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Barry Parr

@parr.org
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Entitled pedestrian. Co-creator of MercuryNews.com, VP at News.com. Blogged at Coastsider and Mediasavvy. Ex-Dow Jones, Forrester Research. #PDX #Portland

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Double Sided Media @doublesidedmedia.bsky.social · 9h
NEW from DSM: Today we come to you with the absurd news that the Eugene Police Department wants us to pay more than $2.6 million for two records requests. Our editorial ⤵
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EDITORIAL: The Eugene Police Wants DSM To Pay $2.6 Million for Records
Yes. You, dear reader, read the headline correctly. The Eugene Police Department has invoiced Double Sided Media for more than $2.6 million to fulfill two public records requests.  The grand t…
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Allan @arudwick.bsky.social · 7h
What Global Rankings Say About Successful Cities and Portland’s Performance cityobservatory.org/what-global-...
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What Global Rankings Say About Successful Cities and Portland’s Performance – City Observatory
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 6h
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at anything.
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It’s also what she would recommend if she were advising Trump
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 11h
The goal wasn't to prove he talked to Fani Willis, it was to trap him into committing perjury in a Congressional hearing. They could bring that up every time he denied coordinating with Willis.
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 12h
A building permit is under review for an office-to-residential conversion on levels 2-4 of the Slate building in the Central Eastside www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi...
SLATE OFFICE CONVERSION - PARTIAL CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY - Convert existing office space on Levels 2-4 to 42 new residential units; convert shell space in SW corner to tenant amenity space; existing ground floor retail spaces and existing residential units on Levels 5-10 to remain as is; work in basement and on roof limited to mechanical, plumbing, and electrical system and equipment upgrades; no changes to exterior facade *** w/26-069420-MT ***
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14h
I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative
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Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed
Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 13h
I’m pretty sure she heard it from Patty
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 30/09/2026
It’s notable that Fox didn’t put Talarico‘s name in the headline
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/09/2026
This is some Joe McCarthy shit
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/09/2026
There must be 50 ways to leave Trump’s White House
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/09/2026
It would really help if the page had more contrast. I also didn’t see the little person at the bottom of the page and I probably wouldn’t have known what it was for if I saw them
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 29/09/2026
Sounds like Muse doesn’t know how numbers work
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026
Lanterns is the second season that True Detective should have had.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026
He’s going to jump this shark. bsky.app/profile/nigh...
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 28/09/2026
Triumph of The Will directed by Leni Riefenstahl
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/09/2026
FDR: I asked Emperor Hirohito if he’d be interested in buying a couple of aircraft carriers.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/09/2026
Amy Dangerfield: “I tell ya, I don’t get no respect. The groypers told me I was stupid and I said I want a second opinion. They said okay, you’re ugly too.”
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/09/2026
The way this started, I thought it was going to be a rap
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 27/09/2026
The least bad popes?
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 26/09/2026
This is not just a problem in townhomes. Virtually no single-family houses built in the last 20 years have first-floor bedrooms.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mayor Wilson should probably concern himself more with fulfilling his campaign promise to end unsheltered homelessness in a year (guess we’re getting close to the 2 year mark, imagine if I’d made such a promise!) than disparaging councilors who are undoubtedly returning to office. Just a thought!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 25/09/2026
It was more KFH than Jesse TBF. But their smirking commentary on the audio was the worst part of this whole affair.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 25/09/2026
I think it’s also notable that the feds were there
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 25/09/2026
“bipartisan workouts”
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Madison Moskowitz @moskwtz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland is on Amazon’s target list for drone delivery. This would be a noise pollution disaster, horrific for our birds, and just another way this megacorp seeks to infect our lives. It’s a hell no from me. (🎁🔗) www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...
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Amazon's drone delivery program is headed to Portland
The company plans to launch the program in 500 cities across the country by the end of the year.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 24/09/2026
This is the true serenity prayer
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 23/09/2026
I can't believe someone hasn't done this with ICE agents. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 23/09/2026
That’s how I read it
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 23/09/2026
1850s
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ProfMasseyGO @profmasseygo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Portland Police Chief Bob Day should resign for breaking the law.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 22/09/2026
I’m pretty sure “the talentless dick who caused all this” was Robert Kraft.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 22/09/2026
I joke, but I’m incandescent with rage.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 22/09/2026
That’s adorable — pretending it’s a win for consumers
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 22/09/2026
…and no one edited children’s books.
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
Big news: Oregon Attorney General capitulates to Ellison family and tries to sell it as a win for consumers
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
That’s how you produce 30 movies a year
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
I don’t think the Oregonian knows what “flubbed” means
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
Plausible, but Bonta owns it now
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 21/09/2026
It’s silly to have adult opinions about children’s movies.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you want an example, here. The major corporations are already training their AI to engage in corporate espionage and subterfuge. And yet, Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, gets to hide behind the “rogue AI” bullshit and avoid consequences.
Guardian story with edit: Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies with says its Gemini AI model crossed out
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Barry Parr @parr.org · 20/09/2026
Bari’s been 55 since she was 18.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my husband just looked up from his phone and said, the daily mail is mad about some portland city councilor who tweeted about hating cops. and i said, that rocks, how can i support him? luckily mitch’s haters put up a billboard with a link where you can do just that!
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OpenAI employees circumvented paywalls to scrape training data from sites like NYT, per un-redacted court docs. An alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though the parties had already settled. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann disregarded that.
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Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for a percentage of eq...
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