WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to what AI is actually good for -- and also how our overestimation of its abilities can lead us astray.
Christopher Mims
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it's bleak.
wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.
In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
this was two weeks ago
it already feels like the odds this comes true have increased 50%
One of Trump's Key Oil Market Fixes Is About to Break:
* U.S. oil reserves have hit a low not seen since 2004
* July is a key deadline after which further drawdowns could spook traders, send prices up
www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Sky Marchini
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
It is not CA's fault that Trump and his allies allege fraud. It has nothing to do with the process or the timing any more than when he attacked Iowa in 2016 and Georgia in 2020. Making voting harder in response to bad-faith attacks on democracy throws out the baby with the bathwater.
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Philip Bump
"But the present is a riptide. You’re only human; the spirit of the age will ragdoll you." What a lovely essay on reading and discovering joy in books. So enjoyed.
looks delicious
Christopher Mims
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Christopher Mims
I continue to think it's a really fascinating trend that there are a bunch of British English pre-war phrases ('soccer' is one, 'movie' is another) that a lot of British people today are now convinced are Americanisms. How did that happen?
Stephen Bush
A dispute over slow ballot counting in California offers lessons for all Americans as Connecticut expands access to mail voting, Philip Bump writes.
no one can predict the future but “endless tit for tat plus irreconcilable differences on nuclear material and frozen assets keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed for 6 more months” is now within the cone of possibility
