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erin mccann
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Weather at The New York Times. Now in SF after four years in London. Brooklyn before that.

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Down a rabbit hole looking for something else, and I stumbled on this November 1994 NYT article that might be one of the first nationally to talk about the idea of second-screen TV viewing.

It is both shockingly prescient, and extremely a relic of its time.

www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/a...
Mr. Fusco is the newest kind of couch potato. When not staring at one video screen (his television), he is staring at another (his computer monitor). When the closing credits roll on one, the show is just beginning on the other. Gone are the days when America had to wait to argue about who shot J. R. Now fans can sign on to an on-line service for their morning-after water-cooler conversation without holding off until morning, without gathering at a water cooler and without actually speaking a word. "On-line lets us get that feedback immediately," declared Mike Markowitz, a writer for "Duckman," the USA Network's "Beavis and Butt-head"-style cartoon show. He said he knew the show had arrived when someone set up a "Duckman" news group on the Usenet, a loose affiliation of computers and bulletin boards linking 10 million people. "What more success can you achieve?" he asked.
February 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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My employer is sub-alerting me ON MY GODDAMN BIRTHDAY
January 29, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Discovered a new mournful dog on my walk tonight
January 29, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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this is someone who has never encountered one of those "what's the scariest thing you've seen while hiking/camping" threads on reddit where 600 people talk about being stalked by mountain lions www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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I am here for every breathless headline read out in the cadence of an olde timey radio announcement and the enthusiasm of the allies closing in on Berlin www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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No way this wasn’t intentional
January 23, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Inexplicably learned a thing about the band New Radicals tonight, who broke up in 1999 and spent 20 years resisting offers for a reunion until …
Since their disbandment, the group has received numerous offers for a reunion tour or new album, but Alexander has repeatedly turned these down. New Radicals did however reunite for a one off performance on January 20, 2021, to mark President Joe Biden's presidential inauguration.[6] They came together again in support of the Democratic National Convention in August 2024, releasing newly-recorded versions of "Lost Stars" and "Murder on the Dancefloor".[7]
January 23, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Just because people’s brains are cooked by the internet doesn’t mean you have to get clicks off it
January 7, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Can't say i was familiar with gerard butler's actual origin story until today but it would make a good plot for a gerard butler movie
Career Legal career and early acting career Upon graduation, he took a position as a trainee lawyer at an Edinburgh law firm. However, he continued to stay out late drinking and frequently missed work. One week before he qualified as a lawyer, he was fired. At the age of 25, and an unqualified lawyer, he moved to London to pursue his dream of becoming famous. He admitted, "When I started out, I'm not sure I was actually in it for the right reasons. I wanted very much to be famous."
January 5, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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So after months and months of The Gorge becoming a punchline to household jokes based solely on the trailer, we decided to actually watch it late last night and um.

I enjoyed it? Kind of a lot?
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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The WAVE of nostalgia just now
ELiS r/explainlikeimfive 4h ago Certain-Media3506 Join ••• ELI5 Why did Radio Shack go out of business? Technology Okay - obviously I know WHY they went out of business feldoneq2wire • 4h ago At a time when there were massive Maker communities looking to build stuff with electronics, Radio Shack eliminated the electronic parts from their stores, replacing them entirely with cell phones, RC cars, and batteries.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Flying into SFO regularly this year has turned me into a window seat person for life.
December 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I wasn’t meant to be alive now, I was meant to live in whatever era produced this
Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American rock musical comedy horror film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and scored by and starring Paul Williams. The plot loosely adapts several classic works: the 16th-century Faust legend, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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truly, it is a mystery.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
“I got the message loud and clear,” says Wellington, a retired tech entrepreneur and children’s programming creator who has four other children, ages 15 to 32, who aren’t estranged. “It shouldn’t be on me to wait and see if she comes around.” A resident of Old Saybrook, Conn., Wellington opened TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts, launched a podcast and wrote a memoir—self-published on the weekend of her daughter’s wedding—called “Doormat Mom, No More! When Good Parents Finally Say ‘Enough’ to Their Ungrateful Adult Kids.”
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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ah yes before Love Actually came out absolutely no pop culture ever had contained a scene at an airport gate

(also isn't the arrivals gate in the opening of Love, Actually the one PAST passport control?) www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
December 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I did need this exact enticement from @rusty.todayintabs.com and it did indeed pay off
As a perfectly loving God I accept that you may freely choose to click or not click the posts I offer you, but do yourself a favor and watch this one.
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Something very charming about the Glaswegian bride in today’s vows wanting to elope in New York because she “really fell in love with the history of the city.”
aside, and the two became official. "Tommy kept soaring past every expectation I had," I Atchison said. "It became very obvious very quickly that he was the one for me." Soon after, they decided they were going to eventually elope - in New York City. "I already did the big wedding," she said. "And I have a huge family, so it would have snowballed," Mr. Kerr added. Ms. Aitchison had been to New York twice before and "really fell in love with the history of the city." Mr. Kerr was on board immediately. They settled on the first week in December to celebrate "a wedding, a birthday and a hon-eymoon," said Mr. Kerr, whose birthday is
December 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I deeply enjoy walking around creeping on people’s windows at Christmas time
A Dickensian Christmas tree in a window A cat
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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I’m a huge fan of both of these things but Jesus Christ if this isn’t late-stage crumbling ruins of whatever phase of capitalism we find ourselves in
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Woof.

1) In May, local outlet publishes an update on dormant brewery.

2) In December, editor of niche beer outlet uses ChatGPT to incorrectly summarize that story as the hook for his own headline

3) Human-generated aggregator slop ecosystem engages

sfstandard.com/2025/12/05/a...
American Craft Beer misrepresented what The Standard reported in May: that the brewery had seen little visible movement since Ulukaya acquired it in May 2024, with no announced reopening date and no confirmed plans for starting production. A representative of Ulukaya’s family office, Shepherd Futures, confirmed that the claims in the American Craft Beer article were false and said reopening plans are in the works but did not provide a timeline. Tom Bobak, the editor-in-chief of American Craft Beer, apologized for the error and blamed his use of ChatGPT for the misinterpretation of the Standard’s reporting. The website has added a note updating readers on the reality. But the misinformation has started to spread. Other publications, including TheStreet, have repeated the unverified claims.
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Speedrunning multiple different economic decades over here this morning
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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We did a champagne tasting over Thanksgiving and, uh, my budgeting app seems to be a little confused
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The economist out here making me feel defensively patriotic today
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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(I got here because Asher Fleming from Gilmores)
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Some late-evening googling has landed me on “12 Famous Actors who Guest Starred in Road to Avonlea” and uh
www.roadtoavonlea.com/blog-posts/1...
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM