We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

spotted this morning at the marine park salt marsh

look i just wish the magazine called The New Yorker would stop making so many geographical references to the city of New York in their Daily New Yorker crossword is that so much to ask!!

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

(nodding) night corn

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps

I wrote about corn salad for the New Yorker Daily newsletter because, sure, why not

an unbelievable update: chipotle seems to have noticed this tweet and is now opening a focal superchipotle to harness and channel the power of the seven central brooklyn chipotles

A method involving "introducing beavers" to help create a wetland. US Patent 12349618

Can we have one nice day where the air isn’t cigarettes

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

debuting a new abstract photography series called "pictures my phone took autonomously while charging in my tote bag"

Elevated door Black Creek, NC

god forbid a young person start a small business in our city gothamist.com/news/nypd-na...

much like trees falling in a forest, if your magazine goes up like 14-2 over two innings of slow pitch media softball before the game is called for thunderstorms, did anyone ever really win it? Subscribe_to_Hell_Gate.tif

Ducklings drop down into Lake Michigan through a hole in the concrete at Montrose Pier.

I think today is the right day for this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

in this summer's issue of Audubon mag: your favorite shellfish-loving shorebirds have made a huge recovery over the last two decades! I talked to conservation scientists up and down the East Coast to learn how they pulled off such an ambitious rescue effort

hey so: some personal news! this was my first week as a producer with the new yorker‘s puzzles & games team! I'm unbelievably excited to work with wordplay and trivia every single day, with the best constructors & editors in the biz, and to rep our sagacious avian mascot!!! hope you'll play along!

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!! donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social happy pride :) tinyurl.com/transxwords

“All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met ­create a kind of pseudomemory from a pseudoworld that I don’t participate in.” Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age. buff.ly/ZWuoUnd

acclaimed and very real reporter Bruce Falconmaster makes some trenchant points in this important @hellgatenyc.com piece

Simply astonishing to see officials almost completely walking back the car-free promise here. Moving millions more people around *will not work* if you're casually suggesting people with tickets take transit to events. The whole region needs to be rewired with more options including bike connections

When an elusive source finally gets back to me the day before my deadline

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

I always assumed this was the case

today's @puzzmo.com crossword is mysterious and important... 👀

LEOXIV is an absolute gift to crossword constructors

For @nytimes.com, I wrote about the aptly-named superb starling, a bird that takes the idea of “chosen family” quite seriously 🧪🦉

do a puzzle with me! puzzles.usatoday.com (thanks @amandarafkin.bsky.social & @ort.bsky.social!)

Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links. www.wired.com/story/google...

Please enjoy these images of the 2025 Corgi Derby: defector.com/please-enjoy...

new in Audubon mag: I went so deep on heron necks. possibly too deep. they cut off my JSTOR because they got worried about how deep I was going

within the enormity of the task we undertook Tuesday, moving this 800-ton behemoth 200 feet underground safely where she soon will begin a 3.5-mile tunneling journey, were some of the smallest of details. a braided cable. a welder's spark. in the magnitude and the minutiae, there is wonder. 🧵

itchy fox

when an american electronic appliance chirps at me: I did not invite you to speak. I despise you. I wish to destroy you when a japanese appliance chirps at me: You are my little friend. You are my companion in the journey of life

have you heard about Matthew McConaughey's disturbing ____ ______ recipe??? that and more waiting for you in my @puzzmo.com crossword today!!! puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

"Consuming art, which is inherently personal, as if it is a medicine you must choke down is a huge reason why people feel disconnected from art. And that sucks, because I think spending time with art is a fundamental part of being a person."

Saw this yesterday. So beautiful, so moving, with breathtaking photography ❤

The sunrise this morning in #Chicago was bonkers! The shallow opening between the clouds and the horizon, plus the fog, created some amazing color and sun beams. I was running around trying to get as many cameras going as I could. This is a timelapse from one phone.

Bird flu has now killed two house cats, which could mark a dangerous moment. @jessicanix.bsky.social has the details > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

he just really wanted some new haven pizza

"I’m feeling betrayed, gutted, lost, anxious, and furious." Our story for @science.org—on the ongoing mass firing of federal employees and reactions in the scientific community. www.science.org/content/arti...

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

Scooplet: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has issued stop work orders, frozen funding, and ceased communication for all of its international grants, jeopardizing critical conservation overseas. Much of this money is appropriated for Interior, not foreign aid. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

an announcement: after months of going out of my way to take the C I finally got on one of the open gangway R211Ts this week and it was even better than I'd imagined. walking internally from car to car is a liberation my cold dead American heart could never have understood... we are not going back

“What do they want, more fires?” Mary Louise Knapp, a Montana resident who has worked with the department on fire resiliency in her own neighborhood, said of the Trump administration. 🔥 essential reporting by Mark Olalde