From News Sidequest from Keith Conrad <[email protected]>
Subject Newspaper embraces AI a little too much / Someone might be cloning Abe Lincoln / Young American men are super lone…
Date May 23, 2025 12:26 AM
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Newspaper apologizes for AI-generated summer reading list with nonexistent books [ [link removed] ]
Obviously this newsletter contains no AI-generated content
Abraham Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction [ [link removed] ]
Unless you’re going to clone Lincoln, owning something with his blood on it just seems a little on the creepy side
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Colby Hall on Jake Tapper's book "Original Sin" and the State of Cable News [ [link removed] ]
AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
Colby Hall is the Founding Editor of Mediaite.com [ [link removed] ]. He is also a Peabody Award-winning television producer as well as a terrific dancer and preparer of grilled meats. BJH and Colby discuss the different reactions (and non-reactions) of various cable news networks.
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THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander return to their favorite cigar-scented studio to talk about everything except politics. The conversation swirls from charity softball heroics and Beatles trivia to a truly baffling public image makeover by one of football’s most famously stone-faced coaches.
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Also Worth A Look…
Younger American men lonelier than counterparts in other nations: Gallup [ [link removed] ] - This is an interesting stat to me, since other countries… at least for the most part… also have access to the internet. So what’s causing this?
United Airlines flight returns to Hawaii after concerning message found on bathroom mirror; FBI investigating [ [link removed] ] - When they find the person who did this, they should have to give refunds to all of their fellow passengers. Maybe a little extra for the trouble too
News anchor Olivia Jaquith completes broadcast while in labor [ [link removed] ] - Taking multitasking to exciting new levels. “This just out…”
A Twister Killed Her Sisters. Now, a Move Into Meteorology [ [link removed] ] - Isn’t that basically the plot of the movie Twister?
New Minor Planet Spotted Past Pluto, One of the Largest Distant Objects in the Solar System [ [link removed] ] - Before any feelings get hurt, this clearly isn’t big enough to be a legit planet
Norway homeowner wakes up to find 440-foot ship ran aground on his doorstep: "It's a very bulky new neighbor" [ [link removed] ] - Looks like his ship came in *puts sunglasses on and walks away*
Biologists Engineer Spiders to Spin Glowing Red Silk [ [link removed] ] - Real life echoing the plot of Andor season 2
Kentucky couple each lose an arm while clinging to each other when devastating 170 mph tornado tears them apart [ [link removed] ] - That story is equal parts tragic and adorbs
Scientists warn if a 1,000-ft ‘mega-tsunami’ spurs from an active fault line it could wipe part of America off the map [ [link removed] ] - Well there’s another thing I didn’t know I needed to be worried about
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