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404 Media
• Matthew Gault
AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
Freshly Pressed - WordPress.com
• Adam Overland
AI will never be better than me at having severe anxiety around AI being better than me at writing
McSweeney’s
• Mike Drucker
My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
Berkeleyside
• Eli Wolfe
$30 minimum wage in Alameda County headed to November election ballot, coalition says

Grandcamp, Evening, 1885 #seurat #georgesseurat
Don great to see you here!
Everyone else, I've known Don for a long time. In 1988 I think he did a Mac INIT that made it possible to send messages between apps, which was a basic function we needed in Frontier.
Over the years we keep crossing paths and this is another.
Ars Technica
• Jon Brodkin
Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers
Six years in prison for man who "sold out the very victims he was hired to represent."
Biggest thing Twins can do to win back fans? ‘A better product on the field’ (nytimes.com)
Just like eugenics sex realism is pseudoscience (rejserin.medium.com)
Can the Anaheim Ducks build a Stanley Cup contender around an $18 million player? (nytimes.com)
Revealed: Safety failures at BrewDog under former boss James Watt (thetimes.com)
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Why the House Will Vote to Stop Changing the Clocks
“House GOP leaders are planning to put legislation on the floor next week that would make daylight saving time permanent in hopes of softening a revolt led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna,” Politico reports.
Defector
• Sohini Desai
Here’s What Texas Tech’s Leadership Is Being Sued For Censoring
Toni Schneider blogs an update on Bluesky and drops the “interim” from his CEO title:
Since March, we’ve shipped a slew of new features and products, another 2 million people have joined Bluesky, and close to 200 new apps have launched in the Atmosphere, the open ecosystem of social spaces connected by a single account. All of this tells us that the appetite for social experiences on the internet is vast; far broader than the handful of apps the major platforms offer today.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Billy Dukes
New Taylor Sheridan Show Filming In Scotland
Here's everything we know about Taylor Sheridan's new TV show, 'The Laird.' Continue reading…
Rise of the 'slop zombies'
Corporate America and the wider world of work are suffering from a pandemic of AI-pilled slop zombies infected with brain rot and unearned confidence.
Racket
• Racket Staff
RacketCast, Ep. 56: BookCast Vol. 2 Feat. Writer/Podcaster Deborah Copperud
Time to talk tomes.
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
GOP Senators Dread Pre-Election Shutdown Fight
“Senate Republicans are anxious to avoid giving Democrats another opening to force a government shutdown weeks before the midterm elections,” Axios reports. “The appropriations process is a slog, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence adds a complication, and election season raises the stakes. Add to that the Senate is haunted by three shutdowns in the past year.” […]