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The Private-Equity Confidence Game
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (614+ words) Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. All Slate…...
Can Trump Buy Back Americans’ Love at $5,000 a Piece? Guess We’ll Find Out.
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (251+ words) The first Republican midterm convention had all the simulacra of a real political convention. There were seats assigned by state and indicated by tall signs on poles, there was a host of precisely timed and deeply forgettable speeches by elected…...
He Quit a Major Tech Company Because He Thinks It’s Risking Human Extinction. We Should at Least Hear Him Out, Right?
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (320+ words) People have worried about artificial intelligence destroying humanity since A.I. existed only in science fiction. But the latest warning comes from someone worth listening to: A researcher at Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, just quit out of fear that the…...
The Australian Breaker Doc Has Very Little to Say
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (56+ words) Slate ICYMI host Kate Lindsay and Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario go live to discuss the new Netflix documentary Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly and how the global viral ridicule toward the Australian breaker sits with them a year later....
How Williamsburg became a haven for A.I. tech bros.
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (899+ words) An Infamous New York Neighborhood Has Entered a Bizarre New Phase Slate There is a place in New York City that many insist does not exist. It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx…...
Joe Rogan warns marijuana crackdown could hurt Republicans in the midterms.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (743+ words) Republicans Just Handed Democrats a Surprisingly Potent Win Slate Once again, government officials are trying to restrict marijuana products around the United States. And once again, Americans of all political stripes are pissed off—plausibly enough to shake up this…...
Silicon Valley Is Making Its Wildest Promises Ever. This Number From Anthropic Proves It.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (749+ words) slate.com When Elon Musk was getting ready to take SpaceX public in June, the company advertised, in its government paperwork, the largest “total addressable market” in human history: $28.5 trillion per year, with $26.5 trillion (lol) attributed to artificial intelligence. A…...
Our Adult Son Has Made Some Baffling Life Decisions. The Result Is That He’s Broke in His 50s.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (427+ words) My wife and I are in our early 70s and haven’t updated our will in about 15 years. It’s a good time to update, now that all of our grandchildren are adults, but the concern is our eldest son, “Ben.” He is…...
Meta Settlement: What does this mean for Zuckerberg?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (407+ words) Settlements may lack the drama of trials, but they can still be landmark legal wins in their own right. After Meta agreed on Wednesday to settle claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict and harm young users, a…...
I Thought My Boyfriend and I Both Lived the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Lifestyle. Then I Caught a Glimpse of His Banking App.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (117+ words) My boyfriend has a secret savings account. When I asked him what it was for, his reason hurt my feelings. Slate Magazine This would throw me for a loop, too. It’s great that he has an emergency fund, but it…...