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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
1. Punch Drunk Love
2. Inherent Vice
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Master
7. Liquorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight
2. Inherent Vice
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Master
7. Liquorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight
oh we doing it?
1. The Master
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Phantom Thread
4. Magnolia
5. Inherent Vice
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Boogie Nights
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Hard Eight
for reference, the worst one here is still really damn good, and everything above that is an all-timer
1. The Master
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Phantom Thread
4. Magnolia
5. Inherent Vice
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Boogie Nights
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Hard Eight
for reference, the worst one here is still really damn good, and everything above that is an all-timer
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
1. Punch Drunk Love
2. Inherent Vice
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Master
7. Liquorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight
2. Inherent Vice
3. Phantom Thread
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. The Master
7. Liquorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight
Every time we take our dog on her first walk back in our neighborhood after a trip, she sniffs around like crazy, trying to see if anything’s changed. We’ve now termed this “catching up on her email”
August 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Every time we take our dog on her first walk back in our neighborhood after a trip, she sniffs around like crazy, trying to see if anything’s changed. We’ve now termed this “catching up on her email”
A lot of talk about how countries will be non competitive if they don’t empower AI and not as much about how allowing AI to turn the brains of our children into undeveloped mush will impact national competitiveness
May 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A lot of talk about how countries will be non competitive if they don’t empower AI and not as much about how allowing AI to turn the brains of our children into undeveloped mush will impact national competitiveness
Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.
April 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.
Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.
April 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Having already bought a dresser, I’ve become some sort of fb marketplace Good Samaritan.
Also, a lot of things weren’t as effective attacks when people thought trump = lower prices. Opinions are layered.
I was told that protecting due process couldn't be a winning political issue because a poll from before this gained wide publicity showed people weren't already upset about it.
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
April 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Also, a lot of things weren’t as effective attacks when people thought trump = lower prices. Opinions are layered.
LFG
More details
- new entity will serve as a developer
- financing for pre-fab home builders
- financing/equity in affordable developments
- multifamily construction tax credit
- reduce municipal development charges by 50%
- make conversions to affordable housing easier
- "cut red tape"
- new entity will serve as a developer
- financing for pre-fab home builders
- financing/equity in affordable developments
- multifamily construction tax credit
- reduce municipal development charges by 50%
- make conversions to affordable housing easier
- "cut red tape"
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
LFG
People learning in real time that when someone says they’re going to run something “like a business” in today’s day and age, that means they will try to do hostile corporate takeovers for purported short term gains.
March 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
People learning in real time that when someone says they’re going to run something “like a business” in today’s day and age, that means they will try to do hostile corporate takeovers for purported short term gains.
Okay everything is bad so I’m just gonna listen to every Jenny Lewis album while I draft legal documents for the next 10 hours byeeeee
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just emailed the paper's staff to announce a "change coming to our opinion pages."
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Okay everything is bad so I’m just gonna listen to every Jenny Lewis album while I draft legal documents for the next 10 hours byeeeee
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seems like a very smart idea to do a whole bunch of shit that Trump’s team wouldn’t even consider, because it would involve creativity and hard work. We cannot just go tit for tat. Outprepare him! He doesn’t like to read!
seems like a very smart idea to do a whole bunch of shit that Trump’s team wouldn’t even consider, because it would involve creativity and hard work. We cannot just go tit for tat. Outprepare him! He doesn’t like to read!
A Weird Way to Win the Trade War with Trump
Podcast Episode · CANADALAND · 2025-02-03 · 31m
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February 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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seems like a very smart idea to do a whole bunch of shit that Trump’s team wouldn’t even consider, because it would involve creativity and hard work. We cannot just go tit for tat. Outprepare him! He doesn’t like to read!
seems like a very smart idea to do a whole bunch of shit that Trump’s team wouldn’t even consider, because it would involve creativity and hard work. We cannot just go tit for tat. Outprepare him! He doesn’t like to read!
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Saw a cybertruck struggle and then fail to make a 3-point turn today. Nothing could have prepared me for the experience.
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Saw a cybertruck struggle and then fail to make a 3-point turn today. Nothing could have prepared me for the experience.
Build. Houses.
I saw that Liberal sources had told Global News they felt Trudeau had pulled the party “too far to the left” and they seemed to think that was the problem with his leadership
If that’s the takeaway the Liberals are going with, they are incredibly boned
If that’s the takeaway the Liberals are going with, they are incredibly boned
January 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Build. Houses.
Convinced that my dog has learned to sniff out my sugar lows, but instead of alerting me like those diabetic service dogs, she tries to pounce on my weakened state to grab food from the counter.
December 28, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Convinced that my dog has learned to sniff out my sugar lows, but instead of alerting me like those diabetic service dogs, she tries to pounce on my weakened state to grab food from the counter.
Please put an ctrl z option for when you accidentally rewind or fast forward a podcast bc you didn’t realize your screen was on and you pick up your phone a little too haphazardly thanks
December 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Please put an ctrl z option for when you accidentally rewind or fast forward a podcast bc you didn’t realize your screen was on and you pick up your phone a little too haphazardly thanks
After we saw a possum on our nighttime walk with the dog, my wife googled if possums are a danger to dogs, and the AI vomit that comes up now said that it’s healthy for dogs to eat possums. So no need to panic
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
After we saw a possum on our nighttime walk with the dog, my wife googled if possums are a danger to dogs, and the AI vomit that comes up now said that it’s healthy for dogs to eat possums. So no need to panic
I’m sorry but before I pay over $500 you gotta explain to me why that’s good, for a chair to be Yugoslavian
November 29, 2024 at 4:26 AM
I’m sorry but before I pay over $500 you gotta explain to me why that’s good, for a chair to be Yugoslavian
I’ve also been trying to write a literary muse piece but my method of stopping all classically handsome men who are somehow clever in a way that belies unresolved anxiety and asking them if they know Sally Rooney has not worked yet
November 27, 2024 at 1:50 PM
I’ve also been trying to write a literary muse piece but my method of stopping all classically handsome men who are somehow clever in a way that belies unresolved anxiety and asking them if they know Sally Rooney has not worked yet
So umm… four years of this will crush us??
Trump vows to slap 25 per cent tariff on all products from Canada, Mexico: Tariffs would stand until both countries crack down on drugs and immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, Trump said on social media
Trump vows to slap 25 per cent tariff on all products from Canada, Mexico
Tariffs would stand until both countries crack down on drugs and immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, Trump said on social media
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:59 AM
So umm… four years of this will crush us??
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*showing my hairstylist a pic* i need you to kill this person for me
November 21, 2024 at 3:55 PM
*showing my hairstylist a pic* i need you to kill this person for me
Netflix giving us the true online boxing stream experience in that I have given up trying to get it to work and am going to sleep
November 16, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Netflix giving us the true online boxing stream experience in that I have given up trying to get it to work and am going to sleep
democrats discovering that the strategies that worked under Obama don’t cut it anymore like the NBA coaches who tried to run the triangle offence without MJ
November 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
democrats discovering that the strategies that worked under Obama don’t cut it anymore like the NBA coaches who tried to run the triangle offence without MJ
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Opinion - The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale: It seems that we accept the corporate hoarding of our digital lives as a given: Reddit simply has the right to strike a deal with OpenAI user data
The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale
It seems that we accept the corporate hoarding of our digital lives as a given: Reddit simply has the right to strike a deal with OpenAI user data
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 26, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Opinion - The law should treat personal data like human organs – not for sale: It seems that we accept the corporate hoarding of our digital lives as a given: Reddit simply has the right to strike a deal with OpenAI user data
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