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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10d

Perfect, 10/10

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11d

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 13d

“Whether we feel like we have to transcend it or not, we do,” Tweedy said. “We keep moving. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and wanting to be here..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

How Jeff Tweedy Made a New Magnum Opus

www.nytimes.com

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 13d

This was the closest we got to the rapture

John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Shout out to the guy who wheeled a vibraphone into Fort Greene park and busted out The Leftovers theme

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 15d

They should at least make the robots wear tuxedos like old timey umps

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will use robot umpires to call balls and strikes as part of a challenge system next season.

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 15d

All day www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HP0...

The Rapture /// House of Jealous Lovers

YouTube video by casualfriday1977

www.youtube.com

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 20d

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue

deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice

Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show

deadline.com

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 22d

I’m blown away that my book is now for sale in South Korea! Thank you to everyone who has read and shared it over these past few years, I’m so grateful.

A photo of the Korean edition of Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter by John Hendrickson

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Charles Graeber @charlesgraeber.bsky.social · 23d

Many developments since , and even more public misconceptions, but I remain proud (and hopeful) as 1 of 3 authors representing the class and standing up for copyright, even in the face of blinding tech progress. More soon. #AI #authors #publishers #copyright

www.jurist.org/news/2025/09...

Anthropic agrees to $1.5B settlement in AI piracy lawsuit

AI company Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement on Friday, aimed at resolving a sweeping class-action lawsuit brought by authors who alleged the company used pirated copies of their books to....

www.jurist.org

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23d

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

www.404media.co

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 29d

Best way to celebrate novel release day.

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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · Sep 3

A year ago, doctors told me I had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. I’d probably been living with it for a decade. I will likely never be cured. But after a year of surgeries, radiation and monthly shots with a giant needle, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. defector.com/my-life-with...

Let Me Tell You About My Uncommon Cancer

Dan McQuade shares what his last year has been like since learning he’s living with neuroendocrine cancer.

defector.com

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Shout out to the guy who wheeled a vibraphone into Fort Greene park and busted out The Leftovers theme

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.

Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Aug 28

Apparent Border Patrol agents came to arrest two firefighters battling an active wildfire in Washington state www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this."

How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't!

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Aug 21

What in gods name is this

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · Aug 21

On moving: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Materialist

Next week I am doing one of the bravest things a person can do: I am moving from one apartment to another.

open.substack.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Aug 21

In my lifetime, I have read probably 10,000 stories about municipal government in some place or other… and this is easily in the top 5.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · Aug 21

🧵 MY LATEST: Still Here, an eight-week multimedia series of stories from a fragile coastline.

During our nine days in South Louisiana, photographer John Noltner and I heard a lot about disappearance. Not only are wetlands vanishing, but so is Black-owned farmland. (1/4)

Exploring Louisiana's Fragile Coastline and Cultural Resilience

Explore Louisiana's culture and environmental challenges as we interview locals working to preserve their unique landscape and heritage.

apeaceofmymind.org

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Roko's Brocialist @bombsfall.bsky.social · Aug 21

Witnessed a ribbon cutting at a new rest stop in OH. I wasn't sure what was going on since it was packed. I asked a guy at the door if I could enter. A short old man, some official, emerged from the crowd and hobbled forward, arms outstretched, and said "Yes! Come in! Come in and use the bathroom!"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Aug 20

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

defector.com

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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · Aug 20

i profiled deftones — a band that grew up in the age of numetal but always managed to transcend it

thirty years later on the eve of the group’s tenth record release, they are experiencing a late career renaissance

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/a...

Deftones Persisted for Decades. A New Generation Is Feeling the Noise.

www.nytimes.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · Aug 15

I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS.

Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.”

www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week

The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.

www.msnbc.com

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