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Because I am an adult and totally know how to manage my time, I made a carousel quoting some of the best fat bear write-ups. Enjoy!

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These Fat Bear Week contestant write-ups are *intense.* explore.org/meet-the-bea...

806's caring nature does have limits. On July 28, 806 attacked, killed, and partly ate bear 909's spring cub.
The cub swam across the river while her mother fished in the river mouth. This placed her near the 806 family
and sparked their curiosity. After a few minutes the cub ran from the family, perhaps due to confusion about
her own mother's location or to escape to the safety of nearby trees. This triggered 806 to chase.
806's attack on 909's cub might seem incongruous with her adoption of Biggie just a few weeks before. The
adoption is evidence of 806's devotion and her behavioral flexibility. The fatal attack illustrates her ferocity
and predatory instincts. But these behaviors are not mutually exclusive. Variations of them exist in all mother
bears. They are honed through learned experience and initiated by circumstance. 806 is neither villain nor
hero. She's a bear, one who is fully capable of expressing great ferocity at the same time she is devoted and
caring. This is her first Fat Bear Week appearance.

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How did I miss that it's FAT BEAR WEEK? weather.com/2026/09/25/s...

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This AP story makes it sound like Iran is explicitly trying to improve GOP's chances. apnews.com/article/iran...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 24/09/2026

Latest, on Tucker, a man and the media's dream. www.mediaite.com/opinion/why-...

Carlson attracts journalists because he caters to our egos. Not with compliments, but in
the way that a test that looks easy at first glance can make you feel smart. Carlson's baldly
grotesque ideology and the logical leaps in his conspiracy theories seem like trivial
challenges. Reporters are easily fooled into thinking they'll be the one to get him.
So while Carlson wears the Barbour jacket, it's legacy journalists who think they're the
hunters. They hope to get a bead on Carlson with a well-placed and meticulously
researched question. They hope to catch him in a hypocrisy trap. Some sincerely want to
capture him as a specimen, bag the beast and take him to the lab.

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Gen X? More like Gin X, amiright, folks?

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/09/2026

Latest at @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/opinion/shou...

Kimmel is open and effusive about their thirty-year friendship, forged in the "Man Show"
era when they were both indulging in their immaturity. In recent months, he has spoken
at Carolla's Walk of Fame induction and shown up for Carolla's Vegas comedy set.
Kimmel's only reference to their diverging paths has been to note, "Adam and I, as you
probably know, don't agree much when it comes to politics, but I love him dearly."
If Kimmel is as good a friend to Carolla as he insists he is, then he should stop palling
around with his increasingly unhinged buddy as though their disagreements are merely
"political" in some vague technocratic sense. I do not imagine they sit around debating
changes in maritime law or the proper marginal tax rate. Speaking warmly about Carolla
at his Walk of Fame induction and showing up at Carolla's stand up is a normal way to
support a friend under normal circumstances. But Carolla's behavior has crossed a line.
He doesn't need someone to stand by him in public, he needs someone to perform an
intervention in private

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/09/2026

It’s my birthday and I am taking this occasion to demand you send cute animal pix. A timeline and personal attitude cleanse. Here are my contributions.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/09/2026

Not to brag (or a little brag) but I called Cornyn's petty era last spring. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026

GoFundMe continues to be a lens into the modern American dystopia. From jacobin.com/2026/09/infl...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026

My new employer is fond of the maximizing excitable headlines, but this is just the bluntest possible expression of my point: Freedom of the press is vital--and you prove that by doing the work that supports democracy, not by talking about doing it.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 19/09/2026

Will go you one better with the auto-sumary.

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Was just going to say that this insight reminds me of things @marthawells.com has said about how men instinctively categorize new sources of labor as threats to justify consolidating/extending their power to "protect" the rest of us. But apparently she saw the post!

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Maybe the prompt for the story about how to find stories written by prompts should get a byline? elearningindustry.com/how-to-tell-...

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I’ve found a new hobby and it is finding articles critiquing AI written by AI. blogpros.com/claude-writt...

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Huh I clicked through to the Pew numbers and they were correct?

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And it turned out to be written by AI itself!

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So, uh, about that Dallas Express piece I recommended, largely on the basis that it was about the dangers of AI in the local news market? I read it again in light of learning more about the publication and then I got curious...

AI Generated Pangram 4.0

We believe that this entire text is AI.

100%
of this text is AI

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Hilarious, the piece is actually kind of an advertorial for the Dallas Express itself as a source of original reporting. And the facts it's marshaling about the danger the industry is in are not wrong!

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YouGov asked, "If you tell the truth, do you think most people will believe you?" And most shocking thing is results are similar across the board! Black/hispanic folks SLIGHTLY less likely feel believed-unsurprising but surprising because only slightly! d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/09/2026

Reading a good Dallas Express piece about shrinking newsrooms and AI--and how AI seems like a fix but isn't. Gasped at the numbers I already knew w/r/t the collapse of the industry. In 2026-to-2026 dollars, decline in ad revenue is from *92B* in 2005 to 9B today. dallasexpress.com/national/as-...

That support eroded as advertising and audiences moved online. Pew
Research Center's historical figures put U.S. newspaper advertising
revenue at approximately $49.4 billion in 2005, compared with an
estimated $9.8 billion in 2022. Those are nominal dollars; the decline was
already enormous without adjusting for inflation.

