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[mudwerks]

(via Jalopnik's Best Car Photos Of 2024)

[needingthatsomething]

MANTHEY RACING PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS

[techturd]

Jalopnik: 'Daytona USA' Was Built on Lockheed Martin Defense Technology

[makingcontact]

An Interview with Summer Intern Alex Corey

This was an exciting and eventful summer at Making Contact, especially as we had Alex Corey join us as our summer intern! Like the journalists we are, we had to interview him about his time at Making Contact. Be sure to check out his answers below! 1.Tell us about your journalism background. How’d you get into it and why? Well in the past I’ve done a wide variety of reporting, from in-depth…

[petnews2day]

At $60,000, Is This 1959 Jaguar XK150 FHC The Cat’s Pajamas?

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/gosUJ

At $60,000, Is This 1959 Jaguar XK150 FHC The Cat’s Pajamas?

It was announced this week that Jaguar has produced its last F-Type, thus ending the company’s run of sports cars. Today’s Nice Price of No Dice XK150 goes back almost to the beginning of that run. Let’s see if it’s priced to keep on running. What Is The Most American Car? | Jalopinions The seller […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/gosUJ #CatsNews #BMW540I, #BORGWARNER, #BrownsLanePlant, #Cars, #Convertibles, #Coupes, #DonR, #JaguarCars, #JaguarEType, #JaguarFType, #JaguarI, #JaguarXK120, #JaguarXK150, #JaguarXK150FHC, #Jaguar, #Jalopnik, #Roadsters, #XK

[automotiveamerican]

AMC's Amazing Experiment In Cheapness - Jason Torchinsky @Jalopnik

AMC was the perpetual underdog of America’s motor industry, and the only reason they survived as long as they did was because they were so damn clever. And by “they” I mostly mean designer Dick Teague. AMC was always strapped for cash, and Dick was a master of cost-cutting. His masterpiece of cost-cutting was the AMC Cavalier. Back when AMC was still Nash/Rambler, they were already trying to cut…

[heelcody]

two of my very dear friends got interviewed for freaking JALOPNIK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please check it out I luv them so much I'm so proud of them

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Jalopnik editors if you're reading this please hire me I have a degree in journalism and I love the car

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jalopnik is becoming one of my favorite sites

[mckitterick]

The End Is Near: "News" organizations using AI to create content, firing human writers

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an example "story" now comes with this warning:

A new byline showed up Wednesday on io9: “Gizmodo Bot.” The site’s editorial staff had no input or advance notice of the new AI-generator, snuck in by parent company G/O Media.

G/O Media’s AI-generated articles are riddled with errors and outdated information, and block reader comments.

“As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,” James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted. “I was informed approximately 10 minutes beforehand, and no one at io9 played a part in its editing or publication.”

Whitbrook sent a statement to G/O Media along with “a lengthy list of corrections.” In part, his statement said, “The article published on io9 today rejects the very standards this team holds itself to on a daily basis as critics and as reporters. It is shoddily written, it is riddled with basic errors; in closing the comments section off, it denies our readers, the lifeblood of this network, the chance to publicly hold us accountable, and to call this work exactly what it is: embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.”

He continued, “It is shameful that this work has been put to our audience and to our peers in the industry as a window to G/O’s future, and it is shameful that we as a team have had to spend an egregious amount of time away from our actual work to make it clear to you the unacceptable errors made in publishing this piece.”

According to the Gizmodo Media Group Union, affiliated with WGA East, the AI effort has “been pushed by” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, recently hired editorial director Merrill Brown, and deputy editorial director Lea Goldman.

In 2019, Spanfeller and private-equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group (previously Gawker Media) and The Onion.

The Writers Guild of America issued a blistering condemnation of G/O Media’s use of artificial intelligence to generate content.

“These AI-generated posts are only the beginning. Such articles represent an existential threat to journalism. Our members are professionally harmed by G/O Media’s supposed ‘test’ of AI-generated articles.”

WGA added, “But this fight is not only about members in online media. This is the same fight happening in broadcast newsrooms throughout our union. This is the same fight our film, television, and streaming colleagues are waging against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in their strike.”

The union, in its statement, said it “demands an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites,” which include The A.V. Club, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Onion, Quartz, The Root, and The Takeout.

but wait, there's more:

Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was secretly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total 10 percent of the public masthead.

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Greedy corporate sleazeballs using artificial intelligence are replacing humans with cost-free machines to barf out garbage content.

This is what end-stage capitalism looks like: An ouroborus of machines feeding machines in a downward spiral, with no room for humans between the teeth of their hungry gears.

Anyone who cares about human life, let alone wants to be a writer, should be getting out the EMP tools and burning down capitalist infrastructure right now before it's too late.

[frenchcurious]

Porsche 959 - Photo : Kyle Hyatt. - source Jalopnik.

