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Adam Wasserman

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Adam Wasserman’s Journalist Portfolio

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OPERA NEWS - A Lesson in Listening

OPERA NEWS - A Lesson in Listening

Opera News cover-story on bass-baritone Eric Owens, the breakout star of the Met's new Robert Lepage Ring .

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Take 5 | Amanda Majeski

Take 5 | Amanda Majeski

Soprano Amanda Majeski, who sings the countess in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Le Nozze di Figa…

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Song of Himself

Song of Himself

A profile of poet J. D. McClatchy, one of contemporary opera's busiest librettists.

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Girls of Summer

Girls of Summer

Cover story on the disarming Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, who was starring in Porgy and Bess at Ci…

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Transformation Scenes

Transformation Scenes

A Q&A with composer John Adams on the eve of the premiere of his opera A Flowering Tree at the Mostly Mozart …

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Midnight Son > Opera News > The Met Opera Guild

Midnight Son > Opera News > The Met Opera Guild

Opera News cover story on Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, published as he was preparing to sing the role of Fi…

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Articles

The Prophet Loves His Instrument

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By Adam Wasserman
| HackerNoon
The Prophet Loves His Instrument Your browser does not support the audio element. Voice Dr. One Ms. Hacker byAdam Zachary Wasserman@aww Yuval Noah Harari gave this year's Tanner Lecture at Oxford, and its core is a claim I have spent the last year measuring. Civilization, he says, runs on language. Bureaucracies, money, law, religion: all of it built from words, "the operating system of human civilization," and whatever masters that verbal code inherits the power that runs the world.
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Here's to a new approach on homelessness

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By Adam Wasserman, Gregg Manoff, Justina Trott
| Santa Fe New Mexican Verified
The recent one-day Homelessness Summit reported in the newspaper (“We need solutions,” July 2) is a good news/bad news story. It’s good Mayor Michael Garcia and his administration are looking for community input. But it’s bad that after years of discussion and planning and pilot projects, we are talking about the kickoff of another three-year strategic plan.
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Frontier Models Think I'm Eight Different People

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By Adam Wasserman
| HackerNoon
They Invented Eight Different People. A few days ago, a tool called In the Weights made the rounds. You type a name, and it asks the leading AI models what they know about that name from memory alone, with no web search, and tells you how strongly they recognize it. Mozart and Taylor Swift score near the top. So, I typed my own name, and the names of the things I have spent years building, and what came back is the clearest demonstration I've seen of how these systems actually work.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Editorial intern at Mediabistro.com: an rather awesome gig for someone who knew nothing about media or the working lives of journalists.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. It is an invaluable tool in circumstances involving delivering babies, thwarting robberies as well as, surprisingly enough, writing.

How is social media changing news?

It's perfecting the inverse correlation between infinitesimally smaller attention spans and sanctimony.