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Caleb Crain

@calebcrain.bsky.social
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Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at calebcrain.substack.com & steamthing.com. New short story! www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/…

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 8h
I’m sorry, this is infantile of me, but it looks like they’re going to be seated around a large poop.
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 15h
Jack Smith for attorney general 🏀
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h
The bond yield story just keeps getting starker.
Line chart titled "10-Year Treasury Note" showing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note from late 2025 through September 2026. Treasury yields surged dramatically to 5.29 percent on September 29, 2026, the highest level in the period shown. This represents a sharp 130 basis point increase from the October 2025 low of 3.96 percent and a particularly rapid 45 basis point climb over just the final month. After trading mostly between 4.00 and 4.75 percent for nearly a year, yields broke decisively above 5.00 percent in September 2026, signaling a fundamental shift in borrowing costs and market conditions.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h
oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19h
Dada perfection
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need this as an emoji
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People say our best days are behind us, but I say America is at the beginning of a new golden age.
Liquid Death/Mr Beast peanut butter cup-flavored seltzer collab
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Loquacious Scribble, PhD @loquaciousscribble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There can be only one
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Nicholas Brothers .. The greatest dance sequence
YouTube video by docludi2
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chimney swifts are roosting in the decommissioned chimney of a former courthouse in Sunset Park, which now houses an NYPD human resources department.
ryangoldberg1.substack.com
Swifts
Searching for the right chimney
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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me, an Eggleston stan, looking at The Row website for the first time 😮 💸
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
wishing a good evening to whoever drives the car I just spotted with the Catullus 85 vanity plate
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack...
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Hey you heard about this story coming out of Massachusetts? Apparently this group of self-selected individuals, who largely feel out of place in a world of great sorrow and despair - like, they're in this world, but not of it - formed a very intentional community as an example to the rest of the world, like a beacon that shines on a hill. And now they're tearing each other apart over seemingly inscrutable moral infractions! All this, in Massachusetts! Can you believe it?
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Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unfortunately, the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day Book Market on September 26th and Festival Day Literary Marketplace on September 27th are cancelled.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR: ET 2 BRUTE JULIUS 3SAR
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am so looking forward to the op-ed that will run in the NYT a few days after it happens, scolding everyone for relishing it so much and so publicly.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
can u even imagine how angry trump would be watching this lol
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Historically the American people do not like to be told to rise above their venal concern for the price of gas.
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was thinking the other day that for the most part, we live in the world the Abolitionists strove for, which at the time not even they probably thought was really possible. More change is possible than seems possible, in other words.
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists" Amos Adams Lawrence, June 1st, 1854, Boston.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, but this pin is amazing and I desperately want one. Or maybe 10. To hand out to people.
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Out today is Laura Kolbe's 'The Decadent Movement,' a poetry cycle about pregnancy, birth and motherhood organized in reverse chronology. It's beautiful, intimate and destabilizing, somehow strange and familiar all at once. I strongly recommend it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From a note to a friend a couple of weeks ago "imo the reason text elemental is so good is because it captures the notion of something that is animate, but not conscious so much as an expression of the fundamental nature of the substance of which it is composed."
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hope that someday I write a book worthy of the praise provided by the AI-written spam emails that offer to advertise them for a fee.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
if AI is so sci-fi universe-altering why the fuck is *The King of England* involved. Kings of England are very 18th century
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One problem I am having is with the idea that cheating and making mistakes represent a divergence “from human intentions and values.”
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Don't want to come off as some delicate flower but I'm just not sure I was designed to learn about so many different variations of human depravity all at once
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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don't wanna make you feel old but The War of the Roses ended 539 years ago
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Joe O’Neill in critical fine form, reviewing “Profiles In Cowardice.” Added bonus: the perfect use of “poltroon,” a word for our times.
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Book Review: ‘Profiles in Cowardice,’ by Jacob Weisberg (Gift Article)
In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.
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Mark 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦 @miestro78.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat Kiss
ALT: Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat Kiss
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things are getting really weird at the FBI
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You’ll never guess which social media site this review is getting the least traction on
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
oh we should regulate the supplement industry out of existence. we’d knock out half of right wing podcasts in the process. bsky.app/profile/hamm...
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My pescatarianism just got reinvigorated.
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Someone at Penn was, like, ‘I don’t believe we ever had a collection like the Mütter’s.’ ” (They did.) “I think they’ve been memory-holed.” This example of the verb “to memory-hole,” meaning to relegate to oblivion, appeared last year in @newyorker.com. Did you know it comes from Orwell’s 1984?
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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'She is the patron saint of reading, writing, feeling and thinking about literary art.' Andy Miller reviews Hermione Lee's new biography of Anita Brookner for @thespectator1828.bsky.social. spectator.com/article/few-...
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Few writers have covered their tracks as successfully as Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner, at 80, knew that, were any biographer to delve too deeply into her private affairs, her literature would be ruined. The work was one thing, matters of the heart quite another. In both ...
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
10% seems kinda high.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is how, as a scientist, you write an elegant letter to a literary journal
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#SteveBuscemi #heroes #September11 #NeverForget
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Matt G. Metcalf @mattmetcalf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to the resistance, gym bros.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
God, flipping through a short "new available titles" antiquarian bookseller's catalogue makes me want to live in a time more like that. I don't want every book at my fingertips, I want to discover them one by one based on the arcane postal ministrations of someone who may not be totally trustworthy.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026
I am constantly disappointed in myself because a robot hasnt come back to kill me
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