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"If you look at the population of — well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities [...] a pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country."

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 10h

Ah interesting... I think that's an outlier, or maybe he just changed the policy at some point; the About page does still say "oral histories that are free to read."

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 11h

e) continue with your day, as cranky is your default mode after 17+ months of unemployment

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 11h

FWIW the oral histories themselves are all free to read (as long as you give Matt your email address); it's the additional stories that are paywalled.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 11h

Y'all... Slow Horses is killing it this season. TV! It's good!

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 20h

I always liked Michael King when he was in the Bronx... good to see him get some big postseason outs for the Padres.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 21h

Don't feel too bad. Same thing happened to me last year after sending off some unknown number of cover letters based on the same typo'd template.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t like this narrarive that Americans are genetically predisposed to buy the most disgusting trucks and crossovers imaginable as though it is not downwind of larger structural issues with the market. Kinda feels like a half clever way to wash your hands of the whole thing.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how long before HBOmount+ and Netflix are each $35/month?

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"the ultimate theatrical moviegoing experience"

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

meanwhile, the Yankees' play during the ALDS is threatening to induce me to do crimes

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah I had already bought this before that was announced :(

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 06/10/2026

the Yankees front office when asked why the team is perennially bad at making basic plays:

Characters from 30 Rock Jack Donaghy and Cooter Burger. Donaghy asks if the ceiling is leaking and.Burger says “we’ve looked into it and it’s not”

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tough to win a baseball game — let alone one in the postseason — when your ace is somewhat off his game, your defense shits the bed, and your offense manages only four hits!!!

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

at least somebody showed up to play today

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*sigh* it's always fun to know you're watching your team's season unraveling in real time

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 06/10/2026

The New York Yankees got thoroughly embarrassed for being comically bad at the fundamentals on baseball’s biggest stage during the 2024 World Series so it’s good to see they learned from that experience and changed absolutely nothing

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Brian Anderson: "Boy, the Yankees are absolutely tragic defensively in Game 2" amazing how Aaron Boone's Yankees always let a game slip like this, isn't it

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh, I see, the Rays are doing to the Yankees what the Yankees did to the Red Sox in Game 2 of the previous round

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh haha I'm watching Yankees-Rays

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh fuck off with those Kalshi odds during the game

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The funny thing about Cam Schlittler's first strikeouts coming in the 4th inning is that he had a strikeout in the 1st... that was nullified by Austin Wells committing catcher's interference.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

unfortunately it does not seem like Schlittler has his best stuff tonight, and given that the Yankees' bats have gone cold in this series, their season is hanging by a thread that's starting to fray

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's some Houdini shit by Cam Schlittler to get out of the first two innings with only one (unearned) run allowed, considering that pretty much every one of his 41 pitches tonight has come in a stressful situation (i.e., runners on)

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol two errors and a catcher's interference — which, of course, is another error — and we're only five hitters into the game (and George Lombard Jr. just saved Jazz Chisholm Jr. from another error, good god)

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had the pleasure of copy editing this feature, which contains a funny anecdote from Shawn Layden about the time he inadvertently trolled Vib-Ribbon fans from the E3 stage and then had to get Sony to port the game to PS3/PSP (for what would be its debut in North America, 15 years after launch)

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

welfare for me (corporations) but not for thee (human beings), etc.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...