Brian Phillips

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

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Now YOU can lose $80 billion

Sorry, sorry. I'm being informed that Anthropic didn't lose $80 billion. Their report said they lost $80 billion, but that was due to a totally normal accounting procedure that means the $80 billion, while looking like $80 billion, wasn't really $80 billion. It's a good company actually

UCLA’s uniforms look like a cross between Ole Miss and Notre Dame, which would create Stephen Miller’s ideal Supreme Court Justice

The billionaire-owned San Francisco Chronicle—like the billionaire-owned LA Times—has predictably, come out against Prop 40, and the arguments given are dogshit archive.li/wG2wc#select...

I just learned that there is a book called Impossible Owls by @brianphillips.lol - if you want to learn about Possible Owls have I got a book for you www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...

Important piece: Republicans already strip-mined their donor base, and now are deeply dependent on billionaires. Unless Dems change, they will go the same route, or become electorally uncompetitive.

normally at this point we would link to our website but instead we can only link to our unbearable feelings of absence

He looks like he's trying to get the College of Cardinals to buy a George Foreman Grill

I went looking for the essential energy of Pete Hegseth, and found Preeningly Hardass Assistant Principal Respected By No One At The School

Pete Hegseth wasn't allowed to perform a cold-blooded execution live on the Internet. So I did it for him

Palantir’s influence across Europe. The most revealing report yet into the AI company’s business across the continent, by @FTM_eu, reveals the extent of contracts – but doubts are growing about it as a partner Sebastiaan Brommersma reports, with an introduction by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Our latest: Russian disinformation operators are deploying an army of bots to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New piece: the new digital divide - rich kids get human teachers, poor kids get shitty AI. But we can fight this, because parents, students, and teachers all hate it. Gift link:

In 2014 I spent a bit of time walking around favelas in Rio during the World Cup, then came home to read fantasyland accounts of the Brazil Experience by journalists who'd never left the tourist zone. Anyway, nice to see that John Gruber is having a lovely time on Twitter

Try to wear cloth garments on your body without looking like a lord (you can't)

Livetweeting this like it's the 2014 Oscars

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.