Jeff Larson

I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government.

I worry that this new office will be more of the same: a vanity project, one that exists primarily to put Kushner in the same room with people he admires whom he wouldn’t have had access to before, glossing government agencies in the process with a thin veneer of what appears to be capitalism but is really just nihilistic cost-cutting designed to project… See more →

Congrats also to Pulitzer finalists @JuliaAngwin, @thejefflarson, @suryamattu, @lkirchner, and @terryparrisjr! pulitzer.org/finalists/juli…

Barbara Crampton on Stuart Gordon, Chopping Mall, and the new wave of indie horror

For fans of 1980s B-horror, here’s a good AV Club interview with the delightful Barbara Crampton.

Anti-Christ in a custom van: The churchy cheap thrills of A Thief In The Night

It may seem impossible to not think of the end of the world in poetic terms, but never underestimate the premillennialists.

Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny

Watters and… See more →

How the “garbage in, garbage out” principle applies to artificial intelligence: “How Machines Learn to Be Racist.” propublica.org/article/breaki…

A Final Visit With Prince: Rolling Stone’s Lost Cover Story

“All of us need to be able to reach out and just fix stuff. There's nothing that's unforgivable.”

The Contributions of Others: A Session with Jeremy Keith

“I’ve found that on the web, it’s best to assume nothing. That might sound like a scary prospect, but it’s actually quite liberating. Giving up on “pixel-perfect” control doesn’t mean giving up on quality. Quite the opposite: it… See more →

Lest we forget, algorithms reflect human biases. This one wrongly predicts higher recidivism risk for black people. propublica.org/article/machin…

Huge congrats also to @propublica Pulitzer finalists @AbrahmL, @A_L, @thejefflarson, @NaveenaSivam, and @stuntbox! pulitzer.org/finalists/abra…