[longwindedbore]

• The desire to push R&D costs off to the company’s suppliers meant that Boeing was essentially building its planes from kits that weren’t designed together, didn’t fit together, and didn’t meet the standard of quality the company had once been known for. This move may have been a short-term boon for company profits, the share price, or for CEO bonuses, but the reduction in quality has given rise to the phrase “If it’s a Boeing, I ain’t going.” I’m not sure there has ever been a more aggressive about-face on a company’s view by the global public. •

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The problems are Systemic and require an expensive, extensive, and prolonged effort to correct.

Tying bonuses to safety - as announced by Boeing - ignores the potential and now realized Systemic catastrophes possiblities when mating components designed by different manufacturering entities. (As opppsed to subcontractors manufacturing to specifications and blueprints produced by Boeing.

The different components may all pass their individually manufacturers quality control as well as Boeing’s. As INDIVIDUAL components but FAIL to mesh in the completed aircraft.

The burgeoning examples are coming faster and faster. Executives aren’t going to solve these known issues let along figure out other weaknesses if Boeing has lost depth in engineering staff.

What a nightmare.

[petnews2day]

At $4,200, Is This 2006 Jaguar X-Type Wagon The Cat’s Pajamas?

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/Jl76F

At $4,200, Is This 2006 Jaguar X-Type Wagon The Cat’s Pajamas?

The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jag attributes its high mileage to a prior owner who used it for trips between San Diego and Boise, Idaho. That means it’s a suitable cruiser, but will its price let it cruise to a win? 2024 Mustang Dark Horse On Track And The Road | […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/Jl76F #CatsNews #CD132, #CD132Platform, #CompactExecutiveCars, #Convertibles, #Coupes, #FordMondeo, #FordMustang, #JaguarCars, #JaguarI, #JaguarXType, #Jalopnik, #MarioAndretti, #PaulNeme, #SportsSedans, #StationWagons, #Valvoline, #XType

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

hi hi i love your blog and i have recently gotten into cars and i really wanna know ALL cars lol, but uh i don't know where to start? can you lend a lil guy a lil hand please? thank you!

Well, knowing ALL cars, as I touched on and shown again and again and again, is a sisyphean task, but I understand that's hyperbole. As far as knowing cars goes, if you really are curious it will just come naturally: the cool thing about cars is they are all around you! So if your experience is anything like mine, you'll just look around until you notice a car you don't know at all, find out what it is (depending on your attitude by sheepishly taking a picture to come ask me to ID it or by shamelessly sprinting towards it to poke around a random car with suspicious enthusiasm) and perhaps look it up then to know just what you're dealing with. At some point, you will know enough to be able to make guesses about the era and sometimes even the brand of what you don't know, making it easier to find them out, and your knowledge will make the newfound piece slot in a more complete puzzle (by knowing some context around the new car).

That and, of course, you'll find sources of information about cars and engage with them because they talk about things that interest and captivate you! I've personally learned a lot from magazines, which have kept me up to speed on new cars as they were coming out -the images of the Juke-R in this post come from the Top Gear Magazine article I learned of it from!- and shows like Top Gear Show (or just Top Gear for friends), which showed me everything from classics like the Hilux to (then) new cars like the Audi RS6 and everything in between like the Caterham Seven -all cars in my wishlist thanks to them!- but now that times are a-changin' a lot of young folks like you are going to get this information from The Internets, whether through online publications like The Autopian (site friend of the blog Jason Torchinsky left other cool site Jalopnik to co-found) or Speedhunters (home of car reportages of indescribable breadth, depth and beauty), or YouTube channels like Doug DeMuro (car reviewer who, despite always being accessible, goes over every last little quirk - if its glovebox handle is in any way unusual you WILL know) or Regular Car Reviews (equally interesting channel much more focused on cars' place and impact in culture and... shall we say peculiar humor) and to a much lesser extent lone madmen posting random stuff on social media, like,,,, uh,,,, wait, lone madmen posting random stuff on social media, I'm sure I knew one such person..... oh right!, Drew Wilson (who posts a worrying amount and variety of incredible used cars for sale on No One Is Calling It X).

But none of those would I call the best way to learn about a car: that'll go to seeing it in person at an event! Of course, you'll be limited by the car selection, which depends on the event's size and location, but any car show, even the ones low on actually interesting cars, is guaranteed to have a bunch of people very enthusiastic about theirs who would LOVE to talk your ear off about it and even show you around!

Pop quiz: what's this one? Hint: not my car!

So I highly encourage you to look for car shows near you and head wherever they may be with a camera and an open mind! Of course, what large events will be near you will depend on where you are, but US-wise, apparently Cars and Coffes are pretty ubiquitous, and if you're lucky enough to be near the right places I cannot begin to recommend Radwood enough. Of course, there are also cool exhibits like friend of the blog Lane Motor Museum, so be on the lookout for those! (if any European wants a list of cool car places or events just submit a post asking!)

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[yesterdayiwrote]

This is such a great article that sums up everything that's going wrong with F1's American push (and actually many other races as well) and how they're chasing their fans away from the sport in favour of a different crowd...