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Rob Price ๐Ÿ”๏ธ
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Knight-Bagehot Fellow, Columbia University. Previously writing about technology and society for Business Insider. [email protected] / +1 6506366268 (Signal)
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This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...
Orgies, survival bunkers, and life upheavals: Meet the AI preppers
Some tech workers preparing for an AI apocalypse โ€” or utopia โ€” by leaning into working out, building bunkers, or burning their retirement savings.
www.businessinsider.com
drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse
nymag.com/intelligence...
no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted
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you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off.
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NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.

โ€” Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
โ€” Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
โ€” Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
www.businessinsider.com
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits.

โ€” Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past
โ€” Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet
โ€” Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
www.businessinsider.com
This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the companyโ€™s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
Anthropicโ€™s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.
techcrunch.com
"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...
There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath
It's not cinema, it's user retention
aftermath.site
Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
kotaku.com
Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.
brb going to Maui for a week ๐Ÿ๏ธ
"X is not just Y โ€” it's Z" is becoming such a tell for AI-generated copy
Just got access to Google's new "AI Mode." Traditional search results are relegated to just three links in the right rail