But what will Rob do about the NCAA stealing 4 wins from the Iowa Hawkeyes' 2023 season?

It Was a Bold, Multimillion-Dollar Experiment. They Wanted to Change Cable News Forever. What They Actually Did Was Far More Revealing. NewsNation promised “news for all Americans.” Its struggles show why neutrality may be impossible in modern media.

NEW: It was supposed to fix cable news. Instead, it morphed into something much more familiar, revealing, and insidious.

@nitishpahwa.com on the strange evolution of NewsNation

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They’re Calling It the Saddest Business Pivot of All Time It’s yet another symptom of an especially grim trend in modern-day corporate America.

in a cosmic sense, the saga of Allbirds' A.I. pivot and (brief) stock rally is very funny. but as an indicator of where corporate America is trending after the early-2020s tech hype cycles, it's a grim sign of worse to come. on a beloved shoe's desperate last grasp: slate.com/technology/2...

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The thing no one is factoring in: a major natural disaster in the near future.

Big wildfires/hurricanes/floods happen every year. But imagine one hitting while the administration is already stretched thin by Iran and economic strain.

I do not see this presidency recovering from that.

The conclave was rigged. You had dead cardinals voting, cardinals voting with no photo ID, mules depositing huge stacks of papal ballots into unmonitored dropboxes. No one's ever seen anything like it.

We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times She was accused of publishing AI slop in The New York Times. She says she didn't use AI to generate content — but did use AI to get published.

NEW: Futurism interviewed the New York Times writer accused of using AI to cook up a "Modern Love" column, and her story is... complicated

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I think I speak for all tech editors when I say that A.I. fatigue is real—and we're pretty hungry for anything else. Any A.I. pitches need to clear a pretty high bar to be assigned because we get TONS of them.

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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

My stupid ass thought this was Iran's Master of Fine Arts spokesperson.

Motherfucker even looks like Trump.

I feel like the dude in that one Twilight Zone episode screaming at all the adults in the room to do something, for the love of god, do anything about the deranged child imbued with immense power.

How are we supposed to go about our days after something like this—or really do anything at all? I'm trying to buy a house right now but can't stop thinking: "What's the point of even opening Zillow if we're about to descend into nuclear war because of this idiot?"

Zillow changed their desktop layout and I might have an actual mental and emotional breakdown because of it.

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posting "recession indicator" on my friends' fit pics

I've gone through all the pitches and replied to nearly all of them. Please let me know if you didn't get a reply.

nah man. that's not what i do here

Maybe we have already achieved AGI—but it's actually just kind of dumb and boring?? Something to consider.

Exclusive | OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions.

The Sora cancellation "is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year."

so … yeah, OpenAI is definitely feeling the cash pinch: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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I don't know what this means.

I'm, like, halfway through replying to all the emails. I will get to yours soon, I hope.

Chappell Roan is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

I think what folks are missing about Trump sending ICE to the airports is that he wants to attract protestors there so he can blame them for airport disruptions rather than the shutdown, which he is prolonging.

Chuck Norris Didn’t Become a Legend Until the Internet Made Him One He could slam a revolving door, make onions cry, and count to infinity—twice. Yet his real legacy is far more complicated.

"His vanishing cultural presence also exposed another inconvenient fact—that he was hardly as godly as the memes made him out to be." @nitishpahwa.com w/ a properly thorough sendoff of super OG MAGA soldier Chuck Norris.