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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 6h

a man with a beard wearing a blue tie

Alt: a man with a beard wearing a blue tie

media.tenor.com

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 23h

ST: TNG didn’t become the ST: TNG we remember until Season 3

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 1d

We watch mostly the breathless and formulaic NBC Nightly News in recent years so I’ve been unaware of the unprecedented dominance of David Muir.

Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 1d

Bari Weiss' biggest challenge at CBS News is the unprecedented dominance of David Muir at ABC, writes @michaelsocolow.bsky.social. And yes, as I tell my students, everything — everything — goes back to Richard Nixon. linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...

Bari Weiss's Greatest Challenge at CBS

It's not the Murrow-Cronkite Legacy. It's not the newsrooms & bureaus filled with journalists more experienced than her. It's not the scale of the operation. It's David Muir's incredible dominance.

linttrapofhistory.substack.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 1d

In college I took a sociology class which I mostly blew off. But I showed up for the final, and the TA who was handing out blue books looked at me and said, “There’s no way you can pass this class.” I said, “I know,” and held out my hand. The recurring nightmare, but I lived it. Without AI.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 2d

Proof the Internet really does benefit society.

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2d

Too Close for Comfort - College Sweatshirt Heaven - Commish looks at the 1980s TV show and does a deep analytical dive into all 129 episodes where the main character wore so many different college sweatshirts.

sickos-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/too-close-...

Too Close for Comfort - College Sweatshirt Heaven

College Sweatshirt Heaven - Commish looks at the show 1980s TV Too Close for Comfort and does a deep analytical drive into the show with so many different college sweatshirts.

sickos-newsletter.beehiiv.com

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 2d

It’s three syllables for me: nickel-it.

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m no authority but have heard “yeeted”

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Terrible anywhere, of course

Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for laying that out. We got a CD at the Fetus and decided we’re good with that for now. 😅

For my part I’ve decided to pass on the Let It Be special edition 😂

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

I know she’s not masterminding everything but she has never seemed like a “zero input” person either

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

(Note: Although I made my share of appearances at the Wagon in the 2000s, the shenanigans listed above predate my arrival by many years.)

Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

The awful news of last night’s fatal shooting at Minneapolis’ Bar Zia sent me down a Little Wagon rabbit hole (the Wagon, a longtime Strib hangout, being a previous occupant of that space below the Jerry Haaf parking ramp). You do want to read the comments on this @dbrauer.net post from MinnPost:

Now even the Star Tribune's watering hole is closing! - MinnPost

The Better Than Nothing Dirt Band ... guest celebrities ... The Can Opener ... the "Cadillac Bar" ... visiting moviemakers.

www.minnpost.com

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

20-year EW subscriber here. Brilliant mag.

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 3d

🙏🏻

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Low Tire Pressure Light Day to those who celebrate 🎉

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 6d

I have never seen Purple Rain.

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 6d

Never seen a single episode of Law & Order or its offshoots.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 6d

I have never seen Top Gun.

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 6d

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Casey Common @caseycommon.bsky.social · 6d

It’s on Minnehaha just east of Prior, but kind of in an interior parking-lot area

Google Street View image showing plaque commemorating Engineering Research Associates as seen from Minnehaha Avenue in St. Paul

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