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Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors. Signal: @jetjocko.15 https://adam-rogers.net
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“Mr. Data, prepare to activate the alpha energy emitter on my mark. Number One, ready your away team for transport.”

submitted 2 minutes ago • 1 comment

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

Crazy, sure, but I believe it’s possible to build more homes, carbon-free power, and trains without also making trans kids unsafe and making abortion illegal.

submitted 15 minutes ago • 1 comment

If some Democrats believe Republican stuff, there’s a whole other political party they could join.

submitted 32 minutes ago • 1 comment

Real People’s Front of Judea/Judean People’s Front vibes here.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

The Army announced today that it’s going from 41 army museums in installations across the US and world to *12* You could fund the entire Army Museum Enterprise for less than one F-35

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

Actually this post might be hard to see. Here, let me ignite a flame off the central methane feed to use as illumination.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

There was never actually a play or movies called “Gaslighting.” You just imagined them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Fffffffffffff

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Have I been advancing tropes? I should look into that. Update the firmware on the trope advancer.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

If you use robots to tell you how to shape an idea into writing, you deserve to be read only by robots. And maybe it soon will be robots talking to robots all the way down! But in the meantime I hold that learning to express and practicing to refine ideas is one of the most important human tasks.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

... hoo boy. Biggest connected sex toy manufacturer getting into the AI companion game. This gonna be... something.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

How much of a coward do you have to be - how uninformed and afraid do you have to be - to do this?

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

This might be a controversial take, but: If you need an AI “writing coach” to wrangle your typing into a shape that it is publishable in an opinion section, then you are not publishable. You haven’t reckoned with the ideas yet. The robot isn’t helping you; it’s just adding icing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

…and the hed determines whether people click through.

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In 2016, then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, said the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.

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This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Other ships on the recommended name-change list: the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers. I sense a pattern.

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Peak NIMBY brain is trying to keep a neighboring airport open, even though the planes that land there are literally spraying toxins over your home, because if the airport closes then they're going to build affordable housing there. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/sant...

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I personally think unregulated Airbnb is destroying cities but I also think it is insane to be charged 500-800 a night to stay in a NYC hotel that is like a Days Inn in Peoria level of quality. How can NYC thrive if only the super wealthy can live there or visit?

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

A nonstop flood of things that’ll be in the report a couple years about the disaster, whatever the disaster is.

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