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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 1d

While we all start at a different places, I suspect that we're all a little more on edge, a little more guarded, a little more overwhelmed.

I'm trying to remember this as I move through the world these days.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 1d

Glad some else tested this, cause 😬Put sesame oil in your coffee? Japanese maker says it’s the best way to start your day https://soranews24.com/2025/10/04/put-sesame-oil-in-your-coffee-japanese-maker-says-its-the-best-way-to-start-your-day

Put sesame oil in your coffee? Japanese maker says it’s the best way to start your day【Taste test】

Promises the unusual addition will make your cup “richer and more fragrant.”

soranews24.com

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

Def happy about our decision to drop #paramountplus — CBS News names Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief: Paramount Skydance also acquired The Free Press, which Weiss co-founded in 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/cbs-bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-00594957

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

Will check it out. Always looking for great 3rd party tools.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

For those of us who grew during the birth of hip-hop, a good read — The BET Hip Hop Awards may be over. What should be built in its place? https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/g-s1-91314/bet-hip-hop-awards-dei-archival-history

The BET Hip Hop Awards cut the cord as DEI dies

The show's suspension comes amid broader efforts to curb diversity at the institutional level. The next attempt to canonize the movement must learn lessons from its successes — and its missteps.

www.npr.org

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

Faith leaders, activists converge on California ICE facilities to protest expanding detention https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/faith-leaders-activists-california-ice-facilities/3957896/

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

Folks check out @listifications.app if you want to know when you are added to lists, included in starter packs, or blocked.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 2d

Go Aussies 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 In a world where techlords rule us by whim, Australia’s stance against deepfakes is reason to celebrate https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/techlords-rule-us-by-whim-australia-stance-against-deepfakes-is-reason-to-celebrate?

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 3d

Ran my 2nd 10k ever today. Goal was to run a 12:00 pace. Goal accomplished. I'll never be fast and I'm still not a runner, but it's a marker that I enjoy setting on occasion and the fact that I'm doing this at all is a minor miracle in itself.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 4d

And for good reason — ‘It’s not a good place right now’: CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cbs-news-bari-weiss-editor-reaction-b2839064.html

CBS News staffers are âliterally freaking outâ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: âPeople are using words like depressing and doomsday â feels like some sort of doomsday,â one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 5d

If you are Presbyterian and want to go with me to Palestine in December, I'm having an Informational Meeting tomorrow at 8am PT more info and how to get the registration link here: https://bit.ly/SabeelDec25

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 5d

It tears at my soul that we live in a world where posting, "I got my Covid vaccine booster today," is a political statement, but here we are.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 5d

Oh, that's right, writers write 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 6d

After multiple mass shootings over the past week, here is yet another prayer that will probably be needed over and over again. So many communities, so much loss. — Another Mass Shooting: A Prayer
https://www.reyes-chow.com/another-mass-shooting-a-prayer/

Another Mass Shooting: A Prayer

Too many lives, too much loss, too much grief...

www.reyes-chow.com

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 6d

🤦🏽 Kash Patel allegedly gave New Zealand officials guns illegal to possess under local laws https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/kash-patel-new-zealand-guns

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 6d

@musaalgharbi.bsky.social ⏬⏬⏬

Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Here is the trailer for Episode 74 of the Amalgamation Podcast: We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with @musaalgharbi.bsky.social. Full episode comes out on Tuesday so be sure to subscribe today: https://bit.ly/AmalgamationPod

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 6d

Yes, I know that no city is perfect, but I do love all of you who are posting and sharing about your "war ravaged" city that is Portland. You all are too funny.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Thinking back to the last shutdown, lifting up those who who will lose services, those, who will work for free, those who will be furloughed, and those who will be terminated.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Yes, that too. There must be conversations happening within, but at what point does someone disobey? Someone has to be the first through the wall.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Here is the trailer for Episode 74 of the Amalgamation Podcast: We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with @musaalgharbi.bsky.social. Full episode comes out on Tuesday so be sure to subscribe today: https://bit.ly/AmalgamationPod

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Remember when the US cared and responded to our neighbors in need? — Dozens Killed In 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake, Death Toll Expected To Rise In Central Philippines https://weather.com/news/news/2025-09-30-earthquake-philippines-calape-bohol

Dozens Killed In Powerful Philippines Earthquake | Weather.com

The earthquake struck near Calape Tuesday afternoon, rattling communities close to Cebu and Tacloban and killing at least 69 people. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

weather.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8d

As always: the primary goal of disinformation isn't to make you believe the fake thing.

It's to make you believe that everything is fake, so you shouldn't even bother attempting to discern truth.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

Fabricating “evidence” of crimes is one use. You know the reactions to political violence? Soon false accusations will have video that appeals real to anyone not looking closely. And maybe to them too.

But another problem is people dismissing real evidence because they think anything could be fake.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

Had one of those terrible nights of sleep which makes me all the more grateful for a vocational day flow that allows for napping.

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 7d

No details or plans? I'm shocked, just shocked. — Trump renews threat of imposing steep tariffs on films made outside the US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/trump-threat-tariffs-films-made-outside-us

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Bruce Reyes-Chow @breyeschow.com · 8d

I've got to believe that there were more than a few people listening to Hegseth and Trump today that contemplated getting up and walking out right then and there. Makes one wonder how many would have followed suit.

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