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The industry is so transparently full of shit
When accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies it can trigger automated systems. That's what happened with the No Kings IG account in the lead up to today's day of action. Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error. Everything is now working as it should and we sincerely apologize.
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A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
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This is a huge scandal: The campaign of Brazil's far-right, US-backed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro paid a US company that sells an AI system for manipulating elections.
Bolsonaro's right-wing party also paid the US company, which maps voters and makes fake social media accounts to spread disinformation online targeting crucial voters.
This revelation comes after Meta admitted that it censored the accounts of left-wing candidate Lula da Silva and promoted Bolsonaro on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
This is the source (only in Portuguese): intercept.com.br/2026/10/16/…
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When Trump raided John Bolton last year it was met w/ immediate outrage in the opinion pages of NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic & New Yorker. Since Rep Omar was raided Mon––and subsquently threatened w/ deportation––these same outlets have been silent. I wrote about this double standard
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. theintercept.com/2026/10/15/…
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Quantum could be a $2.7 trillion industry by 2035. Most cities would hand out tax breaks and hope. Mamdani got New Yorkers 15% of the revenue, three board seats, and a cut of any IPO or sale.
Any VC would demand similar terms. Why shouldn’t the public?
Breaking News: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is making a $30 million investment to build a quantum research lab at New York University. In exchange, the city will receive 15% of any proceeds from intellectual property developed in that lab. nyti.ms/4jUe7GD
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The man arrested for planting a secret recording device at OpenAI's headquarters is a Venture Partner of a VC firm alongside the son of a senior Saudi intelligence official:
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Listening to David Axelrod tell @jonfavs that corruption arguments against Susan Collins are inadvisable demonstrates that a perpetual class of affluent consultants are ill-suited to a populist moment with widespread cynicism.
Elites can't see each other's corruption!
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Princeton didn’t consider Anne Carson worthy of a recommendation for tenure, and she couldn’t continue teaching at McGill after its Department of Classics was shut down.
Now, everyone wants to claim her as their own …
This makes me so sad. I average 3 hours a day and part of that is professional obligations. I feel addicted and leave my phone in my bedroom after 6pm.
I can’t believe the average is more than double.
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How much are @DeionSanders and Nick Saban getting paid to support the Protect College Sports Act? Neither of them ties their shoes for free.
if you ever feel embarrassed about something you did/said at work, just remember that one time someone earnestly tried to convince the pope that a chat bot had a soul.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Victor Wembanyama was asked if he would ever sign a deal with a sports betting company: “Absolutely not. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it.”
I broadly agree with what he’s saying, but let’s not forget that Gates’ wife divorced him over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
💵 Bill Gates warns that AI is set to eliminate jobs on a massive scale. Of those who predict it will create more jobs than it destroys, he said, "I don't understand what they're thinking."
Gates said coding is the first profession where AI has become reliable enough to replace human workers, and predicted accounting, legal work, telesales and customer support will follow within a few years.
He rejected the argument that cheaper AI will create enough new demand to keep people employed. Longer-lasting tires, he noted, didn't make people drive more; they just meant fewer jobs making tires.
Gates said the disruption could last 20 years or more before AI delivers what he called "super abundance.” He says this generation's job is to get through it with humanity still in control, keeping bioterror events and job losses to a minimum "over what's probably a 20 year plus transition period."
He proposed making companies pay the same payroll tax on AI and robot labor as on human workers, and designating child care, elder care and parts of medicine and education as "human reserved" jobs.
🎥 Ezra Klein / NYT (YouTube)
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Maybe it's just a sign of our affluence and technological sophistication but the fact that so much brain power and money is being spent trying to 'solve' such meaningless problems as restaurant reservations is depressing. We used to send people to the moon.
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first
"And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation."
"But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up."
"And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?"
"So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?"
"And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."
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before AI there was no way to tell a restaurant that it’s your birthday
i’m imagining a world in the not so distant future where restaurant servers can sing “happy birthday” to you and even bring out a little dessert with candles…thanks to AI of course
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first
"And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation."
"But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up."
"And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?"
"So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?"
"And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."