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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 23h
I know just the guy to call
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Sperm whale sinks yacht 

52-foot yacht gets slammed in terrifying South Pacific encounter
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Frank Strada was hired in Tennessee after a string of troubling execution failures in Arizona; Pike’s was the second botched execution he oversaw in Tennessee this year tennesseelookout.com/2026/10/03/a... @tennesseelookout.com
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After botched execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee Corrections chief steps down • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee Department of Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada will step down, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday — three days after a botched execution attempt left Christa Pike on a ventilator in criti...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 03/10/2026
Eden Prairie High School's homecoming football game was evacuated Friday night
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Eden Prairie High School football game evacuated on Friday night
Check back for updates.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Records show that the district attorney’s office declined to review additional evidence offered by Cornell police in 2024.
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: A recently unsealed court filing that heavily cites government-produced documents + DHS agent depositions alleges that yes, there *is* a DHS database that's filled with protesters, called ICM. It's built by Palantir. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is one of the most astonishing reports I have read about a newsroom's bad management (h/t @jeongpark.bsky.social): www.investigatewest.org/rob-curley-s...
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How Rob Curley lost the Spokesman-Review newsroom
Newsroom staffers tell InvestigateWest and RANGE that concerns about Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While we're at it, we really need a movie about the teenage Dutch girls who lured Nazi soldiers into the woods and killed them
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Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She was only 14 when she joined her sister and a law student as an all-female underground trio of saboteurs and assassins in German-occupied Holland.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had to look up Pauline Kael’s review of “Up in Smoke.” It’s surprising positive! www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
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Furry Freaks
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Relatable
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think people really appreciate the gravity of what is happening in the news industry. If you value getting reliable information from the news orgs you depend on, you need to support them with your dollars or they could disappear. This isn't hyperbole. It's happening right now in real time.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me say a couple words about paywalls. They’re annoying. I feel that (as a news consumer) and know that (as a news publisher). But asking for your email, either to read an article or even to access a gift link (someone said this happened to them a a Times gift link a moment ago) isn’t some …
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.
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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here is @tennesseelookout.com's report: tennesseelookout.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Death row inmate Pike's execution halted after nearly two hours • Tennessee Lookout
A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen in a long time
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The seven teenagers packed in a newly stolen car that crashed early Tuesday, killing three of the car’s passengers, were coming from a fight elsewhere in the city that resulted in gunfire, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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Police: Teens in deadly Minneapolis crash had just left gunfire scene
The identities have been released of two of the three teens killed in the crash. Four others were injured.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LMAO
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
During a homicide arrest, police in Portland shot and killed their own K9 dog, Kylo, who was on his last shift before his scheduled retirement. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
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Police accidentally shot Portland K-9 Kylo during attempted arrest of homicide suspect, police say
Police also identified the suspect killed.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't have many rules in life but a big one is if the tamale lady comes by you buy some tamales
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please reverse engineer the City Bakery (RIP) chocolate chip cookie recipe
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the funniest thing to happen in the Senate in a long time
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible content in this thread
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Carson Hartzog @carzharts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wrote a thing about a really neat business in St. Paul — Present Company — and the rise of analog hobbies. Gift link: www.startribune.com/dumb-tech-an...
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In the age of AI, analog is having a renaissance
People are turning to simpler phones, physical media and tactile hobbies as technology becomes more powerful and pervasive.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday morning listening
Grateful Dead - Europe ‘72
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SCOOP: FBI removes two veteran counterterrorism leaders over frustrations from Stephen & Katie Miller that they hadn't made progress in probing allegedly threatening phone calls Katie received news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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FBI Ousts Officials Probing Threats to Stephen Miller’s Family
FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/09/2026
A federal judge has ruled the end of Operation Metro Surge means residents and journalists who alleged immigration officials violated their constitutional rights cannot sue to restrict agents’ future tactics.
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Lawsuit alleging ICE violated Minnesota observers’ rights is dismissed by judge
A federal judge ruled the end of Operation Metro Surge and the drawdown of agents means plaintiffs lack standing to sue.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Debit card still works at least
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Welp I just ran my whole wallet through the washer and dryer
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026
Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/09/2026
Northeast Minnesota tribes are calling on the state to order a wide-ranging environmental study of mining’s effects across the Arrowhead, a move that comes during an uptick in mining activity and controversy.
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What has mining done to northeast Minnesota land? Tribes want the state to find out.
The request comes as mining activity accelerates across the Iron Range, including at U.S. Steel’s Minntac mine, where a pending permit has raised concerns about sulfate pollution and wild rice.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
University of Minnesota announces $225 million in budget cuts across all campuses
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University of Minnesota announces $225 million in budget cuts across all campuses
It comes after the U approved a budget in June raising students’ tuition by 3.8%, the sixth consecutive year of increases for the U.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RIP Chris Farley you would've been the perfect John Madden
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Idk it looks like he’s walking to his mark at the end of the carpet and there are marks on the opposite side for Xi and his wife
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you’re unskewing, you’re losing.
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welcome to the new normal of car culture. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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A Waymo Drove Into a Denver Farmers Market. Colorado Police Had No Mechanism to Ticket It.
Waymo drove into a Denver farmers market and Colorado police couldn't issue a ticket, exposing a gap in the state's AV enforcement laws.
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Eric Schmitt @erschm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
8 Navy sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group attempted suicide during its more than 300 days at sea www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says
The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026
"Unacceptable": Australian PM says OpenAI hacked government health website. OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent an email outlining the incident to a generic email address u.afp.com/S9Uj
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Axios @axios.com · 24/09/2026
A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer — rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud.
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Judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against Des Moines Register
The dismissal is an early test of Trump's broader push to use litigation against news organizations over coverage he disputes.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So Vance was the senior administration official here? wapo.st/4rssRyh
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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