This is bonkers.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

this is why layout matters

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists: Adrian Holovaty added ASCII tab importing to Soundslice to avoid user complaints and confusion, but has mixed feelings about it https://www.holovaty.com/writi...

lightningfield.com on April 15, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050415012454if_/http://www.lightningfield.com:80

That time @jggross.bsky.social went out clubbing with a pack of senior Belgians. It's good for you! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

SCOOP: Less than 3 weeks before Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1M/head fundraiser with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for MAGA Inc. Walczak's pardon application emphasized Fago's financial support for Trump, & her connection to a plot to publicize Ashley Biden's diary.

If there are Seven Cycling Wonders of the World, then Beijing’s elevated bike expressway deserves to be near the top of that list: a six-metre wide, 5.4-km long piece of show-stopping infrastructure that is quickly become an important form of transportation and recreation for 12,000 users each day.🧵

Anyone can make a Mickey movie now. So far they're all terrible horror films.

I really appreciate news stories that take a phenomenon we all generally implicitly understand or assume but don't have any hard data or evidence for, then meticulously prove it. Well done @stuartathompson.bsky.social.

Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate

Off topic: The kids and I made something fun. fionaproject.com

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured? Last week, we finally found the answer. www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...

Holy crap. Paging Vignelli.

The must-read of the week (recognizing it's only Monday): What happens when the president's national security team accidentally includes a journalist on a theoretically highly secret group chat about an upcoming military operation. @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump impersonator in the Netherlands finds that nobody wants to hire a Trump impersonator these days: “It’s funny until it isn’t.”

I like this idea.

On Street View, a huge mop of hair rides a bike through the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

Wow, this is rough. And yes, hard to understand.

A 4-year-old boy in Uganda died of Ebola this week, according to a State Department cable seen by NYT. The Trump administration just canceled most of the contracts with groups that were trying to stop the outbreak there, which had seemed to be fading. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/h...

They stand in a small crowd outside the large metal gate, tense and waiting in the dark. Most look weighed down, both by stress and by overstuffed plastic bags — all for men who won't be coming home anytime soon.

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane

Gonna stay up all night live-blogging this.

hey look what you can now do from the paper of record @emilyliu.me

This thread 💔

read @cwarzel.bsky.social on Watch Duty and what apps look and feel like when they're actually for the public good www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Cease-fire stumbles: “There isn’t any agreement at the moment,” a spokesman for Netanyahu's office said. “Therefore there’s no cabinet meeting.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

A cast of many is contributing to our live coverage of the out-of-control LA fires today. Things there are likely to get worse before they get better. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

This is going to be a big day for Bluesky.

Jimmy Carter was the only public figure I ever interviewed who sent me a thank-you note after the story came out. On paper. Extraordinarily kind. The story was about his great efforts to eradicate Guinea Worm.

Today I'm choosing to enjoy the positive vibes coming out of Syria. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

just stunning. AI is already surpassing the best humans at gymnastics

My favorite Wrapped was the one where at the end it said 'Here's a playlist made just for you of tracks nobody has ever listened to. Give them some love!' And it was all self-released comedy albums, the book of Deuteronomy in Catalan, etc. The long tail can be a grim place.

Was the attempted coup in Korea this week Bluesky's first big news event? Yes, sorta. But the platform has a ways to go still. It was an important proof of concept, though. And I think we’re a lot closer to the platform’s big breakthrough moment than many expect. www.garbageday.email/p/president-...

We're live-blogging late-night developments in South Korea, which just banned public protests and put the news media under "martial law command." www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

The @404media.co model gets a lot of attention because so many people in journalism (including me) want it to work! This was a good chat -- I hadn't thought about how being indie and investigative means you need to shell out for some good litigation insurance.

Over the last decade, collecting our #TreeByBike has evolved from political statement to one of our family’s most revered annual rituals. In that period, we’ve watched a global community grow around a hashtag, filled with folks changing hearts, minds and streets in their cities.

But did she get any sleep? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...

A nice one from Ali Watkins: British phone company creates digital gran who smothers would-be phone scammers with cheery confusion and relentless digressions. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/t...

My cousins have started sharing AI slop on Facebook, mostly recipes. This "Dirty Snowman Baileys Ice Cream Cocktail" is topped off with a piece of chocolate that reads "Dirty Snowmman hair, hair hat, hat." A commenter says it "looks like pure winter bliss in a glass!" 🫠

1/3 of my Release Radar tracks this week are from a sprawling compilation assembled by the Red Hot folks: Transa, "a spiritual journey celebrating trans people." www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Weird childhood memories of walking through this, like a very early rave.

Bluesky Firehose 3D: someone needs to turn this into DOOM next https://firehose3d.theo.io/

The post-film conversation with @tmwtsn.bsky.social about Gary Hustwit's generative documentary "Eno" went something like: "I wish there had been more about X and Y... but maybe that's in one of the other 52 quintillion versions."

I am so into Dutch-style intersections.

So who is building interesting stuff on top of Bluesky? Where are the good / weird bots? What's the deal with the API?

Sometimes you discover music via Wikipedia. The intro here was sampled in... take a guess. The rest is great too. Who's got musical discoveries to share? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwUs...