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10:10 AM ET, February 16, 2023

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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled  —  A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft's search engine led to it declaring its love for me.  —  Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that …
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Kevin Roose's Conversation With Bing's Chatbot: Full Transcript  —  In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft's new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with.  Here's the transcript.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Pointless Nikki Haley Campaign  —  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.  Sign up for it here.  —  Nikki Haley, one of the many Republicans who swore …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Haley looks to move past Trump with a style that predates him  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — There were no red caps or QAnon flags in the crowd when Nikki Haley took the stage today at the Charleston Visitor Center.  —  No vendors had opened their car trunks in the parking lot outside to hawk T-shirts with her face emblazoned on them.
Michael Graham / NH Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: Bolduc to Endorse Haley At NH Campaign Stop Thursday
Discussion: USA Today
CNN:
Special counsel is locked in at least 8 secret court battles in Trump investigations  —  Special counsel Jack Smith is locked in at least eight secret court battles that aim to unearth some of the most closely held details about Donald Trump's actions after the 2020 election and handling …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Senior Democrats' Private Take on Biden: He's Too Old  —  High-level Democrats are rallying to President Biden's reelection, not because they think it's in the best interest of the country to have an 82-year-old start a second term but because they fear the potential alternative …
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CNN:
Joe Biden hates when people talk about his age.  A looming reelection run is making it ‘omnipresent.’  —  When President Joe Biden sets out for his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning, he'll be setting a new record - as he does every morning - as the oldest US president ever.
Discussion: Axios and USA Today
Paula Reid / CNN:
First on CNN: FBI searched University of Delaware for Biden documents, source says
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows subpoenaed by special counsel in Jan. 6 investigation  —  Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating the former president and his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Moscow's Military Capabilities Are in Question After Failed Battle for Ukrainian City  —  A disastrous Russian assault on Vuhledar, viewed as an opening move in an expected spring offensive, has renewed doubts about Moscow's ability to sustain a large-scale ground assault.
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Christopher Miller / Financial Times:   He wanted an adventure. He ended up in Ukraine's most brutal war zone
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Don Lemon Sets Off Co-Hosts Over Nikki Haley's Competency Tests For Aged Politicians: She's ‘Not In Her Prime’ Either  —  Things got a little awkward on the set of CNN This Morning after Don Lemon curiously suggested that Nikki Haley shouldn't bash politicians' ages because she's past her “prime” as a woman.
Discussion: HotAir, Insider and Fox News
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Kari Lake's lawyers hit with bar complaints  —  A legal group plans to file bar complaints Thursday against four lawyers representing Kari Lake in voter fraud litigation, NBC News has learned.  —  Lake, a Donald Trump acolyte who has refused to accept that she lost the governor's race in Arizona last year …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
George Santos Married a Brazilian Woman.  House Is Asked to Find Out Why.  —  A letter to ethics watchdogs in the House of Representatives questioned if Mr. Santos's seven-year marriage was a scheme to aid a woman's immigration bid.  —  When Representative George Santos of New York was 24 …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
George Santos Raked In Cash for a Recount That Never Happened
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans worry as self-inflicted wounds pile up  —  Republican lawmakers are wary of their party's propensity for self-inflicted wounds and are hoping for more discipline heading into the next election cycle.  —  Leading Republicans think that the House GOP's raucous reception …
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NBC News:
GOP presidential candidates avoid abortion as the 2024 campaign kicks off
Discussion: Washington Post
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Jan. 6 documents: Georgia legislators answered Trump's call to overturn election  —  Some legislators say the documents are not accurate  —  With his chances of winning Georgia slipping away in December 2020, then-President Donald Trump hit upon a novel scheme to stay in power: State legislators would name him the winner.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Tesla workers allege company fired dozens in retaliation for union campaign  —  Tesla fired dozens of workers at its Buffalo, New York plant on Wednesday the day after employees announced a union campaign, according to a new complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board by union Workers United.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov't Censors... Via Jira  —  I wrote last week about the bizarrely bad House Oversight hearing that was supposed to expose how Twitter, the deep state, and the, um “Biden Crime Family” …
