Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
in some cases—and despite a graphical representation in its user interface that shows the chatbot “reading” specific source material before giving a reply to a prompt—Perplexity is summarizing not actual news articles but reconstructions of what they say based on URLs and traces of them left in search engines like extracts and metadata,
By Dhruv Mehrotra Tim Marchman • Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
DFW as literary spy magazine parodies.
Simon Owens • Quibi could have succeeded. Here's how
While you meet:
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
The physics of bowling strike after strike
The Cheese Letter
Alex Magee • 6 cards
Each time he surfaces from the Deep Web he’s a little more freaked, or so it seems to those in neighboring cubes, though so many of these spend their hours down in the mainframe room snorting Halon out of the fire extinguishers that they may lack some perspective.