Caroline Seydel

I think it’s pretty rare that anyone is charged with a crime in a traffic accident death.

Vision: slightly fewer child pedestrians unnecessarily mowed down by speeding vehicles

American drivers: HOW DARE YOU

In the US we get bogged down in debates about whether speed cameras are more racist than traffic cops. My proposal: cars must have a sensor that beeps at you, like the ‘fasten seat belt’ alarm, when you’re exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 mph for more than a minute.

“Call my baby lollipop, tell you why
His kiss is sweeter than an apple pie”

Me at 10: omg music back then was so cute and wholesome

Me at 50: wait a minute, that is NOT why she calls him that

Because they think they have a chance, I assume

“those who collaborate with fascists” 🤣🤣

Yeah. I was agreeing with that. I guess my faux pas was losing focus that “the real bad guy“ here is the woman in Nigeria trying to make a living, not the exploitative industry that rewarded her unethical behavior

Wow. Yes, I’m struggling to even understand the concept of AAN because in my experience, if your BMI is on the higher side, doctors *advise* you to do all those things. Not binge/purge of course but, like, dramatically restrict your diet and be terrified of gaining any more weight

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by “a quarter a word will do this”

Oh, I agree. And I have no doubt that it will change people‘s shopping and spending habits, same as online retail did. I’m just getting old, and not looking forward to another shift.

Perhaps! I haven’t worked with those specific publications. And yet they all found the robot writer to be the best candidate in their inbox, hired it, and happily published its completely fabricated article.

I was thinking this too. And in the article he says “But AI doesn’t care about [promotions, deals, and discounts] — if you ask for a car to the airport, an AI might just open Uber and Lyft and always pick the cheapest ride.” Would human users ever want that?

Not really? Editors want to commission pieces from writers who already have a long list of clips in prestigious publications and who can turn around reported stories in a few days for pennies a word. And now they’re shocked that, oops, their ideal candidates are actually robots.

Yes. Dan Crenshaw was a Navy SEAL. Joni Ernst I think was National Guard? Rick Scott was Navy. I’m sure there are many others.

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article) Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

60 attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion inside Trump's Justice Department.

“If we’re indicting people because the president hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job.”

- Mike Romano, former prosecutor in the Public Integrity Section

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Right? I mean, good that they finally investigated, although better to have done it before assigning the story. They’re telling on themselves here: the only way to get a pitch accepted is to have fake credentials and a fake resume. Real people just aren’t good enough anymore

Oh I saw that movie

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s lying

That’s not what “slut-shaming“ means

I think he’s taking about the Patton Oswalt post calling for Megyn Kelly to be fed into a wood chipper

I still get paid with paper checks

It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair

It absolutely was, depending on the circumstances. Halloween costumes, etc - in my experience, most people did not consider that offensive in the 70s, 80s, 90s even. I don’t know exactly when it became taboo in any context, but pretty recently

Yeah but donors

I feel like we the taxpayers have bigger problems than punishing the tiny fraction of people desperate enough to steal a dead relative’s SNAP benefits

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Wait something doesn’t make sense … why is the 5:03 PM message higher in the thread than the 5:50 PM message

Young girl making a disgusted face with the caption “no”

William Gibson called it 40 years ago: “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”