Adin Wagner

Sick

Keep laughing. Bet you didn't even know that the trophy for the Nobel Peace Prize is also mostly a soccer ball.

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Except for the Tony Gilroy one.

1. Punch Drunk Love
2. Inherent Vice
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Master
7. Liquorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight

You are entering a new world

Every time we take our dog on her first walk back in our neighborhood after a trip, she sniffs around like crazy, trying to see if anything’s changed. We’ve now termed this “catching up on her email”

A lot of talk about how countries will be non competitive if they don’t empower AI and not as much about how allowing AI to turn the brains of our children into undeveloped mush will impact national competitiveness

Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.

Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.

deeply unfair that you are doing that and I am not

Also, a lot of things weren’t as effective attacks when people thought trump = lower prices. Opinions are layered.

LFG

People learning in real time that when someone says they’re going to run something “like a business” in today’s day and age, that means they will try to do hostile corporate takeovers for purported short term gains.

Okay everything is bad so I’m just gonna listen to every Jenny Lewis album while I draft legal documents for the next 10 hours byeeeee

As it should.

A Weird Way to Win the Trade War with Trump Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-02-03 · 31m

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seems like a very smart idea to do a whole bunch of shit that Trump’s team wouldn’t even consider, because it would involve creativity and hard work. We cannot just go tit for tat. Outprepare him! He doesn’t like to read!

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

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Saw a cybertruck struggle and then fail to make a 3-point turn today. Nothing could have prepared me for the experience.

Build. Houses.

Convinced that my dog has learned to sniff out my sugar lows, but instead of alerting me like those diabetic service dogs, she tries to pounce on my weakened state to grab food from the counter.

Please put an ctrl z option for when you accidentally rewind or fast forward a podcast bc you didn’t realize your screen was on and you pick up your phone a little too haphazardly thanks

After we saw a possum on our nighttime walk with the dog, my wife googled if possums are a danger to dogs, and the AI vomit that comes up now said that it’s healthy for dogs to eat possums. So no need to panic

I’m sorry but before I pay over $500 you gotta explain to me why that’s good, for a chair to be Yugoslavian

I’ve also been trying to write a literary muse piece but my method of stopping all classically handsome men who are somehow clever in a way that belies unresolved anxiety and asking them if they know Sally Rooney has not worked yet

So umm… four years of this will crush us??

*showing my hairstylist a pic* i need you to kill this person for me

Thanks man

You know, I never actually looked into why he thinks these things. Is there an article I can read that explains why he wants polio to come back?