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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 16/09/2026

[Quebec sort of getting into the EU]

Keanu in The Matrix saying 'Not like this'

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 16/09/2026

[treats self to a read through the region-by-region breakdown] abacusdata.ca/as-carney-he...

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 09/09/2026

Four out of the nine people in this illustration aren't Americans???

Will Sharpe, Havana Rose Liu, Henry Golding, Laufey, Charles Melton, Olivia Rodrigo, Lola Tung, Alyssa Liu, Hudson Williams

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 09/09/2026

don't have standing to comment on this package beyond noting that many of the people being discussed under the "part Asian American" heading here ... are not Americans?? www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Wasian Generation: How the sudden pop-cultural dominance of part white, part Asian Americans triggered a collective identity crisis.

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 19/07/2026

One last time this #WorldCup: Kylian Mbappé, L O L datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Tr1cL/15/

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 10/07/2026

Kylian Mbappé update (lol) www.datawrapper.de/_/Tr1cL/?v=12

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 05/07/2026

World Cup can only mean one thing ... time to update the crazy chart of France's all-time male goalscorers (Kylian Mbappé: Very good and still so young!) Interactive version with tooltips + better accessibility: www.datawrapper.de/_/Tr1cL/?v=10

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 17/06/2026

Hoping that nobody will Google you, an extremely public figure, does not seem like a good strategy for visa applications! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Notably, documents filed in court showed Partey had claimed he had not been charged with any criminal charges in any country when applying to enter Canada before the tournament. Partey was previously asked by Canadian immigration officials to clarify the charges he was facing in the UK.

The midfielder also said being unable to travel to Canada would “materially affect” Ghana’s ability to play in the tournament. “This is the first time that my country has qualified at the World Cup,” he also said in the affidavit. Ghana qualified for the previous tournament in Qatar, where Partey played in three games.

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 05/01/2026

Maresca, Amorim and whom?

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 17/12/2025

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Qualtrics:

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 06/12/2025

the biggest tell (of many) that this is a scam is the supposition that Ontario would be using speed cameras to enforce the law…

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 29/09/2025

This is good on Cornered and also every choice on headline/photo here requires a meme invocation

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 29/08/2025

Decent odds of a footballer (Garnacho, in particular) doing an inadvertent “dude from the office in Too Much” look this season

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 01/08/2025

This could be a long thread of “how wasn’t this a career ender?” but I will submit this book for consideration

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 22/07/2025

Just you wait for the book report from my vacation reading

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 17/06/2025

the promotional materials for F1 (the movie) even have the registered trademark symbol in the title, something I don't remember happening with Barbie

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 06/05/2025

"admits" is underrated as a terrible headline verb, but this use is honestly delightful in its absurdity

Headline: "Ex Arsenal Veteran Admits Inter Milan Must 'Play at 200%' To Beat Barcelona"

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 02/05/2025

surely all "three friends" references are to these three

David Correos, Guy Montgomery and Laura Daniel, performing as "The Three Friends," on Taskmaster NZ

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 01/05/2025

"Leaves Max in 59 minutes"

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 25/04/2025

Honestly the most useful sentence in the last decade of pop culture writing

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 21/04/2025

interesting to revisit this part of The Waffle Manifesto (1969) in the current Canadian political moment...

The major threat to Canadian survival today is American control of the Canadian economy. The major issue of our times is not national unity but national survival, and the fundamental threat is external, not internal.

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 01/04/2025

a four-headline homepage unit ... with not a single one suggesting that enforcing laws might be a good idea?

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 30/03/2025

been thinking a lot about this passage from Shaul Magid’s book on Meir Kahane lately…

America was where Kahane made his mark, and he made quite a mark — more so, I suggest, than is usually recognized. His militancy has been largely rejected by the American Jewish establishment. Yet many of his basic precepts have been embraced among present-day American Jewry. This is an audacious claim, but I hope that after reading this book it will seem less provocative even if no less alarming. Kahane spoke of Jewish "survival" in a decade when Jewish liberals were still talking about acculturation. Kahane warned of the dangers of intermarriage long before the "intermarriage crisis" became standard fare in American Jewish circles. He was an "Israel right or wrong" advocate before AIPAC and before Israel became the civil religion of American Jewry. He decried the anti-Semitism on the left when most establishment figures were worried about anti-Semitism on the right. and he argued for a Jewish turn toward conservativism a full decade before the rise of neconservatism. Today much of mainstream American Jewry has become "survivavalist," even if we now prefer more genteel terms like "continuity."

