Elizabeth Lopatto

man I love the pilot soft fine nib. I wish all my nibs were bouncy

I just think it’s nice that Jenna Maroney’s daughter is getting work

losing your edge!!

A tuxedo cat backs in the sunlight on a blue chair

I told her pspspspspspsp

This all makes NIMBY opposition to data centers look like a political winner at the local level. But can it address more nebulous anxieties about a technology that is now casually compared to the industrial revolution, which led to many decades of turmoil and strife before life expectancy and living standards began to trend upward, or the invention of the printing press, which produced — among other things — generations of religious civil war across Europe?

too late, David Wallace-Wells has already done it in serious fashion www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Kurt Russell is nobody's dad on this show, simply the uncle who stepped up. This speaks to the primal human desire to have Kurt Russell as an uncle

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The Verge's @lopatto.bsky.social on Morning Report re: prediction markets.

the Chicago pope must excommunicate the heretic JD Vance

if you think writing is drudgery, you are not cut out to be a writer

one of several ways in which writing is radically different from code. it is shocking to me how many people underestimate the differences.

bloomberg's been sending AI headlines from press releases for at least the last seven years, but that's not the point.

it's not just "taste." people want to hear from other people — I don't read renata adler for a dry list of facts. I read adler because I want to know what adler thinks.

I don't understand your question. data acquisition for me is often just reading. I didn't rely on summaries pre-AI — I always went to the primary source. the existence of AI doesn't change that I need to know the source material myself

people still want to talk to other people. I suspect they always will.

oh look, you're doing the exact thing that got critiqued

Slop code is easy to spot too, it just kind of (arguably) doesn’t matter as long as it works. That’s really the difference.

yeah I mean I still have to double-check the quote I want to use, but having a timestamp and a searchable transcript to get there improves my life.

I also think some of the hype is just marketing. like "hey buy our shitty intern" isn't a very exciting pitch, you know?

I find slop prose easy to spot — it's bad — and for most of the tasks I've attempted to automate in my own job, an AI works about as well as a shitty intern. for some things (transcribing), that's an improvement. for others, it's more time-consuming than doing the task myself

I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

yeah panda on the field could really hold up the game I agree

letting the Phillies have one kangaroo to be used at their discretion

dog on the field a classic — who doesn't love a dog on the field — but probably too easy to convince to come back to a dugout. swarm of bees too unpredictable. pelican... now we're cooking with gas

ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose

fucking evil

there is a group in America actively being unpersonned right now, and the Altantic has chosen to attack them. embarrassing.

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

I mean there's a dead simple thesis for an activist investor: spin off the bad parts of the business and/or kill them outright, oust Musk, and take profits