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Matt Boggie

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Tech and Product @ Philadelphia Inquirer. Hockey fan, trivia buff, pinball nerd, lapsed pizza chef.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14h
New Philly monster just dropped share.inquirer.com/Wrd1yT
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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots
"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 01/10/2026
The number of times I’ve talked someone out of a terrible idea by simply asking “and after you do that, what will they do” is astronomical
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 01/10/2026
Two words: Progressive polycule
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
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MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JOIN JEFF
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 29/09/2026
"Had the parents known sooner, 'they would have helped the child get the counseling she needed to be comfortable with her natal sex'" That's why he didn't tell them. I'll never understand how a parent can hate their kids like this. Gift: share.inquirer.com/MfpRJ8
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The Pennsbury School District hid a student’s gender identity from parents, a Christian legal group alleges
The complaint filed by Liberty Counsel with the U.S. Department of Education comes as President Donald Trump's administration has escalated pressure on schools over transgender student policies.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news from Peter Dobrin and Sue Snyder and the @inquirer.com : William Penn Foundation offers to fund Academy of Natural Science for a year. Drexel did not say whether the had declined the offer. www.inquirer.com/arts/drexel-...
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 25/09/2026
I was interviewing for a very senior technical role at a prominent publication (not current employer, to be clear) and was asked a whole flashlight/bridge logic puzzle. I don’t think the interviewer explained it well tbf - my first question was “how strong is the flashlight” and he didn’t like that
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 25/09/2026
To this day I use “Kumbaya!” as an expletive
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 22/09/2026
The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis. In Philadelphia, workers can find more help than ever, but layoffs, long hours, injury, and instability still push many toward the brink.
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The people building Philadelphia are breaking down
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“With the emergence of AI, tech companies decided they could stop directing traffic to news sites and supplant them altogether by stealing and regurgitating their journalism.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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AI Can’t Hold City Hall Accountable
If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 22/09/2026
See also: maps.app.goo.gl/7uXX2CvjGMyW...
Brass plaque on a light brown wooden bench reads “I’ve always wanted a bench.” -Steve Flack
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 20/09/2026
On the top one though, I’m unsure if they need Canopies or Canapés. Probably both for a block party.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 20/09/2026
Jealous - have fun! And treat yourself to an SE II, you deserve nice things
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is made of irreplaceable marble gifted by Italy. Matisse tapestries found throughout were gifted by France. The massive starburst chandelier in the opera hall and the lights along the walkways were gifts from Sweden. The record-breaking stage curtains were a gift from Japan.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 16/09/2026
See also bsky.app/profile/very...
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 16/09/2026
~Thirty launches per day, every day, without fail seems like a very tall order
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 14/09/2026
I’m fascinated by the mechanics of the table shufflers
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026
You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...
What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 09/09/2026
I drove into Philly today and passed Wawas showing $4.29, which I thought was high. It was up to $4.45 by the time I drove home.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says: The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.'" -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w...
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Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says
The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.”
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 06/09/2026
One of my most prized possessions
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026
Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. The New York Times tracked the activity and found evidence of patrol roads and vehicle barriers already being built. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/46JAhUc
An image of a road along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. A white square box is on the image with the word "excavator" above it.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 04/09/2026
Critics aren’t raising questions. Critics are pointing to the letter of the law, which clearly states that US currency cannot feature living people. Say that.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 02/09/2026
It was the 70s; everything was sexy and vaguely threatening
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys theonion.com/jets-hope-to-sell-more…
Jets Hope To Sell More Merchandise With New ‘Philadelphia Eagles’–Themed Jerseys
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 01/09/2026
Ernie Tetrault was the anchor on our local tv upstate (WRGB) since before I was born, held the same job for 40 years, and got featured in Sneakers as a result of being so beloved. www.adweek.com/tvspy/ernie-...
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Ernie Tetrault, Anchor for More Than 40 Years, Dies at 94
He started as a page at the New York station WRGB in 1951.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In these discussions there's so, so much riding on This Time Being Different. And I'd like to be able to think/talk a little more clearly today about how we live in a world where everyone's individual iPhone can manage more arithmetic throughput than the combined brains of the entire world
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 25/08/2026
The deaths occurred in Lancaster County, the center of a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year, state officials said. Both people were unvaccinated.
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Pennsylvania reports two measles deaths in Lancaster County, state’s first in three decades
The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 23/08/2026
We’ll miss you at the convening in Philly this week - have a great trip!
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 21/08/2026
Just catching up but did this and the food truck thing happen simultaneously?
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 20/08/2026
Having a Treasury Secretary get on the news and basically say "eh, growth isn't so important" is unexpected
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 19/08/2026
They could sell the house and use the proceeds to visit for a long weekend once a month, staying in a $1000/night hotel, for over 40 years. (Just lodging, since they seem to have the travel part covered already.)
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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
DEI - good for people and good for business
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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 08/08/2026
this is blatantly racist
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Matt Boggie @mattboggie.com · 02/08/2026
Puzzmo.com has several good options
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Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 31/07/2026
"Is this process annoying? Maybe. But if asking the owner of a $5 million property to submit some forms over the internet is 'harassment,' how should we describe the process of obtaining SNAP benefits, or unemployment checks, or health insurance on the exchange?" hellgatenyc.com/second-home-...
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