Bill Barr on the classified documents investigation: "This is not a case of the DOJ conducting a witch hunt...This would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents, but he jerked them around for a year and a half...There is no excuse for what he did here."

Zaslav's note to staff: nytimes.com/2023/06/07/bus…

FWIW, a decent CEO note. No jargon. Brief. He takes responsibility for it not working out but there's an interim plan and we promise to do better.

"72% of all federal workers are "defense-related" while the State Department, tasked with using diplomacy to avert wars, employs 1%." from: You get what you pay for, by Judd Legum open.substack.com/pub/popularinf…

Alpha Fold solving the protein-folding problem may be one of the most significant technological breakthroughs of the last 25-30 years.

Where did the $750 million go that Murdoch paid for National Geographic? Couldn't they have put some of that into a trust to keep the magazine going?

Kind of puts a new meaning on the Nat King Cole lyric "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" apa.org/monitor/2012/0…

love that Uses This (one of my all-time favorite feeds) talks to a hard-core carpenter about what technology he uses. It does not disappoint. usesthis.com/interviews/jim…

Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation technologyreview.com/2023/08/11/107…

The original headline for this Al Jazeera English story said "Philippines removes South China Sea ‘floating barrier’ installed by China" - now it says something different. aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/25…

Just canceled any and all trips to Atlanta arstechnica.com/health/2023/09…

The future is already here, if you know where to look. 24-hour timelapse of the world's largest autonomous drone delivery system, covering an entire country.

I can't help but think some of this insane story (from ex-Vanity Fair EIC 'sletter) is a subtle dig at current-day VF's factchecking. airmail.news/issues/2023-10…

0 value in a picture of you moderating a panel without any offering of wisdom from said panel.

New default settings on @kayak search

The voter fraud was coming from inside the house ajc.com/politics/georg…

Based on my 2024 writing personality from Grammarly, me and T.A. Edison we're pretty much the same. gram.ly/inventor

テトラサイエンス、武田薬品を創設パートナーとして「Scientific AI Lighthouse」プログラムを開始 prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p…

Lighthouse programs have been around forever in enterprise software, with benefits for startups and big companies alike. What do those programs look like in the era of scientific AI. Read my CEO's latest Substack: "A Beacon on the Scientific AI Frontier" open.substack.com/pub/unvarnishe…

On The Topology of Intelligence, Or Why Complex Domains Require Vertical and Horizontal Platforms open.substack.com/pub/unvarnishe…?