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☆ Opinion | How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“This election is gonna come down to probably 120,000 votes,” Ari said. “You probably have 60 percent of the male vote for Trump, and the female vote is 60-40 for Kamala. The women, especially young women, who are appalled at the cartoonish macho posturing and benighted stances of Donald Trump and his entourage? Or the men, including many young men, union men, Latino and Black men, who are drawn to Trump’s swaggering, bullying and insulting, seeing him as the reeling-backward antidote to shrinking male primacy. Drilling into the primal yearnings of men and women — their priorities, identities, anger and frustration — makes this election even more fraught.

Persons: Rahm Emanuel, Ari, Matthew Belloni, ” Ari, “, Kamala, It’s, Donald Trump, Trump’s, Cassandra Organizations: Hollywood, Trump

☆ Elon Musk's Robotaxi is still miles away from overtaking Uber and Waymo in the ride-hailing race
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementIf Elon Musk can fully deliver on his plans to make Tesla's Robotaxi the new go-to mode of transport, he could bring an end to the ride-hailing economy as we know it. "Tesla's vehicles, sensors, and software will all need to be approved in any market they hope to enter. "Until Tesla robotaxis are transporting 100,000 paying customers a week around major American cities like Waymo does, Tesla Robotaxi is nothing more than the latest work of fiction to come out of the Warner Bros. "We also believe TSLA could struggle to scale fleet operations without offering access to demand via Uber/Lyft." Uber is already preparing for a future of electric cars and autonomous vehicles without Tesla's involvement.

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☆ Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king, has died
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Jason Hanna | Michelle Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Rose was one of baseball’s greats – a winning-obsessed sparkplug who topped MLB’s all-time hit list with 4,256 over a 24-season career. It wasn’t until 2004 that Rose publicly admitted betting on baseball and the Reds, though he denied ever betting against his own team. Sometimes, on the weekend of baseball Hall of Fame inductions in Cooperstown, New York, he also would hold autograph sessions at a nearby bookstore. While Cooperstown didn’t admit him into its Hall of Fame, the Reds got him into theirs with the commissioner’s permission. That was the perfect way to capture Rose, said Johnny Bench, the Hall of Fame catcher.

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☆ Opinion | No Turkish Delight for New York’s Mayor
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cindy Adams, The New York Post gossip G.O.A.T., feted her 94th birthday at her rococo Park Avenue apartment in April. I was mesmerized looking around at an amazing web of scheming New York power brokers. A spidery crop of tabloid Gotham villains uneasily circling one another and eating animal crackers and ice cream in the red-lacquered, Ming dynasty’d-out lair of the tabloid queen. Bill O’Reilly was there with an assistant who was handing out cards awarding a free subscription to his substack. Nearby was Robert Thomson, the top lieutenant and best friend of Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who fired O’Reilly for sexual misconduct at Fox News.

Persons: Cindy Adams, you’re, Joey Adams, Roy Cohn’s louche, dynasty’d, Woody, Yi, Bill O’Reilly, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch Organizations: The New, The New York Post, Gotham, Fox News Locations: The New York, New York

☆ The Murdoch family battle could have huge implications for the future of Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But at Fox News, they gossip about the Murdochs, the family who controls Fox’s parent company. What will happen after patriarch Rupert Murdoch dies? Could Lachlan’s younger brother James Murdoch force Fox to take a progressive bent? Rupert Murdoch, 93, is seeking to amend the family trust that he established decades ago, giving his four oldest children equal votes over the future of his conservative media empire after he dies. Under the current terms, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence Murdoch each have equal voting rights after their father dies.

Persons: Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan, James Murdoch, Fox, Murdoch, James Murdoch’s, ”, James, Fox’s, Biden, Kamala Harris, James ”, Donald Trump, Rupert, Elisabeth, Prudence Murdoch, Maureen Dowd, Rupert “, ” James, Prudence, Bill Barr Organizations: New, New York CNN, Fox News, Fox, Fox Corp, HBO, CNN, The New York Times, News Corp, Wall Street Journal, New York, Liberal, Trump Locations: New York, Nevada, Reno , Nevada, Reno

☆ Waymo and Tesla have opposite problems as they compete for driverless tech dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewTwo major players — Tesla and Waymo — are battling for dominance in the driverless tech sector. "I think that Tesla has a software problem, and I think Waymo has a hardware problem, is the way I put it — and I think software problems are much easier." AdvertisementHe viewed Tesla as a "pioneer" in using machine learning for its autonomous driving software. But he also argued that Tesla's autonomous hardware hasn't solved the driverless equation. Waymo, on the other hand, produces an autonomous driving system capable of eliminating a human driver.

