New scoop: Palantir, the surveillance tech company with ties to the CIA, is courting advertising agencies, pitching its AI platform.

This comes as the ad industry tries to shed terms like 'tracking' and 'surveillance advertising'

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my expert opinion here is that the earth is NOT supposed to do that

Jesus Campos, a construction worker who knows the crew, said the men were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. They are in their 30s and 40s and have spouses and children.

“They are hard-working, humble men,” he said.

More updates to come for The Baltimore Banner.

Two men at Ft. McHenry look out at where the Francis Scott Key bridge used to be … a cargo ship collided with it early Tuesday morning, collapsing the bridge into the Patapsco River.

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me going to work

if a friend says “can i be a hater for a second” rest assured my schedule is CLEARED

“Nearly 70% of New York City homes purchased in the final quarter of 2023 were bought without a mortgage”

The New York Times is targeting employees for 'their national origin, ethnicity and race' as part of an Israel-Gaza leak investigation and demanding the names of members in a Middle East affinity group, according to the NYT union.

Story from Laura Wagner

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‘Cold-blooded massacre’: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say. Official death toll since 10/7 passes 30,000. aje.io/ce6ff4

ATTENTION INTERNET OUTFITS: I just want to *read* my little articles and posts. I do not want to watch video of everything. Please. Let me read

We need to start calling this what it is: executive theft. Vice was valued at $5.7 billion in 2017 and its c-suite has been paying itself six-figure *bonuses* as recently as LAST YEAR. Now they can't afford employees or a website? Theft.

cory haik became and is still COO at vice and got $726,068 between may 2022 and may 15, 2023, the date of vice’s bankruptcy filing. that includes a $45,000 bonus on april 28, weeks before vice declared bankruptcy

I increasingly feel like the only or at least the most important story is how private equity is hollowing out and destroying every aspect of our existence

Media news: In a memo, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon says the company will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on the Vice.com website.

Here’s a tweet I will not delete. The fact that The Messenger shut down the site within about two hours after cutting their entire organization without severance or healthcare is absurd. Shutting down the site and depriving journalists of their work that they need to show to get

The layoffs aren’t because media can’t make money. 16 years working in media, again and again, it’s the same thing: C-suite arrogance, naiveté, largesse, and heads in the sand (on both sides of the wall!). This business is only as screwed as the people running it are incompetent.

Absolutely disgusted by how Jim Spanfeller has treated every G/O Media property. Writing for Jezebel was a dream come true, and losing the site is gutting. Solidarity with all the workers, and F to this herb.

THE STRIKE IS OVER. #SAGAFTRA negotiators approved the deal w/studios this afternoon in a unanimous vote -- bringing to an end the 118 day strike. The strike officially ends at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, November 9.

“The word I am looking for is ‘trashy’,” a former employee told me. “Musk’s Twitter is trashy. My feed is filled with trash. The ads between those tweets are also trash.”

For The Guardian, I wrote about how a year of Elon Musk has rendered Twitter useless. theguardian.com/technology/202…