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Executive Editor, Enterprise at Newsweek Previously: Publisher & EIC of The Fine Print, EIC of The New Republic, Editor of The Atlantic Wire, EIC of Gawker, Reporter at Variety, Reporter at The New York Observer, etc.
It's pretty remarkable that this sentence doesn't come until the end of the 14th graf of the story:
"Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Trump’s non-endorsement in the Texas GOP Senate Primary has led to one of the bloodiest intramural GOP fights of the midterm season and a kind of natural experiment: What happens to Republican politics when Trump exits the political stage?
Deadwood re-watch report: Swearengen-Farnum scenes feel very AI chatbot to me, including (and I am paraphrasing) ‘stop repeating what I just said’ frustrations
"I see as much misery outta them movin’ to justify their selves as them that set out to do harm."
Fwiw: this 18-year-old law review article is the single best explanation I’ve read so far for the current political crises.
“Separation of Parties, Not Powers” by
Daryl J. Levinson and Richard H. Pildes
(Harvard Law Review, 2006) explains this. Argues that constitutional checks and balances were pretty quickly overrun by partisanship in the U.S. experiment. www.jstor.org/stable/4093509
I will never buy a cat toy that interests my cats more than the packaging and box it comes in, will I?
no shade intended at the Bloomberg terminal... I've had access a few times over the years and it's a marvel
seeing someone who reads Axios via the Bloomberg terminal is wild
“I am learning that being an American means that I have to be worried for the people I love.”
Don’t blame you! But, maybe it’s just the editor in me, I do see the merits in a byline-less magazine. House voice to the max!
“Since 2015, the median age of an Economist subscriber has risen from 51 to 61”
So, basically, they haven’t added any new readers in a decade?
www.semafor.com/article/02/2...
Hiring 1,800 snow shovelers at $30/hr for, I dunno, 20 hours each costs $1 million. They each get $600 they probably weren’t expecting this month. And a bunch of snow shoveling happens, too.
What they used to call a “bleg”: Anyone know if the elevated subway lines (mine are the J and M) are likely to be running normal in the morning?
None of the MTA sources I’ve looked at have addressed this admittedly niche transpo concern!
It’s like predicting a massive number of new telephone lines to support streaming video in 1994.
People don’t see everything coming. Systems are complex. I subscribe to few certainties. Anyone who tells you it’s a straight line to the future is wrong.
If there has been one straight line in computing, it’s been ever-increasing chip efficiencies. You’d certainly expect those forces to work if it were a matter of meeting geometrically growing demand.
But straight lines to infinity are everywhere in AI. To take one prominent example: Sam Altman and others like to think that hundreds of gigawatts of new power will be needed to run AI server farms. That’s only because they do projections based on current chip energy efficiencies.
Those millions of suddenly unemployed people would have time on their hands to get politically organized and, per the scenario’s hypothesis, access to cheap and powerful tools to build new things. It’s silly to think they’d just calmly move down the economic ladder.
Amidst all these long-chain hypotheticals, it is, to put it mildly, a lack of imagination to say only “many took lower-paying service sector and gig economy jobs.” That’s straight-line-to-infinity thinking.
A labor shock of this scale would have huge, chaotic system-changing reverberations.
There is way, way, way too much “straight line to infinity” thinking about AI.
Like this piece positing that all white-collar workers will be laid off in the next two years because AI has become so good, cheap, and ubiquitous doesn’t ask how those laid-off employees will respond.
Maybe the main difference between Bluesky and X is simply that the people here are angry and depressed about the state of the world and the people on the other site think the good guys are winning?
The “Democrats are forcing us to do something you will hate” Trump admin playbook does not seem to have a very successful track record
I plan to offer my condolences to Canada by binging on Shoresy for the rest of the day.
Cybertruck vs Ford Edsel sales.
(Note: the U.S. population in 1960 was half the size as it is now.)
The backstory of the Sony Hack was a lot less interesting than I was hoping. But it does remind me that in a lot of ways, the Sony hack, Wikileaks State Dept cables, and the DNC emails hack were the cultural forerunners of the Epstein files.
www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko accepted Trump's invitation but then said he would send his foreign minister, though neither showed up. A ministry statement issued Thursday on social media said that despite receiving all the right forms on time, the United States had not issued visas for the Belarusian delegation. "If even basic formalities aren't respected, what 'peace' are we talking about?" the statement said.
Belarussia couldn’t get to the Board of Peace thing because their visas didn’t come through. 🤦🏻♂️
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
✨If I Style Guided the World! ✨
Percentages, if they're not attached to hard numbers, are always bullshit. I assume you're trying to obfuscate something, or that you're just terrible at communicating information.
But for high earners, the increase could be substantial. The mayor has consistently framed his proposal as a two-percentage-point increase in income taxes on those wealthy New Yorkers, to 5.88 percent from 3.88 percent, but that percentage point increase translates to a tax rise of just over 51 percent.
Another style rule I wish I could permanently make: never ever state an increase of a percentage in percentage!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/n...
![NeXT), but the great thing about usenet is that there are so many bright and weird people out there, that if you put any idea the right way and in the right place, the chances are fairly high that somone to whom it makes sense will pick it up.
[[UNDERLINED:: The project started getting feedback from people who saw it as a rather simple version of Hypercard(TM), an over complex information system, a frustratingly inconsistent database, or an idea which appealed to some latent excitement about how things could be.]]
From then on, interested people on the Internet provided the feedback, the stimulation, the ideas, source code contributions, and the moral support which it would have been hard to find locally. The people of the internet built the web.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:67r4c5cbfofo2p5bq6zqajbv/bafkreifakoovx5gbwwbuybcph6xg5pstirdzab4h6uvxh3iu3as34o74ym)
NeXT), but the great thing about usenet is that there are so many bright and weird people out there, that if you put any idea the right way and in the right place, the chances are fairly high that somone to whom it makes sense will pick it up. [[UNDERLINED:: The project started getting feedback from people who saw it as a rather simple version of Hypercard(TM), an over complex information system, a frustratingly inconsistent database, or an idea which appealed to some latent excitement about how things could be.]] From then on, interested people on the Internet provided the feedback, the stimulation, the ideas, source code contributions, and the moral support which it would have been hard to find locally. The people of the internet built the web.
TIL: the first use case of the World Wide Web was hosting the CERN phone directory.
And of course, there was lots of skepticism that it would ever amount to anything.
Tech adoption curves are a flat circle.