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Marc Hogan
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Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · Oct 27
Now that I've had more coffee, gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
www.nytimes.com
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jmings.bsky.social
I just hope both teams have fun being the warm-up act for Bad Bunny
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject
Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns
www.ft.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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ericdharvey.com
you heard him, time to put multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of your lives or risk being left behind
cptowers.bsky.social Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 20h
The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.
January 25, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
I'm not going to ask if you're doomscrolling. Everything is hard right now. But you still need to eat some food, drink a glass of water, as well as time to rest and recover.

Try not to stay up too late tonight. Sleep deprivation will make everything you need to do harder, including helping others.
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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usefulnoise.bsky.social
me: I give up
mpls: we are going to flood our frozen city with candlelight
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
As a reporter, one thing I relearn from biographies is what might last from your copy.

1) Worthwhile fact you got first
2) Fake or misleading story given to you for PR clean-up
3) Perceptive review/analysis that jibes w historical consensus
4) Hilariously off-base review worth quoting bc it sucks
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d
Getting to the final chapters of a long biography, when it turns into a catalogue of their horrifying health problems
January 24, 2026 at 12:41 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
While many of you are likely yelling "go Harry Styles" or "it's negative degrees outside" I'm yelling "I put a Bun B reference in a newsletter article about asset-backed finance" OK actually this post format doesn't work, posting anyway
II Trill As the new year settles in, credit ratings analysts are projecting private credit growth to continue to gain pace—and the risks associated with it to mount more quickly too. Assets under management focused on corporate direct lending will top $2trn by year-end and near $4trn in a decade, according to the 2026 outlook for private credit by Moody’s Ratings. What’s more, asset-backed finance—although more difficult to track—could potentially overtake traditional direct lending as alternative asset managers seek out consumer loans, data infrastructure credit, and other newer, more diverse asset pools, the ratings agency said. We also predict further ABF dominance. ABF is “the new frontier for private credit,” Moody’s global head of private credit, Marc Pinto, told Bloomberg, which first reported the news. (Pinto wasn’t available for an interview with The Allocator prior to deadline.) However, all this innovation has also spawned new risks. The recent defaults at First Brands and Tricolor drive home the risks of off-balance-sheet financing, right as such transactions increase in the ABF space, the Moody’s outlook notes. What’s more, the expansion of ABF into cyclical areas such as consumer or small business receivables could lead to potential performance volatility. “ABF deals’ structural protections and lender oversight will be key in mitigating downside risks to investors,” the Moody’s analyst team writes. Although ABF represents a “significant growth” space for private credit, running a successful ABF portfolio depends on areas of strength that aren’t exactly universal, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency’s 2026 outlook for private credit. These factors include operational infrastructure, monitoring and execution capabilities, and asset-level expertise. Meanwhile, back in direct lending, KBRA forecasts the default rate will rise slightly in 2026. For allocators, careful manager selection seems critical. They’re set to have an embarrassment of opportunities this year in private credit. But buyer beware. —Marc Hogan
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
"Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable." - @anildash.com

www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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mattsouva.bsky.social
"Remember the winter / Gets cold in ways you always forget"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RVX...
Rhythm & Soul
YouTube video by Spoon - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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matoswk.bsky.social
Come for the general truths, stay for the specific ripostes.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
When Someone Tells You AI Music Is Inevitable, It’s OK to Mock Them.
Last week, Bandcamp announced a ban on music made wholly or largely with AI, a move the musician Holly Herndon lambasted. Why should we submit to something else we don’t want?
substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 AM
marchogan.bsky.social
Was doing some research today that reminded me to check up on 3-D movies. A futuristic technology decades in the making that became genuinely popular and then faded away due to quality control and cost issues. Many such cases. trends.google.com/explore?q=%2...
A Google Trends chart for search term "3-D movies" and its popularity from 2004 to present. Line go up, then line go down (and, more recently, flatline).
January 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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simonwilliam.bsky.social
i spoke to Dry Cleaning, Colleen Green, and 5 more industry sources. they all said that it's gotten harder than ever for developing and mid-size acts to make ends meet on the road.

the affordability crisis is here for indie artists.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Is the Touring Business Broken for Indie Acts?
Artists, agents, and managers say that touring is more expensive than ever, and it's becoming harder for indie artists to make money on the road
www.rollingstone.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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totalvibration.bsky.social
I COMPLETELY missed that there was a new Tiny Vipers record near the end of last year. Just acoustic guitar, that voice and so, so much reverb. Gonna be devastated all day.