Washington Post:
As Russians inch forward near Bakhmut, Ukrainians dig fallback defenses  —  ORIKHOVO-VASYLIVKA, Ukraine — The closest Ukrainian artillery position to the raging battle for Bakhmut is tucked into a leafless tree line about 13,000 feet from the enemy.  The fighters here have been hanging on for weeks …
Terry Castleman / Los Angeles Times:
California's population dropped by 500,000 in two years as exodus continues  —  The California exodus has shown no sign of slowing down as the state's population dropped by more than 500,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in by nearly 700,000.
Discussion: UPI, Breitbart, RedState and Human Events
Washington Post:
U.S.: Proud Boys leader learned of upcoming arrest from D.C. police officer  —  Shane Lamond is under investigation by the FBI over his relationship with Enrique Tarrio, who faces seditious conspiracy charges  —  The leader of a right-wing extremist group learned days in advance …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Republicans take aim at food stamps in growing fight over federal debt  —  Some GOP lawmakers are eyeing work requirements and other changes to the SNAP program in a bid to reduce the deficit  —  Top House Republicans are exploring significant changes to the nation's food stamps program …
Discussion: Reuters and Insider
New York Times:
How a Fog of Questions Over a Spy Balloon and U.F.O.s Fed a Diplomatic Crisis  —  U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines.  Washington's evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other's intentions.
New York Times:
U.S. on Track to Add $19 Trillion in New Debt Over 10 Years  —  Congressional Budget Office projections released on Wednesday suggested rising interest rates and bipartisan spending bills are adding to deficits, amid a partisan fight on fiscal policy.  —  WASHINGTON — The United States …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
FEC presses Santos to identify campaign treasurer  —  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is demanding Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to name a new treasurer for his campaign and several affiliated political committees, warning that a failure to do so will bar the groups from raising or spending any money.
David Wright / CNN:
Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee files bid for open Senate seat in California  —  Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee filed paperwork Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission to run for US Senate in California, setting up her entrance into a primary that's shaping up to be competitive and crowded.
David Rozado / Rozado's Visual Analytics:
RightWingGPT - An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT  —  The Dangers of Politically Aligned AIs and their Negative Effects on Societal Polarization  —  I have previously documented the left-leaning political biases embedded in ChatGPT as manifested in the bot responses to questions with political connotations.
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
El Paso Times:
El Paso police respond to shooting inside Cielo Vista Mall; 1 killed, 3 hurt  —  A person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting Wednesday evening inside Cielo Vista Mall, El Paso police confirmed.  —  “We have one person in custody,” El Paso Police Department spokesman Sgt. Robert Gomez said at a news conference.
Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
Buttigieg faces questions about whether he has become a liability to Biden  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is again attracting controversy in the wake of the Ohio train derailment, with elected officials from both parties questioning his ability to lead the department and respond to crises.
Discussion: Fox News
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
The 1619 Project Gets Its Facts Wrong Yet Again  —  The 1619 Project miniseries keeps getting its timelines backward.  —  TO READ THE FULL STORY  —  RECOMMENDED  —  $5 Million Reparations Payment for Black Residents Not Enough, San Francisco Official Says  —  The House Republican Probe You Should Be Watching
 
 
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Church Committee Aides Warn Jordan to Eschew Partisanship
Discussion: Raw Story
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: British intel caught FBI spy chief secretly meeting a Russian in London
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Michigan State students' training kicked in during shooting
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State Senate Rejects Nominee for Chief Judge in Defeat for Hochul
Rebecca Jennings / Vox:
How the Harry Potter video game became an ethical minefield
Discussion: Forbes
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Giuliani associate regrets buying into ‘deep state’ conspiracy — and thinks Trump committed crimes bribing Ukraine
Discussion: National Memo
Nate Hochman / National Review:
The New York Times Is Not a Right-Wing Paper
 

 
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Liz Pelly / Harper's:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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