Paul Vitello

Paul Vitello

@pvitello.bsky.social

Try to be brave.

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Paul Vitello
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All TV political ads shud include clear photo credits — either establishing the time and place of real events shown, or identifying themselves as A.I. fictions. Drug ads are regulated. Why not political ads? $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

nytimes.com$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms (Gift Article)Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.
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To the tone deaf mother quoted here: A.I. tells you what you want to hear, unlike the magic mirror in Sleeping Beauty. So sadly, you may STILL not know what makes your kid special. ——— Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo. She’s Back With A.I. She Thinks Women Will Love. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

nytimes.comCan Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem?She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tac...
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Maybe they’ll give her the Nobel Peace prize, leading him to combust spontaneously, hideously. That would be something. ———- Melania Trump Says She Brokered a Cease-Fire in a Starving Ukrainian City www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMelania Trump Says She Brokered a Cease-Fire in a Starving Ukrainian City (Gift Article)The first lady, who is positioning herself as an intermediary between two warring nations as her husband sides with Russia, said the agreement would allow residents to evacuate.
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eventually he would close the government entirely — Congress, Supreme Court, state govts he doesn’t like — and schedule them all for renovations ending …never. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

washingtonpost.comTrump shares plan to overhaul East Potomac golf course amid court fight over landThe historic public facility will close for about 15 months, he said. A federal judge has ordered Trump administration officials to testify Monday about the origins and execution of the plan.
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Correction of the Day Part 1: “An earlier version of this article incorrectly described what the Green-Tao theorem proved. It proved that there are arbitrarily long, evenly spaced sequences of prime numbers..” ‘I’m on a War Footing’: Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

nytimes.comTerry Tao Is on the Front Lines of the Debate Over AI and the Future of MathThe Fields Medalist and celebrated mathematician is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.
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Correction of the Day Part 2: “…not that there are infinitely long, evenly spaced sequences of prime numbers.” Aha! Just as I thought.

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Trump threatens to halt some trade unless the Fed cuts rates www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b... ——— As a former CEO who led companies into bankruptcy numerous times, and bragged about it, he is behaving like the professional crook that he is. He should be wearing an ankle monitor.

nytimes.comTrump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts RatesThe president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding.
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In the current Atlantic, this masterpiece of compassion-fatigue-journalism is nestled back-to-back with “The Great Romance Slump,” an article about fewer people finding love. Could there be a connection? Is there a mass oxytocin gap happening here? ———— www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

theatlantic.comThe Cities That Said Yes to DrugsPolicies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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——— Trump “threatens”? Who is threatened? The Illegal Aid Society? The Republican senators who know they could become targets too if they so much as scrawl HELP in the sand? —— Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

nytimes.comTrump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to NominationPresident Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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I dont usually write emails like this. But I have some bad news. My opponents have totally eaten my morale. Yes, they are eating the morale. They are eating the Hope. They are outspending me in the race for a win, any win, anywhere. (1/2)

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So, to stop the losing, my campaign has set a new goal: to raise $4 million in the next 6 hours so I can move to the south of France. Can you chip in $5,000 before midnight? Thanks.

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NBA-wise…Spurs throw balls up in the air, eyes closed, they go in. Knicks have wide open shots, they miss. Conclusion: Clearly, San Antonio’s nuns have more clout than NY’s in this NBA finals.

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Q. “The ironies here are myriad,” says David Remnick, on the oligarch would-be dictator Trump standing as a ‘populist’ hero. “How do the Democrats find a vocabulary” to deal with this? A. For starters, David, please stop saying things like “the ironies here are myriad.”

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The Times’ Pope story, where he says “a society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity," ran next to an ad for Deloitte, promising to help u improve productivity through AI.

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— “Bracing for Chaos!” — was the banner headline in my local paper yesterday. It was about a railroad strike, since settled. But until further notice, I think “Bracing for Chaos!” should be the banner across the top of the New York Times every single day.

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At what point did “turn-of-the-century” come to mean the late 1990s/ early 2000s? This is a culture shock for me, but also, possibly, the end of the world as I know it.