Amrita Khalid

tech journalist with bylines @verge @qz @engadget @dailydot and a lot of other places.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

We've been covering a bunch of the elections happening today in California and across the country. Here's my last-minute guide of what to watch downballot, beyond the CA governor's race. Lots of weird stuff going on, here's one example:
https://t.co/i6PbWD6tAM

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

Spoke with Linda Kinstler for this new NYT Magazine piece about the California State University’s AI boondoggle. It’s a meticulous deep dive containing no hype. Dek: “California’s public university system spent $16.9 million on A.I. The result has been chaos.”

Link below

[Julianne McShane @JulianneMcShane]

New UC Berkley-LA Times poll out today shows LA mayoral race is a tossup ahead of Tues primary, @Noah__Goldberg reports.

Mayor Karen Bass is polling at 26%, just 1 point ahead of Nithya Raman, her challenger to the left, & 4 points ahead of Spencer Pratt:
https://t.co/54aDUNaAxd

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

There are 1.2 MILLION legal immigrants waiting for approval on their adjustment of status green card applications. And USCIS says we're not processing you. We're taking your money to pay for our new police force. Thanks. GTFO.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half.
https://t.co/8bGxYcoGcS

[ej @ejdickson]

I've been thinking about this little boy all day. To witness this level of violence at such a young age, in a place where he is supposed to feel safe and loved and protected, is just impossible to comprehend.

We should all be ashamed of the world we're building for our kids.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Seeing this video brings me back immediately to the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills in 1999. Who could harm children

[Newtown Action Alliance ❌👑 @NewtownAction]

Amin Abdullah was the security guard shot and killed in the mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

San Diego’s police chief said Amin, “played a pivotal role” in preventing the attack from being far worse.

[Temple Israel @TempleIsraelMI]

A statement from Temple Israel on today's fatal shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

Turning Point chapters continue to grow on California campuses months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Campuses are seeing tensions rise as conservative students become more vocal both in and out of the classroom. https://t.co/76pbK8Ga8B

📸 Justin Sullivan

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

HUGE NEWS: ProPublica is launching a new investigative reporting hub in California, our sixth regional unit. Read more: https://t.co/tPTfEfetSk

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

We interviewed @charliebcurran, the AI filmmaker behind these legendary Spencer Pratt videos — while Hollywood panics about the technology, Charlie’s optimistic: “[AI] is how you get an artistic revolution,” he told us.

Full profile from @eventidia below 👇

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

also the nyt did such a good job with art direction for this story (the artist posted a behind-the-scenes on his instagram @/bdenzer; who knew it was a 3d model!)

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

link here: https://t.co/XTKuRHiPbS "bad design" and gritty, grating visuals are hitting right now

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Should be the subject of a reality show. I’d watch. Dude is lowkey hilarious.

[Michael J. Miraflor @michaelmiraflor]

"The Pandemic Never Ended" sounds about right.

Solid read to understand the macro, and why things generally feel really bad right now.

[Will Lloyd @Will___lloyd]

We hear so much about the manosphere, Andrew Tate, Clavicular, blah blah - lazy click bait journalism, documentary making and drama.

This week the New Statesman cover is about angry young women and the new feminism that’s reshaping Britain and its politics. A brilliant and enlightening feat of research and reporting from @emilylawford and @Scarlett__Mag

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

Yup. The unlimited abundance crowd ignores this. Which is ironic, because so many of them are workaholics.