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On paternity leave. Platforms, power, people. robaeprice@gmail.com / +1 6506366268 (Signal)

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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
...sure, why not
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/09/2026
chart of car colors by year from 1990 to 2020, showing the rainbow of car colors being reduced year by year, until almost all cars are black, grey, silver, or white
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NEW: In my first story for @nytimes.com, I dug into how startups exploit accounting rules to keep reported expenses low pre-IPO: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/b...
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After the I.P.O., a Billion-Dollar Bill for Employee Paydays
A compensation strategy at start-ups keeps expenses low until they go public. At that point, the companies may face billions of dollars in catch-up expenses.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Applications for bars and pubs in the West End of London, one of Europe’s most famous nightlife districts, will be refused unless in exceptional circumstances." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Curbs on vertical drinking in Soho pubs to go ahead as Khan criticises council’s ‘breathtaking arrogance’
Exclusive: London mayor accuses council of ‘ignoring’ responses to a consultation
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anthropic boasts higher revenues than OpenAI... but it's not that simple. www.axios.com/2026/09/03/a...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The competitive debate scene, like everything else, is being shaken up by AI davidafrica.substack.com/p/gradual-di...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There was a period of time in college when I was obsessed with a 33RPM slowed-down version of Jolene. Feel very grateful to have had the chance to see Dolly Parton perform live at Glastonbury in 2014 and hear it live (at normal speed). www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...
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Jolene at 33 rpm
YouTube video by Tom Berry
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This week I started at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. I doubt I'll be checking Bluesky much over the next year. In the meantime, you should read my just-published final story for Business Insider. it's a fun one: www.businessinsider.com/ai-apocalyps...
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Orgies, survival bunkers, and life upheavals: Meet the AI preppers
Some tech workers preparing for an AI apocalypse — or utopia — by leaning into working out, building bunkers, or burning their retirement savings.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
drive-by shooting on Puck in this NYMag piece about the ongoing digital media apocalypse nymag.com/intelligence...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
no better way to celebrate your first period of unemployment in a decade than getting all your wisdom teeth extracted
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
👀 👀 👀
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Now playing: open.spotify.com/track/0IcjWu...
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Nu Beginingz
Congo Natty · Jungle Revolution · Song · 2013
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Baby earthquake in the Oakland / East Bay area. Just felt it. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New revelations on Musk's alleged drug use, via @kirstengrind.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I've finally taken part in an essential digital media rite of passage: I've been laid off. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Meridian
Lyra Pramuk · Oracle · Song · 2025
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits. — Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past — Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet — Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
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LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
NEW from me: Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck, LA investor Jessica Mah, 2 ex-employees file dueling lawsuits. — Caldbeck faces fresh sexual harassment claim after #MeToo past — Mah accused of using company funds for Burning Man, landscaping, jet — Allegations of secret affair with Eric Schmidt
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LA businesswoman and an investor with #MeToo past file dueling lawsuits
Jessica Mah accuses Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment. She is accused of financial impropriety, harassment, and discrimination.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is not a glowing endorsement from the AP of Nick Ut as the photographer behind the "Napalm Girl" image www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Somewhere along the line the MCU stopped being about making cool movies (that made billions of dollars) and started being, like so much else in our modern hellscape, about user retention." aftermath.site/marvel-thund...
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There Is No Getting Back On This Ride - Aftermath
It's not cinema, it's user retention
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
oh my god www.politico.eu/article/card...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Seems bad
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Awful media news: Vox Media just sold gaming site Polygon to "click-farm powerhouse" Valnet, and it has been hit with mass layoffs kotaku.com/polygon-sold...
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Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Some personal news: I'll be moving to New York this summer to become a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia! It's an incredible opportunity to spend a year deepening my skills alongside a cohort of amazing journalists, and I'm excited to get stuck in.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
brb going to Maui for a week 🏝️
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"X is not just Y — it's Z" is becoming such a tell for AI-generated copy
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just got access to Google's new "AI Mode." Traditional search results are relegated to just three links in the right rail
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
xAI has acquired X, Elon Musk says x.com/elonmusk/sta...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
M 4.0 - 5 km WNW of Dublin, CA 2025-03-18 02:46:33 (UTC)37.709°N 121.988°W11.7 km depth earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Crazy that I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for eight years and this is the first earthquake I've ever actually felt.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Oakland earthquake anyone?
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In light of the Rippling-Deel "honeypot" lawsuit, revisiting my 2023 feature on Deel that detailed the HR-tech startup's extensive use of contractors (including the CEO), close family ties, regulatory/legal issues, and breakneck "Deel speed" culture www.businessinsider.com/inside-hr-st...
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Deel Speed: The inside story of a $12 billion HR startup's breakneck growth
Deel is the fastest-growing SaaS startup ever — but that might also be its 'Achilles Heel.'
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
randomly thinking about that time at the start of pandemic when a stranger dumped a bag full of fetish gear and an Elmo doll on our apartment roof
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis." daringfireball.net/2025/03/some...
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be ...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A better world is possible www.theverge.com/news/626311/...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Merry isn't happy about being locked out the office while I take calls
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning models sometimes cheat without being instructed to do so. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/05/1...
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AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games
These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
haven't seen this before: Google is now running a banner ad at the top of documents in Google Docs to promote its AI products
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
lovely, wholesome interview with Vishvaa Rajakumar, the 20-year-old Indian college student who won the Memory League World Championship earlier this month www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Clever new phishing email. It's a real order on Best Buy, so it passes email spam filters, and you can click the link to see the order on Best Buy's site. But payment info is incorrect, and it entices you to call the scammer's phone number in the address field for "help."
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Shopify support staff were told to give “no comment” and to end online chats if merchant clients asked about the company’s technology being used by the musician Kanye West to sell a T-shirt bearing a Nazi swastika. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Altman told the president-elect that the tech industry would achieve artificial general intelligence — the hypothetical moment when technology matches human intelligence — during the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the call." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/t...
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How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump
After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country’s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump says the US will "take over" the Gaza Strip and "level" it. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
probably fine www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Poppy Alexander @poppyalexander.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Oh boy. Can tell stories of companies using these kinds of cooked up claims to threaten workers into silence. Trade secrets, defamation, extortion claims, etc. Glad to see @robaeprice.bsky.social @businessinsider.com covering these scare tactics
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Rob Price 🏔️ @robaeprice.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW: Companies have a new tool for tackling workers who speak out about wrongdoing — accusing them of misappropriating trade secrets. 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/defend-trade...
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They spoke out against their employer. Then trade secrets law was used against them.
Companies have hit whistleblowers with trade secrets suits over actions like saving code to GitHub or printing documents for remote work.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
going to test the power of Bluesky: If you live in LA, I have two tickets to a Jamie XX wildfire relief show at the Shrine that I can't attend anymore. It's starting **now**. If you can make it, I'd like to see the tickets go to good use. DM me! www.axs.com/events/82654...
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Jamie xx: LA Fundraiser - Benefit For Wildfire Relief
Get tickets for Jamie xx: LA Fundraiser - Benefit For Wildfire Relief promoted by Goldenvoice Presents at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Fri, Jan 24, 2025 - 2:30PM at AXS.com
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