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Patrick George
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Editing | Contributing | EVs, future of transportation, etc. | Prev: Editorial Director , EIC | Texan in NYC. For hire
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A thread of some things I've been up to lately: First, I'm thrilled to say I'm now Editor-at-Large at ! Among other things, I'll be editing, writing, working on an audience/news strategy, troubleshooting, offering spiritual guidance, etc.
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Honesty and transparency with your audience! Imagine that!
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Our goal at The Autopian is to always be transparent with readers, including laying out our plan for advertising. It's not the norm (e.g. lying about AI bot content), but it should be. Contrary to expectations, more people signed up for membership in the days after our post.
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Boys (a 47-year-old man who makes gigantic deals with the Saudi PIF and later becomes the richest person on earth) will be boys, am I right, folks
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Now Spiro trying to humanize Musk, calling him a "kid in that witness chair" who has trouble recounting his troubled childhood (???) and not some "fire breathing tweeting monster." Wow.
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This is what I thought the Cars of the Future® would look like when I was a kid, not the pepper spray-equipped armored SUVs we got instead
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Nissan shows off a real version of its rad-looking Max-Out electric convertible concept trib.al/72OIDWX
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All snark aside, if you are or were a Cybertruck reservation holder, I want to talk to you for a story! Do you have a rez? Did you before, but you canceled it? Are you counting on it being The Next Big Thing? Let's talk. DMs open! Or get me at bypatrickgeorge at gmail dot com.
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Remember how this thing was supposed to put Ford out of business
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Tesla Cybertruck mass production won’t start until 2024 theverge.com/2023/1/25/2357
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comes as HBO announces The Last Of Us show raking in some of its largest viewership numbers in its history there IS an audience in mainstream gaming journalism, so this is a bummer
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More details on @washingtonpost layoffs, per memo from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee: — 20 newsroom positions eliminated — 30 open positions will not be filled — WaPo is sunsetting Launcher, its online gaming vertical, and KidsPost, per two sources familiar Memo below: twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
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Wait, so you’re telling me that AIs trained on real humans’ writing just end up being plagiarism machines, spitting that work back out with some rephrasing and no credit? I’m shocked! Great work by on this story:
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This stuff is just crypto for 2023, with the inevitable crash and commensurate damage along the way, and you cannot convince me otherwise. Just something new and shiny for investor-class idiots to focus on before it blows up in everyone's faces
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Some good ways to handle layoffs, I think: - Offer buyouts first - Tell your workers how much of a pay cut you and your C-suite took to save jobs - Explain why you should still be in charge when this has happened three times in 12 months
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Media leaders & CEOs, if you want to know how to communicate layoffs effectively, Jim Bankoff is good example -He has always been transparent w staff & public about the # of roles impacted, which depts, & why -Vox never does drip, drip, drip cuts -Employees always told first twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
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An amazing move for , who's one of the very best in the business. Go watch her stuff soon at MT!
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hello! got a little Life Update for ya tomorrow will be my last day at The Drive. after, i'm headed to MotorTrend as its newest senior features editor to help host videos and write and edit stories. very very much looking forward to the opportunity!
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One of the best jobs in the world is vacant right now 👀👀👀
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WE'RE HIRING! @BreakingDefense is looking to hire someone to take over our Air Force beat, covering the strategy, policy and technology of pointy jets, drones and more. More details here: journalismjobs.com/1672280-senior
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