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☆ Opinion | Daffy Donald, Turning Pea Green With Envy
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

I have a crow in my backyard in D.C. that has been cawing for three weeks. It has been driving me crazy, so I was happy to get out of town and back on the trail. But now comes Donald Trump cawing and cawing even louder than the damn crow. If you need more evidence that Trump is flummoxed about how to counter Kamala Harris, just check out his daffy reaction to her dynamite convention. Friday morning, Trump crowed on Truth Social: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”Friday evening, Trump crowed, “The Republican Party is charging forward on many fronts, and I am very proud that we are a LEADER on I.V.F.”

Persons: Donald Trump cawing, Trump, Kamala Harris, daffy, ” Organizations: Republican

☆ Opinion | Kamala Takes Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kamala Harris had a message for America about Donald Trump and JD Vance on Thursday night. “Simply put, they are out of their minds,” she said to cheers from thousands of Democratic convention delegates in United Center. She was talking about their draconian abortion stances but it could have applied to so much more. Well, we trust women.”Harris has to prove that she is a woman America can trust, as she tries to get the country to do something it has never done before: elect a woman as president. She promised that she would “proudly” sign a bill restoring abortion rights across America.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, JD Vance, ”, ” Harris, —, Harris, “ Organizations: Democratic, United Center, Trump Locations: America

☆ Opinion | Trump, by the Numbers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As long as I’ve covered Republican campaigns, there has been racial fearmongering: Dark-skinned people are coming to hurt you. Bush, it was Willie Horton. Liberals would give more criminals like Horton furloughs, so they could break into your house and rape your girlfriend. With George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it was Arab terrorists. With Donald Trump, it was migrants swarming over the border from Central and South America with the intent to rape and kill, as well as the racist “birther” conspiracy about “Barack HUSSEIN Obama.”

Persons: Reagan, ”, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Willie Horton, Horton furloughs, George W, Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, Barack HUSSEIN Obama Locations: George H.W ., America, Central, South America

☆ Opinion | JD Vance, Purr-fectly Dreadful
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Suddenly, Donald Trump looks enlightened about women. Sure, he’s in a 1959 time warp, like some spray-tanned, comb-over swinger in a Vegas lounge, talking about skirts and broads. Sure, he filled the Supreme Court with religious zealots ending women’s rights. He cheated on his first wife with the woman who became his second wife and then had flings when he was married to his third wife. And yet, somehow, Trump managed to choose a vice-presidential pick whose views on women are even more draconian and meanspirited than his own.

Persons: Donald Trump, groping, Melania, Daniels, machismo, Hulk Hogan, ’, Dana White, Trump Organizations: Trump Locations: Vegas

☆ Opinion | Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Everyone wants Joe Biden gone. What if?’ We’re doing things the Democratic way. I went there growing up and have Proustian recollections of crispy French fries with vinegar sold on the Boardwalk. It makes me sad that Biden doesn’t see what’s inescapable: If he doesn’t walk away gracefully right now, he will likely go down as a pariah and ruin his legacy. The race for the Oval today is between two delusional, selfish, stubborn old guys, and that’s a depressing state of affairs.

Persons: Joe Biden, “ Everyone’s, Joe, ”, Biden hunkered, “, Biden Organizations: Democratic Locations: Rehoboth Beach

☆ The Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage could spur a Big Tech trust reckoning and threaten tech giants' plans for AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It also exposes the fragility of those systems and raises the question: Does Big Tech deserve our trust to properly safeguard a technology as powerful as AI? He said Big Tech companies evaluate systems based on if they work "pretty well most of the time," because there's a rush to get products to market. He said big tech companies should have alternative vendors and a multi-layered defense strategy. Big Tech companies, including Facebook, Amazon, and Google, saw the sharpest drop in trust, with an average decline in confidence ratings of 13% to 18%, according to Brookings. Big Tech companies have had "free rein," Patnaik said.

