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WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry

Need a last-minute gift idea? The best book I've read in YEARS came out in 2025, and it's "The Death and Life of August Sweeney" by @samuelashworth.bsky.social. It's both spectacularly weird and universally appealing, if that makes sense. Everyone you know will like it: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

In light of the news that HHS is cutting funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including a grant to help reduce sudden infant deaths, I'm just going to share this around again... www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

In collaboration w/ @groundwork.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we convened hundreds of volunteers from across the country to investigate Instacart’s AI-assisted pricing experiments at popular grocery stores like Target & Kroger. Read our full investigation below:

"Hundreds of thousands of work orders for NYC buses flagged for inspection or repairs show no recorded labor hours by MTA maintenance crews — a finding that raises the possibility buses are being put into service...without critical repairs or required inspections." Gift link below:

Really enjoying this new @darrencullen.bsky.social merch - a working Magic 8 Ball that answers your questions like ChatGPT. "That's a great question!" "You're 1000% right!"

The Handbasket's independent journalism holiday gift guide is LIVE! If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:

🚍👀 This new @simko-bednarski.bsky.social investigation is an important one

A bus on Staten Island lost control just before picking up Manhattan-bound passengers. 9 mo prior, mechanics found a steering flaw, but the bus was put in service. My new investigation for the Daily News finds that hundreds of thousands of bus records are missing proof of repairs and inspections.

Let's take a peek at the ol' email inbox "Lab-Grown Human Skin" nope nope let's go ahead and close it again www.personalcareinsights.com/video/lab-gr...

lol, guilty

A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...

Giving Tuesday is sort of fun(?) because it makes me think, wow *AM* I absolutely flush with cash rn? Surely these 9,999 nonprofits screaming at me from my email inbox can't all be wrong

The way I needed this to be the first thing I saw this morning

Can we as a nation come together today and agree on one thing at least? Debbie Gibson looks amazing??

Subway Soiled by Foul Fowl (but it’s so cute tho)

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

God dammit it’s really just everywhere, isn’t it

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

The next Hot Coffee lawsuit is coming from inside the car

DAILY NEWS GETS ACTION: MTA board just approved a $7.4 million contract for new subway wheels after NYCT says it knows what caused the Daily News' mystery wheel-wear scoop from January: Trains were going too fast around curves. The $7.4M will get New Yorkers 3,000 new wheels from Standard Steel.

Really interesting insights in this thread, by the founder of @bellingcat.com

By 2030, data centers powering the AI industry could consume as much water as 10 million Americans and produce as much carbon dioxide as 10 million cars insideclimatenews.org/news/1011202...

It's been a year since we lost editor extraordinaire and extraordinary friend Joel Keehn. I'm thinking a lot about him on this sunny, breezy, blue-skied day. hudsonvalleyone.com/obituaries/j...

This is good @pbsnews.org @mariahblake.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... #PFAS

New line of "Skin Care for Toddlers" Debuts to Online Backlash lololol www.personalcareinsights.com/news/rini-ki...

Authors -- you are entitled to a payment for the books of yours that Anthropic stole for its AI. It's about $1,500 per book. I just filed - you should too! www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....

Disturbed by stories about adults' lives being turned upside down by ChatGPT? WELLLL wait til you see PIRG's report on AI toys for children, like "Kumma," a GPT4o-powered *teddy bear* that talked at detailed length about sexual kinks & role-playing... pirg.org/edfund/resou...

Yes and @coyotemedia.org :)

uhhh what www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This smiley face trash-and-recycling can at the bank, which drops everything into one singular plastic bag inside, is a metaphor for *something* but I'm not sure what

"Fired But Fighting" has created a searchable database of fired/furloughed federal workers available for side-hustle hire: graphic design, dog-walking, babysitting, etc: firedbutfighting.org/talent-marke...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Interesting news on the Plastics/PFAS beat - Recyclers Ban Fluorinated Containers peer.org/recyclers-ba...

Juice fans of Crown Heights! Andre is such a wonderful dude and a good friend to all - let's not let him get forced out of the neighborhood! I just donated: gofund.me/132cc6100

We live in NYC, my family is in VA, and my husband's family is in NJ, so you just KNOW the Fam text chains are going to be LIT tonight

Extremely 2025 coded - Firefighters are donating their plasma to reduce the forever chemicals in their blood. "If a firefighter donates plasma six times a year, the PFAS in their blood could be reduced by up to 60%." (The plasma is "cleaned" before being used.) www.yourvalley.net/glendale-ind...

Have you checked out @coyotemedia.org recently? We've done some good shit in the last two weeks! 〰️ An essay by @emmaruthless.bsky.social on why all our options seem to suck right now 〰️ A guide to places offering free food to SNAP recipients: www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

HELL YEAH

Just going to re-up this question I asked at 2:46 am game 3, I haven’t yet gotten a good answer

Does anyone else find this user experience odd

Incredible epsiode of The Daily featuring @hannahdreier.bsky.social and her revelatory reporting on unmasked firefighters and the health consequences they face www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...

Ok THANK you Semafor for doing the dang door-knock that finally made this story make sense! (Like, wdym "Bill DeBlasio impersonator," NYT?) Side note, this is the most actual LOL funniest article ever www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

DEFEND THE DAILY NEWS

In this house we believe

New Yorkers: Come to City Hall Park tomorrow at noon and join the unionized reporters, photographers and editors of the New York Daily News, as we call on Heath Freeman and Alden Global Capital to pay fair wages and agree to worker protections.