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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 14h
Such a good show! My parents loved it! I loved it! Might need a rewatch soon!
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Amanda Guinzburg @guinz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"I tried to write about how mothers can lose their minds in a moment, how planes can fall out of the sky in seconds, how friends can vanish in the wide swath of summer’s afternoon light..." amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/open-the-g...
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Things Fall Out Of The Sky
On Antibodies
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
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TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it. Her...
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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Divest from Harry Potter and JKR, y'all. It's okay to feel sad about no longer engaging with something that meant a lot to you, but a fictional world that funds a very real assault on trans rights will never be more meaningful than caring about the safety of trans folks.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes! Match their effort and role…
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
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Opinion | What Happens When You Can No Longer Fight a Wildfire? (Gift Article)
This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well this is fucking terrible
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Snap back to reality, oops, there goes gravity” Supreme Court term about to start
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everyone in Trump II deserves to be booed loudly and relentlessly every time they show their faces in public for the rest of their lives, but there is a whole other level of booing that should greet people who did less than nothing and then talk about how hard it was. apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/10/2026
tf did I just read
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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every time someone makes an unforced error like this, I'm going to reflect on Coates' wisdom:
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/10/2026
An Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump will not be held accountable for his illegal commercials. But it is still important that we recognize the commercials as illegal. There. Are. FOUR. Lights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes
While the president is unlikely to face any consequences for his patently illegal, taxpayer-funded ads, it’s essential to remember he should.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The truth: this won't ruin your commute, it will almost certainly make it better.” Excellent reporting here! Thanks, Alissa!
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Put on makeup AND mascara AND a work shirt...for a meeting that ended up being a call not a Zoom as planned. Happy Monday everyone!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wrote about the WNBA in its 30th year and the crossroads the league is at. Also there is a lil video! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Time for the W.N.B.A. to Pick Sides (Gift Article)
The league has an invaluable opportunity right now; it can be a reflection of the world as it could be, not merely as it is.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It needed to be said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Santa Monica Pier a few years back.
The Santa Monica pier and Ferris wheel from a distance with the ocean on the side, the sun setting pink and light blue above them.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two of Hollywood’s oldest and greatest companies (and the jobs of tens of thousands of people who work for them) are now completely dependent on the personal stock holdings of one guy who has made an enormous bet on AI data centers. What could go wrong?
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you haven’t already turned off Meta’s terrible “use my stuff for whatever!” AI: - Go to your Insta profile - Click the hamburger stack (3 lines) for settings - Scroll to “sharing and reuse” - Toggle Meta AI settings off (I only have Reels, you may also have Posts)
Screenshot of Instagram setting for Reels that is toggled off and says “allow people to create with and reuse your original audio on meta AI
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 26/09/2026
Months after exiting soundstages, Quixote sells gear rental businesses, prompting layoffs
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Months after exiting soundstages, Quixote sells gear rental businesses, prompting layoffs
Hudson Pacific-owned Quixote sold its grip, lighting and production supplies businesses to Cinelease, cutting about 60 jobs as Hollywood's production slump drags on.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This merger is an ending no one in Hollywood wanted to write. Well, except the billionaires. They get what they want. They always do. Things are about to get even more bleak out here. Mike’s whole interview is worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Av...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leadership!
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026
There are no words for how angry this story makes me. Academic freedom is dead in Texas public universities.
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The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In the aftermath, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had banned her first ChatGPT account for discussing “scenarios involving gun violence” but had decided not to alert authorities, despite the urging of some employees on OpenAI’s safety team."
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NBC has picked up the #bluewashing story. On August 14, the CDC downshifted how they categorize wastewater levels to make all current and historical COVlD levels lower.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great work everyone
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L.A. Material @lamaterial.com · 23/09/2026
Super El Niño is here. California is under a state of emergency. And another danger: talking about climate physics at a party. We asked three California-based scientists for tips on how to speak knowledgeably — and avoid getting it wrong. buff.ly/3V3Xry9
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The El Niño peril no one is talking about
How to converse about climate physics without sounding stupid.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you’re looking for some really good, specific to California & particularly Los Angeles news coverage, follow @lamaterial.com. They have a daily M-F newsletter I love to read, talented journalists, & are reporting on what we need to know (in a really entertaining way!).
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, September 22 and you can expect perfect sunny weather, with highs around 80.
How to talk about El Niño like a pseudo expert
I have a confession: During the pandemic, I was one of those people who turned into an amateur epidemiologist. I liked to toss around terms like "incubation period" and "RO"
And now, as the super El Nino bears down and Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency for the entire state, I am well on my way to acquiring my new amateur subspeciality: armchair climate scientist. Or as my husband mockingly referred to me: El Nino-it-all.
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Travis Helwig @travishelwig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Karen Bass called for this exact Paramount-WB merger settlement weeks ago. We can't get rid of Bonta or other pro-merger Democrats this cycle. But in just a few weeks, we CAN get rid of Karen. Nithya understands how existential media consolidation is for the city of LA.
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026
weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Use layered COVlD safety: ✅Boosters 💉 ✅N95 respirators 😷 ✅Virtual events ✅Air purifiers ✅Testing ✅Staying home when sick ✅Monitoring local levels (pmc19.com/map) These are evidence-based recommendations. 🧵THREAD (4/4)
PMC graphic, summarized in post
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
The US has at least 34 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai'i, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Levels on the Big Island of Hawai’i are particularly high. Note also, the NYC area is seeing outbreaks.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
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Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities
Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Welp, game over
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
😔
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are a GM family, two of my grandfathers worked there. Have never bought anything but a GM, waited a year to get a new Terrain in 2018 so it would have CarPlay & their move to drop it had us considering looking at other brands. So glad they listened to their customers.
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GM brings back Apple CarPlay as buyers demand it
GM is bringing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto back to its vehicles, reversing one of the more unpopular decisions in the automaker's recent history.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Sarah Knapp @sarahlknapp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Code still works! I’d been wondering where to get some new tests for our stash. Thanks, Mike!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.N. confirms what we all already knew: the Trump admin targeted a girls school and killed 178 civilians, most of whom were girls — and it was an action catalyzed by preventable negligence. God help us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
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U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
National average for gallon of gas... Trump's first day in office: $3.12 Today: $4.37 (40.1% increase) National average for gallon of diesel... Trump's first day in office: $3.72 Today: $6.39 (71.8% increase)
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