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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4h
Unionized journalists and product engineers at The Inquirer secured a new contract that includes AI protections, raises, and changes to healthcare coverage.
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This @jkjenkinney.bsky.social story is so cleverly—perhaps even p-e-r-s-p-i-c-a-c-i-o-u-s-l-y—written it makes me jealous!
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Adult Spelling Bees Are Officially a Thing
Philadelphians are gathering in bars to confront middle-school trauma, flex their vocabularies, and experience the thrill of being told they’ve done a good job.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
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Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Turns out my entire career was prepping to do the legal work for this project and I’m not mad about it. www.wired.com/story/you-ca...
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You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos.
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New: a person opposing a data center was arrested for clapping at a city meeting Read more here: www.404media.co/person-oppos...
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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
While yall are yelling “go Christopher Nolan” or “go Emily Wilson” I’m yelling “go London review of books and the profitability of art criticism outlets”
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 27/07/2026
@lrb.co.uk cutting a reference to waterice — the real scandal of this review.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/07/2026
alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.
AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
on top of everything else that’s gross about this article, trying to “optimize” dating this way is sad as fuck www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
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This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are.
People in tech use AI apps to record and transcribe meetings, workplace chats and even dates—all in the name of productivity.
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 17/07/2026
Notably, the Westones are a racially diverse band. Each AI-generated person in Meta’s ad suggestions — again, with the implication that the image would “perform” better and lead to more conversions — appeared to be white. www.coyotemedia.org/meta-ai-has-...
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Meta AI Has Some Super Normal Ideas for Improving Your Band Photos
Sure, Facebook will promote your upcoming show. But have you considered using a random AI-generated white lady instead of your band?
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This story's nuts, and probably my favorite piece that we've run this year in @phillymag.com.
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AI Bots Stole My Music
One West Philly musician’s surreal, unsettling journey into the world of fake artists, bot listeners, and the streaming industry that’s failing creators.
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
baseball fans we have a great event for you at the pen and pencil this sunday - a talk about the history of philly baseball, with artifacts from the philly sports hall of fame, from Mike Schmidt's jersey to Dick Allen's bat to 1929 World Series tickets www.penandpencil.org/content.aspx...
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A History of Philly Baseball - Events - The Pen and Pencil Club
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Send us your plan documents! www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Have a 401(k)? Help ProPublica Investigate What’s Really Happening to Your Money.
Some retirement plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons. Help ProPublica investigate the financial products companies are pushing and what they’re charging workers.
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Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 09/07/2026
Pokémon Go turned 10 years old this week, so there's no better excuse to post this interview where we introduced the app to Werner Herzog. www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12...
a photo of werner herzog interview with werner herzog transcript:

Verge: You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world.

Herzog: When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?

Verge: They do fight, virtually.

Herzog: Physically, do they fight?

Verge: No—

Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

Verge: The people or the...

Herzog: Yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.
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FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
finally had a chance to read this and it was a delight. now considering buying The Hat.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is coming for all of us, not everybody but randomly enough to be caustic for everyone of us. (Disclosure: David is my friend.) wapo.st/4vg9nx4
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He wrote a scathing message to ICE. Federal agents showed up at his door.
David Streever of Rochester, New York, sued Department of Homeland Security officials on Monday, saying the agency’s actions violated his First Amendment rights.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This story is so, so, so much better than it even needs to be. A glorious look at the booming, quasi-religious business of DRONE SHOWS -- just in time for America's 250th birthday.
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show
Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/06/2026
okay so on the one hand, the little cheery motivational quote sewn into the Palantir chore coat is predictably evil. on the other hand, it looks like it would itch constantly and also graphic design is their passion
A label sewn into bright blue denim.

