Some thoughts on one of the best friends I ever had.

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

I just thought everyone should see this

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group Last year, before capturing Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he led it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Henry James’s The Turn of the Liberty-Insured Manor Casement Window Screw

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Mexican governor explains his theory that a mystery woman seen in a government palace was the ghost of the 19th century empress Carlota www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

I hope this ends up with Larian owning the Ultima IP

this is a great excuse to read this perfect book if you somehow have not defector.com/drab-charles...

Diane and Arlen Chase have been working at Caracol, the largest Maya site in Belize for 40 years. They'd never found the tomb of a ruler until now, and he was the founder of a dynasty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

More on the nineteenth-century runic carving from northern Ontario. A great example of the reception history of runes. #runology

rune news www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/w...

in the United States, people who want to be Supreme Court justices have to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate in Mexico, people who want to be on the Supreme Court are now trying to get attention doing dances on TikTok and swiping on Tinder www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

"Johan Helberg woke up on Thursday morning to find his backyard view of a Norwegian fjord transformed into the side of a giant ship." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

Cargo Ship Crashes Into Norway Man’s Backyard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

In six months we will have so many new dumb songs www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

There is perhaps no more visceral symbol of the hollowing out of NYC’s middle class than the emergence of the employment shelter: facilities that cater to people who work jobs, many full-time, that in a different city or a different economy would not make them rich but would not leave them homeless.

Got a wizard into a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

lmao never change Philly

My little brother just sent this video….

P H I L A D E L P H I A www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZT...

P H I L A D E L P H I A www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZT...

Inner excellence!!!!

down with the sentient State Farm commercial

Cooper dejean we love to see it

Flag on the play. Looks like it’s “having a big play against the Chiefs”

channel-6.ghost.io/philadelphia... (free w/email)

go birds

MOVE CLOSER TO YOUR WORLD, MY FRIEND (go birds) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZT...

Someone pointed this out to me on the other site and it's too good not to share: The Eagles had seven rushing touchdowns today. The Cowboys had six this season.

lol city officials have seen enough

the birds — they’re going

David Lynch, 2014: "I always say, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is my biggest influence. There is something about the mood here. The fear, insanity, corruption, filth, despair, violence in the air was so beautiful to me."

“We don’t eat our own Christmas trees," a Danish food historian said, after the Belgia city of Ghent claimed that Scandinavians have been turning needles into butter and "doing it for a long time.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/w...

For what it's worth, I just got off the phone with the NYC Medical Examiner's office, which has no record of Thomas Pynchon's death. Not every death in the city gets reported to them and he may have died outside of NYC, but this is still very much a rumor.

“Space is no longer as safe as we used to know it" a major said after a glowing ring of metal weighing more than half a ton fell into a village www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/w...

“Ha fatto la guerra,” one summer camper said to another www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/w...

"After an evangelical awakening, she said, God called her to dance. She set up the Society for the Performing Arts in Nigeria, where she calls herself the 'visioneer.'" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

incredible banger of an investigation www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

"The handwritten manifesto found on the person of the man detained in Altoona criticized health care companies for putting profits above care, according to a senior law enforcement official." www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Egypt’s government issued a 1,100-word response to a seemingly random travel blogger’s complaints about its airport, citing security camera footage, threatening legal action and asking, “Is it reasonable for a passenger to visit two lounges before a single flight?” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/w...

update on blobs www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/w...

NEW: Hundreds of Bethesda workers at America's largest video game union have gone on strike today, protesting the company's recent outsourcing. Microsoft did not immediately respond to comment. www.inverse.com/gaming/bethe...

"Do the stairs end in a dark basement? Excellent. Is the steep cement staircase guarded by rusting barbed wire on one side and open to a rushing dam on the other? Ideal." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...