Buz Ecker, 67, and other dads his daughter has recruited have since spent hours writing to strangers looking for pick-me-ups — including to many whose fathers have died. The volunteer-run group is called the Dad Letter Project. https://wapo.st/4ngbcH0

One more note on Robert Redford and his particular type of on-screen hero: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...

“Fume events” on airplanes have been accelerating in recent years, at times leading to emergency landings, sickening passengers, or affecting pilots’ vision and reaction times, a WSJ investigation found. Doctors compare the effects on the brain to concussions in NFL players. on.wsj.com/42x1dEW

NEW @miamiherald.com: Hundreds of undocumented migrants who had been held at Alligator Alcatraz dropped off the grid after being moved out of the site. w/ @bwieder.bsky.social (GIFT LINK BELOW)

SCOOP: Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

Books, magazines. and classrooms are great antidotes to the toxic rabbit holes of cable news, social media, ChatGPT, and video games. Unfortunately the resources of our society are devoted to building up the latter and destroying the former.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

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Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...

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Breaking News: The A.I. firm Anthropic agreed to a record $1.5 billion settlement for illegally downloading and storing copyrighted books.

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if investors approve a new pay package proposed by the board that would give him new shares over time based on company milestones.

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Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman with immediate effect

genuinely one of the most upsetting things i’ve ever read

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I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

Since LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is in the news today for some alleged behind-the-scenes shenanigans, it's worth looking at this 2021 @propublica.org story showing how Ballmer, one of the world's wealthiest people, paid a lower tax rate than the vendors selling drinks at Clippers games:

The biggest concentration of billionaires, 255 of them, is in California. But the super rich also run businesses in such remote spots as Ridgeland, Miss., and Waunakee, Wisc.

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One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

For the American middle class, it has been a summer of cooling confidence. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4g2u5KZ

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Exclusive: A group of House lawmakers from across the political spectrum has agreed on a proposal that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina inflicted unprecedented devastation along the Gulf Coast, killing at least 1,392 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. After several levee failures, officials estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was inundated. https://wapo.st/3URwMW8

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Nvidia reported revenue of $46.7bn for the quarter to July 28, up 56% year on year, as the tech giant at the heart of the AI boom signalled resilient growth. on.ft.com/4p13QJ6

Manchester United, a post-satire football club for a post-satire age.

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Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” is turning 50 this month. A road trip to the Boss’s old haunts along the Jersey Shore proves to be the best way to celebrate.

The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.

Photo studios in India are a dying business. A photographer set out to commemorate them in style.

Can you run a Premier League football club? on.ft.com/4fNPGGO

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Breaking News: Intel, the troubled chipmaker, agreed to sell the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business worth $8.9 billion.

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In a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, Microsoft didn't mention its use of employees based in China, the top cyber adversary of the U.S., to work on highly sensitive department systems, according to a copy obtained by ProPublica. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Time makes the heart grow fonder even for those we previously might not have cared much for. Each Big Retirement a reminder of our own ages and craving for familiarity and constants. All we are left with are memories: of grit, discipline, elegance, poise and sheer force of will. And of Greatness.

IMPACT: Florida's lawmakers filed a series of bills aimed at severely curbing prosecutors' sweeping powers to try children as adults after my @miamiherald.com investigation — Juvenile Crime, Adult Time — highlighted disparities in enforcement and sentencing:

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