Ugh

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Oh man, I wanna see the Blueberry Bulldogs play!

This is the rapture

Apple is pushing back Friday's debut of THE SAVANT until who-knows-when. Given they were still promoting the premiere as of last Thursday, seems likely this was the company being super cautious and trying to avoid a right-wing backlash www.vulture.com/article/appl...

The second ABC pulls an SEC game from the local affiliates in question in the southeast is the day this shit ends immediately.

Also, please enjoy The Rapture today. With more cowbell, of course.

wrote about The Lowdown, which premieres tonight it's been a long time since i've been this excited about a new show type-click-type.ghost.io/you-guys-got...

So pulling a show about infiltrating hate groups because it may be biased against hate groups? Is this where we're at?

Timing, man...

Rapture will certainly help with Spare the Air Day

And strong enough to knock over a stick of deodorant that was on my bathroom sink! Ok, back to sleep....

Welp, that woke me up. #quaaaaaaake

If you would like to point to one major problem that led to why we are here, it is this. And what people tend to pay for more and more is opinions from people who are on the same page, and who utilize reporting from the last few outlets that do much.

Yes, one of the best pitchers of this generation, and a first-ballot hall of famer. But I'll remember Clayton Kershaw first and foremost as the dude whose response to Pride Night was to demand the team have a Christian night and to write homophobic Bible verse cites on his hat.

I cannot recommend highly enough having a few glasses of wine then going late-night CD shopping on Bandcamp. Fun surprises arrive in the mail for weeks! Plus free stickers and even candy (thanks for the Airheads @polyvinyl.bsky.social!)

"Brace yourself for the hottest week of the year in San Francisco," the headlines said. 80s! 90s! Potential records! The reality:

If you see a policy like this and don’t recognize it as a free opportunity to prove you can be safely fired, I cannot help you. If you do this, how will you ever argue they shouldn’t can you? They should!

WTFuck

Watching this for the next 2 hours straight

Patrick Bailey has the most outrageous ratio of great offensive moments to overall offensive line. Dude is Tim Lincecum in 99% of his at-bats and Barry Bonds when the game is on the line

100-foot wave, baby...

Netflix’s decade-long lock on 130+ of its originals, from House of Cards to Narcos, is ending. @snoodit.bsky.social reports on how Lionsgate, WB, Universal and FASTs like Tubi are circling, and what it means for the future of streaming libraries: theankler.com/p/netflixs-1...

it's stunning what a rare and radical statement this is defector.com/five-years-o...

YouTube TV plans to drop Univision from its basic plan and charge viewers a 18% “Hispanic tax" by moving the Spanish-language channel to an ad-on tier, TelevisaUnivision says. Not a good look for a provider that now offers OAN, Newsmax and Fox News. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... #TVSky

Honestly, this guy's public-shaming campaign sounds like a reasonable response to a driver who's (allegedly) a repeat menace to pedestrians in a city where the police have just stopped enforcing traffic violations.

It’s been five years since we woke up to apocalyptic orange skies and everyone stopped for a moment and stared at the sky. Five years since @barackobama.bsky.social shared my @sfchronicle.com photos of that day, a fun fact that will follow me forever.

I did not like "The Paper," but @alansiegella.bsky.social is spot-on with his descriptions of what it was like working at a newspaper, down to the last detail. Even management cheaping out on election-night pizza. As he says, "It was the best experience we never want to have again."

in these bummer days what you need to get you through is the new Mountain Goats track out tomorrow. yes ok technically it's a song in which two men bury a third with little hope for either of them on the horizon, but little hope isn't none, right? righteo, all aboard! 30tgrs.ffm.to/armiesofthel...

ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role. (Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." a must-read from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the Anthropic settlement defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Huh.

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

Actors, by Carlos Almaraz, 1987, 📸 by Robert Deutsch

Kyle said there's no chance that Moody will lose his job this week

How has no one done an NFL "Moneyball" showing that upgrading special teams even a little bit can win you games? It's insane how Shanahan just writes off special teams year after year.

love it love it love it

Giants gonna win the West by 6 games.

It's been a rough year for the Constitution. RIP, 21st Amendment.

“Seven hours of commercial-free football starts now!” Not so fast … “NFL RedZone” host Scott Hanson confirmed during an appearance on the “Pat McAfee Show” that RedZone will feature commercials in some capacity. Why now? @richarddeitsch.bsky.social explains ⤵️

Forever Giants

Attention everyone: because this will be coming to a city near you

After a slow summer, there's a lot of good stuff coming in September, including new seasons of "Always Murders in the Building" & "Slow Horses," and Hulu's "The Lowdown," which has me the most excited. Also mini reviews of two Netflix shows I unexpectedly hated. www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-...

Ride-hail drivers in California will be able to unionize and collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions under a deal announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom, unions, Uber and Lyft.

CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With ‘Fired’ Carved Into It

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

I was just thinking, "I miss Bad Monkey." Hopeful that "The Lowdown" and "Slow Horses" will scratch that itch next month...