Mike Pesca
Host at The Gist
Host @pescagist daily news analysis podcast. Editor Upon Further Review:The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History; RT ≠ what's really transpiring in Russia Today
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1 week ago |
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |Mike Pesca
Think through documents with me as I read them, sometimes by myself, sometimes with friends. I read a lot of stuff. Think through documents with me as I read them, sometimes by myself, sometimes with friends.
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1 week ago |
mikepesca.substack.com | Mike Pesca
I've been conducting experiments with my old friend ChatGPT lately, testing the parameters of its analytical capabilities and, more importantly, its willingness to bend toward user preferences. The results have been fascinating.
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4 weeks ago |
mikepesca.substack.com | Mike Pesca
This essay originally ran in . An audio version ran across 2 days on The Gist podcast in the segment of the show called “the Spiel”. Listen to The Gist on Thursday for Part 3 of this story. Last September, a shooting occurred in a subway station in Brooklyn. The shooters were members of the NYPD. They were there that afternoon policing a subway system that in 2024 saw 561 felonious assaults and 10 murders, the most in over 25 years.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Mike Pesca
The New York Times and the Case of the Missing KnifeWhen the cops recently shot a man in the New York subway, the media portrayed it as a classic police injustice. It was anything but. Last September, a shooting occurred in a subway station in Brooklyn. The shooters were members of the NYPD. They were there that afternoon policing a subway system that in 2024 saw 561 felonious assaults and 10 murders, the most in over 25 years.
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nickgillespie.substack.com | Nick Gillespie |Mike Pesca
In 1961, Philip Roth, not yet 30, threw up his hands at how crazy America had become. “The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make credible much of the American reality,” he complained in Commentary magazine. “It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination.
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Best to keep this one away the firm of Dershowitz and Tribe.
Breaking News: Harvard sued the Trump administration, fighting back against its threats to slash billions of dollars from the school’s research funding. https://t.co/PDy128oFTT
Maybe in his next role Tayme Thapthimthong who played White Lotus' Gaitok could play Vietnamese military mastermind general Vo Nguyen Giap. https://t.co/FO3Li30MhF
And to be clear @nottjmiller is actually TJ Miller. Sincerely, @notmikepesca
Comedian @nottjmiller joins @pescami on this episode of Funny You Should Mention. You might know him from Silicon Valley, Deadpool, or that time he had a choice between brain surgery with a 10% fatality rate vs. almost surely dying by 35. It is the funniest conversation ever had
