Abraham Gross
@abrahamgross.bsky.social
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play.
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play.
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
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My article “Does an Arrow a Day Keep Satan Away? Late Antique Magical Subtexts in Babylonian Rabbinic Narratives” is now OA in HTR!
It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My article “Does an Arrow a Day Keep Satan Away? Late Antique Magical Subtexts in Babylonian Rabbinic Narratives” is now OA in HTR!
It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A 2nd article is also out today, w/Michele Scarlassara!
We present a previously unpublished Syriac incantation bowl from the Penn Museum, w/a formula paralleling several Mandaic bowls, w/intriguing social-historical implications
1st bowl published using spectral imaging!
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We present a previously unpublished Syriac incantation bowl from the Penn Museum, w/a formula paralleling several Mandaic bowls, w/intriguing social-historical implications
1st bowl published using spectral imaging!
brill.com/view/journal...
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A 2nd article is also out today, w/Michele Scarlassara!
We present a previously unpublished Syriac incantation bowl from the Penn Museum, w/a formula paralleling several Mandaic bowls, w/intriguing social-historical implications
1st bowl published using spectral imaging!
brill.com/view/journal...
We present a previously unpublished Syriac incantation bowl from the Penn Museum, w/a formula paralleling several Mandaic bowls, w/intriguing social-historical implications
1st bowl published using spectral imaging!
brill.com/view/journal...
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meanwhile every day for like a month curtis sliwa has been out here saying stuff like “the only way I’m getting out of this race is if you physically push me onto the tracks and even then I might survive I’ve done it before”
On Sid Rosenberg's talk radio show, Andrew Cuomo voices openness to offering Curtis Sliwa a job in his potential administration in exchange for him dropping out of the mayoral race.
"That would be something i would be interested in," Cuomo says.
"That would be something i would be interested in," Cuomo says.
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
meanwhile every day for like a month curtis sliwa has been out here saying stuff like “the only way I’m getting out of this race is if you physically push me onto the tracks and even then I might survive I’ve done it before”
If you know you’re speaking to reporter, assume they will report. You can’t unsay what you’ve said. This retroactive off-the-record is a move sources pull all the time, and it’s often done in bad faith. And as a legal reporter, my tolerance for attorneys playing confidentiality games is low
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You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you know you’re speaking to reporter, assume they will report. You can’t unsay what you’ve said. This retroactive off-the-record is a move sources pull all the time, and it’s often done in bad faith. And as a legal reporter, my tolerance for attorneys playing confidentiality games is low
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I should have been clearer: Both sides (implicitly) agree not to write down any deal. They understand Trump will fill the silence with outlandish claims, delivering him a political win. And our trading partners are obliged to deliver nothing, giving them the economic win.
I was just in Japan for two weeks, and learned a lot from talking Japanese policy wonks about the "strategic ambiguity" at the heart of the US-Japan trade deal, and what this reveals is -- and isn't -- in a number of the President's "deals."
August 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I should have been clearer: Both sides (implicitly) agree not to write down any deal. They understand Trump will fill the silence with outlandish claims, delivering him a political win. And our trading partners are obliged to deliver nothing, giving them the economic win.
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I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
July 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
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Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
June 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since May:
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.
Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.
A judiciary at war with itself.
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🎧EXCLUSIVE AUDIO — ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt at the Republican Attorneys General national meeting in NY this morning:
“Mahmoud Khalil… was not some child. He was one of the ringleaders of this group, and I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”
“Mahmoud Khalil… was not some child. He was one of the ringleaders of this group, and I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”
June 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🎧EXCLUSIVE AUDIO — ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt at the Republican Attorneys General national meeting in NY this morning:
“Mahmoud Khalil… was not some child. He was one of the ringleaders of this group, and I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”
“Mahmoud Khalil… was not some child. He was one of the ringleaders of this group, and I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”
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NEW: @law360.bsky.social has created a *public* database of legal cases involving President Trump's executive orders and other actions. The data is searchable and sortable and will be updated regularly; links to coverage for subscribers.
Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...
Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...
February 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
NEW: @law360.bsky.social has created a *public* database of legal cases involving President Trump's executive orders and other actions. The data is searchable and sortable and will be updated regularly; links to coverage for subscribers.
Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...
Graphics by @benjayingly.com www.law360.com/trump-legal-...
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Straw donations are at the heart of the Adams indictment. THE CITY (@thecity.bsky.social) previously broke two huge stories about straw donors to his 2021 + 2021 campaigns. I will post those in the replies. Read them! [🧵]
September 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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These moves only make sense to corporations that care about journalism that's cheap, not good. A deceased columnist's fans don't want a digital simulacrum approximating an opinion of a gallery.
Greed paired with a disregard of quality yields ghoulish outcomes
Greed paired with a disregard of quality yields ghoulish outcomes
Thought the cover would definitely be the worst thing about this, but then I clicked through…
September 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
These moves only make sense to corporations that care about journalism that's cheap, not good. A deceased columnist's fans don't want a digital simulacrum approximating an opinion of a gallery.
Greed paired with a disregard of quality yields ghoulish outcomes
Greed paired with a disregard of quality yields ghoulish outcomes
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I am fed up with the app-ification of things.
I don't want 327 apps on my phone or whatever in order to see my bills and pay my bills and order pizza and check the weather and find out when the garbage is being collected and get notified of emergencies.
