New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Elon Musk's net worth is ~$414.9 billion according to various wealth trackers now. But this is still a meaningful consequence (for 1,000 reasons) for Tesla to have to pay a crash survivor & the bereft family of the other victim $242.5 million.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

Rwanda has never admitted to taking part in the conflict in the DRC that since 2021 has killed thousands and displaced millions. @nbcnews.com's investigation discredits Rwanda's narrative of this conflict and lays bare their hidden invasion. 🧵 with links to watch & read

An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!

Hi friends, help me boost? Looking to talk to people who work in child vaccines (providers, schools, health depts, clinics, data folks or coalitions, etc.) who might have insight or experiences to share about how their work has been impacted the last couple of months. Don't reply just DM me please!

If you want the backstory on Trevor Milton—a few years ago I helped produce a podcast series about his rise and fall with my old colleagues at WSJ and Jigsaw Productions. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Houthi and the No-SCIF

Starlink - the satellite internet service owned and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX - has a growing footprint in the federal government... www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... Fri. evening scoop from @davidingram.bsky.social + me + Jonathan Allen @nbcnews.com

New season of White Lotus needs some online tie-in content. HBO, please let me write fake Journal articles about Jason Isaac's financial fraud.

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Someone was giving away the uplifting opposite of never-worn baby shoes on my block this morning

RIP David Lynch

An incalculable loss. Madlib owned an estimated 16,000 records, full of rare groove and soul, filling up multiple rooms in his house. There are things lost in these fires that can never be rebuilt.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

Israel is cutting a new corridor through northern Gaza, wiping Palestinian towns off the map, forcibly displacing nearly the whole population, and fortifying military positions in what many fear is a plan for long-term control. Our latest investigation [gift link]: wapo.st/4gFoSrO

Went down a fun rabbit hole last night about how the French government spent the better part of 1993 freaking out about Jurassic Park—making it a big issue in trade talks, as well as trying and failing to prop up a French epic about coal miners to take on Jurassic Park at the domestic box office.

Fantastic to see Evan Gershkovich's byline back in the WSJ, with a very illuminating article from this WSJ team on the elite Russian security service responsible for much of the intensifying repression of the last few years (including Evan's own arrest)! www.wsj.com/world/russia...

EVAN GERSHKOVICH IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS — on the byline of a WSJ article. So great to see Evan publishing stories again. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Craig and I are teaching another course with @knightcenterut.bsky.social in January! New year, new skills. Join us:

This is a really fun and illuminating profile of Brian Krebs, the most badass cybersecurity journalist in the game. Great story by @bobmcmillan.bsky.social and well worth your time.

Napoleon, December 3, 1812

I suppose I should celebrate joining a platform that doesn't throttle links by linking some recent work! My first project for NBC is about the wanton destruction of southern Lebanon by the IDF—a collaboration between our digital docs and data graphics teams: www.nbcnews.com/specials/zon...

About time! Grandma Millie's been living high on the hog.