It should be illegal for it to be 75 degrees out in North Carolina on Christmas Eve

The ADHD is powerful today but like in a good way

Vegan charcuterie featuring Rebel Cheese

Pulls and promos from the chocobo mtg bundle @mrbonesstanaccount.bsky.social fought robots to get for me at msrp :') the yoshitaka amanos kefka might have me build a kefka deck just to use that art for my commander

PMSing HARD on what is supposed to be my last day working for the year (Minus the monday meeting boo)

I spent five years working at a (different) research center at UNC. This is worth reading - and once again, the Daily Tar Heel is doing excellent reporting.

To the person who rescheduled a meeting to Monday (which I'm taking even though I'm technically OOO by then because their deadline was before the end of the year): boo

I am GRUMPY today

This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.

Thinking very loosely about hobby goals for 2026 since work and school are kind of looming dreadfully on the horizon. Was thinking maybe for reading I can try to get through Malazan, since I got all the ebooks in a humble bundle and have my Kobo now.

It's time! Welcome to the 2025 Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalog: defector.com/the-2025-hat...

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

"In journalism, scale is a false god, and generative AI is Big Tech’s latest siren song. The only viable path to local news sustainability runs through genuine service to community and human engagement. " And, some related thoughts: kiesow.net/a-few-things...

Personalization is coming to journalism whether newsrooms build it or not. The real question is where it lives: inside surveillance systems and intermediaries, or in reader-controlled tools on the open web. Here's what I think should happen. werd.io/is-the-artic...

This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

The existence of Cable TV during breaking news implies there is a knowability of things in emergent and chaotic events. There is not. Read the news in the morning.

The moguls in charge of Netflix and Paramount Skydance are battling over Warner Bros Discovery. @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on how Donald Trump, and CNN, are playing an outsized role in the takeover war: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

computer going to take my job? no. i’ll pour water on it

I keep having detailed dreams about my various frustrations in which I am desperately trying to communicate and it's not working and they always make me wake up feeling Some Kinda Way

WaPo’s new AI podcasts are a classic example of “doing something for the sake of it” It’s clearly been designed to tick “innovate” and “integrate AI into the newsroom” boxes set by management, rather than being led by gaps in your product offering, or reader demand, as Dave shows here

And this is *why* you don't just do things for the sake of it in a newsroom

video game trailer set to tool...recession indicator

i'm just done with this year. i can't find it in me to care anymore

ignoring everything else (which is a lot to ask), these covers look like absolute ASS

nothing quite like the warmth of two AIs bantering about Epstein on a synthetic podcast

I've started reading UNC as "UNC" in my head and it's really changed things

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

I got a Kobo Clara BW that was delivered today (unexpectedly, never received tracking) and 1) she's cute, 2) I'm learning calibre, and 3) downloaded all the animorphs ebooks

almost got a crowned victory royale for the squad, downed butthead and got got by beavis who cornholio'd all over me

@scronce.bsky.social If you get to go into the city go to Planta Queen!

Adding alt text

Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend

My thesis chair is the dean of the school and on the board at my job which feels like added pressure 😱

games! www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

my worst fear in commercial radio was absorbing out of market company owned stations, pretending to be llive and local in…wherever i had never been. i can’t imagine tracking 7-8 out of market stations. brutal.

Hitting free agency soon. DM’s are open.

Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently. rjionline.org/news/efficie...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

A former colleague asked me "Is there a way to use a D&D campaign to teach public records access?" My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it" What other ideas do you all have?

Support local businesses! Just ordered some albums from Chaz's

So anyway my entire family forgot to tell me when and where they were doing Thanksgiving, my mom got upset, then I was going to drive out to see her Saturday and she decided she was too tired, so my holiday has been mostly me at home alone dissociating:

Hahahaha feelings

Started rereading this children's scifi classic for the first time in ... 24 years? My grandma got the original trilogy for me one Christmas. I remember really enjoying the juxtaposition of faux medieval with mind control robots.

That's my purse, Charlie Brown! I don't know you!

Woodworking is on NPR's top books of 2025 list, and as a longtime user of NPR's book lists to purchase holiday gifts and add stuff to my library list, I am so glad to think some alternate universe version of myself might decide to check out my new book! apps.npr.org/best-books/?...

Liquor Ferris wheel at the hotlot

another year, another must-read annual report from @defector.com. come for the small, cooperative org insights (omg the whole feedback section!), stay for the ideas about business for the whole industry (yes, please, distributing fractional support). defector.com/defector-ann...