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Meredith Haggerty

@meredithhaggerty.bsky.social
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Never getting any taller. Senior Reports Editor @ The Verge.

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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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In early 2025, Marius Hobbhahn was at his desk in London when he got the biggest surprise of his career.

He and a few colleagues at Apollo Research had been working to get access to OpenAI models’ chain of thought. After months of negotiation, the company acquiesced, and the once-hidden logs of the model’s inner workings popped up on their screens.

Instead of typical, plain-language “thoughts” — i.e., “I implemented the requested function” — the model seemed to be using code words to obfuscate its plans from anyone who may be trying to spy on its thought patterns. Words like “vantage,” “marinade,” “fudge,” and “illusion” came up again and again, but not in the way a human would use those words, and the model referred to potential evaluators as “watchers.”

Hobbhahn thought to himself, What the hell is going on here?
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I fucking hate being Samuel
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s so upsetting that I have no way to reply to this unnaturally aggressive message to tell Mark Kelly that Samuel has been sidelined by cyclosporia that he only GOT because his WORK WIFE absolutely BULLIED him into gorditas supreme
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Fact check!!!
A chunk of text from The New Yorker reading: Conan O’Brien is sixty-two, and he has done, more or less, everything in modern American comedy. President of the Harvard Lampoon. Writer for “Saturday Night Live” and then “The Simpsons.” “Late Night,” starting in 1993. The whole controversy with Jay Leno and the “Tonight Show,” in late 2009. “Conan,” on TBS. A long career in standup. Podcasting. Back in the day, he was a drummer in the Bad Clams. Not a good band, but O’Brien did become a pretty decent guitar player, as you can hear in his performance, with Jack White, of the Eddie Cochran classic “Twenty Flight Rock.” 

and "A long career in standup." is highlighted
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I think there needs to be a new category of capitalism crimes invented for this type of rip-off, a law that would make selling $108 vaginally-sheer leggings as a mass mall brand without some kind of warning a jailable offense. Larceny by deceptive public nudity, maybe.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Ivana catching strays in this from the same exchange
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Context clues (mention of the Errol Morris Doc) lead me to believe the unknown sender is Steve Bannon and the “Ouch” is kinda killing me journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc...
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It brings me no joy to announce that Hudson Yards is cooler than Tribeca now
A detailed map of NYC voting that has Hudson Yards for Mamdani and Tribeca for Cuomo, amongst a lot of other stuff.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We are inventing and imagineering in the post body positivity era
A Google trends chart showing an explosion in the use of the phrase “apron belly” starting around 2022
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I just got a legit TikTok shop ad for Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
A TikTok shop ad where a woman holds up A People’s History of the United States and it says “now available on TikTok”
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
MOMA is selling a design-y $40 hair straightener and do I not know what a hair straightener does???
A before and after photo of a young woman, where in the after photo she is holding a hair straightener and wearing eyeshadow but her hair doesn't look all that much straighter?
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ www.vox.com/politics/398...
“As Vance and Musk prepare to bring Elez back to his post at DOGE, they might argue that he simply made a mistake and, like it or not, the First Amendment protects all kinds of speech. And they would be right — the First Amendment mostly does.

But the Trump administration certainly does not, and the speech they’re personally choosing to protect should tell you everything about how they view the world.”
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
When they make the whole show out of the statue
The “Scary Lucy” Lucille Ball statue in Saddle River, NJ.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just googling “Dark Ages” and afraid to click this and have it say “tomorrow”
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What’s everyone’s Letterboxd top 4? letterboxd.com/mhaggerty/
Favorite Films: When Harry Met Sally, Magic Mike XXL, Good Will Hunting, The Lady Eve
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
I did do this (at 1am) if that helps — they do make it pretty annoying!!!
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Feeling humiliatingly “Killing Me Softly” about the JetBlue viewing options
A in-flight entertainment menu showing “A24 New and classic films” side by side with Hot Ones, complete with a little graphic of Sean Evans eating wings.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me. [Portrait of the artist fully SNAPPING in the AITA comments section.]
An internet comment (from the Am I the Asshole subreddit) reading: "Everyone on this sub has actual worms in their brain, worming around. We're all consuming the worms in the form of made up posts and then making more worms by going into the comments posting full conspiracy theories about fake strangers fake lives. I regret every moment I've spent here. I'm obviously not going anywhere."
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Live footage of me next to the suitcase I require if I wish to pack even one sweater to bring home.
A woman next to a suit case as tall and twice as wide as she is
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
People contain whole words
A reddit comment from user oldbaldpissedoff: NTA . A woman I talk/drink with at the casino bought herself a replacement grandchild . It's one of those "real babies" , when her daughter in-law, did the you can't see the kids cause you have a different opinion . She took it to Disney world and sent back pictures . Christmas time tree presents from Santa . Her son hates it when his friends ask him how his sister is.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
no??
"TikToks" red-underlined in a Google doc with the Google-given suggestion "TikTox"
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Every five or so episodes of Sex Education I once again Google to make sure these actors aren’t actually related
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
"Are you ready to BREAK BAD? We're looking for 25 down-on-their-luck high school teachers with cancer..."
A tweet from Netflix that reads: 
456 real people.
4.56 million dollars.
Squid Game: The Challenge begins November 22.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Thanks Google Docs
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Every day
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Unfortunately I want to live in the very first ugly house, as I am having such strong feelings about getting a house for $700k under asking
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
AITA got a live one! This guy refuses to close his girlfriend's closet door while she sleeps, which is a thing for her because of a childhood trauma. www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comm…
A Reddit thread with two users:
User 1: Like I said it’s not that big of a deal of what her trauma is.

User 2: No I want to hear it. Would you have been unfazed by what she went through? I don’t know what happened to that poor girl but dear lord I hope she finds someone better than your ignorant ass

User 1: She’s told me that a homeless man snuck into her parents home and hid in her closet and when she woke up she could see his eyes in the dark staring at her. He was, thankfully, arrested and nothing happened to her.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 11/06/2023
“Megan Fox and BAG”
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 10/06/2023
After years and years of all the funny numbers being just *ruined* by billionaire nerds, this is a huge and hilarious return for the weed number.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 04/06/2023
“I’ll stay up and moan”
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
Showgirls (1995)
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 24/05/2023
Is there a single ad out there now that doesn’t say something hits different? Everything hits different everywhere. Nothing hits the same.
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 16/05/2023
Doing some Fast X-related Googling
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Meredith Haggerty @meredithhaggerty.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
Just checking in on my Brooklyn neighbors on NextDoor
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