This is ridiculous.
I don't want 327 apps on my phone or whatever in order to see my bills and pay my bills and order pizza and check the weather and find out when the garbage is being collected and get notified of emergencies.
This is ridiculous.
July 31, 2024 at 12:27 AM
I am fed up with the app-ification of things.
I don't want 327 apps on my phone or whatever in order to see my bills and pay my bills and order pizza and check the weather and find out when the garbage is being collected and get notified of emergencies.
This is ridiculous.
I don't want 327 apps on my phone or whatever in order to see my bills and pay my bills and order pizza and check the weather and find out when the garbage is being collected and get notified of emergencies.
This is ridiculous.
A good demonstration of how journalism is a unique mess of a field where despite the often high stakes, the professional accreditation is minimal and the ethical guidelines varying and often self-enforcing
How did Bloomberg beat WSJ and other outlets to the story of Gershkovich et al. being released? They broke a press embargo and reported the release before it was final. Other news outlets are pissed
Everybody Is Mad at Bloomberg for Its Gershkovich Scoop
Other members of the press had held back until the WSJ reporter, and the other prisoners, were safely in Turkey.
nymag.com
August 2, 2024 at 3:33 PM
A good demonstration of how journalism is a unique mess of a field where despite the often high stakes, the professional accreditation is minimal and the ethical guidelines varying and often self-enforcing
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It's absolutely critical that Kamala Harris strongly emphasized that a Dem president and Congress will codify Roe nationally in her first speech as presumptive nominee.
This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1841...
This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1841...
Kamala Harris’s Harsh New Trump Takedown Cleverly Flips Script on GOP
The presumptive Democratic nominee’s speech on Monday showed how she can position herself as the candidate of change—on one issue in particular.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM
It's absolutely critical that Kamala Harris strongly emphasized that a Dem president and Congress will codify Roe nationally in her first speech as presumptive nominee.
This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1841...
This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1841...
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the state of journalism.
July 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
the state of journalism.
Pushing Biden — or any unwilling incumbent — aside is pretty uncharted waters that, at minimum, require a huge amount of coordination from basically every major lever of the Democratic party. Inertia is the deciding factor here.
July 10, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Pushing Biden — or any unwilling incumbent — aside is pretty uncharted waters that, at minimum, require a huge amount of coordination from basically every major lever of the Democratic party. Inertia is the deciding factor here.
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Between 1998 and 2023, Israel declared 28k dunams as "state land" (=land for settlers).
In 2024 alone, Israel declared 24k dunams as state land.
(1 dunam = 0.25 Acre)
In 2024 alone, Israel declared 24k dunams as state land.
(1 dunam = 0.25 Acre)
July 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Between 1998 and 2023, Israel declared 28k dunams as "state land" (=land for settlers).
In 2024 alone, Israel declared 24k dunams as state land.
(1 dunam = 0.25 Acre)
In 2024 alone, Israel declared 24k dunams as state land.
(1 dunam = 0.25 Acre)
As a legal reporter, I struggle with describing the Supreme Court’s decisions as “findings.” It’s a term of art in the legal world, but I worry it implies that the justices are engaging in a good-faith effort to “discover” the law rather than interpret it in a way that confirms their existing views
July 3, 2024 at 12:26 PM
As a legal reporter, I struggle with describing the Supreme Court’s decisions as “findings.” It’s a term of art in the legal world, but I worry it implies that the justices are engaging in a good-faith effort to “discover” the law rather than interpret it in a way that confirms their existing views
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“Can you have a debate built on reason, to measure reason, when a candidate insists on something beyond reason?” youtu.be/0X2xaM4w8AI?...
John Dickerson: What's the point of a Biden-Trump debate?
CBS News correspondent John Dickerson, anchor of "The Daily Report," looks at the historical precedents of presidential debates, and explains why a Biden-Tru...
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June 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM
“Can you have a debate built on reason, to measure reason, when a candidate insists on something beyond reason?” youtu.be/0X2xaM4w8AI?...
Companies are attaching "AI" to seemingly everything, but it's not what they always make it out to be. I wrote about how regulators and investors are beginning to hold them accountable
www.law360.com/insurance-au...
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'AI Washing' Actions Mark New Frontier In Coverage Disputes - Law360 Insurance Authority
Recent regulatory actions and shareholder suits over alleged misrepresentations of artificial intelligence use, or what is known as AI washing, may be the first wave of a surge of claims that will hit...
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June 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Companies are attaching "AI" to seemingly everything, but it's not what they always make it out to be. I wrote about how regulators and investors are beginning to hold them accountable
www.law360.com/insurance-au...
www.law360.com/insurance-au...
Shameless plug for my brother @simchagross.bsky.social’s book, now officially launched! Simcha is the most profoundly rigorous and brilliant truth-seeker I know, and it’s a joy and privilege to see his talents achieve this shining revision of crucial Jewish history
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity | Judaism
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June 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Shameless plug for my brother @simchagross.bsky.social’s book, now officially launched! Simcha is the most profoundly rigorous and brilliant truth-seeker I know, and it’s a joy and privilege to see his talents achieve this shining revision of crucial Jewish history
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
June 17, 2024 at 7:37 PM
The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...