FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
An ambitious lawyer might get somewhere with a class action seeking justice and cash for those Chotiner failed to Mirandize.
I’m not listening to dead robot George Washington unless it puts a collared shirt on, in which case I hope someone asks it what it makes of the amazing technology we now have that allows you to divine what long-dead people actually wrote and said.
THIS IS FANTASTIC.
(Disclosure: Jason Benetti was part of the White Sox announce team that provided the author of this post with Gordon Beckham’s used footwear.)
Note I specify punishment only for the owners, who whether they take an active or passive role bear the culpability.
This should be specifically prohibited by Constitutional amendment.
The crimes of oatmeal purveyors, meanwhile, are too grave and numerous to address in this format.
The owners of coffee shops, restaurants, and hotels that put two teabags in a cup, give Earl Grey when you’ve asked for a black tea, don’t give you a saucer or somewhere else to put a teabag, or confuse hot and tepid should be flogged on their way to the tea-based reeducation camps.
"Iran's nuclear weapons"?
I think my dream job would be fixing classification schema for jazz and classical for the major streamers.
Related to the bigger problems, this is the sort of thing that robots do no matter how fancy they are. It’s annoying when it comes to classifying jazz records, a lot more than that when it comes to identifying targets for deportation or bombings.
Boy don’t I know there are bigger problems right now, but Tidal has tagged a large portion of Mal Waldron’s catalogue as being by “Mal Waldrom“ and Charles Mingus, so that you have to scroll through both vast catalogues to find a given Mingus record.
If I controlled a trillion-dollar military budget and identified a technology as critical for military applications, I would probably order my subordinates to develop a version of it under my institution’s control rather than tweeting a lot about how a private company won’t listen to me.
We were also nominated for our coverage of DOGE ransacking the US government, which is exactly as it should be IMHO! This recognition of the adversarial journalism that we do at WIRED is so appreciated. Thank you to everyone who read, shared, and subscribed to @wired.com over the past year+.
Just learned that @wired.com got nominated for four (!!) National Magazine Awards, including for our "How to Win a Fight" package, with a specific callout for this excellent piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
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It’s true!!
New Yorkers can do whatever they want, it's no skin off my nose, but to be clear 15 mph is an "I got pushed by a stiff breeze" speed
I have a sneaking suspicion that when some of these people aren’t busy being unsurprised, they’re bemoaning reporters not verifying claims and gathering new information as the downfall of the republic.
The number of people who are bored by every news story and feel compelled to announce it, and yet never consider that their boredom is in turn not really very interesting to anyone else, is surprisingly high.
What do you mean “in the news,” exactly, and who precisely should be in charge of making sure that “the news” consists solely of things you personally find interesting?
I’m currently reviewing whether the last brownie was improperly eaten in a father-related scarfing, as has been alleged.
Why would we do that? He’s not a familiar name. The relevant information is what we put there—that he’s a White House staffer.
The stuff below the headline does exist for a reason and the expectation that all stories should be compressed to 100 characters seems a little silly to me.
I'm almost afraid to ask, but what does this have to do with this article?
My favorite thing about Coach is that he'll absolutely say something like "It's like Malcolm X said—'You should vote with Coach against Coach's enemies.'"
My one hope for Survivor 50 is that "Coach" remains as unbreakable, unbending, unyielding, immeasurable, immovable, and invincible as he was here, in the greatest scene in television history.
One of the shoes I’ve been waiting to drop is that Trump has weaponized every other part of the federal government, but we’ve as yet heard fairly little about abuse of the IC’s vast surveillance capabilities. I doubt this is because they’re too scrupulous to do that sort of thing.
It probably says something about nature of the content economy that Johnny MAGA started off in 2021 under an entirely different name as a WAGMI-type crypto account.
SCOOP: An X account called Johnny MAGA with 300k followers that described the Obamas-as-apes video as "a masterpiece" appears to be a sockpuppet account for a White House rapid-reaction staffer. @makenakelly.bsky.social has all the details:
NEW: Kalshi announces details into two insider trading investigations. WIRED confirms that one suspended account belongs to California congressional candidate Kyle Langford: www.wired.com/story/kalshi...
NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...