The Goldman Sachs lawyer linked to Jeffrey Epstein made $25 million last year and received an 11% raise bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Max Chafkin
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Max Chafkin
@chafkin
writer, @BW and @technology. Co-Host, the Everybody's Business podcast. Author, The Contrarian. Worse half to @lagorio. Email: m at maxchafkin dot com.
Queens, NY Katılım Ekim 2007
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the crazy thing about this AI novel is that for months youtubers/redditors have been talking about this. but hachette waited to pull it till the NYT asked.
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new episode is all about the ways that people's faith in capitalism is being challenged--epstein, retirement (or lack there of), massive airplane delays bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I wrote for @bw about the Epstein files and capitalism's credibility problem. Its hard to have faith in business when the world's leading businessmen look so craven, and so dumb. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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"There are also those who acknowledged the cringe but refused to criticize specific individuals on the record." washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…
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Will be joining shortly! Tune in!
11th Hour@11thHour
TONIGHT: Trump demands the help of U.S allies to secure the Strait of Hormuz – the Iran conflict continues to drive fuel prices up, raising the pressure on the White House to help rein in costs – & the Save Act is now headed to a vote in the Senate. @SRuhle @peterbakernyt @michaelcrowley @sbg1 @chafkin @BharatRamamurti @mckaycoppins
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Honestly an impressive run of hostility to their readers.
Washingtonian 🌸@washingtonian
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/the…
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obviously long history of musk doing this, but also...this is a company that has already raised and burned through billions if not tens of billions of dollars and is attempting to claim a significant percentage of Musk's less troubled rocket company
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@TheStalwart I sort of suspect a decent number of coders feel this way about writing code, tho they’re under a lot of pressure to be gung ho about ai
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@TheStalwart What higher order problems do you think writers would focus on? In my experience, writing = thinking. Ditto reading. It’s why I haven’t found generative ai very useful in my day to day life or work.
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Why do a lot of software people like a tool that can allow them to expend their mental energy on higher order problems, while writers dislike the tool that can replace their output completely?
Truly one of the great mysteries of our time
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Is axios ok?
Axios@axios
Most Americans are too busy for social media, too normal for politics, too rational to tweet. They work, raise kids, coach Little League — and never post a word about any of it. This isn't a small minority. It's a monstrous, if silent, majority. axios.com/2026/03/11/ame…
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this week on the podcast, @JavierBlas talks about the risks in Iran, including $200/barrel oil, and @amandamull explains how QuitGPT became a thing bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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wrote about Musk in KY with @ellebeyoud. Musk's candidate is pitching himself as JD Vance 2.0. Which sounds great if you're a donor. Not clear whether voters like it though bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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this is a succinct explanation of white elites' views of AI are so far ahead of the views of normal people nytimes.com/2026/03/04/opi…
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