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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 15/09/2026

Good point, but I think it's also indicative that people want to escape to worlds that don't have iPhones in them.

Green text on black background computer from Silo

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 29/08/2026

missing January, 2022 when this toot would have been funny

Screenshot of wikipedia saying, "ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released on November 30, 2022"

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 15/07/2026

Lotta smoke heading into NYC tonight

HRRR-CONUS run of surface smoke @ July 16, 2026 at 1am showing swath of smoke running from northern Michigan and Ontario down through NY, eastern PA and NYC.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 10/07/2026

Putting this up against the live tracker of where the Tour de France is right now and hoo boy

Screenshot: left, current location of the Tour de France peloton, right: screenshot of Reuters climate monitor showing today's high of 96F, 17.1F above normal in the same location.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 07/07/2026

Did US sportswriters miss the memo?

Onion headline: Report: That’s Enough Soccer For Now

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 02/07/2026

Happy Birthday, America. Once again, the OPM FOIA portal is down.

Error message on the OPM FOIA portal: Something went wrong while processing your action. Please contact admin@ains.com for assistance if the problem persists.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 30/06/2026

Even though injection wells are banned within a half-mile of public water wells in Oklahoma, we found 114 of them across the state, within public water districts more than 300k people rely on.

Screenshot of an interactive map of Oklahoma titled, "Does your Oklahoma water system has oil field wastewater wells near public drinking water wells." The map shows the outlines of public water systems and a search box to enter an address, ZIP code or name of a water system in the state.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 24/06/2026

Shout out to the @hellgatenyc.com election night livestream for reporting live from a citibike between the two Jessicas' HQ parties

Nick Pinto reports from a Citibike on the Hell Gate livestream

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 21/05/2026

Congrats to the Texas Tribune Guild for getting a contract with meaningful AI guardrails and common sense seniority order in layoffs. If TT's management can agree to these very basic things, so can @propublica.org's. Lets go @propublicaguild.org!

Texas Tribune Guild Instagram post reading:

More than 90% of union eligible members participated in the contract ratification vote, which resulted in unanimous approval of the inaugural contract. Under the new agreement, most Guild employees will receive a 3% raise this year and all will receive at least a 1% raise in 2027 and 2028.
The contract includes:
• Salary minimums of $62,000 for starting reporters, newsroom and business staff;
• 2% retention raises for every three years spent at The Tribune;
• 10 sick days and 10 days of bereavement leave, in addition to 20
PTO days;
• Layoff protections, including for inverse seniority;
• A commitment to not lay off journalists to replace their news-gathering and reporting work with Al;
• An additional 8 weeks of severance pay for non-journalists laid off solely for the purpose of implementing Al;
• Guidelines on newsroom and employee use of Al;
• Worker protections around field work safety, mental health and secondary trauma and immigration and work permit processes.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 16/04/2026

The new Zumthor LACMA building is the most LA thing I've ever seen. It's like a homage to the 105/110 interchange and the absolute worst transit station ever built.

Concrete staircase coming down to the street from the new LACMA building in LA

Concrete staircase and escalator connecting the Silver Line and Green Line under the 105/110 interchange in LA

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 14/04/2026

A bit early to be trotting this one out but

Simpsons meme with Bart saying, "This is the hottest summer of my life," and Homer responding, "this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 08/04/2026

If you registered to come to the event today on how to use the ProPublica Trump disclosures News app, the @propublicaguild.org is asking y’all NOT TO ATTEND in support of our strike today. We hate to do this, but management isn’t offering us a fair deal.

Promo for ProPublica news app event crossed out

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 05/03/2026

You can also link directly to individual lines in the disclosure forms by copying the link in the "Line No." column. Here's a link to where US Trade Rep Jamieson Greer withheld the names of more than 50 former clients from his time at King & Spalding. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

Highlight of a table row from an interactive database showing the following text: King & Spalding LLP, Services as Partner, As a partner at the law firm of King & Spalding LLP, the legal services I provide are subject to District of Columbia Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 and New York Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 on "confidentiality of information," which prohibit knowingly revealing a confidence or secret of a client, including the identity of a client or the fact of such representation. Notwithstanding this, I have disclosed representations of clients where the client consented to the disclosure or the fact of the representation is known through public filings. I provided services to 51 additional clients who are entities where Rule 1.6 applies and where disclosure of the client identity and the fact of representation would reveal a client confidence or secret.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 11/02/2026

Current status for OPM FOIA portal login page

Login.gov error page saying, "The page you were looking for doesn't exist."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 08/08/2025

We're really in the sawdust-and-lead-in-food era of regulation with this stuff aren't we

404 Media headline: "Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT"

NYT headline: "Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 07/08/2025

Now even the software is doing the zoomer space before the exclamation point. Does anyone else hear sentences with these in a very specific tone in their minds?

Command line output in a terminal that says, "Done in 155.54 ms !"

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 20/07/2025

Just don’t suspend your disbelief and it’ll be fine!

Futurism headline:
A Prominent OpenAl Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related
Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
"I find it kind of disturbing even to watch it."

NYT headline:
What Would a Real Friendship With
A.I. Look Like?
Maybe Like Hers.
Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn't
— and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 07/07/2025

Zoom and enhance...... is that olive oil in the bottle cage?

