"Wear a mask if you are around others at risk for severe COVID-19" Let's be more clear here. Given how crowded New York is, in all practicality that means wear a mask in all public spaces.

ALERT: US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright theverge.com/2023/8/29/2385… "The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject."

I see you’re living in a tent with your partner and your dog. Would you like to surrender your dog and sleep alone on a mat in a gymnasium? We’ll throw out all your belongings for free

The comment field to tell the US Copyright Office about AI is now live. copyright.gov/policy/artific…

DREW BARRYMORE NO

me enjoying the first fall weather-like day in nyc

U.S. COVID levels approach pandemic's 2020 peak. fortune.com/well/2023/09/1…

US government restarts delivery of free COVID tests reut.rs/3PP7AOk

Another COVID wave, another wave of one star Yankee Candle reviews

I didn’t get to post this yesterday, but better late than never. HELLO, OPPORTUNITY published a year (and a day) ago. What a wild, wonderful year.

Our new story: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – a breach of judicial norms that one federal judge said “takes my breath away.” propublica.org/article/claren…

It's not intelligent. It's just theft.

Did you hear that, publishing? AI-generated material can't be adapted into film/TV shows.

This week I wrote about NOT sleepwalking into another trump presidency vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/d…

When we talk about Columbus Day, many Americans assume he's always been honored as an important explorer. That is NOT the case. He was mostly forgotten for 200+ years. In HISTORY SMASHERS: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS & THE TAINO PEOPLE, we talk about when & how that changed. (thread)

Oh no Matthew Perry!!