Smiled reading this in NYT this morning. A classic NYC interaction.

Shamet has finally surpassed a 31-point career high. He has 34.

Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”

Can AI make people more creative at work? 💡 In the latest #TheLitReview podcast, I talk with Nan Jia (USC) about her award-winning AMJ paper on how AI frees employees from routine tasks and boosts innovation. 🎧 Listen on all platforms or here: www.podbean.com/media/share/... #AI #FutureOfWork

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

"Faculty governance has largely been replaced by a governed faculty." If it can happen at Chicago with dozens of Nobel Prize winners on faculty, it can happen anywhere. www.chronicle.com/article/rese...

"The over/under is 60.5" ESPN announcer finally comes out and says the quiet part out loud in waning moments of Alabama-Tenn game. @thepressbox.bsky.social

Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo are also going to have a multi-hour meeting after this game but it's just going to be them hitting wrestling finishers off the couch on each other

Just read @Henry Abbott's article about Kahwi/Clippers scandal and it turns out it's a beautiful ode to good #journalism open.substack.com/pub/truehoop... @thepressbox.bsky.social

"Judge has arrived!" An incredible call.

this is actually a pretty big black mark on Hulu that they had the opportunity to chronicle an extremely newsworthy spectacle and are letting UNC back out of it because it makes them look bad

It's come to my attention that the original What's Alan Watching? site debuted 20 years ago today. Why not celebrate that anniversary by subscribing to its current iteration, aka the place where I'm writing all my reviews and recaps right now?

With 1:23 left in 4q my son just said to me, "it's only 4 touchdowns". I think that is genuine sadness. Time to turn on the Longhorns.

The only thing Ludacris is this score. Amirite? (I'll see myself out)

WE'RE GOING TO TORONTO YANKEES WIN

Overall trust in #media continues to slide in US, dipping below 30% in recent poll. More telling is the ideological divide: 8% for Republicans and 51% for Democrats. I grapple to contemplate what this looks like for the US in 10 years. @thepressbox.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

I had to laugh at WaPo embedding a solicitation for leaks in the middle of an article detailing how Hegseth is trying to stop leaks. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

What's good, my Nucleaz!!!

So #collegefootball went on a bender last night, and somehow I wake up with a hangover?

Assata Shakur, a Black Power activist who became the first woman to land on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists” list after escaping to Cuba from a New Jersey prison where she was serving a life sentence for the murder of a state trooper, died. She was 78.

My goal as an academic. lol

this sweater is meant to commemorate duckhead's 160th anniversary as a brand but i might buy it as a "160th anniversary of appomattox and emancipation" www.duckhead.com/collections/...

First the Fat Boys break up. And now this...

@thepressbox.bsky.social @bryancurtis.bsky.social Tortured acronym nominee

Just a reminder - you don't *have* to post anything

@joelanderson.bsky.social I went to a TCU alum event here in Chapel Hill before the game while wearing my Carolina Blue. Very hospitable. I think they knew that butt whipping was coming.

Dan Rather is 93, and 20 years removed from signing off as a CBS anchor. But he’s still tapping out stories. “As Popeye used to say, I am what I am.”

This makes a lot of sense (and selfishly I'm hoping Raleigh gets an MLB team)... www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

I'm conflicted. I hate attempts to ruin my childhood, but it also sounds like it might be good..

A powerful longread on the men convicted of killing Chris Paul’s grandfather in 2002 and their recent exoneration. As you can imagine, it's a complex story. www.theassemblync.com/politics/cri...

@nytimes.com on behalf of all Android users, thanks for the tease this morning. The disrespect will not be forgotten.

Eighty years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Our senior editor Alan Taylor found these prewar and postwar images of the city on his visit to the U.S. National Archives. (From 2016)

For about a minute I was down to watch The Gilded Age en espanol, but my wife nixed that notion.

"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think." Happy 101st birthday to #JamesBaldwin! #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #humanity

📢 Fellow Management Scholars — #AOM2025 is nigh! The legendary #2025AOMParties schedule has officially dropped 🎉 Check it out here: bit.ly/2025AOMParties Know of one that’s missing? Feel free to send it my way.

I stumbled this gem on a intl trip and binged over a long flight. Very well done.

The Geto Boys have forever shaped the way I read the words in this sign.

I will listen to the Funk Flex show any time I have the chance. Tonight he intro’d a song by saying YOU KNOW I HATE THIS SONG (bomb noises) BUT ITS THE HOTTEST SONG IN THE CLUB RIGHT NOW (bomb noises) NEW YORK CITY YOU LOVE THIS SONG, IT DOESNT MATTER IF I THINK ITS TRASH (bomb noises)

I don't think the Pacers were hoping to clinch in 6. I think #AI might be writing some of the scroll text for ABC News web ads

Thank you to @gqmagazine.bsky.social for enlisting me to figure out why dads watch tv while standing up! (And thank you to everyone who offered their insights!)

Want more Black women startup founders? Start by hiring them. New research shows Black women with startup experience are 91% more likely to become founders. Exposure matters. Representation matters. 🔗 peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/thi... #BlackWomenInTech #Startups #EquityInTech

The Press Box buttons are here! Collect the whole set. Trade ’em with your friends.

@jeffjsays.bsky.social was going through some old boxes and came across this flyer. Reminded me of the allergy story you told earlier this season..

I caught up on Cheers by watching reruns every night on WPIX. One of my favorite shows and Wendt was the glue guy on that show. This season finale wrecked me.

Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson in the 4th Quarter #KnicksSky

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Just donated and appealing to all #Tarheels to join in to #BeatDuke!