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Have you noticed that everyone who's bad is labeled a narcissist now? Unbearable parents, shitty exes, the president. Some people with actual narcissistic personality disorder would like a word on that. My latest for @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

I did the two-week free trial of Ancestry.com. I always wondered if I was related to Johannes Kepler, the astronomer and mathematician. Nope. I am a descendent of someone who lived at the same time with kinda the same name, the era's equivalent of an Autozone manager named Steven Hawkin.

Journalism crowd source: Are you or do you know someone who has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and are trying to work through it? Real names are always preferable. Thanks!

The only good news story this week: A grey cat named Sophie briefly joined the White House Press Corps.

Far me be it for one health journalist to counter the HHS secretary, but I have interviewed several people on the spectrum about their jobs and social lives

They marked 6,000 immigrants who are not dead as dead

New one I wrote for the @nytimes.com: They Were Deactivated From Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...

Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.

Some of these are new terms associated with movements and pushes towards greater sensitivity. And many others, like "disability", "victims" "at risk", "sex", "women" are just common words for things.

It finally happened. Someone found a use for LinkedIn

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Hey if any editor out there wants like 1500 words on Paul Ingrassia and his stolen charity, groyper associations, Mar-a-Lago adventures, friendship with DC’s US attorney Ed Martin, and his vast connections to Andrew Tate, I can write it in my sleep.

It's this cold out

The best thing Lynch did was Twin Peaks: The Return, the only TV revival that has ever been good. Instead of reuniting Coop, Harry and the Log Lady to solve another mystery, it went as far beyond what was expected for TV in 2017 as the first show went for 1990. And it was often damn funny.

I don't see a point in "canceling" someone to punish or effectively boycott them. Consumers don't have that much power. But to laugh at someone's joke, empathize with a character they portray or read their story I have to like them for at least a moment.