'Even fairly anodyne letters to media organizations could cost clients nearly six figures' (!!!) Will never look at one of those letters the same way again... juicy new story on defamation lawyers, by David Enrich nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

This idea is of increasing risks from reinfections is a COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING.

That paper DOES NOT show a reinfection is more dangerous than earlier infection.

That paper —and much research— shows reinfections are statistically much less riskier than earlier ones. See next.

NEW —now 4 studies by Columbia cancer researchers have been retracted for copied data. Story by ⁦Benjamin Mueller⁩: nytimes.com/2024/03/20/sci…

Hey authors, peer-reviewers, editors, & production teams, you might want to be sure ChatGPT text is removed from your scientific publications.... HT Randy Olson #research #scitwitter #chatgpt

I hadn't even looked in the bloody window!

are you this old?

Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps nytimes.com/2024/03/06/wor…

SCOOP for WIRED — these appear to be the first publicly-reported arrests of their kind:

Two boys, aged 13 and 14, were arrested in Florida after allegedly making fake, AI-generated nude images of their classmates
wired.com/story/florida-…

A work meeting???? Who are these 1-in-4 women and… do they work

Ayo Edebiri just gave the best answer any celebrity has ever given to a reporter

Ingrid from Upload perfectly recaps Chelsea and Jimmy from Love is Blind

NEW from ⁦Sarah Kliff⁩ — major embryo shipping company said on Friday that it was pausing its business in Alabama nytimes.com/2024/02/23/hea…

the google news tab keeps disappearing bc google is testing disappearing it, Sarah Scire confirms

niemanlab.org/2024/02/why-is…

The politics of America’s housing issues in one chart:

• People and politicians in blue states say they care deeply about the housing crisis and homelessness but keep blocking housing so both get worse

• Red states simply permit loads of new homes and have no housing crisis

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to 'SIackbot' and G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

“the accident in the Alabama clinic echoes a pattern of serious errors that happen frequently during fertility treatment, a rapidly growing industry with little government oversight,” Azeen Ghorayshi and ⁦Sarah Kliff⁩ report: nytimes.com/2024/02/22/hea…

Ummmmm

We haven’t lost the capacity to pay attention.

179 studies, 32 countries: on tests of concentration from 1990 to 2021, children didn’t decline—and adults actually improved.

When we want to focus, we can. Our distraction issues are a matter of motivation, not ability.

Read the Judge’s Ruling in the Trump Civil Fraud Case nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Ten years ago, I found myself marooned at Mar-a-Lago observing Donald Trump for two surreal—and oddly intimate—days.

This week, as people debate Biden and Trump’s mental acuity, I went back and listened to my 2014 Trump interview to see if he’s declined: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…