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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 20h

my god this album is good music.apple.com/us/album/kin...

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King of Having Fun by Medium Build on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 14 Songs

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 20h

My interview with Yogendra Yadav: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nothing could’ve prepared me for the ad read of the century from the Brewers radio broadcast after that Christian Yelich go-ahead single:

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 12/10/2026

The Las Vegas Strip turned into a river over the weekend as Tropical Storm Rachel dumped 1.08 inches of rain on the city in a single day, tying an October record that had stood since 1947. Footage captured Sunday by Paul Contino shows the apocalyptic scene, with floodwaters rising above his knees.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

unbelievable stuff. you get a moment like this every 2 or 3 minutes.

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JAKAZiD @jakazid.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

7 years ago I made a DJ set that's just Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters song over 100 other different bits of music (some well-known, some less so) and it goes on for nearly 50 minutes and working on it gave me lasting brain damage

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SPOOKY HALLOWEEN MIX 2K17

ghost christmas rinseout yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee though not that spooky actually

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You guys, we are two weeks away from the return of The Lowdown, just an incredible, delightful television program. I wrote earlier this year about why you should sample it if you haven't already:

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The Lowdown, the best show you're not watching, is coming back for Season Two

FX has officially renewed the Ethan Hawke-led comic mystery series

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Rivals of Amziah King: What if there was a heist movie, but it was about bees, and it also had amazing bluegrass music and a gigantic heart, but was also a revenge thriller and also a hangout comedy? You know, that sort of thing. (On VOD now)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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The Six-Year Journey Behind ‘Big Walk,’ One of This Year’s Best Video Games

The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Right Time with Bomani Jones @righttimebomani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Andre 3000 really stepped in to his own on ATLiens

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Song hasn’t left my head for a month straight.

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Tom Ziller @teamziller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Any time a new Angine performance pops up on the YouTube algorithm on one of our TVs it becomes a whole-family watch party. This one might have been the best because of the setting. To have had access to a Jimmy Fallon brain scan during this!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces. Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on. More expected to join.

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign

#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

guffawed when i saw this thumbnail. watched the trailer and the guffaw stands! what the fuck! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hT...

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CLEAN HANDS Official Trailer (2026) Zach Braff

YouTube video by ONE Media

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

wow whoever made this youtube playlist is my hero www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The Killers Covers - YouTube

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you had no context and there wasn’t music you’d assume she was having a mental health crisis and in that sense she really is the true successor to Adams now that he’s retired to Albania.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And now, my in-depth conversation with Stanford football GM and former NFL superstar Andrew Luck. www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

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Andrew Luck is just another bureaucrat now

SFGATE's Drew Magary heads to Stanford to grill its general manager of football.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seeed Studio shared my review on Facebook and then added in the comments that they’re switching to a matte screen in their third shipment of the Sticky in October.

Hi Chris,
Thank you for the great and thoughtful review - we really appreciate it. A few updates from our side:
Glossy screen - yeah, we hear you. It's not ideal for reading or photos. Good news: we're switching to matte screens starting with the 3rd production batch (late October).

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wife and I watched The Christophers last night and it was fantastic

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Milkshake Beaver sadly

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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norrdogg.bsky.social @norrdogg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@mzspress.bsky.social send your Kickstarter backers their books you bum

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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Brandon Flowers made a (mostly) country album, and it's kinda great? open.spotify.com/album/4AWBFH...

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THRASHER - Album by Brandon Flowers | Spotify

Brandon Flowers · album · 2026 · 10 songs

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

a graph of data center support rapidly falling

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Every mainstream review of these tiny cheap ereaders bemoans the lack of a a book store and to be honest that misunderstands the audience. People buy these to throw loose EPUBs on. That’s like reviewing a retro handheld and complaining you need to find ROMs.

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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 15/08/2026

if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods

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katiebakes @katiebakes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

UPDATE: this product is still going strong and never fails to make my family the toast of the beach. looks sold out rn but genuinely i think u should make a note to check back in November when they restock and get it as a Christmas gift. my no. 1 fav recreational item!!!!

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David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The cover for the book I Will to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea. The image includes a painting by Winslow Homer of a muscular Black man aboard a small ship in stormy waters, looking ahead as sharks circle the ship.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026

I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

embarrassing admission time it has been a shockingly long time since i read A Book i read so much Online every day, but i have recently realized it may not be an acceptable substitute i would like to read A Book next week on vacation please rec a fav novel released in the last 5-ish years below

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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is a brilliant poem about the binding power daily life has on parent/child relationships. Whatever you retain from a trip to Yellowstone owes everything to that groundwork.

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Seamus Heaney: From Clearances 3 @ The Internet Poetry Archive

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

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