Arik Hesseldahl 🦋
@arik.org
Recovering tech and business journalist. #RCTID 🌻🌻🌻 ↙️↙️↙️ https://arik.org
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Music Millennium opened in Portland in 1969. Now, the owner is looking for a successor to take over his beloved store.
“I want that building to be a part of Portland’s landscape forever. Plus, I want Music Millennium to be in it for just as many years," he said.
“I want that building to be a part of Portland’s landscape forever. Plus, I want Music Millennium to be in it for just as many years," he said.
Music Millennium, Portland’s oldest record store, is looking for new ownership
Terry Currier, the owner of Music Millennium in Southeast Portland, just turned 70, and he’s looking for a successor to take over his beloved store.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Music Millennium opened in Portland in 1969. Now, the owner is looking for a successor to take over his beloved store.
“I want that building to be a part of Portland’s landscape forever. Plus, I want Music Millennium to be in it for just as many years," he said.
“I want that building to be a part of Portland’s landscape forever. Plus, I want Music Millennium to be in it for just as many years," he said.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish....
February 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish....
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A little guide to organizing secure Signal group chats... just in case you find yourself needing to securely organize a Signal group chat for your community. Gift link! tinyurl.com/bdx5affn
A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats
Key privacy settings and best practices.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A little guide to organizing secure Signal group chats... just in case you find yourself needing to securely organize a Signal group chat for your community. Gift link! tinyurl.com/bdx5affn
Columbia classmate Sheila Eldred writes from Minneapolis: "There is no "normal" in journalism right now.
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Letter from Minneapolis: No ‘normal’ in journalism, right now
In this personal account, Minneapolis-based AHCJ member Sheila Eldred reflects on listening to fear and grief up close.
healthjournalism.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Columbia classmate Sheila Eldred writes from Minneapolis: "There is no "normal" in journalism right now.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/01...
healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/01...
Catherine O’Hara was born to play Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. RIP.
a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
ALT: a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Catherine O’Hara was born to play Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek. RIP.
If I understand Q AI correctly, then suddenly the rumors about Apple Home Hun, AI glasses, and a wearable pin, make a lot more sense. Not everyone wants to talk out loud to their AI all the time. @techmeme.com www.techmeme.com/260129/p35#a...
Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions to enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
www.techmeme.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If I understand Q AI correctly, then suddenly the rumors about Apple Home Hun, AI glasses, and a wearable pin, make a lot more sense. Not everyone wants to talk out loud to their AI all the time. @techmeme.com www.techmeme.com/260129/p35#a...
If I understand Q AI correctly then suddenly Apple’s rumored Home hub, AI glasses, and even that wearable pin make a lot more sense.
Once you stop assuming people want to talk out loud, the hardware roadmap clicks. @chatter.techmeme.com
Once you stop assuming people want to talk out loud, the hardware roadmap clicks. @chatter.techmeme.com
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Q.ai
January 29, 2026 at 5:51 PM
If I understand Q AI correctly then suddenly Apple’s rumored Home hub, AI glasses, and even that wearable pin make a lot more sense.
Once you stop assuming people want to talk out loud, the hardware roadmap clicks. @chatter.techmeme.com
Once you stop assuming people want to talk out loud, the hardware roadmap clicks. @chatter.techmeme.com
I was interviewed by The Writethrough about using my journalism skills to research my family history. What keeps surprising me is how tradition and speculation harden over time into accepted “facts.” Sorting out what’s true is what journalists live for. #genealogy
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Investigating your family history: "What we know is contingent on what gets saved"
A journalist on using his newsroom skills to dig deep into genealogy.
substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:22 AM
I was interviewed by The Writethrough about using my journalism skills to research my family history. What keeps surprising me is how tradition and speculation harden over time into accepted “facts.” Sorting out what’s true is what journalists live for. #genealogy
substack.com/@fororagains...
substack.com/@fororagains...
I spotted a connection to a medieval Norwegian king in my family tree and naturally had to investigate. Here is what I learned.
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The Pencil Mark That Made Me a Descendant of a King (Not Really)
Or, How a Handwritten Guess in Library Book Became an Imagined Link to a Royal Family Tree
ariks.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I spotted a connection to a medieval Norwegian king in my family tree and naturally had to investigate. Here is what I learned.
ariks.substack.com/p/the-pencil...
ariks.substack.com/p/the-pencil...
Snow started here at 7:05 AM
January 25, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Snow started here at 7:05 AM
I have eyes and I know what I saw.
January 25, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I have eyes and I know what I saw.
They’re trying to make this video disappear. Save your own copy. Don’t let the truth fall down the memory hole.
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
They’re trying to make this video disappear. Save your own copy. Don’t let the truth fall down the memory hole.
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Done. Here was my script: "This is Bright Limm, constituent in Jamaica, Queens. I urge the governor to publicly support—and commit to signing—the New York for All Act. If she does not, please know: I will most certainly be supporting her challenger in the primary instead."
January 24, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Done. Here was my script: "This is Bright Limm, constituent in Jamaica, Queens. I urge the governor to publicly support—and commit to signing—the New York for All Act. If she does not, please know: I will most certainly be supporting her challenger in the primary instead."