Persons: —, CrowdStrike, Gary Marcus, Marcus, John Schulman, Dan O'Dowd, there's, Javad Abed, Johns Hopkins, Abed, Sanjay Patnaik, Patnaik Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Tech, Business, Microsoft, Geometric Intelligence, Uber, Tesla's, BI, Companies, Google, Adobe, US Department of State, Johns, Carey Business School, Brookings Institution, Facebook Locations: Brookings

☆ Opinion | Trump the Lion, or Trump the Lyin’?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

No one has ever said that Donald Trump doesn’t know a good story when he hears one. Trump is a master of narrative. Not always true narrative, and not always rational narrative. (Barron, who was very upset by what happened to his father, according to Trump aides, was nowhere to be seen.) “I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump told the crowd at Fiserv Forum, after walking out on a stage with a campy giant “TRUMP” in blazing white lights and a display of the White House portico.

Persons: Donald Trump doesn’t, Trump, Barron, “ I’m, ” Trump, MAGA, I’m, ”, “ Organizations: Republican National Convention, Fiserv, TRUMP

☆ Scarlett Johansson says Sam Altman could be a decent Marvel villain — maybe one with a 'robotic arm'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewActor Scarlett Johansson thinks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would make a good Marvel villain. In her statement, Johansson said she'd initially turned down Altman's offer to voice the AI model back in September. We cast the voice actor behind Sky's voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson," Altman said in a statement the following day. Read more about how we chose these voices: https://t.co/R8wwZjU36L — OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 20, 2024In her interview with Dowd, Johansson said that "it was surreal" when OpenAI released "Sky" to the world. AdvertisementRepresentatives for Altman and Johansson didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Opinion | For Biden, a Race Against Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When my mom got into her 80s, we had to deal with periodic medical issues. Luckily, she was in good stead with the local rescue squad because she faithfully attended their crab feast fund-raisers. Each time, my siblings and I would move heaven and earth to get her home from whatever hospital she had landed in. In 2003, I tried to talk one emergency room doctor into releasing her after 11 hours. “I’ll let her out if she can tell me who the president is,” the doctor said.

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☆ A Study in Scarlett
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On the final show of the “Saturday Night Live” season, Colin Jost and Michael Che do a joke swap on “Weekend Update,” writing embarrassing gags for one another to read. Since Mr. Jost married Scarlett Johansson, in 2020, Mr. Che has delighted in tormenting his partner by giving him racy jokes to read about his movie-star wife. In May, Mr. Jost laughed and hung his head sheepishly as he read his joke: “ChatGPT has released a new voice-assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s A.I. character in ‘Her.’ Which I have never bothered to watch because, without that body, what’s the point of listening?”And what does that body think about that joke? I definitely am terrified that I’m going to have to go into hiding now, get a bunch of hate mail.

Persons: Colin Jost, Michael Che, Mr, Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Che, ChatGPT, Scarlett Johansson’s A.I, Ms, Johansson, “, ” Organizations: Mr Locations: ‘

☆ Slowing Down Like Scarlett
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With Melissa Kirsch — the regular writer of our Saturday newsletter — off today, we’re going to turn to another source for some life guidance: Scarlett Johansson. Despite all this, as Maureen explains, Johansson manages to carve out a surprising amount of normalcy in her life. “She goes to the supermarket,” Colin Jost, the Saturday Night Live star, who’s married to Johansson, said. As I read the profile, I was struck that Johansson also rejects modern normalcy in some important ways. Her large green eyes stay trained on me for nearly two hours, asking nearly as many questions as she fields.

Persons: Melissa Kirsch —, Scarlett Johansson, Maureen Dowd, Johansson, Maureen, Colin Jost, who’s, “ She’s, Read Organizations: Times, Disney Locations: New York, Central Park

☆ Opinion | Joe Biden, in the Goodest Bunker Ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When I saw the Michael Shear story in The Times on July 4, recounting how President Biden had stumbled talking to Black radio hosts days after his debate debacle, telling one he was proud to have been “the first Black woman to serve with a Black president,” I knew it spelled trouble. First of all, if any white man could claim to be “the first Black woman” in the Oval, it was Bill Clinton. Black fans called him “the first Black president” and feminist fans called him “the first woman president.”Second of all, we were entering a new post-debate examination period with President Biden, where his every word would be scrutinized. He was always a fast and voluminous talker, and as he has gotten older, the words and ideas sometimes tumble out in the wrong order. Also, he’s more slurry now, so words get smushed together, and words and thoughts collide; words get dropped, caesuras skipped, and sentences sometimes trail off into the ether.

Persons: Michael, Biden, ”, Bill Clinton, caesuras, Peter Baker Organizations: White House Locations: Times, mumble

☆ Opinion | The Ghastly vs. the Ghostly
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself. In his misguided quest for a second term that would end when he’s 86, he has succumbed to behavior redolent of Trump. He was hailed then as a leading orator of the Democratic Party, even though he could be windy. We looked at each other in silence — struck by the weight of the moment — then went our separate ways to the same news conference.