tinyvipers.bandcamp.com/album/tormen...
Tormentor, by Tiny Vipers
9 track album
tinyvipers.bandcamp.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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jackkennedy.ie
Nate Silver's brain has been melted by social media to the point that his definition of "Bluesky" as a catch-all boogeyman now includes *checks notes* the General Staff of the Danish Armed Forces
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
"In much the same way that funding from venture capital firms allowed platforms like Uber to operate at a loss .... , Condé Nast’s relative lack of interest in monetizing Pitchfork allowed ... " [citation needed]
January 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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grimisham.bsky.social
Influential albums cont.
The Softies - Holiday in Rhode Island (2000)
Influential albums cont. The Softies - Holiday in Rhode Island (2000) cover
January 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
I think about this every day. Mainly because “Nobody Wants This” wasn’t a better show.
craigsj.bsky.social Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 4d
everything remains embarrassing bc sky ferreira hasn't lifted the hex
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
marchogan.bsky.social
I enjoyed overseeing today's The Allocator newsletter (from With Intelligence/S&P Global) while founder Leanna Orr is away. I wrote about animated GIFs!

Subscription info for institutional investing pros, very few of whom likely follow me here but hey: pardot.withintelligence.com/e/284832/l-2...
Subject: Pure Moods How do you do, fellow meme investors? The Scoop Popcorn.gif, But Michael Jackson Is Watching the Stock Market There’s more to animated GIFs—the short, looping video clips that have become the dominant visual shorthand of social media platforms—than meets the eye. The dynamic images that investors post online can stand in as a proxy for market sentiment, according to the new academic paper “GIFfluence: A Visual Approach to Investor Sentiment and the Stock Market.” Ingeniously, the researchers focused on GIFs embedded in messages posted on Stocktwits.com, a platform for sharing opinions about financial assets. Stocktwits allows users to self-declare posts as bullish or bearish, so the scholars had a ready-made way to determine the bullishness or bearishness of particular visuals. (This text is followed by the actual animated GIF of Michael Jackson eating popcorn.) In 2020, Stocktwits began giving users a built-in tool for searching GIPHY, a vast repository of animated GIFs from the infamous “distracted boyfriend” to that viral blinking guy to Homer Simpson disappearing backwards into the bushes. Based on millions of GIF-bearing Stocktwits posts from 2020 to 2024, the researchers built a sentiment index, which they aptly call GIFsentiment. Meme stocks are one thing, but GIFsentiment uses memes to measure the mood on Wall Street. Apparently, it works. The sentiment index predicts aggregate stock market returns for up to one month ahead, the researchers find. “GIF sentiment reflects how investors feel, not what they know,” said one of the paper’s authors, Shijia Wu of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, reached via email due to time zone differences. The evidence shows that a higher GIFsentiment reading predicts short-term market strength—but also signals emotional overreaction and later reversals, Wu told The Allocator. So when it comes to institutional investors, the index is more relevant for risk management than for return forecasting, she explained. And is there a meme for “irrational exuberance”? The GIFsentiment index mainly pinpoints moments of excessive bullishness, rising volatility, and reallocations across asset classes, according to Wu. “For asset allocators,” she continued, “this means GIF sentiment can be used as a behavioral overlay: a tool to flag sentiment-driven risk, crowded positioning, and moments when markets may be more vulnerable to corrections, rather than as a signal to increase exposure.” Here’s to that. (this is followed by the actual animated GIF of Leonard DiCaprio toasting in The Great Gatsby)
January 20, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
There it is
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
Spending an hour googling some guy you then don’t ever mention in the piece, one of the many sweet writing feelings the machines can never replace
January 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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chrissteller.bsky.social
The Minnesota Star Tribune has reporters write about the ICE crackdown in Minnesota, then emails the next day’s layouts to Des Moines, Iowa, to be printed, then trucks the printed papers back to Minnesota for delivery, then can’t get the newspapers delivered because of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota
DELIVERY NOTICE We apologize for the issue you're experiencing with your home delivery. When it comes to carriers, we are facing a security situation in some areas that is producing unprecedented challenges in hiring and delivery, something we are working around the clock to mitigate. As you might know, we work with independent distributors that staff these roles, and the market for this type of work is going through a period of instability. We are working with our distributors daily to find creative solutions, but are still struggling to keep up with demand. We do not know when this situation will be fully resolved, but please know that we are doing everything in our power to deliver your paper. We understand that reading online may not be your preference, but most home delivery subscriptions include full access to our website and eEdition where you can find up to the minute updates on the news happening in Minnesota. Thank you for your patience and thank you for being a home delivery subscriber.
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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For anyone overwhelmed on here, my favorite feeds are Quiet Posters bsky.app/profile/did:... and Gift Links/Gift Articles bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM