Elizabeth Lopatto

I enjoyed this story about Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, who is the personification of the boring business bro who doesn’t care if a movie is good as long as it is profitable and predictable. But the phenomenon David Roth identifies here isn’t limited to Zaslav and could apply equally the AI cheerleaders, serving us glurge because these dead-eyed losers have no idea what is worthwhile about other people.

Here’s WIlliam Cohan on Musk’s various new legal stuff, including the nastygram Alex Spiro sent to Mark Zuckerberg:

This time, by suing Levine’s old law firm while Levine is on vacation without a laptop. I will update the story when Levine’s emergency newsletter drops.

Broderick didn’t follow anyone and bathed in the algorithm instead:

On PJ Vogt’s new podcast, Search Engine, he tackles an old question: is the water on airlines safe? In 2002, WSJ reporters discovered that you should probably bring your own bottle onboard. Since then, new regulations have been passed in the US. Has that made things better? Can you drink that coffee?

Delany, who is seriously one of the greats, is “willing to discuss nearly anything but his own literary significance. Openly sharing the most intimate minutiae of his life—finances, hookup apps, Depends—he recoiled with Victorian modesty whenever I asked why he’d written his books or what they meant to his readers.”

Sure, yeah, Infinite Jest predicted Instagram filters and Zoom fatigue. But Wallace also anticipated something else:

Personally, I think it would be more effective for the government to deal with the proliferation of spam calls that have made most of us stop picking up our phones, but this is fun too:

Yep, it uses ChatGPT. It only raised $5 million of the $10 million it wanted earlier this year so it seems like I’m not the only who’s a little skeptical of this.