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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Aug 19

This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...

Orgies, survival bunkers, and life upheavals: Meet the AI preppers

Some tech workers preparing for an AI apocalypse — or utopia — by leaning into working out, building bunkers, or burning their retirement savings.

www.businessinsider.com

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jul 7

drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jun 10

no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jun 5

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Jun 3

you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Jan 20

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations arstechnica.com?p=1997521

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations

The big conclusion: "If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear."

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jun 2

Now playing: open.spotify.com/track/0IcjWu...

Nu Beginingz

Congo Natty · Jungle Revolution · Song · 2013

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Jun 2

Baby earthquake in the Oakland / East Bay area. Just felt it. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 30

Thank you!

Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 30

New revelations on Musk's alleged drug use, via @kirstengrind.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 29

I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 22

Now playing: open.spotify.com/track/7867B4...

Meridian

Lyra Pramuk · Oracle · Song · 2025

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 17

NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.

— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt

LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits

Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.

www.businessinsider.com

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 17

NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.

— Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
— Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
— Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt

LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits

Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.

www.businessinsider.com

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 16

This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...

Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 15

A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...

Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch

A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.

techcrunch.com

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 7

"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...

There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath

It's not cinema, it's user retention

aftermath.site

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 7

oh my god www.politico.eu/article/card...

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 5

Seems bad

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · May 5

Exclusive: Newark Airport air traffic controllers lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute last week

Newark Radar Loss Left Controllers Guiding Blind for 90 Seconds

Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 3

Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · May 1

Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...

Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs

One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up

kotaku.com

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · Apr 24

Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.