That scene kicked ass

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down, with its final edition due in May.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Really like Pagebound! I created my account today: pagebound.co/users/MR_INFO

The 26 movies I saw at a theater in 2025 (plus Weapons which isn’t listed)

“One prediction that appears overblown is the idea that readers would fully adopt digital book formats, causing sales of print books to plummet the way sales of physical newspapers have. But people seem to like reading paper books…”

Today’s NYT Connections #FallFriday

“A wholesale revision of the schedule would bypass the evidence-based, committee-led process that has underpinned vaccine recommendations in the country for decades”

Murrysville library offers extra books to patrons in advance of 2026 renovations https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/murrysville-library-offers-extra-books-to-patrons-in-advance-of-2026-renovations/

Juliana Hatfield - Lightning Might Strike [84] dropped today: www.metacritic.com/music/lightn... "Her songwriting pen has never been sharper." - Mojo

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

Welcome to Pittsburgh! (My lifelong home)

“It felt a bit like a slap in the face, because the person who joined did not even turn on their camera,” Dr. Schröder said.

National Parks Drop Free Entrance on M.L.K. Day and Juneteenth www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

Why You’re Better Than a Computer at Solving Connections www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/c...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Confirmed that Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham — who moved to end vaccination promotion work in that state — has been picked to be CDC's Principal Deputy Director.

Do Audiobooks Count as Reading? By Brian Bannon, chief librarian and director of branch libraries and education at the New York Public Library. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Story today from the great @lenasun.bsky.social, who tracked down shocked CDC scientists who said they didn’t know the website was changing. She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.

Someone on Reddit described Rhonda as being like, that’s enough of me talking about me. Now it’s your turn to talk about me.

Just read this powerful photographic essay & had to share: "The Pressure of Poverty in Appalachia" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Sofia making #medlibs proud

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Democrats have secured a 5-2 majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a key swing state.

“The solution is simple: Ask the largest power users to draw a little less from the grid during the limited hours when it’s most strained.” The LARGEST POWER USERS A Simple Fix to America’s Soaring Electricity Prices www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

At the WH luncheon, Trump celebrated Vought as “Darth Vader,” for the fear he provoked by stripping spending power from Congress. “You’re doing a great job, I have to tell you,” Trump told Vought. Then Senate Republicans applauded the man eager to render them irrelevant

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

Just a little #LetsGoPens history being made tonight. Graphics from PensPR.

“From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy In Ireland data centres consume more than 20% of the country’s electricity… authorities have limited new data centers in the Dublin area because of “significant risk” to power supplies” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Mariners baseball. / Baseball des marins.

UN agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather The World Meteorological Organization said in its latest bulletin on greenhouse gases that C02 growth rates have now tripled since the 1960s and hit levels not seen in at least 800,000 yrs 🧪 apnews.com/article/clim...

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Limit: Past Five Years #medlibs

AI content farms are generating ad revenue by falsely claiming Coke dropped the Super Bowl due to Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny slotted to perform at the halftime show. One small problem: Coke is not a Super Bowl sponsor.

New Horror Studies Center at Pitt allows students to sink into societal fears

good morning, Bunny! new from me at the @nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.

MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”

We have defunded school libraries and eliminated school librarian positions, leaving no one to teach kids information literacy or the ethics of using the Internet. Then we just let people access lie machines like this with essentially no guard rails or tools to make good decisions.

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The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

Taylor Swift Is Doing A New Album The Right Way - By Ezra Klein

october 3rd is a pretty huge deal... happy mean girls day! 🩷

It's remarkable to see the dissonance between a call to "make America skilled again" and an AI-generated image used in lieu of contracting anybody with actual skill.

The attacks on the humanities continue www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

🥳 Happy National Medical Librarians Month!  October is here to officially celebrate the unsung heroes of healthcare. This year’s theme says it best: Better Information. Better Decisions.  Learn how to join the celebration by visiting MLANET: https://bit.ly/4o2eFcp #medlibs #healthinformation

"One more year! One more year!" chants in Pittsburgh as Fleury takes the ice for the third period

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW: AOC and her team are positioning her to run for president or the Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.