Zoomed in section of the photo showing a corked bottle in the bike's water bottle cage marked "olive"

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 07/07/2025

“Now add the eggs.” @feldsky.bsky.social snapped this one a couple weeks ago cc: @joshuajfriedman.com

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 27/06/2025

This is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read. "Our form of communication is gunfire." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Screenshotted excerpt from Ha'aretz story:

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."
The soldier added, "We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces." According to him, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons." He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 25/06/2025

I love the Wayne's World-meets-CNN energy of the Hell Gate live stream hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 16/06/2025

Rank the candidates in the order you like them, fill up all 5 slots and don’t rank anyone you can’t stand. There’s no other “strategy” to it.

Sticker saying, “I voted early in the city of New York.”

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 10/06/2025

So far, we've collected 22 DOGE financial disclosures. There's some interesting not-yet-reported stuff in the filings, like the fact that Nikhil Rajpal still held a position at X dot com as of filing. Dig through them yourself here: www.documentcloud.org/projects/220...

Line from Nikhil Rajpal disclosure showing continued employment at X Corp.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 19/04/2025

> “603,000 El Paso residents, about 90 percent of the city’s population, are exposed to a cancer risk above 1 in 1 million just from Cardinal Health’s two warehouses.” Great work from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and Lylla Younes grist.org/health/ethyl...

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 17/04/2025

Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Screenshot of ProPublica DOGE tracker with agency filter dropdown menu.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 02/04/2025

DOGE said last week there are potentially ~58,000 documents responsive to @crew.bsky.social's FOIAs, but that they're sticking with the argument that USDS isn't an agency subject to FOIA and won't release them: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NOTICE AS TO DEFENDANT USDS
CONCERNING ESTIMATE OF VOLUME OF RESPONSIVE RECORDS
Pursuant to the Court’s Orders dated March 10, 2025 and March 19, 2025,
Defendant United States DOGE Service (USDS) provides this estimate of the volume of
records responsive to the Freedom of Information Act Request directed to it, as narrowed
in Attachment A to Plaintiff’s reply brief in support of their motion for a preliminary
injunction. USDS cautions that this estimate is preliminary, and that USDS has not yet
been able to conduct a review for responsiveness, and deduplication; and USDS maintains
its position that no records are subject to release under FOIA because USDS is not an
agency subject to FOIA. With those caveats, USDS provides the following preliminary
volume estimate: approximately 58,000 documents.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 13/03/2025

Yet another thing that mirrors what happened at Twitter HQ post-Musk, according to @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social's CHARACTER LIMIT:

Book excerpt 1: "As trash cans went unemptied, carpets unvacuumed, and bathrooms uncleaned, workers gritted their teeth. The restrooms became a particular problem, as Musk's piling of people onto fewer floors caused the toilets to..."

book excerpt 2: "constantly be in use. In New York, the stench of the bathrooms overwhelmed some parts of the office, while some employees complained about cockroaches flitting in and out of drains. In San Francisco, some employees got used to avoiding the bathrooms by running to nearby coffee shops or restaurants, while others had to bring their own toilet paper from home. In one bathroom, someone rigged a metal coat hanger to a stall handlebar to use as a makeshift spool for a toilet roll, a luxurious gift for their colleagues."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 07/03/2025

Some eye-popping allegations in this USADF complaint about what happened when DOGE came through

Excerpt from complaint: The U.S. DOGE Service
representatives asked for contact information for each of the members of the Board.
UADE management responded that this contact information was personal and that
therefore she would first need to obtain permission from the Board members to share
it. The U.S. DOGE Service representatives then left the meeting and never followed
up to request contact information for the Board.
44. On Saturday, February 22, 2025, U.S. DOGE Service representatives
did reach one member of the Board, John Agwunobi. They stated to Agwunobi,
incorrectly, that all the other members of the Board had been terminated, and asked
Agwunobi to implement the U.S. DOGE Service's vision of the minimum statutory
functions of USADF.

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 04/03/2025

Everything going fine at the OPM FOIA office. It may be Just Another Tuesday, but it's also #foiafriday.

OPM website says, "Therefore, to the extent feasible, FOIA requests for agency records should be submitted by email to FOIA@opm.gov during this period to ensure a more timely response."

When you email in a FOIA to OPM, you get a response saying, "Thank you for contacting OPM’s FOIA Requester Service Center. To better manage current resource limitations, record requests submitted via email are no longer accepted. Instead, all FOIA requests to OPM may now be submitted online via OPM’s Public Access Link or the National FOIA Portal."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 31/01/2025

"EPA’s [EJScreen], which functions similarly to the CEJST, was still available as of this writing, though who knows how long that will last." Trump's 1/21 EO revoking the Clinton-era EJ EO seems directly targeted at taking down EJScreen and data supporting it.

Text from Trump Executive Order:
Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
(i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 19/01/2025

Feature suggestion for NYTCooking (get outta here with that instacart bs!)

Edited NYTCooking screenshot with button that says, "Shop ingredients at the Park Slope Food Coop." Under that, text says, "Your first shop still requires you to do a shift." Under that, in smaller gray text, it says, "Just use the intercom if you can't find something."

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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 03/12/2024

Our lookup tool shows you how high the cancer risk from formaldehyde is on your block, where it comes from and how your block compares to the rest of the country.