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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 25m

I think it’s quite possible more living people have seen the Godfather than have seen all of Woody Allen’s oeuvre put together, so let me assure you she is definitely not best known for Annie Hall.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 54m

Breaking news: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79.

Keaton may be best known for her 1977 starring role in the rom-com classic “Annie Hall,” directed by and costarring Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for the performance. https://wapo.st/4nIx6D7

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2h

This is not doomerism, it’s that if you want to avoid this outcome something other than the status quo must interrupt it.

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2h

This will happen. They’ll gleefully cite the Fauci, Cheney, and Miley pardons. It will be written in a sloppy way that legal scholars will say means it isn’t enforceable and then it will be upheld on the shadow docket two minutes after it’s first ruled on. We all know this, right?

Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 2h

I think we need to be prepared for Trump doing a blanket pardon of all acts undertaken by all members of the administration. Sometimes I think we should be quiet about who we intend to prosecute or think about civil actions we intend to take in this scenario.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

I know, mostly because it implies at least one (but probably several) other people exist who don’t know that everyone thinks Johnny Cash is cool.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

What’s his VO2max?

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 19h

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s.

White House says Trump's heart tested 14 years younger than his 'chronological age'

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s."President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluatio...

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

Oh I saw

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 19h

Not quite an overlap but a thing that will twist your sense of historical time is that Anne Frank, MLK Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born the same year.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 20h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 20h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 20h

How long are my guy’s telomeres?

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 22h

Wonder if there will now be Dreamforce protests

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 22h

Spectacular

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

No kings, Chris.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Kids saying 6-7 is so annoying that schools are banning it: www.fastcompany.com/91419371/6-7...

Heard kids saying '6-7'? It's so annoying that schools are banning it

The obvious reason why the latest brain rot phrase is driving non-Gen Alphas up the wall.

www.fastcompany.com

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

This piece is great and disturbingly true though I would question the idea here of declaring a settled end state. It is just as likely to evolve into something even worse and more insidious. www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Casually tweeted this proposal once and reaped one of the biggest Twitter pile-ons I ever received.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Similar to how the Google AI summaries are going to destroy the production of the content they are summarizing!

John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 1d

implied agentic ai pitch: we will lure users with unrealistic promises, and in the process turn them into spammers that destroy the entire existing marketplace. then... profit?

The bet by investors like Y Combinator, in other words, is on a broadly familiar form of disruption but with a couple of twists.
Generative AI may expose some incumbent firms to outpricing, outselling, and outmaneuvering by start-ups that embrace it, while more and more people acclimate to strange, new, chatcentric modes of computing. In the meantime, it may also help glut, jam, and temporarily destroy the entire markets in which they're operating. It's a version of creative destruction in which the destruction is preemptive, indiscriminate, and maybe looks a bit like sabotage — with a little bit of help from all of us, of course.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 3d

More and more people are saying "who was president in 2020" and I wrote about why.

“Who was president in 2020?” is more than a viral meme

GOP politicians and other officials keep making statements that imply the events of 2020 occurred under President Biden. X and Bluesky users are trying not to let them get away with it.

www.fastcompany.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

You want to run with 5 extra pounds? Eat a big dinner.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

The weighted vest thing is just such a fascinating conundrum of fitness communication: something that seems to be getting more people active and embracing the concepts of resistance training, while also being objectively useless in a way that people probably need to be informed of at some point.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. Literally none of these things are true? Read a book! Or don't even have to! Watch one medium-quality music history documentary!

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot even begin to understand where a person could be in the culture where they think people think Johnny Cash is considered not cool or needs to be given more of a due?

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

The weighted vest thing is just such a fascinating conundrum of fitness communication: something that seems to be getting more people active and embracing the concepts of resistance training, while also being objectively useless in a way that people probably need to be informed of at some point.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

And this is just one of many reasons why the enlightened lifter does not get overly pessimistic or excited about variations plus or minus in their performance day to day and week to week.

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