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  1. "Red, white, and kinda blue"

    Oh boy, this week's New Yorker cover illustration really captures the moment before our 250th national birthday celebration. 🫠

    1976 this isn't.

    @NewYorker

    #Humor #Comic #NewYorker #GeorgeWashington #RedWhiteAndKindaBlue

  2. New research suggests that people can communicate and even practice skills while dreaming.

    This New Yorker article asks — Should We?

    archive.md/6wKhx

    #WeekendRead #NewYorker #Dreams #Sleep #Learning #Productivity

  3. Interesting thread from #RonanFarrow about his article in the #NewYorker about #SamAltman and #OpenAI. One thing that caught my attention was this characterization of AI companies in general as "too big to fail." That they could themselves take the US economy down with them, so to speak.

    threads.com/@ronanfarrow/post/

  4. “This account of Altman’s time at #YCombinator is based on discussions with several Y.C. founders and partners, in addition to contemporaneous materials, all of which indicate that the parting was not entirely mutual. On one occasion, Graham told Y.C. colleagues that, prior to his removal, “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”

    YC founders deceived …

    ““Guys, I’ve had enough,” Musk replied. “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit”—otherwise “I’m just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup.” He quit, acrimoniously, five months later.”

    Mini Oligarchs ripping off Oligarchs …

    “Carroll Wainwright, another researcher, said that they were part of a “continual slide toward emphasizing #products over #safety.” After the release of #GPT-4, Leike e-mailed members of the board. “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and #revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.” He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

    Profit over safety …

    This “ #Altman / #OpenAI / #AI meets #Startups and AI Engineers” story by #RonanFarrow and #AndrewMarantz in the #NewYorker is everything you expect from USA tech and #SiliconValley these days.

    #AI / #finance / #pathology <newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04 > (paywall) / <archive.md/a2vqW> / <news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4>

  5. “This account of Altman’s time at #YCombinator is based on discussions with several Y.C. founders and partners, in addition to contemporaneous materials, all of which indicate that the parting was not entirely mutual. On one occasion, Graham told Y.C. colleagues that, prior to his removal, “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”

    YC founders deceived …

    ““Guys, I’ve had enough,” Musk replied. “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit”—otherwise “I’m just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup.” He quit, acrimoniously, five months later.”

    Mini Oligarchs ripping off Oligarchs …

    “Carroll Wainwright, another researcher, said that they were part of a “continual slide toward emphasizing #products over #safety.” After the release of #GPT-4, Leike e-mailed members of the board. “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and #revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.” He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

    Profit over safety …

    This “ #Altman / #OpenAI / #AI meets #Startups and AI Engineers” story by #RonanFarrow and #AndrewMarantz in the #NewYorker is everything you expect from USA tech and #SiliconValley these days.

    #AI / #finance / #pathology <newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04 > (paywall) / <archive.md/a2vqW> / <news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4>

  6. “This account of Altman’s time at #YCombinator is based on discussions with several Y.C. founders and partners, in addition to contemporaneous materials, all of which indicate that the parting was not entirely mutual. On one occasion, Graham told Y.C. colleagues that, prior to his removal, “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”

    YC founders deceived …

    ““Guys, I’ve had enough,” Musk replied. “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit”—otherwise “I’m just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup.” He quit, acrimoniously, five months later.”

    Mini Oligarchs ripping off Oligarchs …

    “Carroll Wainwright, another researcher, said that they were part of a “continual slide toward emphasizing #products over #safety.” After the release of #GPT-4, Leike e-mailed members of the board. “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and #revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.” He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

    Profit over safety …

    This “ #Altman / #OpenAI / #AI meets #Startups and AI Engineers” story by #RonanFarrow and #AndrewMarantz in the #NewYorker is everything you expect from USA tech and #SiliconValley these days.

    #AI / #finance / #pathology <newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04 > (paywall) / <archive.md/a2vqW> / <news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4>

  7. “This account of Altman’s time at #YCombinator is based on discussions with several Y.C. founders and partners, in addition to contemporaneous materials, all of which indicate that the parting was not entirely mutual. On one occasion, Graham told Y.C. colleagues that, prior to his removal, “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”

    YC founders deceived …

    ““Guys, I’ve had enough,” Musk replied. “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit”—otherwise “I’m just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup.” He quit, acrimoniously, five months later.”

    Mini Oligarchs ripping off Oligarchs …

    “Carroll Wainwright, another researcher, said that they were part of a “continual slide toward emphasizing #products over #safety.” After the release of #GPT-4, Leike e-mailed members of the board. “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and #revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.” He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

    Profit over safety …

    This “ #Altman / #OpenAI / #AI meets #Startups and AI Engineers” story by #RonanFarrow and #AndrewMarantz in the #NewYorker is everything you expect from USA tech and #SiliconValley these days.

    #AI / #finance / #pathology <newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04 > (paywall) / <archive.md/a2vqW> / <news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4>

  8. “This account of Altman’s time at #YCombinator is based on discussions with several Y.C. founders and partners, in addition to contemporaneous materials, all of which indicate that the parting was not entirely mutual. On one occasion, Graham told Y.C. colleagues that, prior to his removal, “Sam had been lying to us all the time.”

    YC founders deceived …

    ““Guys, I’ve had enough,” Musk replied. “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit”—otherwise “I’m just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup.” He quit, acrimoniously, five months later.”

    Mini Oligarchs ripping off Oligarchs …

    “Carroll Wainwright, another researcher, said that they were part of a “continual slide toward emphasizing #products over #safety.” After the release of #GPT-4, Leike e-mailed members of the board. “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and #revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.” He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

    Profit over safety …

    This “ #Altman / #OpenAI / #AI meets #Startups and AI Engineers” story by #RonanFarrow and #AndrewMarantz in the #NewYorker is everything you expect from USA tech and #SiliconValley these days.

    #AI / #finance / #pathology <newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04 > (paywall) / <archive.md/a2vqW> / <news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4>

  9. "Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

    “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

    The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

    wsj.com/arts-culture/books/ret

  10. "Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

    “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

    The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

    wsj.com/arts-culture/books/ret

  11. "Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

    “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

    The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

    wsj.com/arts-culture/books/ret

  12. "Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

    “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

    The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

    wsj.com/arts-culture/books/ret

  13. "Over the course of a distinguished #journalistic career, #NicholasLemann has #written #books on American meritocracy (“The Big Test,” 1999), capitalism (“Transaction Man,” 2019), the black migration to the industrial North (“The Promised Land,” 1991) and the racial terrorism that plagued Reconstruction (“Redemption,” 2006).

    “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries” is a more personal project. Here the #NewYorker staff #writer and emeritus dean at #ColumbiaJournalismSchool turns his lens on himself and his prosperous #Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the #history of the #American #South and of #German #Jewish #immigration and #assimilation. The panoramic view and shifting of perspectives broaden the #book’s interest but detract from its focus.

    The search for identity and community does give this sprawling, ruminative memoir a thematic unity."

    wsj.com/arts-culture/books/ret

  14. Ah, The New Yorker, where they pay people to write entire articles pondering when we become adults 🤔—as if the existential crises of their readers aren't enough! Spoiler: It’s definitely not when you start reading pseudo-intellectual musings about life stages 💁‍♂️.
    newyorker.com/culture/annals-o #NewYorker #Adulting #ExistentialCrisis #PseudoIntellectual #LifeStages #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

  15. “I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

    Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

    It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

    forward.com/culture/books/8139

  16. “I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

    Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

    It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

    forward.com/culture/books/8139

  17. “I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

    Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

    It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

    forward.com/culture/books/8139

  18. “I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

    Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

    It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

    forward.com/culture/books/8139

  19. “I knew almost nothing about the #Jewish aspect, as opposed to the #Southern aspect, of my family’s history,” #Lemann, a staff #writer at the #NewYorker and #professor and dean emeritus at #Columbia #Journalism School, #writes in Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries. Jewish was more the way others thought of the family than how they viewed themselves. Or so he thought.

