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Marc Hogan

@marchogan.bsky.social

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Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Former Pitchfork senior staff writer. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Wrote about what @artsorority.bsky.social evocatively described as "incomplete vinyl," for @npr.org. Your favorite artists may have a chart incentive to rush out record pressings with only partial tracklists, but it could also be a sign of the times. www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

Buying a pop album on vinyl? You might be paying for a fraction of the music

Fans who pre-ordered the new albums by Lil Wayne and The Weekend on vinyl got a rude awakening: More than half the songs that appeared on the streaming version were missing on the LP.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 21h

Kevin Costner, the guy responsible for the line "You must avenge my death, Kimba—I mean Simba."

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 22h

you can make up facts and print them in a magazine but that doesn’t make them true!!!

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 1d

"And I don't wanna go where the seekers all go/I don't wanna know"

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised that the first line of Sebadoh’s Flame is *not “I don’t want to be the one who writes Flame” and that it’s not a self-reflexive song about not wanting to write a hit song for Sebadoh called Flame. It’s still great but it’s no longer the song I thought it was.

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Sebadoh - Flame (1999)

YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are saying, Weezer's "Hash Pipe" riff is from Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning"

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

I've been largely offline for like a month for reasons too boring to mention. Who has a good primer on what I gather is Bluesky's slightly-sooner-than-expected heel turn?

seems like a good time to tap this sign, btw: bsky.app/profile/jami...

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Dec 13

I remain deeply apprehensive about a social media platform that doesn't make it easy for users to 1) download a user-friendly archive of their own content and 2) mass-delete their own content.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe they get better? But, right now, you gotta wonder why Google nuked its signature product for this.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 3d

So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 3d

"Yes, I'd like the Mu-Mu muumuu."

rico. @whoisrico.bsky.social · 3d

Getting ready for Halloween
#KLF

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 3d

I'm wheezing.

Now, UCLA's interim head coach, Tim Skipper, is tied with Franklin with one career top-10 win against a Big Ten opponent.

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Rebecca J. Ritzel @rjritzel.bsky.social · 3d

This is my kind of campus revival.

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 6d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 4d

There’s grasping at straws and then there’s whatever this is

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 4d

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 5d

For a catalog title, these numbers are absolutely staggering. I’d wager this is more than it sold in 1973!

Keith Caulfield @keithcaulfield.bsky.social · 5d

Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks’ long-out-of-print pre-Fleetwood Mac album “Buckingham Nicks” hits the Billboard charts after its reissue: www.billboard.com/music/chart-...

Out of the Archives & Onto the Charts: ‘Buckingham Nicks’ Debuts Atop 3 Billboard Charts

"Buckingham Nicks," the long-out-of-print 1973 release from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, hits the Billboard charts after its Rhino reissue.

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 6d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 5d

As usual, other institutions are implicated beyond only the press. In 2024, a spokesperson for a major trade group told me their organization had not looked at Project 2025 because Trump had disavowed it.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 5d

One example: I got some bad tips that Vought was on the outs w Trump bc of his Project 2025 role. Did the reporting but it was bullshit. Only story I wrote from the reporting was that Heritage was not releasing Vought's exec order drafts, bc it had learned the media coverage hurt.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 5d

I did treat it like a lie and it didn't matter to voters because many of them - maybe even a majority - do not base their votes on my takes.

If you want to make fun of the reporters/fact checkers who, in 2024, said "FALSE, Trump has said this is not his plan" please go ahead!

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 6d

"Hey Siri, play the new album by Say She She." "Here's 'Might Delete Later,' by J. Cole." It's 2025 and tech is supposedly very useful and valuable.

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 6d

file under: music journalism, in general

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't felt quite this way since Ursula K. Le Guin died. Like UKL, Jane Goodall was a compass — someone you could count on to point the way toward what's true, what's kind, and what matters.

I hope her voice, her work, and her vision stay with us.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 7d

If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency

Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7d

Authors have to worry about quoting one line of a song lyric in a book but this is apparently fine

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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 7d

Oh man this one hurts

Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 7d

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, dead at 91

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.

abcnews.go.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 7d

some familiar faces in this story but lol at a bunch of new banks being implicated. "Epstein’s estate has turned over to Congress a list of more than 20 banks that held accounts for Epstein and entities related to him, according to people familiar with the matter." 👀 www.wsj.com/finance/jeff...

Exclusive | The Wall Street Firms That Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein Until the End

From TD Bank to Honeycomb Partners, several hedge funds and banks were linked to the wealthy sex offender.

www.wsj.com

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 8d

Correction, sorry: “We” talked to him. This time I just did the writing.

Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 8d

For @kellogginsight.bsky.social, I talked to Uber's former AI chief about how organizations can incorporate expertise on the latest trendy technology into their leadership structures. insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/does...