Kevin Collier

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

The band American Minor only had one album but it was good.

JD Vance says his marriage with Usha is 'as strong as it's ever been' Yes, the very online vice president has seen the online speculation about his marriage. He said he and the second lady found the recent episode around her wedding ring funny.

I talked to VP JD Vance about those wedding ring stories ... www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-...

Yeah that was probably it. Still, they correctly ID'd the stars of that team, and knew which ones were white and which were Black.

No, he was gone by then. This was probably the best ever Marshall team though. 13-0, ran up the score in almost every game, beat Clemson but played in the MAC, and so got snubbed by the BCS.

Also AFC East legend Chaddy P! There's a stat, I'm gonna bungle it a little, when there were only three years in like two decades where Tom Brady wasn't the division leader for passing years, and it was like twice when Jets Pennington beat him and once when Dolphins Pennington did.

There was a spell in Huntington when a bunch of people bought Jets jerseys.

Official player rosters are easily found online now and have for decades been published in these annual guidebooks college athletics departments put out. But the internet was way less a thing then. Did they get one of those books?? A mystery for the ages.

I took a trip to Russia in the early aughts and in Moscow this dude was selling Matryoshka dolls of a ton of sports teams and he had the 1999 Thundering Herd, the unrecognized national champion of that year. They even got star players' numbers right. How?? I do not know. Big one's Chad Pennington.

I have some bad news about your most recent Black Friday purchase, the AI Pervert Toilet.

Most major established news orgs have strict policies for using anonymous sources and reporters clear them via a secure channel with a senior person in the newsroom. But nobody wears that policy on their sleeve! Idk why orgs aren't more transparent about that.

Maybe it's obvious! Idk. And I definitely don't have any inside info, just saying how I read it.

From my experience in the biz, I assume yes. It's annoyingly common when reporting on people sniping at each other that you approach somebody officially for comment, and they officially say no but a staffer wants to anyway, just anonymously. You may have no real workaround except to nod like this.

Question for people who aren't reporters: When you see this in a news story, do you assume that the senior aide is somebody at Johnson's office and the reporter is winking at you to indicate that?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"

I say this as someone who has an undergrad in philosophy and received a whole range of different grades based on a whole range of effort put into papers.

You could write a (very uninformative, unfun) book about the many things tech leaders say that would get them Ds in any college philosophy class if extrapolated into a paper.

Cool story I happened to write a month ago @politico.com! But also it isn't just liberals.

I would add to this that many people have routine, deeply unpleasant interactions with LLMs (bad job aides, annoying LLM call centers seem to have replaced human or more basic robot ones overnight), but it really is a thing that other types of AI is massively helpful for some scientific research.

Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

FYI: Nathan Rabin needs your love and appreciation right now. He was in a very significant car crash earlier this week and is in the hospital recovering. (His family was also in the car, they’re fine, but he got the brunt of the injuries.)

Now’s a good time to support him: www.nathanrabin.com

National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold' The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

I’m surprised how upset I am about the two WV guardsmen. It’s a job you take to serve your neighbors and country while living a normal life, far more likely to do disaster relief work (WV has plenty) than see combat. WV's gov, Patrick Morrisey, was the first to volunteer to send them to patrol DC.

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.

This is fantastically done, laying it out like this.

Now's a great time to follow WV reporters like @lorikerseywv.bsky.social and @stevenadamswv.bsky.social.

West Virginia governor Patrick Morrissey, who was eager to deploy state guardsmen to DC, says the two who were shot were from the WV guard. First he said one died, now potentially walking that back.

OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.

OpenAI is arguing in court that it wasn't responsible for ChatGPT repeatedly encouraging a teen to die by suicide because he was violating our TOS. I'm not a legal expert but am very curious who courts will think is responsible for an AI's actions.

That's why I don't ever buy great coffee or wine. I don't doubt I would like having it regularly, I just don't want to ruin the stuff I can actually afford.

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Plus @kevincollier.bsky.social famously rides a beefy mountain bike around NYC (though a little less frequently these days). Up there with James, Byrne.