Adrienne LaFrance
@adriennelaf.bsky.social
Human, executive editor of The Atlantic
This made me laugh. @caity.bsky.social is hilarious. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pennies Are Trash Now
The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This made me laugh. @caity.bsky.social is hilarious. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What is everyone reading over Thanksgiving break! I need to assemble a stack of excellent books.
To start, I just bought George Packer's new novel, The Emergency—very excited about this one: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
To start, I just bought George Packer's new novel, The Emergency—very excited about this one: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Emergency: A Novel
A Novel
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November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What is everyone reading over Thanksgiving break! I need to assemble a stack of excellent books.
To start, I just bought George Packer's new novel, The Emergency—very excited about this one: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
To start, I just bought George Packer's new novel, The Emergency—very excited about this one: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
🎁 Forty-one days until Christmas. A perfect day to buy someone a gift subscription to The Atlantic: accounts.theatlantic.com/products/gif...
The Atlantic
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November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎁 Forty-one days until Christmas. A perfect day to buy someone a gift subscription to The Atlantic: accounts.theatlantic.com/products/gif...
Helicopter parents are now following their kids to college. (Yikes!) www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
When Helicopter Parents Touch Down—At College
Hovering moms and dads are following their kids all the way to campus.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Helicopter parents are now following their kids to college. (Yikes!) www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
Too many quotable lines in @ashleyrparker.bsky.social’s latest to pick one. Just read it.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Too many quotable lines in @ashleyrparker.bsky.social’s latest to pick one. Just read it.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
These photos are wow www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Photos: The Northern Lights Put on a Show
A powerful geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to night skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with sightings of pink, red, and green lights as far south as Florida and Oklahoma.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These photos are wow www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
🦅🦅🦅 e a g l e s
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
🦅🦅🦅 e a g l e s
What happens when law enforcement starts masking all the time—important reporting from the great @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Why They Mask
Veteran ICE officers know face coverings are a bad look. But they’re not coming off anytime soon.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What happens when law enforcement starts masking all the time—important reporting from the great @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
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November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Adrienne LaFrance
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
Robots are cool! But you definitely need real friends.
Chatbots "allow you to talk forever to no one other than yourself." And the anti-social media era is only in its infancy...
Must-read @damonberes.com:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Chatbots "allow you to talk forever to no one other than yourself." And the anti-social media era is only in its infancy...
Must-read @damonberes.com:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Robots are cool! But you definitely need real friends.
Chatbots "allow you to talk forever to no one other than yourself." And the anti-social media era is only in its infancy...
Must-read @damonberes.com:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Chatbots "allow you to talk forever to no one other than yourself." And the anti-social media era is only in its infancy...
Must-read @damonberes.com:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
This is smart, worth reading, by @jonathanchait: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump Is Right: Ditch the Filibuster
The tactic is a deformed anachronism. Its demise would benefit the whole country, and Democrats especially.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is smart, worth reading, by @jonathanchait: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Well that’s one way to think about intellectual property…
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Well that’s one way to think about intellectual property…
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
This is astonishing reporting from Alex Reisner.
You really have to read the whole thing—but don't miss the part where the head of Common Crawl tells Alex that "robots are people too."
Free to read with this gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
You really have to read the whole thing—but don't miss the part where the head of Common Crawl tells Alex that "robots are people too."
Free to read with this gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is astonishing reporting from Alex Reisner.
You really have to read the whole thing—but don't miss the part where the head of Common Crawl tells Alex that "robots are people too."
Free to read with this gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
You really have to read the whole thing—but don't miss the part where the head of Common Crawl tells Alex that "robots are people too."
Free to read with this gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Today is a great day to read about Patti Smith. @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social's latest: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention
Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today is a great day to read about Patti Smith. @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social's latest: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Wise words from Raffi Krikorian, who has thought deeply about technology and society: "When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
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October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wise words from Raffi Krikorian, who has thought deeply about technology and society: "When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Tremendous reporting this morning with a stunning scoop (link in next post) from @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Missy Ryan, and @ashleyrparker.bsky.social.
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Tremendous reporting this morning with a stunning scoop (link in next post) from @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Missy Ryan, and @ashleyrparker.bsky.social.
Great reporting and fun to read, by the one and only @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great reporting and fun to read, by the one and only @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rise of the maybe-moon! This is fascinating, by @lilashroff.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
No One Actually Knows What a Moon Is
The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Rise of the maybe-moon! This is fascinating, by @lilashroff.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Here's @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Pentagon's Propaganda Corps: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Here's @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Pentagon's Propaganda Corps: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Reposted by Adrienne LaFrance
After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Extremely important reporting from @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic’s latest cover story. (So important that we published it ahead of schedule.)
Must-read, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Must-read, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Coming Election Mayhem
Donald Trump’s plans to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos are already under way.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Extremely important reporting from @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic’s latest cover story. (So important that we published it ahead of schedule.)
Must-read, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Must-read, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
In Praise of Jewel Thieves
How nice to read about a heist rather than a massacre
www.theatlantic.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This is an astonishing essay by @nxthompson.bsky.social. Really really worth reading: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Why I Run
I took up the sport to be like my father. I kept going because he stopped.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is an astonishing essay by @nxthompson.bsky.social. Really really worth reading: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...