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The experts at the Toronto Zoo didn't have any information. A group of master gardeners said they weren't aware of a swell of rabbit-related complaints. The conservation group Ontario Nature weren't any help, suggesting I "could do an online search to see if any information is available," as if I hadn't spent the previous week googling every single permutation of rabbits + Toronto + population increase.

Nicholas Hune-Brown
1d ago

The world's most respected sports magazine gave up on Hemingway and Faulkner, and started publishing AI slop. The editors clearly wanted to hide this—they pretended that the articles were written by actual human beings. They even created fake bios with photos for the non-existent authors.

1d ago

The need for sense-making is greater than ever, but due to a half-decade of layoffs and shuttered publications, there is less and less journalism to make sense of.

4w ago

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

1mo ago

A fun caper with more than a few surprising turns (and a solid Jimmy Buffett cameo). Prager's extraordinary court case, which resulted in one of the most unique sentences ever passed down, was a media frenzy in the late 1980s.

2mo ago

Federal immigration enforcement agents usually won't talk to the media—but they will talk to independent journalist Karl Loftus.

2mo ago

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