A mild thought. Women really like: • Men who actually listen and are interested. • Men who do their share of the chores without being asked. • Men who are reasonably well-groomed and smell nice. They're not all that interested in guys who have attached spacehoppers.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Love it when journalism jobs look like they're the start of a Hallmark movie. Should I take it, fall in love with a rugged handyman with a heart of gold and then solve a Kennedy mystery??

On my quest to see them all, I’ve watched 7.5 out of 11 STAR WARS movies. I’m in the middle of ROGUE ONE. And I actually liked one of the prequels (REVENGE OF THE SITH). #Maythe4th letterboxd.com/mallorycarra...

Happy May Day ✊

"If memories could be canned, would they also have expiration dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries." Wong-Kar Wai's most fun, heartwarming film. Chungking Express forever.

Thank you to the @maynardinstitute.bsky.social for having me as part of the California Propel Regional Training Series’ first cohort last week in San Luis Obispo & @calpolyslo.bsky.social! I enjoyed meeting journalists from around the state and going on some Central Coast adventures.

"The recent change to our course-management system has meant that I need to re-upload every document and assignment and reassign every homework. I will be attending three two-hour training sessions to help me do this." buff.ly/lv7w8kf

While traveling last week, I learned there's a California Cheese Trail and, just within the past weekend, I unwittingly visited two locations: www.cheesetrail.org

The New York Times writes far more stories about the trans community than any other US print outlet, and is the least likely to quote a trans person when it does. Seems bad?

Please don't ruin our last great app. What makes @letterboxd.social so special is that it still looks like 2011, it's social but also barely social, movie reviews range from serious to shitpost, and it doesn't let the outside world in. A perfect place.

Slowly coming to terms with the fact that the only chance I'll have to watch the Mets play this baseball season will be when they play the Angels in Orange County. 🫠

Move over, em-dashes! "It's not just x, it's y" construction is the new AI writing giveaway*. (*There's actually no such thing. AI is just imitating how humans already write. It might accelerate stylistic fads, but humans wrote certain ways before and after AI.)

Spotted the @usc.edu campus bunny on my walk to class this morning. Then one of the facilities folks told me there are now baby bunnies (!!) on campus, too. Stay tuned. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Really glad I watched all the Lord of the Rings movies earlier this year, because I went to my friend’s lovely wedding in Brooklyn last week and I actually understood all the LOTR references they included throughout the whole event!

The pitt video game looks out of this world youtu.be/ML0L20VOE2g?...

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

The USC podcast ELECTRIC FUTURES dropped its first episode of Season 3: The Data Center Next Door and was featured in @podnews.net today! 😎

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Love to recognize the names of my own medications on THE PITT, like it's an old friend making a cameo on my favorite show. This week, it was the Asthma Trio™️ -- albuterol, Symbicort, and montelukast (and an ER regular, EpiPen). And they mentioned the cost issues with Symbicort.

Dr. Robby has gone too far

Honored to be featured in The Daily Trojan Magazine, talking about my career journey: dailytrojan.com/2026/04/01/d...

Those who dole out harassment cannot handle even a modicum of criticism because they thrive off of belittling others to feel big

I love LAUSD Spring Break (because LA traffic is light and I don't have kids).

Join us on Thursday, April 9th at 12pm for a Electric Futures Live! ⭐ANN 106 ⭐Pizza will be provided 🍕 👉RSVP here: uscannenberg.formstack.com/forms/electr...

Imagine how wild it was for me to watch this cool indie documentary about the history of podcasting and see a whole montage of my 2023 layoff from Spotify 🫠 . Part of podcast history, I guess... letterboxd.com/mallorycarra...

What a way to end Spring Break!! (For those who don't know, RTPC is USC's term for non-tenure faculty.)

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

+1 to everything Karl is saying here. And also: The *logic* of the metaverse press coverage in 2021-22 was, “there is SO MUCH money and SO MUCH engineering talent pointed at this stuff that it is bound to amount to something.” That’s facially reasonable, so it gets repeated every time.

Others: Go to a journalism happy hour to network with other journalists. Me: Goes to a journalism happy hour, meets a crafters group on the patio, bonds with them instead, paints this quick lil acrylic piece on canvas, and gets added to the group chat!

why are men

My cat Butters secretly knows how to open closet and cabinet doors, especially the closet where I keep his food. Last night when I got home, I found the closet door open, a bag of food from a high shelf on the floor, clawed open, and him proudly meowing about his victory and making air biscuits.

please do not boil the professors, they don't like it.

My favorite stat from the Oscar Pool I ran for the Annenberg students this year: 100% of respondents picked KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Feature. The only certainty. #Oscars

The USC podcast I produce is recording a LIVE episode in April! Prof. Chip Zukoski, the podcast and event host, is an incredible speaker and science professor who is an expert on data center issues. Also, there will be pizza! RSVP: uscannenberg.formstack.com/forms/electr...

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

Traditionally (but not always), the movie that wins Best Editing is often the same movie that wins Best Picture. This aligns more often that Best Director and Best Picture (which has a good chance of going to two different films this year). #Oscars

ICYMI, I've been running a California + Pacific Northwest + remote journalism jobs newsletter on Substack for 6 years. For the past few months, I've been wanting to leave the platform. Vote in this poll if you have a preference for where it goes next westcoastmediajobs.substack.com/p/weekly-job...

John Oliver on his son's Mets fandom and how the Mets are actually very British.

Check out the TV news show my USC students worked on today, which includes an interview with my favorite actor Noah Wyle (!!), coverage of winter travel delays from LAX, and Punch the Monkey. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=52u0...

Still looking for mentors to step up for our many mentees! All experience levels welcome to give back. Deadline is tomorrow.

RIP Wes Rucker, a tremendous former colleague I was so lucky to start my career alongside at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. TFP forever.

update www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

"Media veterans looking to join a groundbreaking publication will receive a plot of land to tend and protect in exchange for publishing ten articles per week and complete loyalty to the Crown."

I tell my journalism students specifically not to do this. It's a hack move to make people sound dumb. Everyone talks like this — with the exception of maybe Pete Buttigieg — and it's an editorial choice to leave the little filler words in there.

My New Year's resolution is conquer my pop/nerd culture blind spots, starting with LOTR. The list also includes STAR WARS and D&D. Also, feel free to follow me on @letterboxd.social, the last good social media platform. boxd.it/d72RkT

I wish there were a @letterboxd.social for TV where I could talk about The Pitt, Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Heated Rivalry. (Reddit doesn't cut it because...it's Reddit.)