Totally agree, on reflection. And now I’m thinking about the FT editor who accepted this copy, instead of bouncing it back to their contact at OpenAI and asking for a blurb that would serve the reader better. Lack of skill, lack of power, lack of time?

I agree about the AI tells, but content-wise, this also could’ve been written by a staff writer hoping for a quick sign-off from Friar. It focuses on abstractions, not specifics that might bump, because that’s what the writer knows will get the piece signed off faster.

If you can even work the TV!

As Dan Fogelberg says: hot dog!

Thanks for the wonderful alt text!

We’ve been on the corner of seventh and market watching people go by for 40 minutes, nonstop

Ugh, no, I stand corrected. Deleted.

Destroy Build Destroy!

Great story! I’m a proud backer of this film, and your analysis reminds me of why it is going to be amazing.
Loved this: “Washington Square is a microcosm of the city’s broader historical narrative — a space where the legacies of liberation and oppression coexist.”

^ this story is an alternate history of WWI as it plays out in Saki’s England. It is sort of worth a read, but there are good reasons why it isn’t widely read (it’s anti-Semitic, for one).

Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.

Also: who will write the definitive history of MacAdam/Cage, the small publisher that punched way above its weight