Wrote a story for Bloomberg Businessweek about how Pokemon cards are more popular than ever and how everything is gambling now

I'm reading this headline on ESPN.com. It is the top headline on ESPN.com. I have literally zero idea what it means. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm not awake right now.

Oops, part 2

Z is the president now those are the rules

My notes on this game have descended into increasingly incoherent scribbles

nobody move

Next stop 34th Street

Holy shit

Snarky stuff like this misses the point just as much as people who try and pretend that AI writing could just never be as brilliant as what they produce. The point with this isn’t “does it work?” It’s “is it worth 5 guys having all the world’s resources?” And, no, 82-0 did not convince me of that.

I looked at some tweets yesterday and there were a bunch of people sincerely and earnestly being like “who cares about the journalists, fire them all, people don’t watch 60 Minutes for them! They watch for the stories!” And dawg listen…do we have any theories about how the stories come to be…

Perfect story, I think

"Wake up in the morning wanting to have ideas" is such an incredible tell. It's like saying you wake up in the morning wanting to be fast but that you don't ever go for a run.

I don't know when it became normal for people to not just cheat and lie and steal but also to then say, after being caught, that they did nothing wrong. But I hate it. nymag.com/intelligence...

In 1990, in a game that wasn’t even on TV, a photographer captured a bloodied Nolan Ryan, an enduring image of Ryan’s grit, as well as essential home decor. Here’s the story of Nolan, Linda and a photo that led to the Rangers’ bloody jersey giveaway 36 years later. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I whooped out loud

Wrote this last year about late night shows and late night bands and creative jobs going away

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

it's so cool and edgy to regurgitate old corporate marketing slop from the 1980s

"I practice my jazz standards."

Haotong Li has shown intestinal fortitude this week at Augusta, from his viral bathroom confessions to being paired with Scottie Scheffler in Sunday’s final round. Still, he says the best part of his week was the Par 3 Contest with his mom — and Kevin Hart. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

Sort of makes you wonder what Rory's last decade would have looked like if he'd won a major in, say, 2017

Brandon Holtz, a 39-year-old RE/MAX agent drank Coors Light and watched hoops in the Crow’s Nest and grabbed a whiskey and camped out on 16 after his first round at the Masters. The golf, he wishes it went better. But he’s ready to keep on dreaming. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

More and more people are keeping exotic venomous snakes as pets. What happens when they get bitten? Here’s me in @wired.com on the network of zookeepers saving lives across the country: www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

If you’re keeping count, in my TL, I just came across in the last 15 minutes three separate stories on people claiming to be journalists who boast of using AI in their writing. They are willing accomplices to the attempted murder of journalism.

For five years, Rori Harmon has had one of the toughest jobs in sports: She’s Vic Schaefer’s point guard. His first commit, she led his rebuild but most importantly, his defense: "She picks your ass up at the city limits and she shows your butt the door when we're done.” www.espn.com/womens-colle...

That is a tremendous amount of talent that walked across the street, so to speak, to a Washpost competitor. My goodness.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Deservedly

the most important night in Washington Wizards' history

this is what never facing a single consequence in your entire life does to you

Sawyer Robertson is the ultimate searcher, a Lubbock kid who idolized Mike Leach, was lost when he died, and now faces an uncertain NFL draft. But don’t mistake his honesty and humility and faith for softness. “A golden retriever,” he says, “is still a dog.” www.espn.com/nfl/draft202...

Boone Niederhofer, a 32-year-old father of two who’s a production engineer for a Midland oil company, made the US Olympic team as a bobsledder, while juggling work and dad duties. Inside the adventures of an Aggie from San Antonio who made it to Italy. www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Baumann probably thought he had it bad when he had to listen to me, The Last Millennial. Little did he know it could get worse. At least I know The Cheat.

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ya think? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Dark Knight evil surveillance tech but for finding your lost dog

Lady Gaga appearing here is risking some "actually Italians aren't white after all" backlash

Frankly a total misuse of the Fender Rhodes

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers

talking about the weather is generally the lowest form of discourse but i can’t hold it in anymore: this weather is bullshit

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.