Cracking up at the logic of new, cheap Blazers owner Tom Dundon. If we boot the Blazers support staff so they aren’t readily available to help the players, that will save us money, which we can then use to help the players
www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...
Remember "Objection", the new magazine? app? that will exist for no reason other than to <strike>BE BETTER THAN WIRED</strike> tongue-bathe the tech bros?
(previously: bsky.app/profile/bjke...)
@alexshultz.bsky.social has looked into it. Comically horrifying.
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I spent way too much time reading the terms and conditions for "Objection," mostly because I couldn't believe how ridiculous it is. The "AI tribunal" is just a collection of LLMs prompted to act like they're members of a jury assessing evidence about the truthfulness of a claim in an article
If a journalist chooses not to sign the preemptive "arbitration agreement" (which will happen 100% of the time), then Objection is rendered a very expensive Community Note.
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/peter-thie...
I spent way too much time reading the terms and conditions for "Objection," mostly because I couldn't believe how ridiculous it is. The "AI tribunal" is just a collection of LLMs prompted to act like they're members of a jury assessing evidence about the truthfulness of a claim in an article
"Objection" encourages wealthy interviewees + journos to sign an "arbitration agreement" prior to on-the-record convos, then allows the interviewee to file claims over any "factual disputes," which are resolved via "investigators" and an "AI tribunal." It is the worst AI startup idea I've ever seen.
Anything I say about this @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social story might get me put in a dossier, so I will say nothing and just strongly suggest you read it:
I remember spotting this and deciding against posting about it because I couldn't say for sure who it was!
As far as I can tell, until this press conference, there wasn't definitive evidence that Melania Trump traded emails with Ghislaine Maxwell—just a few redacted exchanges where someone signed off as "Melania" without a last name listed. Melania is very kindly filling in the blanks for all of us
This from @alexshultz.bsky.social is a good follow-up to the NYer article.
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I am busy on the “here’s how Sam Altman is frantically pivoting” beat. This week: I examined how Altman and OpenAI are hoping to get people to look away from a New Yorker investigation about Altman's deceitfulness.
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The New Yorker's profile on Sam Altman was damning. OpenAI's attempts at distraction have been shoddy, to say the least.
From @alexshultz.bsky.social for Hard Reset: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/sam-altman...
LOL just saw that the "policy ideas document" happened to publish the same morning as this investigation. Cmon man
I don't want to diminish the (already real) loss of jobs b/c of AI. But I'd encourage journalists who score EXCLUSIVE Altman interviews to consider whether these "policy ideas" are sincere or just a means of countering skepticism about the utility of many OpenAI products
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Two weeks after OpenAI shut down Sora, one of the company's Next Big Things in late '25-early '26, Axios is credulously relaying Sam Altman's latest PR campaign: "AI superintelligence" is "so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive" that it calls for a new social contract
www.axios.com/2026/04/06/b...
to be clear, i don't view this as some sort of grave breach of ethics. These guys basically do longer CNBC-style interviews for a younger audience, it's whatever. I just wish OpenAI wouldn't insult our intelligence about their motives for the acquisition or how TBPN is going to operate
somewhat niche audience but certainly influential in Silicon Valley circles
In light of the news that OpenAI is acquiring TBPN and pledging "editorial independence," here are a few snippets of a TBPN interview from October '25, when the TBPN hosts fawned over Sora to Sam Altman and Bill Peebles
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would be curious if any enterprising politicians are preparing some messaging (or god forbid a policy proposal) to address "trillionaire Elon Musk," given that he will very possibly surpass that net worth this summer, depending on how a few things shake out
Five months ago, the head of Sora predicted that Sora would someday be a precursor to the multiverse. He also said that OpenAI "really feels invested in Sora's success," and that it was good for the company's "longevity" to have a video generation tool
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/openai-kil...
Their TBPN podcast appearance was an especially funny listen
Took a trip down memory lane and listened to podcasts from fall 2025, when Sam Altman and Head of Sora Bill Peebles made all sorts of outlandish claims about Sora, which is now dead.
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You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name.
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Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name? It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content. You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name. There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].
Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
IMO it's a net positive when guys like Andreessen give their most off-putting takes then crashout. These viral clips expose Andreessen to new audiences who are otherwise only familiar w/his distinct forehead. Same applies to other Big Tech CEOs who say unsettling things whenever they're handed a mic
part of my piece is about Matt Mahan's consistently poor triangulation attempts. Now he's favorably comparing himself to Zohran Mamdani (which will annoy Mahan's conservative Big Tech donors), while also saying he won't promise free buses or a rent freeze. A whole ad of "I'm not gonna..."
For more on Silicon Valley's chosen gubernatorial candidate, read @alexshultz.bsky.social's latest Hard Reset column: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/california...
Wrote about California's remarkably weak slate of gubernatorial candidates, and how Big Tech billionaires are trying to take advantage of a putrid race by tossing money at San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who's somehow even more sauceless than his competitors
I understand why this race isn't garnering the attention of U.S. Senate races, but I don't think it's set in for people that "California Governor Eric Swalwell" is a distinct possibility
