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Hello I was on @newestolympian.bsky.social for an ALL-HOTEL edition of the pod! Take a listen if you enjoy Percy Jackson OR listening to me do silly bits. pod.link/1583114801/e...

There’s still an hour left to vote, Toronto. Me and my giant tits and correct opinions can’t carry this alone

anybody recently been scolded for NOT using ChatGPT in a customer service context? i.e. asking a question and being told that you should have asked ChatGPT? Love that haha

Seems like ChatGPT encourages people to contact journalists to solve their personal tech problems: „Last night, someone emailed me (…) asking for an “independent investigation” into why their Verizon cell phone service wasn’t working on their iPhone.“ #aislog www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

spotted in Toronto. #BrazilElections

I was too slow on the trigger here! Hopefully the TPL acquires some more copies because there is a SIXTEEN WEEK wait for this book. it’s making serious waves!

I don’t trust any man or machine to be better at finding deals than me. I will defeat AI with pure hubris

I don’t like or care about hockey (except in the MLH), but I am still periodically cracking up about Sens fans chanting “fuck your podcast,” “you can’t read” and “you eat crayons” to Brady Tkachuk

I definitely thought it was free reign 😭 that still kinda makes sense!

I know there’s still a lot of stigma related to mental health problems, but it’s NOTHING compared to 25 years ago. People who were struggling would be disowned, or their families would spin a face-saving cover story to conceal what was happening. Secrecy kills. It plagued my grandma her whole life

Here’s one that I think is underrated: the decline of institutionalization. I know what replaced them isn’t uniformly good, but we are better off in a world with less in the way of industrial schools, reform schools/juvies, sheltered workshops, orphanages, asylums and homes for unwed mothers

Most exciting essay I've read in my field lately. It shows how print technology led to an explosion of new publishers and geographical dispersion out of NYC—and explains how this changes what we thought we knew about literary history academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

ten thousand Sens fans shouting “fuck your podcast” in unison and allegedly causing a strong language warning to appear on the streaming service …. truly inspiring

Whoa I love the paperback design

the future only comes one day at a time. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that even 5 years ago, the idea that you would need to specify that you want to read "human-written" books only would be ludicrous (it's still ludicrous of course)

"Oceans are different, sir" has generational meme potential

The Ebola epidemic that began in the DRC earlier this year has achieved a grim new milestone, turning up in a third region of the African continent, the widest footprint of any Ebola outbreak to date. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/h...

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Learning that PHP can just break and take large swathes of the internet down abitrarily for an extended time is straight up scary

do you have a best friend, or do you have a best friend who overnights you her old e-reader when you smashed yours

This is just not how we, as a society should be treating these human beings.

happy "i'm officially a published author" day to all those who celebrate (me)

🚨🚨🚨 @alexbarasch.bsky.social's first Vulture profile, about the director of the hour, is out and it's a banger: www.vulture.com/article/lanc...

Great to have @rorywh.bsky.social on @therundowntvo.bsky.social to talk about his reporting on Brad Bradford's use of the Victory app to AI-generate supporter comments and the big picture of how AI is shaping Ontario's municipal elections.

If you're a neuro-ophthalmologist, preferably professionally trained and not a hobbyist, hmu.

A huge loss for science and health reporting. Thank you for all your critical work @helenbranswell.bsky.social!

Seabird numbers bounce back in Solent region after 2022 avian flu wipeout

There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...