From : George Santos's first House race took days to call in 2020. So he came to DC for new member orientation and had a blast — before finding out he lost.
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Jake Swearingen
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Deputy editor . Formerly , , , , &c. Just thinking aloud here :) jswearingen@businessinsider.com
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Thrilled to share episode one of 'The Closer,' featuring Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants ...
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2024 may be the last time a Senate seat in California becomes available for decades.
The politicians sitting on the list of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's replacements aren't exactly the youngest, so it may be now or never for them to advance their careers
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Insider Unveils Pelosi Diet Stunt Blog to Rave Reviews; Haters Crying Themselves to Sleep; They Literally Cannot Believe It businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-d
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presenting: my week eating like nancy pelosi
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FROM BOX BACCHANALIA TO BLOODBATH: A HISTORY OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS (Univeristy of Michigan Press, 2024)
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2020-2021 was a BOX BACCHANALIA with unprecedentedly high demand for packaging materials
Now, we're in a BOX BLOODBATH as output plunges at rates last seen in 2009
Read my latest in @FreightWaves for more: freightwaves.com/news/cardboard
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tomorrow, insider will publish my investigation into the deep inner workings of the US government. been working on this one for a while, and can't wait to share it with you all
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tomorrow, insider will publish my investigation into the deep inner workings of the US government. been working on this one for a while, and can't wait to share it with you all
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As a NYC native I completely approve of the Empire State Building being lit up in the colors of the Eagles. Also with the idea of PA invading NY as early as tonight. Whatever as long as I don’t have to go to work tomorrow
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exactly!!!
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49ers defenders trying to not facemask
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For , I talked to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal's ex-lover about his cash-fueled double life. Here is what she told me...
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Bayonne, New Jersey
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apple watch warning me i’m in a dangerously loud environment while youngest kid loses his mind about a bath toy shows the beauty and power of the Quantified Self
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene remains upset with me for reporting this story a month ago, has refused to answer my questions in the hall since then.
Asked her tonight how long that would last.
“The rest of your life,” she said.
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One thing I noticed as a stock market idiot who read a lot of sell-side equity analyst notes about tech in 2022/2023 is even analysts themselves often seemed to imply "well, large-scale layoffs don't necessarily make sense.... but investors sure would like them :)"
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Taking what @TheStalwart posted a step further (twitter.com/TheStalwart/st), a disproportionate amount of the 'Job Cut' discussions in earnings calls are happening during the analyst Q&A session and not during the prepared remarks:
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This was so beautiful. The perfect expression of the barren, windswept void at the heart of the whole thing. A grift without an ounce of style or even audacity. The kind of scam a calculator would invent. No two organisms have ever had worse chemistry than this.
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New for , I wrote about something I’ve been seeing a lot but hearing discussed very little: the rise in Ketamine addiction, and the way the current narrative about K as a mental health wonder drug might be fueling it.🧵
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Retail continues to flourish in Bayonne New Jersey!
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From , a look at Google begging everyone to take it slow on putting out AI to the general public — and ChatGPT showing why nobody is going to listen
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good edition of america’s favorite logistics newsletter MODES from looking at ramifications of Artic Ocean melting and by 2052 becoming essentially open ocean for 6 months out of the year, making it in increasingly viable shipping lane for Russia
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Interesting to see SHEIN outbidding Amazon (I think) for top placement in Google's sponsored shopping links for certain brands — and that Shein is just selling generics, which I believe does affect ad placement?
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Love that this app just roasts me at this point, what a great experience
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It seems inevitable that generative text AI models will get blended into journalism, but this is an excellent example at how to do it badly:
1) Don't be transparent
2) Use text AI for tasks it's not great at, like math
3) Let major errors from the AI slip past editors
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So far in auction of Twitter office stuff, seems like memorabilia and industrial kitchen stuff is getting eyeballs. Fair amount of office furniture still languishing without at opening bid or 10-20% retail price
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Per Carta, there were fewer $100m+ rounds in Q4 than ...
Well than since most founders today will ever remember
Lower than any other quarter in years:
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Interesting and unsettling look from at how an unknown person/persons plagiarized one of his articles, ran it through GPT-3 and a few other generative AIs, published it on a new Substack, and got it to the top of Hacker News
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Online dating is hard — so I had ChatGPT respond to my Hinge matches. It did not go well. New for //
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When a pair of YouTubers travel from LA to Kolkata to prank Indian call center workers they claim are scamming US victims, who is exploiting whom?
Fantastic feature by
on the internet culture phenomenon of "scambaiting"
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“tap, bottled, sparkling”
that’s
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"Maybe Tesla didn't invent the iPhone, but instead the BlackBerry: a bold innovation that radically changed the sector and created a passionate fanbase, only to see its market share get washed away by competitors."
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Good look from auto news vet on Tesla's reversion to mean: Tesla was supposed to be new way to make and sell cars, but now it's discounting the Model 3 and selling to Hertz like a regular car company.
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Smart look from on what auto manufacturers and auto dealers learned from the pandemic trends — and how it's bad news for car buyers
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everyone kind of makes fun of both NYC and SF when the bay area has a big weather thing since NYC never shut up about weather ever but no one appreciates the midwestern urge to express no opinion about the weather except to ask if it’s hot or cold enough for ya
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AI transcription software keeps subtly roasting me. think it's trying to upsell me into paying for human transcription
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Say goodbye to moonshot ideas for 2023, but real innovation will stay. Read why in my latest for
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