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Spotify paid Alex Cooper $60 MILLION for Call Her Daddy. Her co-host Sofia Franklyn got $0 of it. Today her memoir tells her side. By Barstool boss Dave Portnoy's account, he started both women at $70,000 a year to talk about sex on a podcast. The show exploded, and Sofia recalls how small the hosts' cut of the store was: "I know we were getting paid 2.5% each off merchandise" One hoodie with a line she claims as hers sold over a million dollars. Then she did the math on Barstool: "They were making over 11 million a year." In 2020 both hosts wanted out. Barstool offered them ownership, a shorter contract and more money. Alex took the deal. Sofia refused and said Alex went behind her back. Portnoy blames Sofia's boyfriend, an HBO Sports executive who wanted to manage the pair. He says Alex came to him with a warning: "Sofia is never going to take it. She's moving the goalposts on you." Alex kept the show. A year later Spotify signed her for more than $60 million, and Portnoy called Sofia's refusal one of the worst decisions ever made by a human. In the memoir, Sofia writes that a lawyer they shared let slip that Alex was earning more. What she felt was pure hatred. Did Sofia lose Call Her Daddy to her boyfriend, or to her best friend?

I need PR people to understand that their jobs are not essential to journalism. Often, their jobs are to obstruct it. Coming at reporters on X to insist we owe you a response because you are "adjacent" our work is a spectacular way to announce you have no idea what our work is.

Video shows a Waymo in San Francisco on I-280 speeding past traffic as the California Highway Patrol performs a traffic break. The Waymo is seen trying to go around the CHP patrol cars, even at one point turning its blinker on. For more information, abc7news.com/19150225/

This new D.C. autonomous vehicle bill is better than nothing, but still a bit wacky. — Allowing rideshare drivers to unionize against rideshare companies will only accelerate the demise of human driven rideshare by making it less competitive compared to AVs — Limiting to just 800 total autonomous vehicles and only 200 per manufacturer is going to lead to a bad experience for riders if the services prove to be popular. You will be right back negotiating the next AV bill before long. Is that really what you want? — Rules requiring "equal wait times" in each ward seem a little bit cumbersome. Autonomous vehicles will not refuse service to people based on whether they live in a bad area. I think there are better ways to structure equal access that a rule that wait times have to be "equal" which sounds logistically challenging to pull off even if you're not discriminating — The idea to tax Robotaxis per mile and use the money to fund displaced rideshare workers is great, and could be a model for the rest of the country Overall it's a flawed proposal but better than nothing which is what we have now. It's really important to get autonomous vehicles live in Washington D.C. so all our our nation's lawmakers can see and use them.

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I hope elected officials across the country start to understand these orgs aren’t actually interested in having their concerns addressed. And reporters should be asking specifically what they are against in the latest bill! Rejecting a bill that contains—among many other provisions—a worker fund created by a robot tax, an overly-restrictive vehicle cap, and the right for gig drivers to collectively bargain, should probably lead to some reevaluation and tougher questions.

Molly White is doing the Lord's Work calling out the grifters like faux journalist Taylor Lorenz. Using an unproven agentic AI investing platform and trusting it to make sound risk management choices is extremely dangerous. Don't say you weren't warned. 👇