Imagine an ant walking on a balloon. But it's actually a 768-dimensional manifold whose axes represent learned semantic features, and the ant is really a vector encoding meaning through its distributed position across all these latent dimensions. I mean, so cool, right?

Read the @niemanlab.org's interview with @johnwest.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes take on how the WSJ used AI to analyze Elon Musk's tweets www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-...

WSJ analysis: Since January, more than three dozen employees and associates of Elon Musk and fellow tech titans Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Palmer Luckey have been tapped for roles at federal agencies critical to their businesses www.wsj.com/politics/tec...

So proud of @wsj.com data team member @johnwest.bsky.social and formers @coulterjones.bsky.social @andreafuller.bsky.social for their work "chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics" pulitzer.org/winners/22641

Representatives of President Trump’s family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter www.wsj.com/finance/curr... by @ceostroff.bsky.social et al

Interesting chart on the @wsj.com home page right now www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Congrats @mcgint.bsky.social and team! talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...

Reupping this new WSJ data journo job for the crew headed to #NICAR25. If you're interested or want to learn more, feel free to hit me up. I'll be there all week!

Want to work with the most amazing data team in journalism? We're hiring (again)! wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Can't wait to be having this debate with the autonomous killer robot stedda ChatGPT!

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

It's Russia's largest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. While in prison, Evan Gershkovich never stopped reporting. One discovery? A secretive unit called DKRO turned dating apps into honeypot operations, targeting Americans with security clearances. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The WSJ is looking for a statistically minded journalist who can spot clever natural experiments and explain what really makes the world tick. $145K-165K in NYC. Apply by Dec 20. It comes with some pretty sweet perks (like @ceostroff.bsky.social's candy jar) wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/...

There's Linear A, Rongorongo, the Voynich Manuscript, and my 10-year-old's friends www.wsj.com/style/brain-...

I'm not ashamed to admit it, @anthropic.com: I really, really miss Golden Gate Claude news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4045...

"The early Wednesday morning vote was 190 to 0. To cast their vote, lawmakers scaled fences and encountered armed guards as they entered the country’s National Assembly building in downtown Seoul." www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...

MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Private insurers collected billions for veterans' healthcare, while the VA delivered it, by @mcgint.bsky.social and crew. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

I've read ~350 books since I started keeping track in 2020. I tagged every one in my own weird tagging style. I'm starting my yearly project of visualizing my reading life (though I'm not sure why I do it). Here's a rough cut, which pulls together books with similar tags, authors, and publishers.

i love these posts i get to waste hours installing apps to be more productive www.reddit.com/r/macapps/co...

i made an album about the ai apocalypse using ai and i can’t stop listening to it m.soundcloud.com/the-last-bro...

As Trump efficiency czar, Elon Musk has gone from targeting federal agencies for bloat to going after federal employees by name on X — sparking pushback

Claude ftw on this loving message my 10-year-old sent me yesterday

Sometimes, silence speaks volumes.

The MAGA surrogate and powerful adviser to the president-elect is joining venture-capital firm 1789 to invest in companies espousing conservative values, bringing new attention to a financial movement that hasn’t taken off My latest w/Peter Rudegeair and Alex Leary www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

This Particle News app is doing … a lot. I think I kinda like it? 😱

Golden Gate Claude coulda been Claude the Paranoid Android. What a missed opportunity

I made a starter pack of WSJ journalists on Bluesky. Check back as I expect this to grow in the coming weeks: go.bsky.app/M9EyQEC

Bonus points if you can come up with a statistical analysis involving said stress-chocolate jar

Do you know the difference between instrumental variables and regression discontinuity designs? Check out the WSJ data team's new job post. Plus, @ceostroff.bsky.social has candy! wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Want to uncover hidden patterns in complex data? We're seeking a Senior Data Journalist to join our award-winning WSJ data team! If you love developing creative natural experiments and using causal inference to explain real-world phenomena, check it out. wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/...