The label says, "Ask yourself constantly, 'Am I winning?' If the answer is Yes, Nothing Else Matters--Chaos is Tolerable; Pain is Tolerable. The only thing that Matters is to Win." Shyam Sankar

The lines are broken up, with large gaps between words. It's printed on a sewn-in label that looks like it would be very itchy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/06/2026
Amazon Prime Day is my favorite holiday! The entire U.S. press becomes glorified blogspam for a single retailer owned by one of the planet's richest men for no coherent reason, with nobody in any position of editorial power thinking it's at all gross or unethical
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/06/2026
In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators. ‘Is this just free money?’
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
the most brutal obit headline I've ever seen heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...
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Lee Raymond, 311 ppm – 421 ppm
The former ExxonMobil CEO left his legacy both on the Earth and in the sky.
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
once again, the police are defunding you www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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Carpet cleaning, cash, and bar tabs: FOP bills taxpayers for questionable funeral expenses
An Inquirer investigation found that the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 has billed the city for an array of expenses that are far outside the scope of funeral home and cemetery costs.
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
a year after i wrote about the baltimore ave bin store for @defector.com, i can report that a cafe (!) is opening in that space (!!) but it is NOT (!!!) owned by bin store owner ahmed. RIP, bin store for life. defector.com/seven-days-a...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
so stoked to be talking about my book with the great @kimkelly.bsky.social at the Pen & Pencil Club in Philly on Tuesday! Come through! www.penandpencil.org/content.aspx...
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DeWayne's Husband @dewayneskareem.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
MN Ice Abduction Memorials, Mapped sites.google.com/umn.edu/here...
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Google Site
Here & Gone is a public archive of art and signs that memorialize where ICE abducted neighbors
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Book about how engagement metrics and the Internet killed journalism titled “Tragedy of the Comments”
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
horrified by that mass shooting story? Forbes would love you to predict what comes next
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Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children over the weekend containing a box that asked readers to predict whether ...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Gauze was supposed to be abundant. But seven foreign doctors and aid workers who volunteered in Gaza, including four who were there after the ceasefire was meant to have taken effect, described a perverse situation in which Israel permits doctors into Gaza but not medical equipment, prompting several to smuggle vital implements of care into their personal belongings. And the reality since October is that Gaza’s remaining doctors must deal with both an influx of patients needing routine treatment and a continuing, if reduced, pace of casualties from the IDF, and do it all without crucial supplies. Doctors told WIRED the public-health crisis they witnessed looked to them more like a new phase of the genocide than its aftermath. During this phase, the Israelis no longer need to open fire to kill Palestinians, though they still do that, too.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
turns out delivery robots are kind of like birds in that they run into windows sometimes www.404media.co/delivery-rob...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/03/2026
"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
my first piece for the Inquirer was a welcome respite from The Dark Times. read about the iconic Barb and then come to the Bearded Ladies’ Bling-Along tonight to take home some of her jewelry
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/02/2026
Bitch has received your signed W-9 and will forward to Kelly Bitch expects you’ll receive payment by the end of the week Bitch knows it has been three weeks and wants to thank you for just checking in on this
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Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” Expanded for Freelancers
Bitch better have my money Bitch doesn’t see you in our invoice system Bitch is wondering if you ever sent in a W-9? Bitch isn’t seeing it Bitch is...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It’s entirely legal to record LE officers from your car. So they’re brazenly, illegally terrorizing this woman for exercising her constitutional rights. Yet we know that none of these officers be held accountable. We know this administration encourages this behavior. This is police state stuff.
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Dylan Tusinski @dylantus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.
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Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else
The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.
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Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
i'm sorry but palantir has been blanketing cities with ads talking about the decline of western civilization and dominating on the battlefield. surely their employees can't be shocked.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
the Defector homepage is devoted to Dan and some of his greatest hits. one of the most curious, funniest, and idiosyncratic writers to ever do it. will salute him every time I pass a New Jersey rest stop. defector.com
a screenshot of the Defector homepage, which features Dan McQuade's obituary, as well as stories he wrote: "The Myth Of Cops Overdosing From Touching Fentanyl Persists For A Reason" and "Which U.S. Presidents Could Parallel Park? An Investigation" and "The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop Is Playing Fast And Loose With Famous Quotes" and "One Last Trip To Philadelphia’s Department Store Of Dreams"
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
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