Conor Richard

“People are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. Were making a frickin’ fortune.”

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

I voted earlier today. I am not in a highly contested area. My vote isn't going to be the one that "makes all the difference" but it counts. Vote because you believe things can be better...

After the recent Trump rallies, it's a novelty to see a president able to fill a venue again.

there is no other current or former politician in the US who gets this sort of response

El-Sayed: "You might've seen that earlier this we had a debate. More like I had a debate, and he played MAGA's greatest hits. But there's really only one line he said that's worth paying any attention to. He said that the last two years have been 'amazing.' So Detroit, let me ask you ... "

This... For everything... Politicians and corporations are fucking us all over rather than raising us all up. I want off this ride... I just wat for us all to be able to exist and get what each of us need to be happy.

Has a pool reporter ever stood up on behalf of their colleagues when this happens?

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

Girls! Girls! You're *both* right! Bask in the novelty.

🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

But the MoCA only has three animals on it, and in recent years Trump always names four animals when discussing the cognitive test he gets. So is he getting a customized version which randomizes the animals and offers four? Or is he getting the standard, then just forgetting the details soon after.

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

For those of us without print subscriptions: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

UPDATED: In his second term alone, Trump has falsely claimed nearly 300 times that the 2020 election was "rigged." The baseless claim is a recurring theme of his midterm campaign rallies. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Musk's DOGE boys took a 'sledgehammer' to the federal govt & services people relied on. Now they're getting rich off the pain they caused. DOGE was never about efficiency, it was about breaking the govt & selling it off to Trump's billionaire buddies & allies. Endless grift.

Anthropic says one of its models generated a bogus tip about an unsolved murder and submitted it to Philadelphia police, warning that the incident raises concerns about high tech “behaviors” that “could do far more harm as models become more powerful.”

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Can we finally address that the senile old man is just fabricating imaginary deals in his head?

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

If I ran a website that gave teens advice on how to commit suicide I would go to jail

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Beginnings of a Bulgarian Jihad? (Dune universe thing if you didn't know.) Down with the thinking machines! Time for Mentats, Navigators, and the Sisterhood!

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

NYT can't really accuse openai of violating the computer fraud and abuse act but openai just violated the computer fraud and abuse act... Again... For a 3rd time.

At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.

They are playing in our faces

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

"it 'could efficiently fill out online forms,'" You know other tool can efficiently fill out online forms? Every browser I've used in the last 15+ years.

Here's my favorite excerpt: "Or, I guess, now you can ask robot Mommy to deal with it for you, while you learn nothing and gain nothing and nothing in your life changes or improves." I guess instead of doing/learning anything you can fill your time trying to get a fleet of GPU/CPUs to do it...

The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...