Matt Novak
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Goodbye and Thank You From Matt Novak
When I got an email from Gizmodo’s former editor-in-chief Joel Johnson asking if I’d be interested in writing for this site, it felt like winning the lottery. The year was 2013 and I was writing the Paleofuture blog for Smithsonian magazine while writing freelance articles on the side. According to Joel, not only would I…
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U.S. Airline Southwest Cancels Thousands of Flights, Pushing Holiday Travel Plans Into Chaos
Southwest Airlines has cancelled over 2,400 flights for Tuesday, roughly 61% of its entire schedule, according to the latest figures from FlightAware. The bad news comes after Southwest cancelled over 2,900 flights on Monday, and this could be just the beginning for the airline’s woes, with several reports noting Southwest doesn’t expect to resume a…
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Elon Musk Bans Several Journalists From Twitter After Reinstating Literal Nazis
Elon Musk banned at least nine journalists from Twitter on Thursday night in a mass purge by arguably the pettiest man on the planet. And while the journalists haven’t been told what caused the bans, it appears that many had tweeted about the Twitter account that tracked Elon’s private jet using publicly available information.
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Once Said Blockchain Would have Fixed Enron
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of hedge fund Alameda Research and crypto platform FTX, was a frequent guest on both mainstream financial news and more niche crypto podcasts. And while digging through his media appearances over the years, Gizmodo has stumbled upon a very weird analogy from SBF, as he was often known, where the now-former…