Boone Niederhofer, a 32-year-old father of two who’s a production engineer for a Midland oil company, made the US Olympic team as a bobsledder, while juggling work and dad duties. Inside the adventures of an Aggie from San Antonio who made it to Italy. www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Baumann probably thought he had it bad when he had to listen to me, The Last Millennial. Little did he know it could get worse. At least I know The Cheat.

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ya think? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Dark Knight evil surveillance tech but for finding your lost dog

Lady Gaga appearing here is risking some "actually Italians aren't white after all" backlash

Frankly a total misuse of the Fender Rhodes

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers

talking about the weather is generally the lowest form of discourse but i can’t hold it in anymore: this weather is bullshit

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Was Grunfeld actually a mastermind allowing this cursed franchise to reach its full potential? Do I miss him now that he is gone?

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Workshopping a Is Sinner Mentally Weak take. Gimme a bit.

Something too on the nose about talks of deep cuts to reporter jobs at Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, while his other company, Amazon, debuts essentially a $75 million propaganda film about the First Lady.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Masterfully done

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

Oh he capitalized now, that should do it.

A budget bigger than the marines and they are failing to terrorize the 45th largest city in the US

Thanks brother that's exactly what was on my mind

Voters love telling focus groups that they want more compromise in politics but when you press them on it it becomes clear what they want is for people who disagree with them to do what they want. For 250 years Americans have longed for politics without politics. CBS News is the latest sucker

conner o'malley

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Stop the fight

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

“Cricket is not a pastime in India. It sits above all other sports, all other entertainment, perhaps above everything.” —from “An Avoidable Incident,” an essay by @chrisalmeida.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-avoidable...

Every year, I try to write a few stories. Here they are:

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Closing the year with the most important one: @dwil.bsky.social went to Louisville to talk to the engineer who made the Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

Chris Almeida (@chrisalmeida.bsky.social) on cricket’s colonial past in India, and the ball-tampering scandal that pushed it to the fore: www.thebeliever.net/an-avoidable...

Interested in outlaw country, weed brownies, feuding with billionaires, the early NBA, playing Gin Rummy on a weekday afternoon, and what it feels like to die? I went to Maui to profile Don Nelson for The Believer! @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/island-time/

I wrote a story about cricket for @thebeliever.net

Mike Elko hates talking about The Past at Texas A&M. But that’s why he’s here, the ultimate overachiever imposing his will on one of college football’s biggest underachievers. Just don’t tell him about this story. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Our society only seems to promote people who think the point of art is to hold a finished product, rather than the process of creation. I'm ashamed to admit how much it bothers me that you can be so obviously ignorant and still be taken seriously.

Gotta send the One O’Clock Band to the CFP

They are a product of the ecosystem that incentivizes and rewards this stuff, especially among a specific demographic and class. The people elevating them today aren’t “weird.” They are the people in charge of making decisions at the most mainstream outlets. Because the incentives remain.