Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
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https://adam-rogers.net
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Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here’s my booze book:
bookshop.org/p/books/proo...
And here’s my color book:
bookshop.org/p/books/full...
bookshop.org/p/books/proo...
And here’s my color book:
bookshop.org/p/books/full...
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they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
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Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I confirm this.
Growing up in LA in the 1970s and 1980s, we routinely had smog alert days when we weren’t allowed to have lunch or recess outside. Your eyes would sting all the time and if I played outside my lungs would burn at the end of the day. It’s vastly better now. But I guess that’s woke?
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I confirm this.
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This Harper’s pullout on media consolidation caught my attention from across the concourse. As I wrote last month, this might be in my top ten list of things to make sense of.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This Harper’s pullout on media consolidation caught my attention from across the concourse. As I wrote last month, this might be in my top ten list of things to make sense of.
Well, OK, I like this. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...
‘Stargate’ Reopens With New Series at Prime Video
Martin Gero, a writer and producer on previous entries in the franchise, will be the showrunner.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well, OK, I like this. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...
This sounds way cool; wish I could be there. Museum exhibition in Londo nof Ursula LeGuin's hand-drawn maps:
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
AA School
Architectural Association School of Architecture's website homepage is the online entrance into the AA; to its courses from Foundation to PhD for undergraduate and postgraduate students; its open publ...
www.aaschool.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This sounds way cool; wish I could be there. Museum exhibition in Londo nof Ursula LeGuin's hand-drawn maps:
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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The Brownstone Institute, whose members now run US health policy, is funded by a subset of people who support prominent groups in conservative politics, such as the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
kffhealthnews.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Brownstone Institute, whose members now run US health policy, is funded by a subset of people who support prominent groups in conservative politics, such as the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
All those scrolls showing how the Sumerian merchant Ea-nasir is a bad purveyor of copper are, in aggregate, an Ur-text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
All those scrolls showing how the Sumerian merchant Ea-nasir is a bad purveyor of copper are, in aggregate, an Ur-text.
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Explaining to my wife why I write comic books instead of proper books like Nigel Tufnel explaining how his amp goes to 11.
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Explaining to my wife why I write comic books instead of proper books like Nigel Tufnel explaining how his amp goes to 11.
Technically, hair and fingernails should go in the compost bucket.
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Technically, hair and fingernails should go in the compost bucket.
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Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Ah, Death by Lightning is an everything-is-toys-credits show.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ah, Death by Lightning is an everything-is-toys-credits show.
Fucks sake the president of the United States called a woman reporter “piggy.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Fucks sake the president of the United States called a woman reporter “piggy.”
Is there anything I can read on how long, locked-off, wide master shots came to signify quality-but-indy filmmaking?
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Is there anything I can read on how long, locked-off, wide master shots came to signify quality-but-indy filmmaking?
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This is very high on my list of "not politically charged stuff I want somebody to run for office on"
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is very high on my list of "not politically charged stuff I want somebody to run for office on"
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This digital image of Charles Blaskowitz's early 1777 map of New York Island doesn't do it justice -- it is taller than I am -- but it is a unique perspective on the British invasion. It narrates the British campaign. Zoom in for delicious details. #HATM
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
A plan of New York Island, and part of Long Island, with the circumjacent country, as far as Dobbs's Ferry to the north, and White Plains to the east, including the rivers, islands, roads, &ca - Ameri...
American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a portal containing thousands of maps from dozens of institutions that bring to life the history and geography of the American Revolutionary War era.
www.argomaps.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This digital image of Charles Blaskowitz's early 1777 map of New York Island doesn't do it justice -- it is taller than I am -- but it is a unique perspective on the British invasion. It narrates the British campaign. Zoom in for delicious details. #HATM
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
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I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
Gosh, spam emailer, this feels borderline aggressive to me, no?
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Gosh, spam emailer, this feels borderline aggressive to me, no?
Look, do I wish that the Slack icon and the Photos icon were just slightly distinguishable from each other at a fast glance? Of course I do. We all do. But that's not the situation we're dealing with right now.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Look, do I wish that the Slack icon and the Photos icon were just slightly distinguishable from each other at a fast glance? Of course I do. We all do. But that's not the situation we're dealing with right now.
Come on
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid
David Ellison met officials from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, among other Gulf investors
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Come on
Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
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The more I think about it the worse it gets that not a single other member of the press objected to “quiet, piggy!”
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The more I think about it the worse it gets that not a single other member of the press objected to “quiet, piggy!”
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But that is a different thread.
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
13/
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
13/
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
But that is a different thread.
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
13/
My main point, and this is a genuine question, is I cannot understand for the life of me WHY GOOGLE WOULD DO THIS?
Because in addition to Google making money on search result ads, it also owns an estimated +50% of the global digital ad revenue market GENERALLY
13/
(I keep reading "COP30" as "C-3P0".)
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
(I keep reading "COP30" as "C-3P0".)