Michelle Jaconi 💥

American storyteller. Joyful heckler.

[Allyson Chiu @_allysonchiu]

Excited to share that I recently moved to Boston and started this week as a reporter at @BostonGlobe covering medical and health innovations!

Please send any pitches, tips and coffee invites to [email protected]!

[Jesse Dougherty @dougherty_jesse]

Some personal news, as they say:

Excited beyond belief to be joining @NOTUSreports as a sports reporter, covering a mash-up of familiar topics for me: the overlap of sports + politics, the overlap of college sports + Capitol Hill, and ... wait for it ... the Nationals!

[City Cast DC @CityCast_DC]

We are thrilled to announce that @jackiepeiser is joining City Cast DC as business, development and transit reporter! 🥳 She joins reporters @alyssafowers @EmmaUber7 @Kaela_CS.
More here — and follow along for more to come on our expanding newsroom! https://t.co/0AyScqupfO

[Michelle Jaconi 💥 @jaconi]

“Kane Parsons is the new king of the box office with Backrooms. His $10 million adaptation of his viral YouTube short film series is landing the biggest opening in A24 history, with a little over $81 million.” https://t.co/Q71QzRKjKs

[The Free Press @TheFP]

"My parents are fallible goofballs like anyone else. But there is something a bit different about the conversations at my dinner table—and something magical and rare about the people leading them."

[Heidi Schlumpf @HeidiSchlumpf]

The best summary and analysis of Pope Leo's encyclical I've read so far is this one by @antoniospadaro

https://t.co/JB7dc2UZFw

[Lauren Goode @LaurenGoode]

NEW: Amazon just achieved a significant breakthrough in data center networking. This is an extremely nerdy story (based on a very technical paper) but I dove into the details. And, while data centers are a big point of contention for *reasons* these days, this new approach to networking does appear to save energy https://t.co/CNLxp685vY

[Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal]

Behold @Sam4TR's maiden story for @NOTUSreports.

It's everything that makes him one of the most exciting writers in D.C.

https://t.co/BdyMdXiau0

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."

Read the full text of his remarks: https://t.co/CoBfkVOVcy

[Michelle Jaconi 💥 @jaconi]

Surprising Lessons From Talking With America’s Highest-Earning Women: “Women in the top 1% of earners are more likely than others to be married and have multiple children.“ https://t.co/tjEMdIHh76

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

NEWS: The EPA wants to remove the drinking water limits on four forever chemicals, including the notorious North Carolina Cape Fear River contaminant, GenX.

They are officially proposing to kill the nationwide standards set under Biden and start over.
https://t.co/KkuomHSlJI

[Paul Kane @pkcapitol]

Howard.

[Diane Montagna @dianemontagna]

JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father.

Speakers at the presentation will include:

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;

Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development;

Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom;

Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence;

Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.

Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV.

Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Michelle Jaconi 💥 @jaconi]

Chief ❤️🙏🎶

[Country Sayings @countrysayingss]

Eric Church delivered one heck of a commencement speech before closing it out with Carolina… #EricChurch #UNC #countrymusic

[Heather Kelly @heatherkelly]

Despite an unexpected talent for being unemployed, I found a new job too cool to pass up and am back in my nice pants.

I am now the tech editor at The San Francisco Standard, joining a stacked team that includes my former Postie partner in crime, @ceodonovan.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Per pooler @iarnsdorf, Brett Ratner is aboard Air Force One today.

[Paul Kane @pkcapitol]

The end of East Potomac Park as we know it.
The Trump deal to take over Hains Point will create new, better golf course - but end 3-4 miles of riverfront land for running, biking, grilling, chilling.

Best cobyline possible:
@JoeHeim @RickMaese
https://t.co/EWxsAUtRli

[Michelle Jaconi 💥 @jaconi]

📺🏈 “At the dinner, Murdoch warned Trump that if streamers gained rights to more games, it would kill broadcast networks, a person familiar with the evening’s events said.” ⬇️

[Josh Dawsey @jdawsey1]

This is one of the more interesting stories I’ve gotten to work on. Inside Rupert Murdoch’s high-stakes blitz against the NFL. Lots of Washington intrigue and lots of $$$ at stake. Our latest w/a free link: https://t.co/wMshiBTMLL