1 in 6 “That’s how many patients with Covid-19 go on to develop long Covid, according to a study of nearly 458,000 patients at 58 hospitals” published in JAMA Network Open. “about twice the rate estimated by federal health officials.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/h... via @statnews.com

This is coercive. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care www.404media.co/headway-ther...

‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription www.404media.co/cracked-oura...

“The reader’s attention, behavior, and personal data become a commodity, packaged and resold through a supply chain riddled with fraud, opaque middlemen, and unscrupulous actors.” www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...

I haven't listened to this episode, but the copy describing it in this newsletter is driving me nuts. "podcasting" does not equal "video talk show"!!!

I started this process before the Google I/o stuff, but I’m even more motivated now: I’m moving away from Gmail entirely, and transitioning to protonmail for everything. I’ll still have to use Google Docs for collaborative work, but I’m happy to work out of proton docs whenever I can

to wit: reading your work to see if you stole it from other writers in the aftermath of you having been shown to steal work from other writers is not bullying nor is it character assassination it is a foreseeable consequence of stealing another writer’s work

Every brand coming out with their “Pride collection” right now and doing literally nothing else for queer folks

The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the @nymag.com story today washingtonpost.com/technology/2... nymag.com/intelligence...

How are we still doing this

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level

The Portland Fire played incredible tonight. So much guts. So much... fire! I love them. It's official.

Attention liberals: COVID anti-vaxxers are your fault for being "alienating" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

Regardless of what you think of this dinner or its attendees, the fact that the association then decided to resume dinner service is absurd. Go home. Work event over.

Mr. Beast: Did you finish that employee handbook? Mr. Beast’s Bro Flunky: Sure did boss! Reeeeeallllll incriminating, just like you asked for

thoughts I've had recently: What if I made my own pole lathe? Or should it be a treadle lathe?

I suppose this is the opposite of "software brain" @reckless.bsky.social

(don't tell my mom yet, but this is her mother's day gift)

2026, for me, so far, has been the year of doing things with my hands. I’m still drawing. But now I’m also sewing, woodworking & wood carving — all while listening to a ton of audiobooks. Often that’s my whole evening with my spouse, who does puzzles next to me as I carve…

Excellent bunch of 4-panel comics about being trans and pregnant. Just lovely www.crucialcomix.com/comic/ex...

Did they really write this whole article without quoting a single deaf person? Did I miss it? And the article ends on the "promise" of erasing all deafness — something that many adult deaf people don't want! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/sc...

I’m very confused by Portland’s WNBA draft picks y’all. I wanna give em a chance but I also want to be excited about watching them play?

"Among the closures is the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, Ore., a facility founded in 1925 that has 246 employees, most of them scientists, according to its website, and oversees projects from Oregon to Alaska." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/cl...

"I think it's possible to believe her while also believing that she trimmed and shaped her desires to fit her husband's, as women are encouraged to do." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/op...

You gotta love it when large, "meant-to-impress" stairs basically lead to nowhere www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

"Rowling has been transparent about her desire to keep assisting people in their efforts to rob transgender people of their dignity and human rights. That seems very much to be the entire point of The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund" www.theverge.com/report/90181...

A Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Resigns, Citing the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Fantastic piece—really helpful. And I love that a spoonie is making spoons for exercise. Perfect spoon living!

Since this pubbed, I’ve heard from 15+ people who do the same thing with their fitness trackers. What’s extremely cool about this is that most of us started doing this intuitively. Yet only a few companies, like Visible, have created products that cater to people with energy-limiting illnesses

It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve had a story published on @theverge.com. Feels good to have it be something so personal, and so close to long covid awareness day, too.

I carved a cooking spoon out of a Japanese cherry tree log I got from my neighbor. Hopefully I can make a few more things from the remaining greenwood soon.

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

“The current war is disastrous from the point of view of the modern agricultural cycle.” adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Google can now help you find and remove your ID from search results www.theverge.com/tech/876352/...

The highlight of the “athletes pronouncing their names for the Olympics website” is American alpine skier Mary Bocock, who clearly agrees it’s a pretty funny name

Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits www.theverge.com/transportati...

I had no idea I could block Youtube shorts until now. I don't have to see them in my search results in browser. So happy I know this now! holy moly.

It was also very special to speak with Francesca for the episode and hear about her experience with anorexia, and the breakthrough after taking psilocybin. My goal with that interview was to humanize anorexia for folks who aren't familiar. Francesca made my job easy open.spotify.com/episode/6UlV...

No medication has ever been approved to treat anorexia. And the standard of care - therapy - often fails. But researchers are hopeful that psilocybin-assisted therapy could change that. And the science that underpins that hope is honestly extremely interesting! open.spotify.com/episode/6UlV...

Apple’s new limited edition iPhone grip is all about accessibility www.theverge.com/news/826081/...

Today's episode of Altered States is one I'm especially happy to share: it's about the increasing excitement that eating disorder researchers are feeling around the potential use of psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat anorexia 1/5 open.spotify.com/episode/6UlV...

Well well well, will you look at this.

A revealing tool for my fellow journalists: "The Trans News Initiative is a new project... dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States." transnewsinitiative.org?ref=transjou...

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

I needed this recap. Thank you. mashable.com/article/elon...

Worth watching: How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

just a thought — maybe instead of "video podcasts"... you could just call them "talk shows"? Because that's really what these things are at this point. (I say this as a person who has hosted multiple podcasts AND a TV talk show...) www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

*dusts this piece off* www.readtpa.com/p/want-to-kn...