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☆ Opinion | Sean Penn, Rebel With Many Causes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Don’t mellow my harsh, dude. I hurried past Penn’s three surfboards and silver Airstream in the front yard, half expecting to see the un-pacific denizen of the Pacific Coast wrestling on the floor with the photographer. Penn, in dark T-shirt, Columbia utility pants and sneakers, was charming, trailed by his adoring dogs, a golden retriever and a German shepherd rescue puppy. When I joked that I was relieved to see him treating the photographer sweetly, he laughed. “When I did my 23andMe,” he said, “I thought I might be part Hopi because they don’t like to be photographed.”

Persons: Sean Penn, Hollywood hothead, Jeff Spicoli, Penn, “, ” Organizations: Hollywood, Times, Pacific Locations: Ridgemont, Columbia, German

☆ Under Armour to pay $434 million to settle lawsuit over sales disclosures
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Under Armour on Friday said it has agreed to pay $434 million to settle a 2017 class action lawsuit accusing the sports apparel maker of defrauding shareholders about its revenue growth in order to meet Wall Street forecasts. The shareholder lawsuit accused the apparel maker and CEO Kevin Plank of intentionally misleading them about the company’s financial health. In 2021, the Baltimore-based company had agreed to pay $9 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that it misled investors about its revenue growth. Under Armour said it intends to pay the settlement amount of $434 million through cash on hand as well as by drawing on its $1.1 billion revolving credit facility. The company expects its total accrual in legal proceeding contingencies related to the lawsuit to reach $434 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, from $100 million at the end of fiscal 2024.

Persons: Armour, averts, Kevin Plank, Mark Solomon, Robbins Geller Rudman, Dowd Organizations: Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: Baltimore

☆ Opinion | Holy Cow, 34 for 45!
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — At Nativity grade school, we grew up steeped in the lore — and gore — of martyrs. For their brave deeds and words, these men and women were stoned, crucified, beheaded, stripped of all their skin, shot with arrows and cooked alive on a red-hot griddle. So I’m a little surprised my siblings would somehow put Donald Trump in those martyrs’ sainted company. My sister and brother, disturbed by Trump’s constant chaos and slashing insults, saw their hopes for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley evaporate. I called my Republican sibs Friday to see if hearing the word “guilty” ring out 34 times in a New York courtroom had finally severed them from Trump; they are, after all, children of a police detective.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, ’, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley Organizations: Republican Locations: New York, Trump

☆ Opinion | The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Back in 2013, I got a call from Bill Maher. He was being hit with a lawsuit by Donald Trump and thought it would be “comedy gold” for my column. Maher offered to give $5 million to charity if he could see the birth certificate of Trump, who had offered $5 million to charity for records to verify the birthplace of President Barack Obama. “He’s not even a real person,” an exasperated Maher told Conan O’Brien about Trump at the time. I told Maher that it wasn’t worth writing about Trump and his silly lawsuits and risible presidential aspirations.

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☆ Donald Trump After Dark - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Justice Juan Merchan chided Donald Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles, saying he didn’t understand why she hadn’t objected to seamy details about the President and the Porn Star spilling out. “Why on earth she wouldn’t object to the mention of a condom I don’t understand,” Merchan complained about Necheles. The New York trial involves an abstruse legal strategy and illusory crime. It’s the weakest of the cases against Trump. But it now seems almost certain that none of the other cases will be resolved before the election.

Persons: Stormy, Juan Merchan, Donald Trump’s, Susan Necheles, hadn’t, ” Merchan, It’s, d’état, we’re, ” Organizations: Trump Locations: York

☆ Opinion | Donnie After Dark
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Stormy was working blue, and the judge was seeing red. Justice Juan Merchan chided Donald Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles, saying he didn’t understand why she hadn’t objected to seamy details about the President and the Porn Star spilling out. “Why on earth she wouldn’t object to the mention of a condom I don’t understand,” Merchan complained about Necheles. The New York trial involves an abstruse legal strategy and illusory crime. But it now seems almost certain that none of the other cases will be resolved before the election.

Persons: Stormy, Juan Merchan, Donald Trump’s, Susan Necheles, hadn’t, ” Merchan, It’s, d’état, we’re, ” Organizations: Trump Locations: York

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