The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about.
Big news from Gov. Kathy Hochul on child care. She will announce today that she’s “committing to fully fund the first two years” of Zohran Mamdani’s implementation of free preschool for 2-year-olds:
i've come to realise that regret is a cruel storyteller. It rewrites the past with the wisdom of the present, convinces you that you should have known better when you actually had no way of knowing at all.
This is possibly the single most underreported story of the last half decade of American politics. The GOP's anti-trans, pro-censorship brigade has gotten utterly massacred on a local level, and yet I see no New York Times thinkpieces chronicling how Real America hates this shit.
Need everyone who threatened to leave New York if Mamdani won to start packing their bags and booking their flights immediately! Break those leases and put those apartments back on the market tonight!
Joe Biden had a peace deal in place, but then Netanyahu and Trump met in Mar-a-Lago and decided that keeping the war going would benefit them both.
Ten months later, they’re signing the exact deal Biden brokered.
My theory is that all the data centers being forced on us aren’t for future public demand, they’re for current military/govt demand—that AI is the backbone of the new surveillance state but they can’t say that so they pretend it’s because people love making videos of Pikachu.