freely when you're in a traditionally conservative space and a very stereotypical cis Dude mentions having a trans sibling and is super chill about it

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I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

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Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

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