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Jon Reed
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Managing editor, @CNET.com, AI and whatnot. Ohioan. He/him. Opinions belong to the cats.
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being a writer means sometimes finding an entire minimized browser window with only a blank, untitled google doc in it and having no idea what it was supposed to be
I sensed this was no more than a couple of years away
yes
a few notes on thanksgiving
Reviewers say it’s perfect for frying and boiling everything from crawfish and turkey to chicken and fries.
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Include the link! The fact that bluesky doesn't aggressively suppress links is one of its best features, right up there with the nuclear block. It's great for publishers and also the only way we will ever make progress on the "didn't read past the headline" problem of social media
Love these viral posts that deprive the news org of traffic. So great. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
quick, somebody install Doom on the mini supercomputer
Being edited sucks. The only thing worse is NOT being edited.
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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this feels ominous as grocery, energy prices and health care are taking bigger bites of our income in the US...
This is the actual, true, nuanced take. Implicit in it being unnecessary on meat is that a rub of some kind, even just s+p, is essential.
A little Carolina gold bbq sauce on a turkey sandwich…
the pro move is carolina gold
bbq sauce on meat? unnecessary

bbq sauce to dip fries in? way better than ketchup
This was a really fun find by Katelyn even if this chatbot tried to tell me Dabo Swinney was a better coach that Nick Saban.
I'm sorry, the Pope did a gaggle???
Pope Leo speaks on what it means to be "pro-life."
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There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
A used bookstore I frequented when I lived in Augusta, Georgia, divided politics into “political science” and “bloviation,” which I greatly appreciated.
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dispatch from a NYC climate week debate on whether "AI is humanity's best hope for solving climate change"
"Though this new project continues the trend in which Smith never seems to stop talking, he did decline, through a spokesperson, to be interviewed for this column."
Stephen A. Smith is pushing $40M a year in earnings, sources tell The Athletic. And ultimately, he wants as big a voice in politics as he has in sports.

On Wednesday, Smith will formally launch his bid as a political pundit, if not a Presidential candidate.

🔗: http://dlvr.it/TN7BNV
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It would be helpful if press releases got to the point quicker and led with something like "we are launching a new microgrid financing program" instead of "we are launching an initiative for resilient community energy systems"
The future is an AI-generated brainrot video of audio clipped from an AI-generated podcast, with a comments section filled with AI-generated spam.
found out what former Wondery COO Jeanine Wright is up to: flooding the internet with unlistenable AI podcasts

Her company has put out around 156,000 AI podcast episodes in two years and has averaged about 64 listens per podcast total in that time (less than one download a week)