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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 4h
I’ll miss this guy the most of all when I quite SkyDanceMax.
John Oliver as a pimply teenager.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 8h
Best people in any town www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Frances’ Dad Buys Him Pee-wee’s Bike www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Cleared for Take Off: Paramount’s $111 Billion Warner Bros. Buy Greenlit By Judge
The deal creating Hollywood's next entertainment and media colossus is expected to close on Oct. 6.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Has anyone made the Pete Hegseth/Steve Balmer supercut yet?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He may be 83, but no one knows ‘youth’ more intimately than Larry Clark: www.wmagazine.com/wyouth/perso...
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Dominic Fike, Francesca Scorsese, & More on Looking for Love & Friendship
From Dominic Fike and Francesca Scorsese to Geese’s Max Bassin and Lucas Hedges, Larry Clark photographs some familiar faces seeking connection.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crazy that it took four screenwriters to write ‘Digger’ when Kurt Vonnegut basically wrote the same thing in 13 words back in 2006.
Hand written note that readers Dear Future Generations: Please Accept Our Apologies. We Were Roaring Drunk on Petroleum. Love, 2006 A.D.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How about The Titanic. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
What Will David Ellison Name His Mega Hollywood Studio?
It can't be Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery. So that leaves a few options...
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Related: Why Do We? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/i...
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Why 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.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s
Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sky Fall is the new Fail Whale
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can one of those service-y websites do a story about ‘How Tim Heidecker Gets It All Done’? When does this guy sleep?
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 28/09/2026
The 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...
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Excerpt: ‘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.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can scarcely think of another magazine I look forward to as much as @thefence.bsky.social.
Cover of The Fence issue 29
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Automatic Merritt Wever retweet.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wanna feel old? William Holden’s character in ‘Network’ (1976) was 51 years old.
William Holden as Max Schumacher in ‘Network’
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/g...
SF Standard headline No grades, no tests, no degree: Andreessen Horowitz launching SF academy for ‘builders’
The venture capital firm is starting a for-profit alternative to traditional college in San Francisco.Simpsons screenshot Ayn Rand School for Tots
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 22/09/2026
Max 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
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine having this guy’s job for the reason this guy has it and writing this: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | The National Book Awards Are No Longer National
The National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kurt Cobain
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When did GenXers become Boomers?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Los 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...
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Kathleen Henderson: Clappers — Track 16 Gallery
Through allegory and satire, Kathleen Henderson presents a suite of drawings that confronts the intersecting realities of contemporary American life.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Al Ross cartoon from @newyorker.com circa 1964 (left); Barry Blitt cover of The New Yorker, September 28, 2026 (right).
A 1964 New Yorker cartoon by Al Ross showing a giant mainframe computer being attacked by a mob with pitchforks and rocks.A 2026 New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt showing someone frantically pulling the plug on a server.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TIME (September 15, 1961)
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Marc 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.”
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes the Times feels like The New York Observer alumni magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/s...
nytimes.com
How 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.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Black and white photo of Tom Cruise nearly shirtless against a stark white background on the cover of GQBlack and white photo of Eli Cash shirtless against a stark white background on the cover The Sunday Magazine Section from The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At a tiny, cash-only diner in rural part of New York
Sign says “we do not have wi fi. Talk to each other”
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you’re at Dreamforce today, look for my colleague Cydney Hayes.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday, @slate.com. You looked good then, but the years look good on you now: slate.com/30th
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Welcome to Slate‘s 30th Anniversary Celebration
Take a trip back in time to commemorate our 30 years on the internet.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: A reason to run five pictures of Sydney Sweeney
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The 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.com
We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.
Guess whose side he's on.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘eXistenZ’ (1999), dir. David Cronenberg
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really loved talking with @sf.gazetteer.co about WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING!!!
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy 50th @motherjones.com! You’re still kicking ass.
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no great matter @itsabigail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am Shiva, the god of death. #michaelclayton #baguettes
A drawing of Tom Wilkinson as Arthur in Michael Clayton, holding all those dang baguettes
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On days like this, I think of this poster I spotted in 2014.
Poster of Al Gore saying "If you don't believe in climate change, just look at San Francisco, only a few years ago this city was still cool."
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m just excited to repeatedly accidentally snap screenshots of a *double screen* from now on.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
YES!
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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The kids are yearning for pre-internet times.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/s...
Cover of W Youth featuring Justin and Hailey Bieber kissingCover of SPIN Magazine April 1993 with Evan Dando and Adrienne Shelly kissing
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“All right, Mr. Fielder, I’m ready for my close-up.”
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A story so nutrient rich, it’s helping other stories to bloom.
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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.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here’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...
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Into the Garryverse
Y 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
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Grant 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!
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A piece I've been reporting for more than twenty years, I guess: www.thecut.com/article/glor...
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Gloria Steinem Loved Women
The feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come say hi and get a paper!
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy @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.)
Desk littered with copies of Gazetteer SF and a copy of Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine.
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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...
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In Defense of Murray Hill
Life in a neighborhood that’s become a punch line.
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