Keith Plocek

wizard frog is insane

The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.

The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.

Everyone’s’ “must read” today.

The intro for Law and Order SVU has forever claimed the word "heinous" in my mind

Carson refinery on NYT homepage

instantly recognizable as that refinery in Carson off the 405

Robert Redford, RIP [The Village Voice, Jan 2, 1978]

Heck yeah

You so Chauncey

Just one of those nights

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life. If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test. OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Excellent alt text

Learning how to write 50-word versions of these when I was a stringer was worth the same as my masters degree

The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People (Published 2019)

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/b...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

I miss her and I only even know her from social media

Hanging out at Blockbuster Video at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday. [Chico News and Review, Apr 1, 1993]

👎

Hah, there was no real reason to include the name, but how could I not include the name?

'Your bones rattle’: The thrill of chasing rocket launches in this California coastal town About 22 miles north of Santa Barbara, Lompoc has become a day trip destination for aerospace aficionados.

I drove up the coast to watch a rocket launch for @latimes.com 🚀

I went up half a size to make room for insoles (Superfeet Blue) and that seemed to help

Just submitted grades like

It's my favorite part of the day

College is about learning to learn, growing, experiencing new things and transforming and seeing the world through fresh eyes. You learn skills, you gain knowledge, sure, but more than that, you learn how to learn things. That's the point!

I kind of miss the days when students just plagiarized
#skyacademics

A photo from the broadcast of the 151st Kentucky Derby prep that says the horse Journalism is a 4-1 favorite to win the derby tomorrow.

Well, that would be a first for journalism

This guy can't win!

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Those look great

YouTube video by Classified History "You liar! You big tourist! I need this! Now, get out!"

I’m there for the intellectual discussion, not the coffee and snacks. But I’ll eat the snacks. And drink the coffee. And get a refill on my way out.