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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 7h

You love me

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 7h

It’s like we’re stuck in a hybrid of Idiocracy, Office Space, and Groundhog Day.

Every day we wake up, and it’s the same as the day before, only dumber.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 7h

Didn’t that guy break the Peter Thiel - Hulk Hogan story?

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 7h

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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Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com · 8h

You should read this essay. This quote. This quote.

People only complain about the turkey being dry when the company is terrible. There is never enough gravy to make regret feel like anything but your soul leaving your body.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

My French charcutier suggested I make, basically, cassoulet from his smoked chorizo and all of a sudden New Orleans cooking makes more sense.

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 8h

The chips go up, where they come down, that's not my department says Jensen von Huang: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 8h

Two words I never thought I'd see in a headline: 'woke Smithsonian.' www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/c...

War of words over Space Shuttle move heats up

Exclusive: Houston, we have a custody battle

www.theregister.com

Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 9h

Having worked for, and acted as, both types I can tell you that ruthless but competent managers in stable or thriving organizations are good, actually. Empathetic managers are fun, but long-term limited. Incompetent managers and dysfunctional/dying orgs are hell!
www.seangoedecke.com/ruthless-man...

www.seangoedecke.com

Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 14h

Cool.

Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 14h

La Niña is officially back per NOAA, and it is likely to persist through the winter. BUT it has competition for influencing the upcoming winter across the U.S.: The giant N. Pacific “Blob” of bathtub-like warm water. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...

Sea surface temperature anomalies showing the La Niña event near the equator and the unusually warm waters of the N. Pacific "Blob." Each of these may influence winter weather conditions across North America this winter.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Weird, it almost seems as if antifa pops up wherever there's a fa

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

In Chicago, Defense Secretary Pere Hegseth screened the arriving 400 Texas National Guard troopers for "fatties" and "beardos". To the three women who remained the Secretary proposed marriage.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1d

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

In my experience, the people who most resist editors need them the most.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Just rage-clicked over to Scientific American and hadn't realized that site had become a total clickbait engagement farm. What's in a brand? Nothing, without willful effort to preserve it.

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Homer J. Fong @a2koc.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1d

A PM who has a stellar long term track record around tops and bottoms just said three words that have never his mouth before:

Jensen Huang says

good luck out there

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

What violates federal aviation law about sitting in an empty exit seat if he’s capable of performing the functions yadda yadda

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 1d

affiliate marketing only works at scale; Amazon links don't support the little sites any more but it's worth the tech press giving Amazon a month of free advertorial because it brings in a chunk of revenue. the monopoly funding structures of the web are load bearing cc @robin.berjon.com

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Best possible outcome would be if someone else now does the same thing and sits in the vacated $155 seat.

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That Anonymous Coward @thatac.bsky.social · 1d

So he hasn't stolen someone elses seat, he just moved to the exit row and by god they need the $155 to feed the meter?

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, this is an insane and extreme overreaction from the money-grubbing airline and will end up costing them way more. What airline was it so I can make sure I never fly them?

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