Scoop: A California police department paid $150,000 for a Cybertruck with souped up mods to use in its anti-drug program, according to records obtained by Forbes. "It’s something we can highlight at our events [where] kids can come and take pictures." With Emily Baker-White -->

Achievement unlocked - apogee 1,400.7 km Forward bulkhead Draco firing during burn 🔥

In the 90s this would be Xeroxed onto 1000 fliers for a punk show before sunrise.

Brooks Brothers, September 11, 2001

New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to The Wayback Machine. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new…

From the new issue of Fast Company: I spoke with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others inside and outside the company about how an island of unruly humanity that long struggled to be a business is succeeding in the AI age. fastcompany.com/91176249/reddi…

Brand new pod: Micah speaks with Samantha Cole of 404 Media about what she and her colleagues have learned after a year of running a very industrious worker-owned tech news outlet: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/a…

Generative AI is “lubricant for broken algorithmic machinery,” Damon Beres writes. “Pour it into a social network, and if you’ve done the alchemy right, the gears will turn and turn.” It’s also “a grade-A brain softener.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Fascinating story on newly revealed links between Saudi officials and the 9/11 hijackers. Also raises a striking question: whether the FBI and CIA "mishandled or deliberately downplayed evidence of [Saudi Arabia's] possible complicity in the attacks." propublica.org/article/saudi-…

Garbage Day's new podcast is finally here. Our first episode is with Katie Notopoulos and it's all about "dangerous food trends" and the moral panic over Nyquil chicken. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pan…

Interesting tidbit from @newyorker staffer who was at the 9/11 ceremony this morning at the World Trade Center and caught Trump telling Harris, "Good job." newyorker.com/newsletter/the…

Folks are so numbed to N.Y.P.D. corruption that sometimes reporting like this gets lost in the noise But each one of the hundreds of cases the NYPD kills without review is someone’s lived experience - often traumatic - that moved them to file a complaint. propublica.org/article/nypd-t…

SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk! “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” — Mission Commander Jared Isaacman during Dragon egress and seeing our planet from ~738 km

“After a year of floods and storms across the country, more than 10 percent of Americans no longer have home insurance, as climate risk sends the insurance industry fleeing vulnerable places.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

NEW: A hacker and artist found a way to trick ChatGPT into telling him detailed step by step instructions on how to make a fertilizer bomb. The trick was to tell the chatbot to play a game and then getting it to create an elaborate sci-fi fantasy world. techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/hac…

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are keeping their children home and reporting damage to their property as anti-immigrant conspiracy theories spread, fanned by statements by Trump and Vance haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/hai…

At least for now, “when it comes to bullshit generated by and about public figures, AI is less effective for tricking people than it is for humiliation, abuse, mockery, and fantastical wish fulfillment,” John Herrman writes. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The rumor that kicked off all the cat-eating nonsense is from a local FB group. NewsGuard found the person who posted it: they heard it from a neighbor, who had heard it from “an acquaintance of a friend." This person heard it from an unnamed "source". newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-hait…

While casting itself as a leader in climate, Microsoft is pitching gen AI to oil and gas companies to make production more efficient and maximize fossil fuels extraction. According to Karen Hao, MS believes it can make up $75 billion annually this way. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

More than 2,000 Americans who believe in conspiracy theories talked about them with a GPT-4 Turbo chatbot told to debunk the theories and... It worked surprisingly well. I spoke with David G. Rand about the study here: niemanlab.org/2024/09/an-ai-…