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 25/03/2025

digitizing your archive is hard, but this delightful crop onThe Atlantic's site is still fair game for a chuckle www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Screenshot of an article from The Atlantic's June 1961 issue that has been uploaded to its website. The photo shows an airplane flying through the sky, but the text is cut off so the only part of the headline in the scanned graphic is "COCK"

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 19/03/2025

Buy some plates, my dude!

A photo of a man staring into the middle distance with the headline "Phil Jones: 'My bread and butter is on the grass. It's what I really enjoy'"

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 12/03/2025

definitely the only conclusion to be drawn from this fact pattern!

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 08/03/2025

i have been having to read through a lot of articles about the use of AI in news ... and all the responsible arguments are slightly undermined by this kind of lead image

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 05/03/2025

love to just present claims as if they're objective facts

Few in the industry would dispute the merits of the case, nor these publishers’ essential need to protect their award-worthy I.P. At the same time, their legal battles with these A.I. firms seem to underscore an even graver threat: namely, the apparent dearth of any in-house innovation to capitalize on, or future-proof their businesses for, a fast-approaching era in which A.I. is likely to fundamentally alter the ways that news is both produced and consumed. Indeed, A.I. is about to become as integrated into our economy as software or mobile technology—its infinite applications and ubiquity are such that we will likely retire the term in a few years, much the same way we no longer bother to say digital. In a world where humans will become taskmasters, media leaders need to be as focused on incorporating the technology as they are intent on regulating its large language models. Lynch isn’t wrong, but the true existential threat hasn’t even arrived yet.

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 02/03/2025

i had to go back and find this to make sure i wasn't hallucinating that this subject had been covered publicly

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 27/02/2025

Talk about laying down a marker!

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 24/02/2025

kinda think John Lanchester inadvertently called this dynamic

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 18/02/2025

Journalists say and do lots of embarrassing things, but this will always be an all-timer!

As reporters, our job is to observe, not participate, and so to that end, I don’t belong to any political party, I don’t belong to any non-journalism organization, I don’t support any candidate, I don’t give money to interest groups and I don’t vote.
I try hard not to take strong positions on public issues even in private, much to the frustration of friends and family. For me, it’s easier to stay out of the fray if I never make up my mind, even in the privacy of the kitchen or the voting booth, that one candidate is better than another, that one side is right and the other wrong.

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 17/02/2025

anyhow, if you're curious about the work of air traffic controllers, I found this book really interesting press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Cover for Diane Vaughan's "Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk" which has an illustration of an air traffic controller's screen-filled workstation

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 15/02/2025

This is a good book but dear God is it full of quotes that make you want to shake people and scream "TAXES ARE HOW YOU PAY FOR PUBLIC SERVICES" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover for Jonathan D. Cohen's "For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America"

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David Rudin @davidrudin.com · 15/02/2025

The thing about James Carville is that one never learns a new fact about him that makes him more appealing. It's all one-way traffic!

Despite the DLC’s embrace of elements of moderate conservatism, Democratic politicians in the South struggled to stave off a surging Republican Party. In Georgia, Miller faced a GOP that, for the first time in decades, had a chance of seizing the governorship. To win the 1990 election, he turned to the lottery, a tactic that had already proven effective in Kentucky. There, with the help of campaign adviser James Carville, businessman Wallace Wilkinson surged from an early deficit in the Kentucky Democratic primary to win the 1987 gubernatorial election, largely on the basis of his support for a lottery. Inspired by Wilkinson’s victory, Miller hired Carville for his 1990 campaign, hoping the lottery would prove equally effective in the Peach State.

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