Page 11
Opinion | Pickleball is the worst
May 08, 2023 | Washington Post
Any game you can take up after breakfast and be pretty good at by lunch is not a sport. And it isn't even great exercise.
More →
Analysis | America’s learned helplessness on guns
May 08, 2023 | Washington Post
The debate over how to address gun violence is between doing something and doing nothing.
More →
Analysis | The low cost (for a rich person) of sponsoring a Supreme Court justice
May 04, 2023 | Washington Post
America's wealth gap makes it trivial for billionaires to cover whoever's bills they want.
More →
How open content is transforming American journalism
May 04, 2023 | Werd I/O
I’m focusing on the intersection of technology, media, and democracy. Subscribe by email to get every update. It’s genuinely refreshing to see how non-profit newsrooms have
More →
“Alexa Will Not Replace Us”
May 03, 2023 | Amazon Chronicles
The Writers Guild of America is on strike, bringing movie and television production to a halt. This affects media companies across the board, but one of them is Amazon, which is not exactly like other media companies. It's primarily a retailer as well...
More →
‘Dune: Part Two’—An Exclusive First Look at the Saga’s Epic Conclusion
Apr 27, 2023 | Vanity Fair
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and director Denis Villeneuve share secrets from the new film and reveal Florence Pugh’s, Austin Butler’s, and Léa Seydoux’s new characters.
More →
China’s sweeping new anti-espionage law will make it easier to arrest foreigners
Apr 27, 2023 | The Globe and Mail
New law expands the definition of spying amid a renewed crackdown on journalists and growing pressure on foreign businesses
More →
Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight, and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving
Apr 25, 2023 | Nieman Lab
Silver on ABC: "They have limited rights to some models post–license term, but not the core election forecast stuff."
More →
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Apr 12, 2023 | NPR
NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.
More →
David Wolf – remembering a China hand
Apr 09, 2023 | Imagethief
David in his natural environment. From his Instagram. In June 2004, I quit a perfectly good job at a little PR firm in Singapore and went to Beijing to do a three month language program. Eight year…
More →
Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Apr 08, 2023 | ProPublica
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
More →
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
Apr 07, 2023 | simonwillison.net
Donald Trump Probably Should Not Have Been Charged With (This) Felony
Apr 04, 2023 | Slate Magazine
It is said that if you go after the king, you should not miss.
More →
Chefs vs Cooks
Apr 03, 2023 | forfuturecontext.substack.com
A mindset switch that expands possibilities
More →
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Apr 03, 2023 | Business Insider
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.
More →
Think of language models like ChatGPT as a "calculator for words"
Apr 03, 2023 | simonwillison.net