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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

Business Insider wrote up a story on how some of their past investigative work led to a new California law. The story is strangely unbylined.

The reason perhaps? The publication recently laid off the reporter behind that investigation, Matt Drange.

www.businessinsider.com/california-e...

California enacts law to prevent sexual abuse in K-12 schools following Business Insider investigation

The new legislation comes after a 2023 Business Insider investigation into sexual misconduct at a California high school.

www.businessinsider.com

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 3d

Folks in or around the Boston area, I'm pleased to be speaking at Lesley University Thursday October 23 as part of their Thought Leadership series! Talking comics & thinking as I do! Open to the public - registration link coming soon!
lesley.edu/about-lesley...

The Thought Leadership Series | Lesley University

At Lesley University

lesley.edu

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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 12d

I spent a good amount of time in section 8 housing when I was a kid. These rules would have resulted in me being a homeless child.

Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 12d

The rules from the Department of Housing and Urban Development would allow major changes to public housing and Section 8 vouchers:

- full-time work requirements
- 2-year time limits
- stripping aid from whole families if one member is in the country illegally

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

www.propublica.org

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12d

Ismail Ibrahim worked as a fact checker for an unnamed magazine (it was the New Yorker). “Friendly members of the editorial staff informed me that some of my older colleagues were calling me a terrorist sympathizer.” [bidoun.org]

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it sparkled on their tongues.

bidoun.org

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 15d

Stay vigilant sfstandard.com/2025/09/17/g...

Recallers booted Joel Engardio. Are the Sunset Dunes next?

The battle over the two-mile stretch of the Great Highway that catalyzed Engardio’s axing off the Board of Supervisors has just begun.

sfstandard.com

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 18d

The new version of iOS makes me feel ancient and bad at computer

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Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 19d

Pitches for @technologyreview.com's Crime issue are due Friday!

Rachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · Sep 9

New call for feature pitches for @technologyreview.com! This time, the theme is Crime. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Pitches due Friday Sept 26.

#writingopportunity | Rachel Courtland

#WritingOpportunity: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is Crime. We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling investigatio...

www.linkedin.com

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 25d

Oh wow, congrats and good luck Alex!

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Alex Heath @alexeheath.com · 25d

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social.

The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 26d

sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts....

“Majestic”

Majestic Sea Serpent Surfaces at Golden Gate Park

Naga, the largest installation along the JFK Promenade to date, makes its debut at Rainbow Falls.

sfrecpark.org

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 26d

That serpent really grinds my gears every time I bike past it.

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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 26d

1. I am so excited about @coyotemedia.org!

2. I really really miss alt weeklies! I had a story in one of the SFBG issues pictured here (the April 4 2000 issue; I wrote the April Fool’s story!)

3 yes: “ I don’t want Burning Man art littering Golden Gate Park. We can do better”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies

Alternative newsweeklies launched careers, called out corruption, and made journalism fun. Can we bring that energy back?

www.coyotemedia.org

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 26d

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️

COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 29d

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person @junlper.beer · 29d

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

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David Nir @davidnir.com · Sep 10

Breaking news consumer's handbook

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · Sep 10

The guns are the problem. Whether it’s high school students or Charlie Kirk or anyone else getting shot, this country has to crack down on guns and pass actual gun control laws to protect everyone’s safety.

The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · Sep 10

BREAKING: At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

At least two students were shot Wednesday at Evergreen High School, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said. This is a developing story that will be updated.

coloradosun.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Sep 10

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Sep 9

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

This video explores how much energy AI uses, from a single query all the way up to a huge network of data centers:
youtu.be/v3Q_uC5P1hE

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

YouTube video by MIT Technology Review

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 8

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed

Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.

on.wsj.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector

As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 3

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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