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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · 26d

Companies like OpenAI say their chatbots are optimized to be useful, not to keep you hooked. Totally coincidentally, they pose endless follow-up prompts to keep the conversation going. By @lilashroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet

How chatbots keep you talking

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Aug 12

I would really like to know what editorial judgments led to the choice of wording here

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Great reporting here www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

How One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ground meat implies the existence of sky meat

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Can you please leave the Nets out of this? We've been through enough

Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jul 19

Seems like a bit of a constitutional issue to suppose that the sitting president can sue people and news organizations in his individual capacity in federal district court.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's interesting how some people act as if breaking up a company (say, Google) is akin to a death sentence, but out in the real world, corporate juggernauts choose to break themselves up all the time

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally.

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The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double

As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jul 2

The greatest freestyle rapper of all time is a YouTuber named Harry Mack, who had the misfortune of coming up at a time when people don't really care about freestyling anymore. But he has essentially perfected the form.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 30

ruh roh www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse

Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 29

I enjoyed MATERIALISTS aside from the acting, writing, and directing.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Listen: Blake Masters is a creepy weirdo," Chris Murphy told me, "but a lot of the stuff he was getting into in 2022—about the emptiness of American life when all that matters is how much you buy and how good a consumer you are—really, it spoke to me.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What Chris Murphy Learned From the New Right

The standard-issue Northeast progressive wants to take the Democratic Party down a populist path.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 16

Weird to think, as I approach middle age, that I have spent just over 50 percent of my adult life living in the Trump era www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Decade of Golden-Escalator Politics

It was here that Donald Trump descended into American politics.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jun 8

"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":

How I Accidentally Inspired a Major Chinese Motion Picture

A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through sports. Now it’s a movie with a very different message.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 8

This is quite the yarn by @chrisbeam.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Zany Sports Movie That Explains U.S.-China Relations

A decade ago, I wrote a story about transcending cultural boundaries through football. Now it’s a major Chinese motion picture—with a very different message.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 5

It seems bad that higher interest rates, a tool meant to reduce inflation, mechanically cause inflation to increase in certain very important categories www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...

Why rents are rising again

U.S. renters face higher costs as construction stalls, Redfin says.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Jun 2

One of many things I learned from this article: one of Trump's phone backgrounds is an image of HIS OWN FACE www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone

“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · May 25

What would we do without philosophers?

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · May 24

Accusing our opponents of "ignoring tradeoffs" is really hot right now — I wonder when we'll go back to just saying they're wrong?

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · May 23

"A critical mass of the nation’s politicians, news outlets, and major brands regularly post content for free to the exclusive streaming platform for the Ye song 'Heil Hitler.'"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/

What Are People Still Doing on X?

Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · May 12

It's good to read the text of an executive order before publishing an article about it in a leading newspaper

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Apr 30

All fair points. But you were asking what people mean when they refer to a "free trade consensus." The answer is: the belief that tariffs are bad. That was the consensus!

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Apr 30

I think this is what they have in mind:

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Apr 29

"The jobs that we lost to China 20 years ago: We’re not getting those back," Autor says. "China doesn’t even want those jobs anymore. They are losing them to Vietnam, and they aren’t upset about it."

Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’

The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

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Gilad Edelman @giladedelman.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a really interesting interview with David Autor, the economist behind the famous "China Shock" research, who believes that both the old free-trade consensus AND the Trump tariff blitz are disastrously wrong www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’

The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

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