Thinking of this after reading about NH trying to ban the dialectic in schools

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: kevlar-swaddled, giraffes, computer, gum, 4.53billion, laughter, negotiation, celibate

Love how NYC has grown so unaccustomed to snowstorms we storm grocery stores like we're going to be abandoned on the prairie for months at a time

finance calling takeover bidding a "tender offer" is pretty fucked up if you think about it

met a little dog named Waffle today because one of her people was wearing a @hellgatenyc.com hat; cooperative media is such a gift in so many ways

Genuinely curious what cory doctorow would say about the consumer boycott of apartheid south africa...was that neoliberal purity politics?

www.businessinsider.com/blue-owl-fin... look I'm not a money pervert but I'm pretty sure "most creative financing" isn't a good superlative

A bad afternoon to questionable labor practices in indie publishing

It only took a decade and a rights reversion to get sales numbers from my publisher, thanks to everyone who somehow got Networks of New York to earn out back in the day I am genuinely surprised

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... today I learned that municipal zoning as we know it in the US is basically a baby concept, 100 years is nothing

At a media friend's birthday drinks and feeling incredibly inadequate and sad for having flunked out of journalism despite having obtained a whole ass doctorate this year, make it make sense

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Reminder for people who might forget: Ryan is one of the journalists who used a white supremacist as a source for that Mamdani college application story, without revealing that the source was a white supremacist, which is fucking relevant to the privacy breach in the story!!

pretending I don't know about the show Shark Tank and assuming every time someone compares a thing to Shark Tank they're literally describing a dunk tank full of sharks

is this good

*gestures at Bloomberg* we have live markets informed journalism at home

Assuming a Benoit Blanc type accent here for maximum delight

Saw a guy on the subway who looked like Doug Rushkoff but then I saw he was checking stocks on his phone and that seems off brand for him

a technology we can all be excited about

the "mogging" suffix sounds like an english prank by cheeky lads

Good afternoon to organized labor

Ah yes, this is what Martin Scorcese is famous for

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Katamari ass economy

You know I don't know if I want more context here, this is fine

Nice to make people on the street smile by carrying the eleven year old corgi we're dogsitting for the last block of his walk because he's a tired little baby

The U.S. government used the term concentration camps to describe the sites of captivity, some quickly built, that Japanese Americans were incarcerated in during the 1940s. Debates about warehousing immigrants *and* citizens or calling it concentration camp could better attend to this U.S. history.

Not just due credit, @colinivan.bsky.social really pushes forward the issue of Irish neutrality and ICE flights here, and he weaves together a fuller history of Shannon. Excellent reporting, excellent writing, and excellent moral clarity. Well done. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

remembering how many people thought the New Yorker short story "Cat Person" was a nonfiction essay

buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: blur, smoothie, competent, walls, seismometers, hypothesis, weird sled, pervy, cows, backstory, shipwreck, rectangle, night

Our Algos, Ourselves

Motion to pick a number to be the biggest one and stop coming up with bigger numbers, seems to cause a lot of problems in society when a guy thinks of a bigger number

Watching Bound and I feel like the movie from Joe Pantoliano's POV is basically "I hate my nepo co worker"

seeing a post on IG encouraging people to migrate to less complicit tech platforms telling people "use Claude instead of ChatGPT" and oof buddy you're so close, you're so close to having an analysis here!!

have a good wernerherzogvalentines.com weekend everyone

I started reading @garbageday.email and then deleted it because it began talking about Clavicular and I must remain free

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

My grand theory here: Anthropic, Microsoft and Trump are running what superficially seems like a social responsibility line because it creates permission space for a *massive* build-out of off-grid fossil gas: a shadow fleet of ultra-polluting petrotech. Anthropic suggest a TARGET for building gas

have a good wernerherzogvalentines.com weekend everyone

Obsessed with the Red Hook Star Revue describing Brad Lander as an "out of work politician" in their recap of the last CB6 meeting, very petty very hyper local news

This is a @themountaingoats.bsky.social lyric

Dogsitting a corgi for a week and they really are just little loafs

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "Atkinson said the company pivoted to AI in part because US tariffs on karaoke machines imported from China caused the business to suffer."

only the most important press releases for me

“He doesn’t agree with the phrase ‘abolish ICE’ because he said there are too many interpretations for it…”—we have been here before. “Abolish ICE” is a demand; it is clear. Don’t let electeds turn a policy question into a comms strategy debate so they can dodge stating they oppose the demand.

The difference between New Gothamist and Gothamist Classic is there is a non-zero chance Gothamist Classic would have someone on staff eat some of the snow. Just a little bit though gothamist.com/news/we-test...

This strikes me as very good news, and a big win for activists who pushed state officials *very* hard on this

When did the Phoebe Bridgers song "Kyoto" become grocery store music

Still amazing to me that Markwayne Mullin is a real person's name, imagine Bobson Dugnutt chairing a Senate committee