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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 4h

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 11h

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of interesting links shared on the Seabird app. First up, the design challenges of selling lab-grown meat:
www.dezeen.com/2025/09/24/l...

What will it take for us to eat lab-grown steak?

Lab-grown meat is gaining traction. But before we consume it, we need to believe in it – and that's where design comes in. Jane Englefield explores what's at stake.

www.dezeen.com

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

Finally, in seabird news, saving the puffins of Puget Sound:
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Saving Puget Sound’s puffins: Bringing these ocean ambassadors back from the brink

Up and down the West Coast, populations of the cute seabirds with giant noses have plummeted since the 1980s. Only in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands are the ocean-roaming puffins thriving.

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

From @jaredweissnba.bsky.social, an intro to Constraints Led Approach, the coaching method changing sports:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

What is CLA, the revolutionary coaching method used by Victor Wembanyama and other top athletes?

This radical coaching method was once a secret. Now, it’s reimagining athletic training and powering champions all over the world.

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

A deep dive into Labubu, from @zeyiyang.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/labubu...

A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu

I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

And from @beervana.bsky.social, on fresh hop season in the Pacific Northwest growing into maturity:
www.beervanablog.com/beervana/202...

Notes on Fresh Hop Season 2025 — Beervana

Now I’m looking for that wonderful, recognizable taste of the harvest. If peach season signals the end of summer, the iridescent green flavor of a fresh hop tastes like autumn.

www.beervanablog.com

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

How the right turned against big beer brands:
slate.com/life/2025/09...

Beer Is Officially on the Decline in America. No One Saw the Real Culprit Coming.

The war on suds has multiple fronts—but they all come from the same place.

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

On the current prospects of user experience research:
www.thevoiceofuser.com/google-cloud...

Google Cloud’s Cuts And The Bigger Story: Why UXR Roles Are Disappearing

UXR is being cut across Big Tech. Not because it is useless, but because leaders cannot see dollars or risk avoided. The old pod model is giving way to centralized teams and vendors. If research canno...

www.thevoiceofuser.com

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

Reporting on a particularly tragic instance of AI driving obsession in the vulnerable:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

@pastpunditry.bsky.social revisits decades of censoriousness from the right:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

@davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on the president getting away with murder:
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

A conversation on lexicography:
lithub.com/how-to-build...

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

At the end of the ﬁrst quarter of the twenty-ﬁrst century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 4d

It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of interesting links shared on the Seabird app. First up, the design challenges of selling lab-grown meat:
www.dezeen.com/2025/09/24/l...

What will it take for us to eat lab-grown steak?

Lab-grown meat is gaining traction. But before we consume it, we need to believe in it – and that's where design comes in. Jane Englefield explores what's at stake.

www.dezeen.com

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 12d

It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly sampling of intriguing links shared on the Seabird app, starting with a visit to an artistic happening at the last resort on the Salton Sea from @thebeliever.net:
www.thebeliever.net/the-last-res...

The Last Resort - Believer Magazine

Listen to this story: It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your c...

www.thebeliever.net

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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 12d

Find more to read every day in the Seabird app. Download and sign up with code "WaitIsOver".

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