Leigh
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East coaster now in beautiful Utah. Pfp is late, lamented Toby. Although he thought he was a dog, he was the best cat ever.
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WaPo CTO Vineet Khosla: "Hey kids I see you like podcasts! What do you say to a podcast that's a lot like the podcasts you already love, only is sucks shit? Pretty cool, huh?"
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![I was intrigued by Washington Post C.T.O. Vineet Khosla’s take on the much-maligned rollout of the Post’s A.I. tools — which, as Semafor has reported, are furnishing readers and podcast listeners with inaccuracies and fabricated quotes. The conventional response here would be a hasty recall and mea culpa, but Khosla is standing firm and saying the company will “iterate through the remaining issues.”
In a recent interview with The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey, Khosla cast the media’s obsession with accuracy as an impediment to innovation. Whereas the tech instinct is to ship, observe, and iterate, the media instinct — or, really, the journalistic instinct — is to prevent error. “Getting something slightly wrong is not the end of the world [in tech],” Khosla said, “but getting something slightly wrong in the world of media is often perceived as the end of the world.” I can hear the J-school crowd hyperventilating here, but it’s worth noting that this reflexively risk-averse mindset is precisely why investors typically hate media — and why it often takes the industry so long to catch up to changes in consumer behavior.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vyyy23h3scgc3vrtzm5kbrx/bafkreide5oqyjxgnyh2ech5e37avdsslwkvine3ii3tlcjjg5el5dmn7ee@jpeg)
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
WaPo CTO Vineet Khosla: "Hey kids I see you like podcasts! What do you say to a podcast that's a lot like the podcasts you already love, only is sucks shit? Pretty cool, huh?"
medium.com/@drmarcfrank...
medium.com/@drmarcfrank...
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If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history. n.pr/3KZCl3a
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
n.pr
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history. n.pr/3KZCl3a
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I watched it in grad school and was SHOOK. If you haven’t watched it, I’m not sure you can appreciate the significance of President Woodrow Wilson loving it so much that he screened it in the White House. The first film to be screened there, of course. It is incandescently racist.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I watched it in grad school and was SHOOK. If you haven’t watched it, I’m not sure you can appreciate the significance of President Woodrow Wilson loving it so much that he screened it in the White House. The first film to be screened there, of course. It is incandescently racist.
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
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When the official policy of the government has become “ this must be fake, you’re too brown to be American” it’s time to stop pretending that this will all just go back to normal
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
When the official policy of the government has become “ this must be fake, you’re too brown to be American” it’s time to stop pretending that this will all just go back to normal
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It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost—$10.67?
Brutal numbers for food in the latest inflation report:
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year
-beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent
-coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Inflation spikes 2.7 percent despite Trump’s claims ‘prices are down’
Prices on numerous goods spike as the labor market continues to be sluggish
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost—$10.67?
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I absolutely adore how this is playing out.
Bari Weiss's entire career consists of playing to a small, niche audience that BELIEVES itself to be the vast, silent majority.
Now she's running CBS with that same schtick and it is just impossible to hide how niche her bullshit is.
Bari Weiss's entire career consists of playing to a small, niche audience that BELIEVES itself to be the vast, silent majority.
Now she's running CBS with that same schtick and it is just impossible to hide how niche her bullshit is.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I absolutely adore how this is playing out.
Bari Weiss's entire career consists of playing to a small, niche audience that BELIEVES itself to be the vast, silent majority.
Now she's running CBS with that same schtick and it is just impossible to hide how niche her bullshit is.
Bari Weiss's entire career consists of playing to a small, niche audience that BELIEVES itself to be the vast, silent majority.
Now she's running CBS with that same schtick and it is just impossible to hide how niche her bullshit is.
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Reposting this as it seems to be the kind of damning, documented narrative of Trump’s close relationship with Epstein that so many have clamored for, and I’m not sure why it’s not getting attention. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposting this as it seems to be the kind of damning, documented narrative of Trump’s close relationship with Epstein that so many have clamored for, and I’m not sure why it’s not getting attention. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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did the president look or sound well to you @jaketapper.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
did the president look or sound well to you @jaketapper.bsky.social
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it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable)
call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line
trans people deserve so much better
call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line
trans people deserve so much better
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable)
call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line
trans people deserve so much better
call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line
trans people deserve so much better
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
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Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
The light bouncing off Scavino’s little curls 👨🍳💋
Stephen Miller looking like he's about to flick a cigarette into the trail of oil leading to the building where all the innocents are trapped.
And Dan Scavino looking like ... well.
And Dan Scavino looking like ... well.
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The light bouncing off Scavino’s little curls 👨🍳💋
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
Thread on yet more RFKjr fuckery
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thread on yet more RFKjr fuckery
Now that Bari is a media mogul, is she not attending to her academic duties?
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
Via @ngluckman.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Now that Bari is a media mogul, is she not attending to her academic duties?
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"Among Dante’s great inventions was constructing a vision of Hell where the punishment borne by sinners reflected something of their sin…It’s fitting, I suppose, that for attempting to be a poet, Nuzzi is instead consigned to a lifetime of having her name on this book."
American Cant | Defector
Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders. T...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Among Dante’s great inventions was constructing a vision of Hell where the punishment borne by sinners reflected something of their sin…It’s fitting, I suppose, that for attempting to be a poet, Nuzzi is instead consigned to a lifetime of having her name on this book."
Maybe he’s just practicing his Trump stance?
When not in use, the Rubio is powered down and placed in a corner.
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Maybe he’s just practicing his Trump stance?