Chris O'Brien

Journalist in Paris publishing The French Tech Journal newsletter 🇺🇲🇫🇷. Launching: The France AI Radar:

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Hey, Neo, my husband won't be home for hours...

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The U.S. is cooked...

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

China wins. 🇨🇳

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@SebJohnsonUK DH has been cooked for a while. Shareholders have been in revolt, management can't come up with answers, and eventually, you have to make money to stay in business. Sad, but it's a turd business.

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Haha, I had forgotten about this:
https://t.co/bfc70mF48q

[dar @radbackwards]

I gave WIRED the exclusive on our hands launch, and they wrote a really weird article about how we are sexualizing robotics…

https://t.co/8VbNvx1rBF

I felt pretty betrayed because that’s not what they told me they were writing about not is that what I’ve ever been about… actually I stand for quite the opposite… But I’ve come to find a lot of dishonesty and malice in the journalism community so I wasn’t surprised.

This is what I sent the author… I’m only sharing this because I hope it encourages journalists to resist the click bait trap and tell truly awesome stories because I for one don’t believe journalism is dead— I think it’s just starting and just needs to evolve past the weird corner of the internet where data driven optimization turns everything into smooth brained shocking brain rot bullshit.

The technological revolution we are going through should inspire a journalism renaissance. Not let it fall into further decay. There is so much brilliance at play in the world and the stories should be told!

My note:

“[author name redacted], it was nice talking to you, but I wanted to let you know that I didn’t enjoy your article at all.

I understand the need to be inflammatory because that seems to be the only thing that gets clicks these days but that doesnt mean you shouldn’t recognize when something special is in front of you.

I trusted our PR team in saying we should offer you the exclusive on what is one of the most important technological developments in the history of Mankind and I deeply regret it.

Good luck with the rest of your writing career.

-Dar Sleeper”

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@jawwwn_ I wonder if he ever has a coherent thought?

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@LaurenGoode @BooneAshworth @nypost

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@jkeatn Chief EmDash Officer (CEO) > Chief Em Dash Officer (CEDO)

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Anthropic is hiring its first Chief EmDash Officer...

[Jake Eaton @jkeatn]

hello,

the anthropic editorial team is hiring a standards editor

this is a job for a comma queen, a role where you are encouraged to be exacting and pedantic in editing for house style within a small team that stewards much of what goes on our website. the ideal person has strong opinions about how many times in one piece a colon should introduce an appositive, is unafraid to go head to head with our writers if we argue with you after you rewrite one of our sentences, and has likely thrived in a similar role at a newsroom or magazine. spiritually, this role is new york, not san francisco

apply here: https://t.co/8BBbI4bVEU

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@chrissyfarr Now, Thiel's Goons have taken this to the next logical step: Bitching-About-The-Media-as-a-Service:
https://t.co/vMz35PTFeX

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"Mistah Kurtz – He Dead."

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@chrissyfarr Naw, bitching about the media IS the playbook. The announcement got zero traction. It only went viral when the dude started whining. Played to perfection.

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"Mistah Kurtz – He Dead."

[etn. @etnshow]

Aron D'Souza (@aronpingdsouza) Founder & CEO of Objection (@theprimary) joins us live tomorrow at 2:00PM GMT to break down his new venture.

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@RMac18 It was perhaps the dumbest idea I had ever seen, and after 30 years, that is a high bar. Like, they were going to "democratize" the process of someone who was a victim of bad journalism getting justice? Except you had to pay thousands of dollars to them to hire a PI.

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@marty_kausas Um. Ok.

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@jasonfreedman Yeah, the U.S. had a good run there for a couple of centuries...

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@yllasville Yes, but it has taken many people a lot of time and money to reach that realization. And obviously, many still have not. So if you have, then you have the advantage. :-)

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Not to pick on this random dude but...this is a pretty good example of how people don't really understand how this stuff works and specifically why Anthropic is winning...they just have benchmarks on the brain....

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Anthropic must've thought they were so far ahead of everyone else

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@KatieMiller @JoeBiden Did Elon pay you to have his baby?

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A slightly better model doesn't compensate for that. This is what @Raph_dOrnano referred to last year as "Orchestration Lock-In."
https://t.co/EjVNU2fVRZ

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The model is only a part of what makes it all work: context and workflow are every bit as critical. If you've deployed an agentic system, it is learning all of that and getting better and better...If you switch, you probably lose all of that...