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Noah Frank
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Writer. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes.

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My print version of @theonion.com has arrived
A fake Onion ad reading: Starbase: A Jonestown for the 21st Century
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The future is extremely dumb www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
The judge also revealed for the first time that one body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent using the AI tool ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based on a brief sentence about an encounter and several images.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Also, I’m not winning any presentation awards for this banana phyllo pie, but both my daughter and I are digging it, which is all that matters
Banana phyllo pie
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody
Garlic, thyme & sumac roasted chicken Rosemary sourdough stuffing The full plate, also with chicken dripping mashed potatoes, roasted garlic Brussels sprouts, and gravy
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Gonzaga is literally KenPom’s top-ranked team
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The endless deployment of troops is making us safer, except we never had a shooting like this until they arrived, which is why we need more troops. Got it.
The Defense Department will deploy 500 additional National Guard troops to Washington, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, after two West Virginia troops were shot near the White House on Wednesday. Hegseth, speaking on the steps of the Pentagon, called the shooting “cowardly” and “dastardly,” and said that it would “only stiffen our resolve to ensure that we make Washington D.C. safe and beautiful.” He praised what he called a “historic” drop in crime in the city and said that the “increase in safety and security has been historic” as well. “But if criminals want to conduct things like this, violence against America’s best, he will never back down,” Hegseth said, referring to the president. It was unclear where the new troops being deployed would come from.
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Mood
A post-it on the sidewalk reading “FREE (it works)” formerly attached to some since-taken item
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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RFK looking rough these days. The old stadium, too.
RFK Stadium mid teardown, from the south, only the skeletal remains still standing RFK Stadium mid teardown, from the west, only the skeletal remains still standing
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Oski, offering you a cupcake that is certainly filled with poison
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Also, DeJesus
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Choosing to look at this as a glass-half-full situation as the funniest possible wrench in getting this stadium built
Headline: Trump wants Commanders’ new D.C. stadium named for him
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I just missed getting the screenshot when it was 48-5
A scoreline showing UConn beating UMass Lowell 51-7 in the first half of a men’s college basketball game
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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TiVo is a discontinued line of digital video recorders developed and marketed by Xperi and introduced in 1999.
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Good lord
Latest numbers for Hurricane Melissa: 180 mph winds, 896 mb atmospheric pressure
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Sometime I feel like the NYT push alert system is an extended dare to get me to unsubscribe (I only have an account through work that I don’t pay for)
NYT Headline: The Manosphere’s Magician
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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lol they now have a senior dance team called Wizdom
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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They’ve had the score wrong (in several different iterations) since the opening tip on the outer ring
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Let’s watch some terrible basketball
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Please tell me what the exact opposite of this business is so that I can spend my time and money there instead
Washingtonian headline: This unusual Virginia business offers shooting and yoga
October 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We all know “better things aren’t possible” is the NYT editorial board’s standing position, but it’s still funny to see them continue to go out of their way to keep printing it
From the NYT Opinion page: America still has a political center and it’s the key to winning elections, the editorial board writes. This data proves it.
October 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A photo of Kurt Vonnegut, who once famously said: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This is the most evergreen description of Cal Football. It could easily describe 25 of the roughly 35 seasons I have been a conscious fan for
Is there any program more odd than the Golden Bears? Though Justin Wilcox is doing his usual credible job in Berkeley, and Cal is just one win from bowl eligibility, it's a bit of a carnival ride for the Bears. This team is still apt to do Cal-like things, like drop what seem to be easy catches and earn a series of head-scratching penalties. However, there are still some things to like with these Golden Bears.
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is an inadequate description
Jorge Polanco grounds into an unassisted double play, third baseman Ernie Clement. Josh Naylor out at 2nd. Jorge Polanco out at 1st.
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Wait, average usage is down 20+% in the time AFTER students went back to school? Oh.
Diving in deeper, other metrics indicate that average time spent per DAU in the U.S., specifically, has dropped 22.5% since July, and average sessions per DAU in the U.S. are also down by 20.7%.
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Look at this contemporary critique of the dangers of LLMs.

lol just kidding, it’s Kierkegaard, from 180 years ago
There is no longer any one who knows how to talk, and instead, objective thought produces an atmosphere, an abstract sound, which makes human speech superfluous, just as machinery makes man superfluous. In Germany they even have phrase books for the use of lovers, and it will end with lovers sitting together talking anonymously. In fact, there are handbooks for everything, and very soon education, all the world over, will consist in learning a greater or lesser number of comments (My note: prompts?) by heart, and people will excel according to their capacity for singling out the various facts like a printer singling out the letters, but completely ignorant of the meaning of anything.
October 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM