OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly(sherwood.news)

210 points by gpi 1 year ago | 125 comments

The life, death, and afterlife of literary fiction(esquire.com)

38 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 36 comments

The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe(chicagomag.com)

96 points by effects 3 years ago | 18 comments

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams(sherwood.news)

635 points by donohoe 11 months ago | 472 comments

Sherwood News brief on a Reuters report that internal Meta documents projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from scam ads and banned goods.

Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them(sherwood.news)

248 points by wtcactus 9 months ago | 81 comments

Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir(sherwood.news)

117 points by selim17 11 months ago | 98 comments

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on(ourworldindata.org)

596 points by alphabetatango 1 year ago | 375 comments

Our World in Data article comparing the leading causes of death in the US with how often the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News cover them.

Daniel Ellsberg has died(nytimes.com)

735 points by lgvln 3 years ago | 216 comments

New York Times obituary for Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023), the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702(eff.org)

321 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 123 comments

EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)

320 points by philip1209 11 months ago | 137 comments

Berkshire Hathaway news release announcing Warren Buffett's share donations to family foundations, followed by his letter to shareholders saying he is "going quiet."

After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)(anandsanwal.me)

747 points by ziptron 2 years ago | 104 comments

Personal blog post by Anand Sanwal recounting how he ran and sold his late father's chemical manufacturing company in Nasik, India, as a guide for others.