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Will you also the supply the remaining AirPod? Thinking creating a stereo system.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/09/2026

I was *genuinely* confused but found some context. And, while you don't have to hand it to him, making space for people forced into degrading sex acts is not the craziest answer! It is also an answer that Rs would react v differently to if a Dem FBI presented it. www.mediaite.com/media/news/k...

KENNEDY: You changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality.
If, Joe, if Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the
human, don't you think he ought to be disqualified?
PATEL: If he voluntarily did it? Sure. But if he was trafficked into it.
KENNEDY: OK. How do you involuntarily do it?
PATEL: In a lot of these cases, when human traffickers, who are some
of the worst individuals on planet Earth, they don't just traffic you for
prostitution, they traffic you for degrading acts of all kind, and they
force you into that type of conduct. And some of these individuals
would go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law
enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/09/2026

Adam Carolla on Talarico appearing on The Breakfast Club: “He's there to chug some black c*ck." If only cancelling someone was a real thing!

He ripped Talarico for going on the show to pander, saying, "He's just at The Breakfast Club, so he's there to chug some black c*ck."

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/09/2026

I know only in Texas does this seem like cause for celebration but, fuck, folks... Hinojosa's polling average is just -3.2 behind Abbott A THREE-TERM INCUMBENT WITH $100M TO SPEND.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/09/2026

CTL says all *conversations* are with real humans. Conversations are, however, saved (after being anonymized) to train their internal AI system--and have been since 2018. Again, difficult to fault this. Seems like there are consent issues, tho? www.crisistextline.org/blog/2018/03...

Al comes to rescue. This is where 65 million messages comes in handy!
Our machine learning layer identifies 86% of people at severe imminent
risk for suicide in their first conversations. The model, an ensemble of
deep neural networks, learned to predict risk of suicide from all
conversations tagged with "Suicide" by Crisis Counselors in a survey
taken post-conversations. The interplay of model predictions and real-
time feedback loop from Crisis Counselors is instrumental in retraining
the model. We're now positioned to service 94% of high-risk texters in
under 5 minutes.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/09/2026

CTL did keep an ownership stake in Loris, which was acquired last year by Contentsquare for $22M. That company promotes Loris as helping to "evaluate agent empathy and adherence to scripts" and "detect customer frustration for immediate intervention." app.dealroom.co/news/feed/co...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 06/09/2026

Hey, the NYT notes, there have been similar moral panics before but THERE WAS NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE THAT ANY CHILD HAD BEEN LED TO SUCH LENGTHS, *BUT THE PANIC AROUND THE PHENOMENON WAS WAS REAL.* Panic is real, better cover it!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 06/09/2026

I take it back. The youngs are TRYING to get one over on us and then getting fucking arrested for *sharing* a post about a possible Cat in the Hat attack. A Dr. Seuss moral panic!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 05/09/2026

Seconding with my experience, in which I was told the 'typical age of marriage' in the Iberian Peninsula in 803 BCE was 24, even though the life expectancy was 27, and the average number of children 6.5. Interesting trick here is that everything is given a citation--it's just meaningless!

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I posted something to that effect during 2024 and got so much blowback, but as time goes by…

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Great details Ben Terris’s piece on Trump’s construction obsession. Rubio on the bananas things Trump puts visitors thruough: “he’s going to show them designs for the ballroom, he’s going to take them back to the gift room to, **he’s going to spray them with the cologne that he has** (!?)”

And yet even Trump's most loyal lieutenants will admit it can be something of a time suck.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told me late last year that when a meeting with a foreign leader is scheduled to end at 2 p.m., he assumes the timing is aspirational. "It's going to last until four," Rubio said. "Because he's going to want to show them the Walk of Presidential Fame, then he's going to want to show them the Cabinet, he's going to want to show them designs for the ballroom, he's going to take them back to the gift room to have them take whatever they want, hes going to spray them with the cologne that he has. He's going to invest four-to-five hours in that." Put another way, "it doesn't keep him from doing the things he needs to do," a former administration official tells me. "It's just instead of a 30-minute conversation, it's an hour-and-a-half conversation."

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WSJ has internal docs showing John Fetterman has “little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships with conservative media figures and advocating for Israel.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.

Fetterman
Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
Fetterman
Well I'm not
L.]
I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC

One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman's staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He'd told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn't feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn't want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the
war in Iran.

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By this measure, you could say the Trump administration is “paying” Maggie Haberman, since having access to him “put her in a position” to write a best-selling book.

The mayor's office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes, and viewers watch longer.

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For context, Abbott polling average advantage right now is 3.4 points; O'Rourke (by average) never got closer than 5, and that was at the *start* of the race.

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Also in this poll: “which college fan base is the most obnoxious?” Happy to report TCU is bottom of the list. Most offensive is near tie, A&M over UT by 2. The breakout by party is funny if unsurprising; UT maps to Dem, A&M to Rep. @sickoscommittee.org @edsbs.bsky.social @joelanderson.bsky.social

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Indeed—and this should be much bigger news!—Hinojsa is behind Abbott by a single point: 46.9-45.8 Abbott has been out-raising Hinojosa 4:1, and is running as a three-term incumbent.

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Interesting finding in latest TX senate poll: In a hypothetical match-up against Cornyn, it’s also Talarico by a hair/statistical tie: 43.6-42.7. That Cornyn doesn’t poll much better than Paxton should terrify the GOP. The problem isn’t just Paxton. www.texaspolicy.com/wp-content/u...

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