David Rudin
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Journalist, pastry maker, friend to all … with some exceptions. (He/him)
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I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud
Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner
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Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey?
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The life of a football manager is pretty unusual. It weighs heavily sometimes.
But it demands the ability to keep moving, keep demanding, keep inspiring, and keep taking the big decisions.
But it demands the ability to keep moving, keep demanding, keep inspiring, and keep taking the big decisions.
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey?
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!
August 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!
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if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh
Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??
On his current tour, Rod Stewart has been singing “Forever Young” in front of an AI-generated video of Ozzy Osbourne taking selfies in heaven with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, and XXXTentacion
Rod Stewart Tour Features AI Video Of Ozzy Osbourne Taking Selfies With Musicians In Heaven
Over the past two weeks on his One Last Time tour, Rod Stewart has been dedicating his 1988 hit “Forever Young” to Ozzy Osbourne, who died last month at 76. On the night of the Black Sabbath frontman’...
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August 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??
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"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.
"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it,” said the songwriter and performer, Tom Lehrer. Read @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social reflections and tribute on the legacy of the late artist: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/lif...
Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer, 1928-2005 | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the iconic political musical satirist, who passed this weekend.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.
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Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
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Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.
Wait wait wait wait so Columbia MUST create a DEI office for Jewish folks but MAY NOT create a DEI office for anyone else? Am I reading this right?
July 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.
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Le Monde, top website story right now:
"Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting."
"Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.
"Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting."
"Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.
En pleine fournaise estivale, la population de Gaza torturée par la soif
Les bombardements et la pénurie de carburant ont mis hors service une grande partie du réseau hydraulique de l’enclave. Remplir un simple jerrycan d’eau potable est devenu un parcours du combattant. L...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Le Monde, top website story right now:
"Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting."
"Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.
"Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting."
"Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.
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> The project is a community of real human people. I'm interested in what they have to say. I'm much less interested in what a machine has to say. I don't think it's unreasonable for a swimming club to reject members who show up in motorised watercraft, regardless of how well watercraft can "swim".
July 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
> The project is a community of real human people. I'm interested in what they have to say. I'm much less interested in what a machine has to say. I don't think it's unreasonable for a swimming club to reject members who show up in motorised watercraft, regardless of how well watercraft can "swim".
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This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
July 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
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How a new deal was ever in consideration under these circumstances is a mark on Arsenal, and that’s even before the public backing from his manager (“after everything he’s been through”) and decisions to make him the cover star of programmes and hero content on social channels while this was known.
Thomas Partey charged with rape by the Metropolitan Police Service news.met.police.uk/news/thomas-...
Thomas Partey charged with rape by the Metropolitan Police Service
Met police charge Thomas Partey with rape
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July 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How a new deal was ever in consideration under these circumstances is a mark on Arsenal, and that’s even before the public backing from his manager (“after everything he’s been through”) and decisions to make him the cover star of programmes and hero content on social channels while this was known.
Remember public editors?
July 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Remember public editors?
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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I will just add that every Jewish hyperinsular diaspora politics grievance becoming national news and the subject of major political battles is not actually good for the Jewish community.
"what do tristate Hasidim think about Muslims" is basically the same question as "what do LA Armenians think about Turks," which is to say "an irrelevant one," and the answer is essentially the same, which is, "insane things mostly driven by hyperinsular diaspora politics."
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I will just add that every Jewish hyperinsular diaspora politics grievance becoming national news and the subject of major political battles is not actually good for the Jewish community.
Paging State Island campaign delegate Nandor the Relentless
I'm not sure this nickname will have the impact they think it will
June 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Paging State Island campaign delegate Nandor the Relentless
the promotional materials for F1 (the movie) even have the registered trademark symbol in the title, something I don't remember happening with Barbie
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the promotional materials for F1 (the movie) even have the registered trademark symbol in the title, something I don't remember happening with Barbie
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"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included
The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included
For long periods of time, the existence of a cover-up (or failing that, some sense of secrecy) was a pretty good indicator that you had a political scandal on your hands. The problem here is that heuristic is less effective in the current moment
Jake Tapper on Biden: "It is a scandal. It is without question -- and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn't drinking."
May 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For long periods of time, the existence of a cover-up (or failing that, some sense of secrecy) was a pretty good indicator that you had a political scandal on your hands. The problem here is that heuristic is less effective in the current moment
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"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
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May 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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