Ed Tubb

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

And my extreme doubt that news orgs will ever be able to convincingly explain corrections that boil down to “I trusted a robot and it made an error that I published” and continue to retain any semblance of trust.

Which is to say nothing my extreme doubt that readers have any interest in paying for news writing generated by an LLM in a commodity style.

I’m not naive. There are plenty of pieces of reporting that 9 times in 10 do not need much thought, or where speed is more important than craft, where an LLM tool could speed up the process.

But you don’t want to train a lot of your reporters to habitually download the thinking part of the job.

It’s true that some v. good reporters are subpar writers.

Thing is, the act of writing is essential to being a good reporter.

Skip writing and you skip the part where you sit down to think about and synthesize what you’re reporting.

The quality of your first draft is *not* the main thing.

Trump administration dangerously close to experiencing consequences

The number of fixed-wing aircraft lost in friendly fire incidents today equals the number lost during the entire 20-year span of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

The precedent that the United States of American can kill or kidnap a rival world leader, at any moment and with no regard for a plan for what comes next, will be used again in less moral situations than this.

Hard not to see the U.S. returning to this precedent again and again.

It's all very bad, and I don't want to take away from that reality when I say this, but we've had an awful lot of "I told you so" moments and I'm tired of not saying that so I'm saying it.

Over time, it has become impossible to casually know the approximate truth of what’s happening in any given current affairs topic.

It’s just not a thing anymore.

(We read them in French, which isn't my strength, so having the joke land a little slowly in my head is a big part of the fun.)

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As a dad, I can state definitively that the very best kids' books are about either a group of small animals who blindly follow a firefly in the dark until they all get eaten by a lion, or they're about how a penguin got got by an orca, but it had absolutely nothing to do with that stylish red hat.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

There are few things more disorienting than listening to otherwise totally reasonable American podcasters doing an episode on health tech.

Is it genuinely normal to spend that much of your mental energy on this stuff? Really?

Like, this is a normal life experience?

I can't believe the nerve of the person who sent me this in the middle of a Zoom meeting.

The absolute nerve.

To be clear, this team is well behind 2014 and 2002.

2014 is, IMO, the best hockey team ever assembled by a mile.

This team was every bit in the class of 2002, 2010 and 2014. (I’d put it after 2014 and 2002 but ahead of 2010.)

It didn’t have *the look* all tournament, but make no mistake, in that 3rd period they were dominating the most talented US team ever assembled.

And got nothing from it.

It’s subjective, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen best-on-best Canada lose an elimination game when it has *that look*.

And we very much had *that look* in the third.

Hats off to luck, and to Hellebuyck.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

This was the game.

Deserves to be a stamp.

Hellebuyck, man. That was incredible.

Greatest goaltending performance in history.

Bar none.

A shot that deserves to be on a U.S. stamp.

Hellebuyck has played the greatest game I have ever seen.

Every bit as dominant as Hasek ‘98.

One of the greatest saves in history.