erin mccann

erin mccann

@mccanner.bsky.social

Weather at The New York Times. Now in SF after four years in London. Brooklyn before that. The weather is nicer here. Find me: https://instagram.com/mccannercat

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erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

I have a phone full of photos I’m sort of proud of, and a year’s worth of adventures I haven’t really posted anywhere, so I’m going to semi-randomly try to post one a day through the end of the year to this thread. Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

you know I just assumed it was my adult palate that's made the chocolate in things like hershey's or reese's taste worse to me but no, apparently the chocolate has also gotten worse!

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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

In high school I really wanted to go to the PA renn faire but couldn’t drive that far, so I convinced the cool English teacher that it was somehow educational and that’s how me and 13 or 14 other dweebs got to go to the renn faire AND return for the dramatic Poe readings that fall for extra credit

erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

There exists somewhere a photo of me at like 17 in a long-sleeved tie-dyed t-shirt having been pulled on stage by the court jester and I’m making a wildly stupid grin that basically screams “can you believe I’m getting graded for this.”

erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

Anyway I’m going to the NorCal renn faire tomorrow and all the Reddit threads about it have someone deep in there saying that it’s not as good as the one in PA.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones
@proptermalone.bsky.social

i'm not going to read this article but i really admire the craft

Vulture@vulture.com

‘Wicker’ stars Alexander Skarsgård as a man made entirely of wicker, complete with a rock-hard wicker dick. But what about splinters? Bacteria? Degradation? Would it be advisable, from a sexual-health perspective, to mount a basket dick? We asked a gynecologist: vulture.visitlink.me/DNQwX5

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Open Culture
@openculture.bsky.social

Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More

openculture.comChristopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & MoreSir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and ...
erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

I have never in my life watched this show but learning about Julia Stiles participating in this and leaning way the hell into being Julia Stiles has me glued to a screen

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com

Julia Stiles honored her late "10 Things" costar Heath Ledger and reunited with cast members from the movie, which was filmed in the Seattle area, during "Dancing with the Stars" Tuesday.

seattletimes.comJulia Stiles honors Heath Ledger, '10 Things I Hate About You' on 'Dancing with the Stars'

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Shannon Vallor
@shannonvallor.bsky.social

“By draft 10, I could not have said where the machine's contribution stopped and mine began.”

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com

Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg

chroni.clOpinion | Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?We should judge analytical writing by its quality, not its source.

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Bluesky
@bsky.app

if you remember none pizza with left beef, it's time to start taking a daily multivitamin

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Rob Pegoraro
@robpegoraro.com

CEO Said A Thing! (h/t @karlbode.com) Look, I know stories about Elon can get serious traffic. But if you're going to do them, you have to do your readers the basic service of pointing out the guy's very long and well-documented history of saying he'll make things happen that then never happen.

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social

“After years of media coverage that repeated the industry’s favored explanation of a flu-based shock to egg production, the news that in fact human misbehavior may have been responsible went largely ignored beyond brief attention from the business press.”

Marcia Brown@marciabrown.bsky.social

Remember when egg prices were $6 a dozen? It might not have been for the reasons you thought. In a new story from me and Steve Volk for @politico.com Magazine, we recount the alleged egg price-fixing conspiracy, the settlement with DOJ and what it means for our politics.

politico.comMaybe There Was an Egg Cartel After AllFor years, economists dismissed collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed.
erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social

About the marketing for digger and the people pushing for digger and how it all feels like in 10 years will be the subject of a 4,000-word meta article about art and marketing and unseen thumbs pushing on each side and

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P(aul) Frazee
@pfrazee.com

speed racer jumped over obstacles with his car too, but he only used hydraulic skis which is admittedly less impressive than rockets but more helpful in snowy conditions

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BART
@bart.gov

When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit on Tuesday October 17, 1989, BART was put to the test like never before. Not only did service resume just a few hours after the quake, BART ran 24-hours a day, seven days a week for about a month while the bridge was out.

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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social

We should establish some sort of public institution that loans out books for free. Feels like the kind of thing Jacobin should be into.

Nute@nutedawn.bsky.social

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

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Maris Kreizman
@maris.bsky.social

You think journalism is dead and then a zillion publications send reporters to Brooklyn Heights to look at the animatronic bird. Really makes you think.

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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social

Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.

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respectful huff
@alexqarbuckle.bsky.social

Lena Dunham in HBO pitch writing GIRLS on the whiteboard, then wiping away the S so it says GIRL, then adding a dollar sign so it says GIRL$, then wiping it all away and writing ARLI$$