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Morgan Clendaniel
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Deputy Digital Editor of , working on and . member. Former editor at GOOD. Other sundry things.
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NEW: Schumer announced a push to "get ahead of" AI. But folks involved in these talks say his office has little but high-level ideas that overlook AI's near-term risks.
"They could not even answer the most basic questions about the scope of the law.”
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It‘s really disturbing that people are unwilling to say something like “things can go tragically south in a chaotic situation where you fear your safety is on the line” but instead argue that it is good to proactively kill people.
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These people do not even think this was really an accident, or else manslaughter 2 would look relatively just: they want Penny to have been a murderer and they want him to get away with it.
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watch as I use chatgpt to complete sufjan's fifty states project
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If only our society had developed some sort of adversarial process wherein we could let a group of citizens hear the facts and then determine whether someone's actions were justified.
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This 79-year-old German man was just floating along having a nice life being a former Olympian
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If you look at the stats on the tweets of any of the major covid influencers (hawk or dove), you can see this isn't a salient issue to most people any more. Crazy to try to base a national campaign on it.
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We are permanently ensuring that Florida will never become a biomedical security state by enacting expanded and permanent protections against medical authoritarianism.
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The sneakers, which are made from just five parts, are designed to be broken down and fully recycled.
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Take my AI girlfriend…. please!
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Had a plan that I would never play kids music and just skip the baby right to grown up music. How did it go? Let's just say I am now the world's leading expert in Baby Beluga.
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This is a reply in response to a tweet about putting more cops on BART. What do they think the movie is about????
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Starting to see houses I looked at a year ago come back on the market after having been flipped and, my god, they're often worse than they were before. Dunning-Kruger for taste.
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"Free speech is so important they made it the FIRST amendment" is so funny. Buddy, it didn't even make it into the original thing they had to add it later.
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Here's on how Hollywood's slow push toward AI would be a huge blow writers: "Studio CEOs are betting on several trends working in unison to make writers obsolete, or to at least lessen them as workers, creators, storytellers, and human beings."
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"Everyone is increasingly desperate to leave Twitter as its owner descends into madness and we've made a great Twitter clone but we refuse to let people on fast enough to take advantage," a brilliant business plan.
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They should probably let more than 1,000 people on Bluesky soon or they'll miss their chance.
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probably not great that the owner of this website and the richest guy in the US is essentially doing sandy hook denialism and stormfront tier race science and all we can do is make posts like this about it or leave the website and cede it even more to that crowd
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Haha, no one interacting with this tweet can decide if this is a lot or a little.
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How’s the book, though?
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Widow who wrote grief book after husband died charged with his murder trib.al/RoP0gvO
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Nancy Silverton putting vegan mozzarella on the menu at Mozza
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'Just because it's a substitute doesn't mean it needs to be anything less than spectacular.' f-st.co/4cqa7IC
Would not have guessed the evangelical Lt. Governor of Indiana dresses like she is leading a design thinking seminar.
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Christian nationalist Sean Feucht prayed a blessing over Indiana Lt. Gov Suzanne Crouch after she arranged for them to hold a prayer rally inside the state capitol. Feucht promised that Crouch will be "filled with favor" for giving them access.
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As always with these things, people are incapable of just saying "yeah, that's fine, I'm an adult and it's worth it." Instead, they must feel absolved of ever making a bad decision.
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There is no safe level of alcohol consumption.
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Love that the Pulitzer award tweets don't have links and don't say even what the subject of the winning story might be. You're supposed to just know what international reporting the Times won for.
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I yelled "WHY CANT I REWIND ON AMAZON PRIME???" enough times in Slack to manifest this great story:
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I saw the headline and photo of the Elizabeth Holmes story and just chose not to read it. You don't need to do this to yourselves.
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If you’re talking about Tár as just something about cancel culture and don’t mention the, uh… ghosts, then maybe you didn’t watch carefully enough?
Odd that the guys who are so excited to claim that they’d eagerly and successfully choke out a homeless guy on the subway don’t say anything about their excitement for imagined self-defense after a mass shooting.
Watched two episodes of Jewish Matchmaker last night and my Bad For The Jews alarm has never gone off harder in my life.
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one person has an extra leg
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Midjourney 5.1: "A photography of advertising people discuss creativity on stage in a panel on a beach at Cannes Lions"
Everything about this is so perfect, right down to the haircuts and the lanyards. You have to look quite closely to spot the distorted finger.
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I’ve noticed that a lot of people who spent a few years saying that the SF Standard was propaganda are now very eager to post SF Standard links since it’s now done some valuable reporting that aligns with them ideologically.
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First they came for our health. Then they came for our chairs. Restaurant chains are kicking customers to the curb, and that will have a profound impact on our communities. More in my essay for the spring issue of
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Tech people still having trouble grappling with the fact that their industry is suffering a jobs recession that hasn't really impacted the rest of the economy.
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Is there a term for when the reported numbers don’t match what you’re seeing in the real world? Feels like it’s been that way in both directions over the last few years.
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Why isn't it that they're just wrong about what life was like in 1973?
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What this shows is (of course) not an objective measure of quality of life. It simply shows that most Americans are feeling lousy about 2023. Plenty of economic data would suggest we’re much better off as a society. But happiness is not GDP.
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Building a time machine not to kill baby Hitler but to make a reality show where I take these people back to 1973 and then record them as they beg to come back.
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This is stunning: A majority of Americans believe life today is worse than it was half a century ago.
What was different — and better— about the lives of people in 1973?
And what is worse about today?
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It's very hard to guess what the temperature was when this photo was taken based on the wide range of outfit choices, I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.
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In case you’ve forgotten who Leonard Leo is, a helpful visual aid:
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