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The thing about the “Gen Z attention span crisis” discourse is that we know more about college students because we pay professors to monitor their intellectual capacities. But everyone of every age is affected by it. Including you!
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Chicago science lovers: The NYT Science desk is putting on an event this Sunday @ 1 p.m. at the Griffin MSI -- Katrina Miller will be in conversation with Wendy Freedman, the UChicago cosmologist, and Matt McCann, our photo editor, will wow you with imagery! More info below:
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Bill Wasik retweeted
Amanda Seyfried might- in addition to her Emmy for portraying Elizabeth Holmes- win an Oscar for portraying Elizabeth Holmes. That means she'll only need to win a Tony for Theranos: The Musical and a Grammy for Diagnose My Heart (feat Pitbull) to get the EEGOT (Elizabeth EGOT)
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“'There’s all kinds of wild stuff down there'” -- I got to hang onto the coattails of Chona Kasinger's amazing photos of the dock fouling (and biofouling) community in Seattle and beyond: nyti.ms/4jJqQw2
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Bill Wasik retweeted
This never gets old (& also shows how hard forecasting AI is even for AI)
“Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)
“Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)
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Bill Wasik retweeted
A terrific editor who lands story after story all while being generous with her time, sharing feedback and thoughts and collaborating with colleagues all about the place. What a great choice!
From the @nytimes Business desk:
We're thrilled Pui-Wing Tam will lead the charge as our next Business editor.
She's been a guiding force behind many of our most ambitious tech and business stories.
Now, she'll guide the Business desk’s next chapter.
nytco.com/press/pui-wing…
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Bill Wasik retweeted
you're just going about your day and you now get to read stuff like "Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean" and you just have to nod and move on with your day.
“Oceans are different, sir.” lmao
theverge.com/policy/1016751…
“Oceans are different, sir.” lmao
theverge.com/policy/1016751…
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Great q&a with @patrickhealynyt and Amy Chozick, who wrote the Holmes profile with the quote disputed in YCSE. Though she doesn’t have a recording to back up the quote, Chozick points out that in follow-up questions, Holmes seems pretty clearly to be embracing the metaphor:
In today's @nytimes Backstory newsletter, I talk to Amy Chozick about the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Holmes's dispute over a quote from Chozick's NYT profile of her. The movie brings up the quote several times as it assesses Holmes's veracity. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/ins…
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RT @Alyssafarah: Hand on my heart, my first day at the White House, Trump asked me if I knew what the H stood for. I said no. He said Horat…
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Bill Wasik retweeted
People who have been around politics a long time may be struck as I was by the sheriff's signature on this arrest warrant for Amy Acton's stepfather, who at the time was a fugitive. Does the name James Traficant ring a bell?
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Bill Wasik retweeted
@maxwelltani @billwasik Bleemer should never have named Gorpman CEO of Pangle.
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Wow: Genuin is partnering with Pangle to bring TikTok’s global ad network into its partner network
since ai really took off i've started getting a dozen pitches a day like this. every one of them is like "let me know if you plan on covering blugo's groundbreaking new partnership with brugo delivering hyper-personalized, data-driven ad experiences at scale"
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So @TylerShultz_ as a Theranos whistleblower. And he wrote the piece you need to read about ‘You Can See Everything.’
Elizabeth Holmes is still lying, he says. And the filmmakers, while creating a great piece of art, fall short on looking outside the walls of her apartment to document that.
One key detail: "My wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE."
Again, that device Holmes showed? It's not the one we're talking about!!!!
Having seen the film, I basically agree with Tyler's take.
statnews.com/2026/10/19/eli…
Elizabeth Holmes is still lying, he says. And the filmmakers, while creating a great piece of art, fall short on looking outside the walls of her apartment to document that.
One key detail: "My wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE."
Again, that device Holmes showed? It's not the one we're talking about!!!!
Having seen the film, I basically agree with Tyler's take.
statnews.com/2026/10/19/eli…
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RT @sapinker: I t Looked Like a New Species. The Trouble Was, It Didn’t Exist. First article by my nephew @ericboodman in his new role of…
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