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Walter Hickey
Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.
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ngl lately every email i get from substack inc is irritating. have not opened an email from corporate with surprise and delight in many years.
Joseph CoxSubstack introduced a feature that detects AI writing. Well, because a ton of people on Substack use AI to write their newsletters, they're now calling the feature a "witch hunt" “I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.” www.404media.co/substackers-...
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Using a helicopter in NYC for anything other than life-threatening emergencies should be illegal, and Amtrak’s only offering between NYC and Philly should be a 47-minute trip running at 10-minute headways, as laid out by @alonlevy.bsky.social nec.transitcosts.com/scheduling
Marisa Kabasso much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran
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I disagree with many of the points Emily Wilson makes in her piece but I will leave my home and family, sail across the oceans, lay siege to an impenetrable fortress for a decade, anger the gods, and suffer a procession of disasters on my ten year journey home to defend her right to say it 😤
hear me out. we need more taxes on people who are bad at math for the same reason we tax cigarettes and carbon.
JLRayThe latest from YouGov (n ~ 16k). If you had a choice between instantly receiving $50,000 or flipping a coin for a 50% chance to win $1 million, which would you pick? 65% in the US select the $50k, 25% take the coin toss. yougov.com/en-us/daily-...
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Just read through this Times piece on how Meta's Hyperion data center. Solid telling of the story...BUT... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t... ...most of the details in here were already reported by Stephanie Riegel at The Advocate back in January 2025. No links! www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
The behind-the-scenes story of how Meta's $10 billion data center came to LouisianaTo bring Meta to Louisiana, officials rewrote laws and pushed through big tax breaks in record time. The inside story, from the people who made it happen.www.theadvocate.com
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For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
Sky MarchiniI’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?
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Right before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, George Lucas made an animated show called Star Wars: Detours. He produced dozens of completed episodes. Then Disney bought Lucasfilm, wanted to make new Star Wars, and shelved Detours forever. Over a decade later, it will finally be seen.
The Lost ‘Star Wars’ TV Show Will Be Shown in Public for the First TimeAfter a long Detour, a show that Disney shelved is going to be seen.screencrush.com