Matt Boggie

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

Unified Theory of Pam (“in any human field of endeavor, there will be a single person—Pam—miraculously holding things together, and if anything happens to Pam, we are hosed”) remains undefeated

The lineup will feature film festival favorite films from Jesse Eisenberg, Ava DuVernay, and other master filmmakers. Early badge sales point to the festival's largest audience.

This, and: if you’re going to make people use an app, make it fun and useful! We’ve had AR applications for a decade, and I’m typing 12 digit codes for a hash brown

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WORLD SERIES-BOUND SEATTLE PILOTS

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

"No matter which party is in power during the next Congress, the Inquirer Editorial Board believes that impeachment should be a top priority." share.inquirer.com/WldBDX

Shot in the dark but if anyone wants to trade #NYCC2026 passes - Friday for Sunday - let me know. We have 3 for today and would like to switch to Sunday.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

If someone could pick me up an F train bench I’d really appreciate it (actually serious, if you’re going) 🚇

Here are just some of the items you can get at our Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop 👀 The sale runs today and tomorrow (October 8-9) from 9am - 2pm at 23 Avenue X, right next to the Bay 50 St station on the D line 🚇

This works for literally any definition of “it”

i would think the secretary of state might be a little more informed about possible corruption with the us ambassador to greece or at least a little curious

She named “Software Engineering”. One of the GOATs

“Massive spending on data centers is crowding out investment in everything else in the economy.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-versus-...

“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”

“Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, ‘Ah, look at these cities.’ But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.” 🥹

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

Don Mattingly should show up to his end-of-year meeting looking like this. Might be the only way to keep his job.

New Philly monster just dropped share.inquirer.com/Wrd1yT

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...

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"Had the parents known sooner, 'they would have helped the child get the counseling she needed to be comfortable with her natal sex'" That's why he didn't tell them. I'll never understand how a parent can hate their kids like this. Gift: share.inquirer.com/MfpRJ8

Big news from Peter Dobrin and Sue Snyder and the @inquirer.com : William Penn Foundation offers to fund Academy of Natural Science for a year. Drexel did not say whether the had declined the offer. www.inquirer.com/arts/drexel-...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis. In Philadelphia, workers can find more help than ever, but layoffs, long hours, injury, and instability still push many toward the brink.

“With the emergence of AI, tech companies decided they could stop directing traffic to news sites and supplant them altogether by stealing and regurgitating their journalism.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.

The Kennedy Center is made of irreplaceable marble gifted by Italy. Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted by France. The massive starburst chandelier in the opera hall and the lights along the walkways were gifts from Sweden. The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan.

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...

I drove into Philly today and passed Wawas showing $4.29, which I thought was high. It was up to $4.45 by the time I drove home.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

"Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says: The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.'" -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w...

Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. The New York Times tracked the activity and found evidence of patrol roads and vehicle barriers already being built. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/46JAhUc

Critics aren’t raising questions. Critics are pointing to the letter of the law, which clearly states that US currency cannot feature living people. Say that.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys https://theonion.com/jets-hope-to-sell-more-merchandise-with-new-philadelphia-eagles-themed-jerseys/

In these discussions there's so, so much riding on This Time Being Different. And I'd like to be able to think/talk a little more clearly today about how we live in a world where everyone's individual iPhone can manage more arithmetic throughput than the combined brains of the entire world

The deaths occurred in Lancaster County, the center of a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year, state officials said. Both people were unvaccinated.

Having a Treasury Secretary get on the news and basically say "eh, growth isn't so important" is unexpected

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