Sunken Livingroom in Cupertino, California by Craig Steely Architecture #purple

don’t forget to listen to earth wind and fire today (and every day)

PUT A POWER BUTTON ON THE TV

Possibly the best byline I’ve ever seen. www.akc.org/expert-advic...

They killed Google Reader.

Posting early 90s minivans as a timeline cleanse.

Maybe not everything needs to be a push alert

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Physics of Fluids journal article: ‘Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce’. The authors found the dish entered the “Mozzarella Phase” when starch concentrations (relative to cheese) dropped below 1%, “corresponding to an unpleasant and separated sauce”. [pubs.aip.org]

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

The Great Lakes may seem an obstruction “you have to drive around” these days, but at the time “these were our highways,” said Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist for the State of Wisconsin. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

I edit nothing but weather stories and i need to slow myself down and sound out the word "meteorologist" every single time.

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I got the push alert for this story while literally standing in line in a San Francisco Walgreens about to gear up to argue for access to a covid vaccine while also getting a flu shot (it worked fine I got both, still a bit stunned after the horror stories) www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Penn State's NPR station will be the first to go dark following Trump's cuts to public media. “The news devastated me,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director who retired in August, "it devastated all the employees.” www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

paul's legs, art weinke's paul bunyan lookout, route 23, spruce, michigan, 1988

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

A search of archives shows that Hagerty’s first byline in the Herald appears to have been nearly 67 years ago, on Oct. 20, 1957. It was under the headline “Five Sisters’ Team Tops Bowling League.” www.grandforksherald.com/news/marilyi...

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

Robert Redford with a tiny cardboard cut-out of Paul Newman, photographed by John Dominis, Utah, 1969

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

A baby Martin Sheen — six years before Apocalypse Now — just appeared on my crime procedural du jour

TIL iOS Safari taps out at 500 tabs guess how how I learned

true crime story of the day: Organiser Dr Kyle Mathews told BBC News that the offenders had "held their hands up" and apologised.

There's a lot of other stuff going on but I got to talk to Lee Pace about Foundation!

David Lynch's house is up for grabs. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

green day - wake me up when september ends

I’ve been thinking a lot today about a boss I had during the Boston bombing manhunt. I’d casually retweeted someone, and his narrowed eyes appeared over his screen. “Do you know that person?” “No.” “Do you know what he tweeted to be true?” “No.” “Then don’t share it.”

Colorado school shooter's social media accounts "include references to Holocaust denial, and the name of one of the accounts appeared to end with a reference to a prominent white supremacist slogan" www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing #September11

Rob's Locker & Catering Gary, SD

At least five historically Black colleges and universities received violent threats on Thursday, prompting several of them to place their campuses on lockdown and cancel classes.

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

Incredible get by Alex Horton, who is an Army veteran of Iraq

mixing a cocktail, didn't have a jigger handy; wondered what the ratio was of a quarter-cup to a jigger shot I googled it and the "AI overview" answer went utterly off the rails "a jigger shot equals six quarter cups" man this Old Fashioned is gonna be STRONG but it's what the AI says so *cheers*

Most of Chinese Camp has burned to the ground, according to Chronicle photojournalist @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social. Some residents of the historic Gold Rush town stayed to fight the blaze, despite evacuation orders. #CAwx #CAfire www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...

Computers are meant to have LOUDASS FANS ON THEIR POWER SUPPLIES and collect DUST ON PCI CARDS

I’m about to have seven days off in a row for the first time since Christmas and … well that’s it that’s the post.

Researchers at Texas State University examined 189 drownings and found no evidence of the “Rainey Street Ripper” — a rumored serial killer in Austin. But conspiracy theories aren’t easy to squash. Skeptics online have turned on both police and the study’s authors. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/02/n...

60% of US adults say the decline of union membership is bad for the country.

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

Being old enough to remember the early adoption of the internet used to be kinda cool. Now it’s just cause for constant existential disappointment.

Am I just misremembering the late 90s/early aughts or was there genuinely a time when being so wrong was cause for embarrassment? There was right?

cultivate a feed such that interesting but wrong speculation gets debunked before you RT it imo

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.