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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

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    This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop

    They say Columbia is just one of five universities they’ve penetrated.

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    My longstanding personal obsession, Rupert Murdoch, is getting sued by Donald Trump for the story The Wall Street Journal ran yesterday about a letter to noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

    I imagine this will get either thrown out entirely or settled — Murdoch often settles — but truth is an absolute defense in a defamation case. The WSJ isn’t Fox News. It’s Murdoch’s crown jewel — one he refused to tamper with, even when it cost him a $125 million investment. A settlement could permanently damage the paper’s reputation. Who ya got?

    Trump sues Murdoch, Dow Jones over Wall Street Journal story on Epstein birthday letter

    [cnbc.com]

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Welcome back to the new season of the Trump show.

    We’ve talked before about the funhouse-mirror-alternative-reality that Trump (and Musk) have built. JP Brammer, who watches much more YouTube than I do, notes something weird is going on in content land — it seems Donald Trump has lost control of the plot. NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny, writing from a more anxious angle, seems to agree. Content has now outpaced reality. I guess we’re going to find out by how much.

    May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive

    [johnpaulbrammer.substack.com]

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    How about Jeffrey Epstein and AI?

    After The Wall Street Journal’s scoop last night on Epstein’s relationship with Donald Trump, I was inspired to go look at some old stories about the sex criminal’s buddies.

    On reread, one thing stuck out to me: how close Epstein was to the pioneers, commercializers, and money men of AI. The WSJ scoop suggests there are still new stories out there; I wonder what’s lurking in the field of artificial intelligence — surely I am not the only person who’d like to learn more.

    Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him

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    The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application

    A hacker has a list of millions of people by race. So why is the coverage about Zohran Mamdani?

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    How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

    The Mamdani affair exposes the paper’s weaknesses. Again.

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    The American system of democracy has crashed

    Some patriotic reflections on this Independence Day.

    Elizabeth Lopatto and Sarah Jeong
    Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify

    Drummer Greg Saunier explains the moral calculus behind leaving the biggest streaming platform.

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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Hot damn.

    Look, this cover of “War Pigs” is amazing, and I’m not going to pretend I’m putting it here for any other reason. (Via Rafi Schwartz.) Check out Ukandanz’s Bandcamp for more.

    Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

    Turns out copyright law in music is special — and the record labels are bringing out the big guns.

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