Lawyer who graduated top of his class at Harvard has his firm, which is somehow part of the mob, dead to rights on murder but in this universe the FBI can't use that to get a warrant so he has to arrange a heist to steal documents, because....
The fun thing about watching The Firm after not having read a Grisham book in like 15 years is I'd forgotten how insane and legally absurd the plots are and it's so great
If you are a college/university administrator, and you don't have a detailed, specific plan for dealing with online campaigns and targeted harassment, you are failing as a leader. And this means educating your Boards on how all this works, too. Lead, don't crumble. Because they'll come for you, too.
The NY Times and other media that treated Gay's academic misconduct as a national story were an essential part of the right wing campaign to have her removed. Compare how they treated the President of Stanford, who faced much more serious accusations of academic misconduct.
The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it’s nothing like what their PR hacks once promised. Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.
Get ready for ads — or pony up an extra $2.99 each month.
Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how execs treated cord cutting like an inevitability, rather than something that happened because cable was a bad, expensive product (with lousy customer service) and now they're just doing the same thing all over again
Here's some of the other articles on retail theft from the Times, w the pages on which they were published. Honestly, not picking on Times here. I think this is just such a common pattern: salacious crime headline on A1, retraction on D14. This is one reason why ppl's views on crime are so bad.
I couldn't sleep last night and this morning my brain is dealing with that by just running through "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" over and over and over again. I long for the embrace of the void.
"The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate it."
couldn't help but weigh in on the Sports Illustrated debacle, though I won't top @davidjroth.bsky.social. how AI has been used by media companies this year makes clear what it really is—not any instrument for building the future, but an extraction tool of last resort www.latimes.com/business/tec...
The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists, but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate ...