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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

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    Another Silicon Valley titan was closer to Jeffrey Epstein than he’d previously admitted.

    In 2017, while Reid Hoffman was publicly expressing outrage at pervasive sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, he was privately emailing the sex criminal. In 2018, they discussed Coinbase investments. There sure are a lot of these guys, huh? Wonder why.

    Why is SpaceX going public?

    “I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Chilling effect go brrr…

    Jason Lee had this profile killed from an unnamed magazine because he didn’t like being asked a question about Scientology. Defector is publishing it anyway. Are there any cool Gen Xers? Starting to feel like the answer is no.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    I love a good AI rant.

    “If your best idea for what AI can do in the workspace is ‘replace a hundred human beings with a server rack doing the same thing’, you’ve got no business calling yourself a techno-optimist.” Let’s gooooo!

    Prediction markets want to eat the news

    Regulators noticed Polymarket and Kalshi rake in cash on sports bets. So now prediction markets are cosplaying as the future of news.

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    How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

    The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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    I’ve seen enough: this is a cyberpunk dystopia.

    Looks like the man himself has weighed in. The Jackpot’s here — just unevenly distributed. At least, for now.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Bluesky advertises a solution to X’s Grok undressing people.

    The solution is using Bluesky, of course. Naturally, a user with a blue check next to their name told Grok to put a bikini on the butterfly and the AI did — which seems like an even stronger advertisement for Bluesky than the one Bluesky itself posted.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Here’s another thing AI is ruining: St. Louis’ hunt for loose monkeys.

    An unknown number of vervet monkeys are “at large” in St. Louis, the AP reports. They’ve been on the lam since Thursday. And multiple people have claimed to have caught them, even using AI image generators to post “proof,” which has complicated the search efforts.