    Lemann’s #book is his fifth and his most personal, reaching back in time to uncover how his aristocratic, well-established life in #Louisiana was a relatively modern development following decades of #assimilation.

    It is a family portrait in a unique milieu — #Faulkner and #RobertPennWarren meets #IrvingHowe’s World of Our Fathers — that follows the rough contours of the #Torah: the original sins of slavery, #Exodus and the conflicted push towards a promised land with political #Zionism and a codification of life as Lemann reclaims tradition. It’s a compelling read..."

    forward.com/culture/books/8139

  20. The New Yorker’s Wunmi Mosaku illustration controversy shows why representation in art still matters

    The New Yorker faces backlash for how it illustrated “Sinners” star Wunmi Mosaku, and it’s part of a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AU #Australia #Blackwomen #Design #Entertainment #illustration #NewYorker #PresidentBarackObama #Socialmedia #WunmiMosaku
    newsbeep.com/au/530143/

  21. This is from 1933 (great depression and all that). There's a demonstration around a sign saying "down with capitalism". Next to it there are two policemen, speaking: "I'll freeze if I stand still any longer. Let's club a few of these guys."

    #newyorker #acab #capitalism #greatdepression #ad1933 #cartoon

  22. Wo waren wir stehen geblieben? Ach, richtig! Bei diesem #Bücherstapel. Witzigerweise habe ich just um den Tag, als diese #Zeichnung entstand, ein Interview mit der Illustratorin Amy Kurzweil vom #newyorker angesehen, in dem sie erklärte, wie sehr sie es hasse, Bücherstapel zu zeichnen, da sie äußerst kompliziert seien wegen der Perspektive. Tja, was soll ich sagen? I feel you, Amy... Der hier kippt wohl jedenfalls bald um, fürchte ich 🤷‍♂️ #mastoart #kleinekunstklasse Schönen Sonntag allerseits 🙃

  23. 📽 Das bezaubernde #NewYorker Partygirl Holly Golightly (#AudreyHepburn) führt ein exzessives Leben voller Extreme: Gefrühstückt wird in Abendrobe vor dem Schaufenster des Nobel-Juweliers #Tiffany ...

    🎞 #BreakfasAtTiffanys nach dem 📖 Roman von #TrumanCapote im Rahmen von #TheOnesWeLove am Mi, 11. Februar 2026 | 20.15 Uhr | kult.kino camera

    🎟 Sichert euch eines der letzten Tickets jetzt an einer der kult.kino Kassen oder online unter: advance-ticket.ch/omniticket/k

  24. Contributor: The diary of a casual, not-at-all-obsessed ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan – Los Angeles Times

    Contributor: The diary of a casual, not-at-all-obsessed ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan  Los Angeles TimesPopularity of ‘Heated Rivalry…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #88-year-oldneighbor #backarch #Boston #ConnorStorrie #dad #Episode #fan #friend #HeatedRivalry #HudsonWilliams #loop #newyorker #onlything #subscription #viktoria
    newsbeep.com/us/400996/

  25. Contributor: The diary of a casual, not-at-all-obsessed ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan – Los Angeles Times

    Contributor: The diary of a casual, not-at-all-obsessed ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan  Los Angeles TimesPopularity of ‘Heated Rivalry…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #88-year-oldneighbor #backarch #Boston #ConnorStorrie #dad #Episode #fan #friend #HeatedRivalry #HudsonWilliams #loop #newyorker #onlything #subscription #viktoria
    newsbeep.com/us/400996/

  26. #CondéNast User DB reportedly #breached , Ars unaffected

    Earlier this month, a #hacker named Lovely claimed to have breached a Condé Nast user DB & released a list of more than 2.3 million user records from our sister publication #WIRED. The released materials contain demographic info (name, email, address, phone, etc.), but no passwords.

    will release an additional 40 million records …including our other sister publications #Vogue , #NewYorker , #VanityFair , & more.

    arstechnica.com/information-te

  27. 7. il 26 dicembre sono rimasta incollata a casa a guardare per 3 volte #CoverUp,il film sul leggendario #SeymourHersh,e le parole del suo editor al #NewYorker mi hanno fatto sentire meno sola