Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 4hI’ll miss this guy the most of all when I quite SkyDanceMax. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 8hBest people in any town www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comLibrarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library TodayWe asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us. 010
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BREAKING: Frances’ Dad Buys Him Pee-wee’s Bike www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...hollywoodreporter.comCleared for Take Off: Paramount’s $111 Billion Warner Bros. Buy Greenlit By JudgeThe deal creating Hollywood's next entertainment and media colossus is expected to close on Oct. 6. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Has anyone made the Pete Hegseth/Steve Balmer supercut yet? 010
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He may be 83, but no one knows ‘youth’ more intimately than Larry Clark: www.wmagazine.com/wyouth/perso...wmagazine.comDominic Fike, Francesca Scorsese, & More on Looking for Love & FriendshipFrom Dominic Fike and Francesca Scorsese to Geese’s Max Bassin and Lucas Hedges, Larry Clark photographs some familiar faces seeking connection. 000
Reposted by Matt HaberSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop: 741888
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Crazy that it took four screenwriters to write ‘Digger’ when Kurt Vonnegut basically wrote the same thing in 13 words back in 2006. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How about The Titanic. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...hollywoodreporter.comWhat Will David Ellison Name His Mega Hollywood Studio?It can't be Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery. So that leaves a few options... 010
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Related: Why Do We? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/i...nytimes.comWhy Does The Times Care About Mark Zuckerberg’s Style?For our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, the Meta chief executive’s choice of clothes reveal, perhaps inadvertently, pieces of his psyche. 000
Reposted by Matt HaberGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s 161543222
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can one of those service-y websites do a story about ‘How Tim Heidecker Gets It All Done’? When does this guy sleep? 000
Reposted by Matt HaberCOYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 28/09/2026The latest fiction from @annaleen.bsky.social is a subversive adventure tale told from the perspective of a single-cell alien creature. Read an excerpt here, then go see them (Annalee, not the slime mold) read in SF Oct. 6. www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...coyotemedia.orgExcerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba. 0168
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can scarcely think of another magazine I look forward to as much as @thefence.bsky.social. 021
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wanna feel old? William Holden’s character in ‘Network’ (1976) was 51 years old. 010
Reposted by Matt HaberGazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 22/09/2026Max the Cat, enjoying this quarter’s print issue of Gazetteer. Yes, Max is very advanced for a cat. In fact, he sent us this photo himself 041
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Imagine having this guy’s job for the reason this guy has it and writing this: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The National Book Awards Are No Longer NationalThe National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Los Angeles friends! My Creative Growth Magazine co-editor (and dear friend) Kathleen Henderson has a show called Clappers opening this Saturday, Sept 26, at @track16.bsky.social from 6pm–9pm: www.track16.com/kathleen-hen...track16.comKathleen Henderson: Clappers — Track 16 GalleryThrough allegory and satire, Kathleen Henderson presents a suite of drawings that confronts the intersecting realities of contemporary American life. 022
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Al Ross cartoon from @newyorker.com circa 1964 (left); Barry Blitt cover of The New Yorker, September 28, 2026 (right). 011
Reposted by Matt HaberDr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026TIME (September 15, 1961) 082
Reposted by Matt HaberCydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Marc Benioff in the press room at Dreamforce, saying a whole lot of nothing about AI regulation: “We’re in a very fluid moment in AI… If companies feel they should slow down, they should slow down. If they feel they should speed up, they should speed up.” 011
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sometimes the Times feels like The New York Observer alumni magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/s...nytimes.comHow Much Steve Kornacki Is Too Much Steve Kornacki?For the midterms, NBC News hopes to turn its khaki-wearing data analyst into a livestreaming star. 000
Reposted by Matt HaberKashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026At a tiny, cash-only diner in rural part of New York 2696
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you’re at Dreamforce today, look for my colleague Cydney Hayes. 010
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy birthday, @slate.com. You looked good then, but the years look good on you now: slate.com/30thslate.comWelcome to Slate‘s 30th Anniversary CelebrationTake a trip back in time to commemorate our 30 years on the internet. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026BREAKING: A reason to run five pictures of Sydney Sweeney 000
Reposted by Matt HaberMonika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The original sin of today's AI models is how they were created—by feeding them everyone's content, with utter disregard for the people that made it. Time to stand up for humans. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comWe’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.Guess whose side he's on. 14316
Reposted by Matt HaberAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Really loved talking with @sf.gazetteer.co about WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING!!! 34612
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Happy 50th @motherjones.com! You’re still kicking ass. 002
Reposted by Matt Haberno great matter @itsabigail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am Shiva, the god of death. #michaelclayton #baguettes 1132332
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026On days like this, I think of this poster I spotted in 2014. 010
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m just excited to repeatedly accidentally snap screenshots of a *double screen* from now on. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“The kids are yearning for pre-internet times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/s... 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“All right, Mr. Fielder, I’m ready for my close-up.” 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A story so nutrient rich, it’s helping other stories to bloom. 001
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Mr. Bilton also has something new planned for the end of the show, launching later this season, though he won’t say what.” Louis CK, obviously: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...nytimes.com‘60 Minutes’ Prepares for a High-Pressure Premiere After Its Turbulent Shake-Up (Gift Article)Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, has begun to put his stamp on the show. Up first: an exclusive interview with an officer who was aboard the F-15 fighter shot down over Iran. 000
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Here’s a gift link for @eddiekimx.bsky.social’s close reading of Y Combinator’s Garry Tan and the web he’s spun connecting politics, tech, and civic life in SF. Who is this guy and what is he trying to do? Excelsior! sf.gazetteer.co/into-the-gar...sf.gazetteer.coInto the GarryverseY Combinator president Garry Tan has spent years (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) spinning a web connecting tech, politics, and money, placing himself at the center 000
Reposted by Matt HaberGrant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026👋 HI! HELLO! Two weeks from today (9/18), @sfgate.com is building a temporary pop-up newsroom in Golden Gate Park on JFK Promenade (at 8th). Only 23% of Americans have spoken to a journalist, we want to change that, so we're bringing a our staff there to talk to you in person, 11am-6pm. Join us! 1177
Reposted by Matt HaberRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A piece I've been reporting for more than twenty years, I guess: www.thecut.com/article/glor...thecut.comGloria Steinem Loved WomenThe feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement. 1028771
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Happy @sf.gazetteer.co Issue 4 day to all who celebrate it! Copies are being distributed now; get yours at our newsstand on Market and First until 3 p.m. today. (Pair it with @colsonwhitehead.com’s ’Cool Machine’ as I do. One day we’ll get to the bottom of his all too brief SF tenure.) 001
Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“[S]ome of these couples marry, and some of them move to a ‘real’ New York neighborhood... Others, like salmon, return upstream via Metro-North or the Long Island Rail Road to the suburban headwaters in which they were born, in order to spawn.” @heybonanos.bsky.social www.curbed.com/article/murr...curbed.comIn Defense of Murray HillLife in a neighborhood that’s become a punch line. 010