Senior editor @ProPublica. Formerly @BusinessInsider @NYmag, @PopMech, @TheAtlantic, &c. Just thinking aloud here :-)
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Incredibly proud to have collaborated with so many talented people on this package, and deeply honored by the recognition from the @PolkAwards for our work.
The AI boom has a hidden price. Our investigation into the secrets of US data centers just won a prestigious Polk Award.
Read the award-winning series here: bit.ly/4kQpi1K
Read more about the win here:
bit.ly/46YWnCG
(Credit: John-David Richardson for Business Insider)
#datacenters #ai #artificialintelligence
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Dear frontier AI employees,
when leaving audio logs around the office, please remember to intermix:
1) reports of what happened
2) tragic personal anecdotes
3) creepy forebodings
4) the locations of useful access keycards and passwords
This will greatly help the protagonist.
a lot of the Qwen neuron pushing personas remind of The Onion's classic advice columns (eg "Ask A Wise Old Navajo Man Who Could Really Go For A Hamburger Right Now" or "Ask A Woman Who May Be Poor, But She Has Her Pride, And No One Will Ever Take That Away From Her")
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BOURDAIN: Once you’ve had acorn salad and damson cordial at Redwall Abbey you’ll never stop wanting to crush Cluny the Scourge with a bell.
Reviews from the crowd in Elizabeth NJ of You Can See Everything
- [left 3/4 way thru]
- “I haven’t fallen asleep in a movie like that in a while
- “that movie was so ass bro”
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we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy
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What does the effort to assert federal control over elections mean for the upcoming midterms?
Join us Oct. 27 to hear what we’ve learned from our reporting: events.propublica.org/voting…
ALT Virtual event: Who Controls the Ballot Box? The Fight for Federal Control. Tuesday, Oct. 27. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Image on right of a pile of "I Voted" stickers with the U.S. flag.
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The Vanity Fair excerpt of Cole's book isn’t written carefully or seriously. It doesn’t explicate sourcing or cite documents.
Kushner offered a detailed on-the-record denial, which appears only parenthetically, low in the piece.
It may be true but I'd exercise caution.
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Spoiler alert for those tuning into Tesla's Roadster unveiling: @graceihle revealed the company's crazy plans for the flying car in @theinformation back in August.
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Informative story in @NewYorker on opioid settlement spending.
Would have loved, though, to see any sort of attribution for this graf.
I’m the only person I’m aware of who has compiled, analyzed and published this info. It took me weeks in ‘26 and ‘25.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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a while ago I made a bunch of unhinged requests to Amazon's shopping AI about things like "the best conceal carry holster for my dog" and I'm pleased to announce it's paid off
ALT Home & Family > Has a Doberman that is a guard dog and an ex-police dog Home & Family > Dog was part of a CIA experiment to allow dogs to carry firearms Home & Family > Dog has a bionic prosthetic with recoil suppression Home & Family > Dog has a Glock 40 Home & Family > Dog is highly trained in the use of a Glock 40 Home & Family > Dog is trained in the use of force Home & Family > Has a cat
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Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate.
On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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Last week, we reported that the FBI's anti-corruption squad was circling Sen Susan Collins, looking at allegations of a pay-to-play scheme.
Here's a helpful explainer from @Billy_Kobin looking at the challenges of enforcing anti-bribery laws. pressherald.com/2026/10/01/t…
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
