If you're like me and had to sit out the Bookforum/Oyler drama because you haven't read a novel since high school, well good news, there's a searing pan for you too: theverge.com/24126502/human…

Job alert: Philly Mag is hiring a contract copy editor. ~70 hours a month. Preferably would have experience copy editing longform features. Email me if you're interested: bpearson at phillymag dot com.

Honestly, good for her. We need these freaks in the mix to amuse the hoi poloi. Essential part of the ecosystem businessinsider.com/miki-agrawal-s…

NOW? NOW is the time?!?!?! nytimes.com/2024/04/09/hea…

“Like a cruel joke.” NY prisons passed out eclipse glasses to all people incarcerated. Then — for no reason other than cruelty — they put everyone on lockdown during the duration of eclipse. When it was done, they opened up & let people out. hellgatenyc.com/9-incarcerated…

Nature is healing: the WWE is starting to embrace the term 'pro wrestling' again after insisting on 'sports entertainment' for 25 years businessinsider.com/wwe-term-sport…

Gazetteer's joshua with a major scoop:

Hyperlocal news site Hoodline has been publishing reams of 'stories' generated by AI — including fake bylines and author bios.

They did so with basically no transparency until we started asking questions.

sf.gazetteer.co/hoodline-using…

For like 45 minutes I was in a full panic thinking that all my docs that were set to 'Anyone with the link' (aka basically anything I shared with my editors) were being used for AI training. Turns out, not the case! businessinsider.com/google-docs-pu…

Excited to see new stuff happening in journalism! Sherwood launched today. Love that they're bringing back linkouts on their homepage. Digg dot come vibes.
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The new Grok AI summaries of 'what everyone's talking about' are hilarious

I believe that the government has completely failed the American people by not stopping what every fan agrees is a complete desecration of our sacred institutions by the nightmare of corporate stadium naming rights. sherwood.news/business/a-his…

I really appreciate that Hell Gate has assigned Caroline Haskins to be the party reporter on the 'worst party ever' beat hellgatenyc.com/praxis-magazin…

oh my god someone mailed me a watercolor painting of my bodega cat photo 😭😭😭

This story was so good, I read it months ago and still keep thinking about it and talking about it. It goes in a lot of ways you don't expect it to jewishcurrents.org/after-the-hit-…

Coeur d’ Alene has to have the highest per capita of these kind of shenanigans of anywhere in the country, right?

Before you watch this clip, I urge you, I BEG you: please try to imagine the wrongest way possible to pronounce “tzatziki” first, because all of your hair will be blown off your head

question for anyone who has been following WWE regularly: did undertaker show up just randomly in this one moment or had it been teased in the shows leading up to this? was there a more recent rock v taker storyline? (more recent than like 2001)

This whole eclipse glasses situation once again marginalizes the “doesn’t plan ahead” community, incidentally the only people who actually appreciate beauty.

im gonna stare straight at that sun today