Rob Price 🏔️
@robaeprice.bsky.social
Knight-Bagehot Fellow, Columbia University. Previously writing about technology and society for Business Insider.
robaeprice@gmail.com / +1 6506366268 (Signal)
robaeprice@gmail.com / +1 6506366268 (Signal)
This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...
Orgies, survival bunkers, and life upheavals: Meet the AI preppers
Some tech workers preparing for an AI apocalypse — or utopia — by leaning into working out, building bunkers, or burning their retirement savings.
www.businessinsider.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...
drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse
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nymag.com/intelligence...
July 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted
June 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted
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you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations arstechnica.com?p=1997521
Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: "If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear."
arstechnica.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
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Nu Beginingz
Congo Natty · Jungle Revolution · Song · 2013
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June 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Baby earthquake in the Oakland / East Bay area. Just felt it. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Baby earthquake in the Oakland / East Bay area. Just felt it. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
New revelations on Musk's alleged drug use, via @kirstengrind.bsky.social
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May 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New revelations on Musk's alleged drug use, via @kirstengrind.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off.
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Meridian
Lyra Pramuk · Oracle · Song · 2025
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May 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
www.businessinsider.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
www.businessinsider.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
May 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.
techcrunch.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...
There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath
It's not cinema, it's user retention
aftermath.site
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...
oh my god www.politico.eu/article/card...
May 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
oh my god www.politico.eu/article/card...
Seems bad
Exclusive: Newark Airport air traffic controllers lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute last week
Newark Radar Loss Left Controllers Guiding Blind for 90 Seconds
Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to people familiar with the matter.
bloom.bg
May 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Seems bad
Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
May 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
kotaku.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.
We're excited to announce the 2025-26 Knight-Bagehot fellows. Congrats @amandaaronczyk.bsky.social, @bykylecampbell.bsky.social, @aishagani.bsky.social, @esmyjimenez.bsky.social, @mcglinchyreports.bsky.social, @robaeprice.bsky.social
Full list and bios at journalism.columbia.edu/2025-knight-...
Full list and bios at journalism.columbia.edu/2025-knight-...
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Announces the Class of 2025-2026 | Columbia Journalism School
journalism.columbia.edu
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.
brb going to Maui for a week 🏝️
April 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
brb going to Maui for a week 🏝️
"X is not just Y — it's Z" is becoming such a tell for AI-generated copy
April 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"X is not just Y — it's Z" is becoming such a tell for AI-generated copy
Just got access to Google's new "AI Mode." Traditional search results are relegated to just three links in the right rail
March 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just got access to Google's new "AI Mode." Traditional search results are relegated to just three links in the right rail
xAI has acquired X, Elon Musk says x.com/elonmusk/sta...
March 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
xAI has acquired X, Elon Musk says x.com/elonmusk/sta...
M 4.0 - 5 km WNW of Dublin, CA
2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth
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2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth
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March 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
M 4.0 - 5 km WNW of Dublin, CA
2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth
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2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth
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