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[Arnie Arnesen]

The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen

opening thoughts: Cory Doctorow

producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins

Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)

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opening thoughts:

GOD I love Cory Doctorow--- Reverse Centaurs A must read...Nugget: "last May, the Chicago Sun-Times included a 64-page “Best of Summer” insert from Hearst Publishing, containing lists of things to do this summer, includ­ing a summer reading list. Of the 15 books on that list, ten did not exist."They were AI “hallucinations” (jargon used by AI hucksters in place of the less sexy, but more accurate term, “errors”).

This briefly lit up the internet, as well it should have, because it’s a pretty wild error to see in a major daily newspaper. Jason Koebler from 404 Media tracked down the list’s “author,” a freelancer called Marco Buscaglia, who confessed that he had used AI to write the story and professed his shame and embarrassment at his failure to fact-check the AI’s output.

Koebler followed up on this report with a deeper dive into the entire “Best of Summer” guide, reporting that Buscaglia’s byline appeared under the majority of the lists in the Hearst guide. In a discussion on the 404 Media podcast, Koebler offered perspective on this, describing the early days of his career when, as an intern at the Washington Monthly, he would be called upon to contribute to guides like Hearst’s “Best of Summer” package. In those days, three interns would be assigned to each of the lists, overseen by a professional journalist and backstopped by a fact-checking section.

Seen in this light, the story of the nonexistent books in the summer reading guide takes on an entirely different complexion. The “Best of Summer” guide contained ten lists, almost all written (or rather, “writ­ten”) by one person: Buscaglia, evidently without any fact-checking whatsoever (many of the other lists also contained egregious errors).

In other words: Hearst’s King Features, who pub­lished the “Summer Reading Guide,” replaced 30 interns, 10 newsroom journalists, and an entire fact-checking department with one freelancer. No one has reported on how much Buscaglia got paid to write all those lists, but if it comes out to the total wages of all those people whose job he was doing, I’ll stick my tongue in a light socket. https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNJ-p1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsU9_9DQ3LZLT98ZuVZ2DCbGIkSpbCDxH1-5X48vH07CkP5yXu_CtQIA22Wu_aem_wI2q2hns0CUQNgc7bkYjiQ

part one: Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.

Trump Calls Every American City Dweller to Train Our Troops for Dangerous Missions!

And tells our generals and admirals to refocus on ‘the war within.’  https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-30-trump-calls-every-american-city-dweller-to-train-our-troops/

Clamoring to Tax the Rich In Berkeley, New York, Paris, and Vatican City, it’s become central to political battles—and religious concerns. https://prospect.org/economy/2025-09-22-clamoring-to-tax-the-rich/

part two:

Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox https://theconversation.com/why-arent-companies-speeding-up-investment-a-new-theory-offers-an-answer-to-an-economic-paradox-260661

part two: David Ikenberry

David Ikenberry is a Finance Professor and Former Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has written extensively on issues in corporate finance including stock buybacks and corporate investment.

Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox https://theconversation.com/why-arent-companies-speeding-up-investment-a-new-theory-offers-an-answer-to-an-economic-paradox-260661

file:///Users/home/Downloads/Bio%20for%20David%20Ikenberry.pdf

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On Oct 1, 2025, at 6:02 PM, Arnie Arnesen <nha...@gmail.com> wrote:



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