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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep, second generation on my mother's side. My grandmother immigrated from what's now Molise when she was 8.

Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As someone who taught online journalism for a little while and made my students write blogs, I can confirm this is the case. I can also tell you that the professors didn't, either.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol, I made this exact same joke on tumblr. :)

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Donald @rabbitoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chicago is a magnet that pulls in people from hundreds of miles around because those places failed to care for them. There are many causes but the result is real. When we say to shut the fuck up about Chicago (you don’t even live here!) this is what we mean. @harebrained.bsky.social

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's easy to forget this when cities break up homeless encampments, but it's true. Cities are a place of refuge for people who would be imprisoned (or worse) in many less populous parts of the country.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not to mention the perfect weather this weekend. Why *not* go have a cider donut in the sun?

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We're the first generation to be worse off than our parents. But also, if we're the largest conservative voting block it's because the Boomers have started to die off.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

Reuters with the properly-framed Hastert headline www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Reuters headline: OBITUARY-Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is fascinating. The process involves exposing the active molecules to near-infrared light, which leads to the question of how to get that light to the cancer inside a body.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Re-screenshot for a clearer view of that vertical axis. (direct link: x.com/sashikantsin...)

Screenshot of a tweet by @sashikantsingh_ on Sept. 29, which reads "Open Al's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to keep up" Below it is a chart showing lines for GPT, Fable and Grok, in which the x axis is labeled "Release date" and the Y axis is labeled "Model number."

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How fun would a Chicago-Milwaukee World Series be? #gosoxgo

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 29/09/2026

I gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for inviting me for #WalrusTalks 🍁

youtube.com

Jenny Zhang: Workers Can Take Back Tech

YouTube video by The Walrus

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And we'll be paying for it for a long, long time.

screenshot of Trump "PSA" campaign ad. Trump in black-and-white appears at the right of the screen, and the caption "Paid for by the U.S. Government" appears at bottom.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The problem I have with the "protein in everything" trend is that at least 75% of the time the added protein is whey powder, which may contain significant levels of lactose depending on processing. That can lead to an unhappy surprise for anyone lactose intolerant, like me.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With gas prices at historic highs, the Turnip administration lowers fuel economy standards. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enshittification continues: now on Instagram, if you click on a hashtag, the results are a MetaAI generated “explanation” of the hashtag and a few photos using that hashtag interspersed with a ton of irrelevant crap from the algorithm. Literally nobody wants this, and there’s no way to avoid it.

Screenshot of the results for #rockytheimpossiblekitteh in Instagram. An AI-generated description of a completely different hashtag tops the results, followed by two photos using the correct hashtag and two that are not — including one of Rocky the alien. Farther down are increasingly irrelevant results, and only one more post with the correct hashtag.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Who up having long, unfocused sex for unclear reasons?

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How does one “emerge” as a behind-the-scenes force? I suppose in the sense that cicadas emerge every few years to be an irritating background noise to everything else that’s going on. Rahm should be similarly ignored.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just learned yesterday that it's been raging for a week or more on Threads.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got served a new A/B test version of a "Create post" form in Facebook. Clicking on the "What's on your mind?" box took me to a whole new page with basically the same interface blown out to show every option, plus a preview. Seems like overkill.

Screenshot of a new "Create post" page (facebook.com/post/create) that displays the options for a post on the left, with a preview of the post on the right.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yep. the whole family is weird.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The enshittification continues. Google Docs in Workspace now launches a Gemini sidebar with a new doc, in addition to an outline sidebar by default, taking up more than half the screen. Note: I have previously turned Gemini off at the administrative level.

screenshot of a new Google Docs document, with a Gemini sidebar on the right nearly equal to the width of the document area, and a "Document tabs" sidebar open by default on the left.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ew, that's far worse. Talk about overcorrecting.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interesting suggestion. The people who've used it with me have not appeared to be Indian, but I could see it seeping into broader business speak that way.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is "revert back" AI speak, or just the latest half-baked business jargon? As in, "We'll revert back if we have any questions." Revert doesn't mean reply or respond. It means to go back to a previous version.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recently I've been encountering websites whose design causes the top nav to be too wide for my browser even at full screen, even if there's not much up there. The result is the company logo is partially off the lefthand edge. The common factor? They're all built with Wix.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah right, you did a video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiNS... Did you stick with one of the Pentels?

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Adam Savage's Great Pencil Decision

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@asavage.bsky.social What pencil did you settle on instead of the Sharpwriter? I've noticed the most recent batch the lead seems to be harder than #2 — I can barely read my handwriting anymore because it's so light.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

About 15 years ago, I had a conversation with someone working with a group of Silicon Valley leaders. They wanted me to help develop a program to encourage HS seniors to forego college and go work at tech firms. (I said no.) Tell me this isn't the same tactic in new clothing.

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