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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 7m

“The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees." -- Roland Barthes

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 59m

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1h

It makes me a hell of a lot less inclined to shop, period. Aside from books. I will always buy books.

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2h

The thing that gets me about the days of the year that Amazon has its little sales is how so much of the Web becomes so BORING as every editorial outlet left standing tries hard to get that affiliate revenue with their own selections.

"What to buy" roundups are right up there with gift guides, IMO.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2h

There goes @markblankenship.bsky.social bringing me joy with his newsletter again. You need to subscribe to The Lost Songs Project: lostsongs.substack.com

The Lost Songs Project | Mark Blankenship | Substack

This is a music newsletter that rediscovers forgotten hit songs. What made the tunes popular back then? Why are they still awesome now? We're gonna find out. Click to read The Lost Songs Project, by M...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 2h

Covering AI as incorporated into workplace communications, so do I.

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 3h

Some context from EV Reporter: Tesla is just entering the market. It's fun to dunk but let's look at the bigger market picture.

evreporter.com/tesla-sells-...

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 6h

Was looking for the u/peng reference since his work in the r/bayarea subreddit & his clean-ups have done so much to highlight this issue; glad to see it buttoning up the piece.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 6h

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine learning that not only are you infertile, your government is now going to make you pay more taxes because of your medical condition.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 7h

Day two of @bookshop.org's anti-prime sale, so go and get your holiday shopping sorted while you support independent booksellers.

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Reply in thread with what you've bought & I'll share my picks!

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

bookshop.org

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 23h

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 22h

Great work comparing the journalistic mission statements from Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 22h

Incredibly powerful first-person reporting from High Country News:

"I saw it everywhere: a woman alone with a toddler in her arms, looking terrified as the men around her screamed about a world that had lost the face of God."

www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - High Country News

Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.

www.hcn.org

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently some pundit types need to be reminded that resigning from your job is not cancellation.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Hell of a ride when you read these two back to back: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

I love kale salads but OMG the flossing

Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

New Shark Tank idea: Prepackaged kale salad mixes that include the dental floss you'll need afterward. So tired of supplying my own.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 1d

I know all y'all outside of California think we don't realize what a shitbag he is, but I assure you, we do!

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Go here to help your fellow American residents: www.feedingamerica.org/ways-to-give...

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

I love that this is an employee perk the university offers: Win a Nobel prize, get a parking spot.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to the friends/enablers who hipped me to the Bookshop.org Anti-Prime sale: free shipping on October 7-8, plus 20% off titles featured on banned book lists.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 1d

Warmest congrats to the latest UC Berkeley employees to nab great parking spots: www.reuters.com/science/clar...

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