Here to say @jesspgh.bsky.social is tremendous. Thank you for being a great mom to our kids. Happy Mother’s Day!

Pittsburgh this weekend is like all the whiners left town and what’s left is spectacular. Traffic, transit, you name it. Congrats, babies! The draft was fun! I’m in the Strip! People are out and about. Not too busy.

@jaythurber.bsky.social Hey Jay! @jesspgh.bsky.social and I went to the draft events on Thursday and Friday and had a great time. Got to boo some Ravens fans, cheer for a Steeler pick, and do a bunch of fun people watching amid all the activities. It was fun, easy to get downtown, and one of a kind!

Her: You guys better not be doing weird hair when I get there. Us:

Can confirm that one can demand justice for Daryl Hannah while basking in the glorious NYC 90s of it all while watching Love Story, the best kind of trash (thanks @jesspgh.bsky.social)

In this #KDKA segment, we chat about the #LoveStoryFX miniseries (centering John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's romance), why it's popular across generations, and how it has folks longing for a lower tech life. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

You know what Neil Young always says: it’s better to burn out than to CIA

A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

GG Allin’s show tonight has the potential to put his career on more stable ground—if he doesn’t shit on stage, Jonathan Lemire tells Will Gottsgen in The Atlantic Daily

Happy Birthday to @someclevername.bsky.social, who is the only person with whom I’d drop out of life to follow around the NIN peel it back tour. He said on Saturday that if they add more shows and come to Pgh, we are bringing the girls. I’m not sure it’s their thing, but the girls and I love you!

Back at it

The best Valentine dinner is when Chris and the girls do heart pizzas!

Roughly 2 USAIDs

First off, why is there not Couples Luge? I do not care gender alignment, bring on the couples! This is Valentines Day for goodness sakes. Or Skeleton

Same thing happening to journalism as at universities following the massive federal budget cuts. You can't break institutions, cast off multiple age cohorts of journalists/scholars, & just flip switches later & expect go back to the ex ante SQ. The downstream systemic effects are huge & lasting.

I’m on linear tv at 3 today (KDKA #Pittsburgh) talking about chatbots and teenagers. I’m toward the bottom of the hour (which will lead into local news at 4). I’ll share the link when I have it. Here is my spot from Jan 20th on dynamic pricing. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...

Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.

This time last week @someclevername.bsky.social was on his way to the National Academies of Sciences to present at a workshop I got to watch via livestream. Here he is being fancy. 😍

‘By bringing on Powell McCormick, Meta gave itself a critical connection to the Senate if it attempts to regulate AI… ‘I think it’s absolutely beneficial to have the wife of a senator in a high-profile position in your company when you are hoping to stave off any regulations,’ said Ghilani.”

Thank you to Jack Troy at @triblive.bsky.social for reaching out for my comment on Meta naming Dana Powell McCormick as President today. She has a long resume and a lot of experience, and her marital ties are bonus regulatory buffer. triblive.com/news/pennsyl...

Media consolidation can really come back to haunt. City Paper was acquired by the Blocks in 2023 (after orig being indie-owned, then bought by the Butler Eagle in 2016). We had 2 great alt weeklies but in 2001, the City Paper bought InPgh; similar to how the PG bought the Pittsburgh Press in '92).

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

The ICE murder of Renee Good and the failure of any cessation of the Grok CSAM and nonconsensual image generation are part of the same broader story about the establishment of elite impunity for transgressing all moral boundaries of a humanist civil society with individual rights

Renee Nicole Good, 37 yrs, murdered by ICE today. Her mom said, “She was probably terrified… Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known; She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” 💔

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

The Blocks made Pittsburgh the largest city w no print daily in 2018. They eroded pgh print news since the 1990s, when they bought superior rival Pittsburgh Press. They told those fired via zoom that they want to “exit with grace and dignity,” but shame and retaliation will be forever on their name.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

ICE shot a woman driving away from them in the face in broad daylight and immediately began to smear her as a perpetrator of violence and domestic terrorism. The greatest threat to Americans is our own “law and order.”

I've dedicated 9 years of my life to Pittsburgh journalism, including 3 years on strike. I'm gutted by this, and I truly hope this means the Blocks will leave Pittsburgh for good. They've done immeasurable damage to our city. Also, hit me up if you need a good copy editor or writer.

The closing of the CP and the PG aren't just like, a bummer, or like a regular fuck-the-Blocks moment. It's a drastic reduction in citizens' ability to stay informed and hold our local government accountable, which in today's political environment will have consequences that make my head spin.

Pittsburgh has many great journalists, so a new outlet seems natural. And necessary. I was a community journalist for a decade, and an editor-in-chief for a few more besides. I'd be happy to pitch in however is needed to get something up and running.

The Blocks are an evil, terrible family. They lost to their union and are closing the paper as a temper tantrum.

It didn’t have to be this way. But the Blocks have been dismantling print news in PGH for decades, starting with the purchase and absorption of their rival paper, accelerating with their move to stop print daily in 2018 (making Pittsburgh the largest US city without a print daily at the time).

Shuttering the PG and the City Paper are vindictive decisions from the (frankly, monstrous) publisher that will hurt the city. I hope that someone resurrects the Pittsburgh Press as the New Pittsburgh Press or something. 1/

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It's cookie time! Here is R's (9) link: digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rosie4... And here is E's (13): digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/emilia... They do great things w the funds that enrich the troop and their community. We are so glad for their mixed age troop! Thank you for considering!

Thank you @meganswift.bsky.social and @triblive.bsky.social for featuring me in this article about why PTO hacks have been trending on social media as we begin 2026! triblive.com/lifestyles/m...

They didn't have the characters in Wag the Dog call the newspapers to inform them in advance of a military strike, because it wouldn't have been plausible to 90s film audiences.

They didn't have the characters in Wag the Dog call the newspapers to inform them in advance of a military strike, because it wouldn't have been plausible to 90s film audiences.

The best guy.

Thank you to the always smart, thoughtful, and prolific @megstesprit.bsky.social for reaching out to interview me (and others) for her recent piece in @publicsource.org examining the deepfakes miring the legacy of Fred Rogers in #pittsburgh and beyond. Read here: www.publicsource.org/mister-roger...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Can you imagine Mister Rogers cussing at TV painter Bob Ross? Probably not. But AI has — along with dozens of deepfake videos casting Pittsburgh’s friendliest neighbor in not-so-friendly roles.

Thank you to the always smart, thoughtful, and prolific @megstesprit.bsky.social for reaching out to interview me (and others) for her recent piece in @publicsource.org examining the deepfakes miring the legacy of Fred Rogers in #pittsburgh and beyond. Read here: www.publicsource.org/mister-roger...

Bonus indoor outfit shot

It was cold but the dancin was HOT

Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie. Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust. I don’t know how else to say it!

This entire weekend