This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...
drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse
nymag.com/intelligence...
no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted
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you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
Baby earthquake in the Oakland / East Bay area. Just felt it. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Thank you!
New revelations on Musk's alleged drug use, via @kirstengrind.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...
oh my god www.politico.eu/article/card...
Seems bad
Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.
brb going to Maui for a week 🏝️
"X is not just Y — it's Z" is becoming such a tell for AI-generated copy
Just got access to Google's new "AI Mode." Traditional search results are relegated to just three links in the right rail
xAI has acquired X, Elon Musk says x.com/elonmusk/sta...
M 4.0 - 5 km WNW of Dublin, CA
2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Crazy that I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for eight years and this is the first earthquake I've ever actually felt.
Oakland earthquake anyone?
In light of the Rippling-Deel "honeypot" lawsuit, revisiting my 2023 feature on Deel that detailed the HR-tech startup's extensive use of contractors (including the CEO), close family ties, regulatory/legal issues, and breakneck "Deel speed" culture www.businessinsider.com/inside-hr-st...
randomly thinking about that time at the start of pandemic when a stranger dumped a bag full of fetish gear and an Elmo doll on our apartment roof
