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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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okay okay OKAY here are all 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred
1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred
September 27, 2023 at 6:00 PM
okay okay OKAY here are all 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred
1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred
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Don't know about other cities but it's remarkable how Seattle's recent job and population growth haven't touched the retail vacancy rate. We have an exurb-style dead mall right in the middle of downtown.
www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...
www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...
August 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Don't know about other cities but it's remarkable how Seattle's recent job and population growth haven't touched the retail vacancy rate. We have an exurb-style dead mall right in the middle of downtown.
www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...
www.seattletimes.com/business/sea...
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands
Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands
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Stop, stop, I can only get so erect
June 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Stop, stop, I can only get so erect
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you show up just in time for brunch and are greeted by this lovely young man. he jokes that it’s been a week, knowing it’s only monday. bottomless mimosas are on him
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
you show up just in time for brunch and are greeted by this lovely young man. he jokes that it’s been a week, knowing it’s only monday. bottomless mimosas are on him
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We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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WhatsApp says it will start showing ads inside the app for the first time.
The ads will be in a part of the app called Updates, used by around 1.5 billion people a day.
WhatsApp will collect data on users to target the ads, like location and your default language.
The ads will be in a part of the app called Updates, used by around 1.5 billion people a day.
WhatsApp will collect data on users to target the ads, like location and your default language.
June 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
WhatsApp says it will start showing ads inside the app for the first time.
The ads will be in a part of the app called Updates, used by around 1.5 billion people a day.
WhatsApp will collect data on users to target the ads, like location and your default language.
The ads will be in a part of the app called Updates, used by around 1.5 billion people a day.
WhatsApp will collect data on users to target the ads, like location and your default language.
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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia.
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
June 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia.
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor
May 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor
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The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
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Microsoft Word has this amazing feature where if you try to save a document while on airplane mode it deletes all of your work.
April 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Microsoft Word has this amazing feature where if you try to save a document while on airplane mode it deletes all of your work.
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Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
August 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
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FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
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Who could have possibly predicted this?????
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Who could have possibly predicted this?????
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Your outie uses chopsticks like an animal #Severance
February 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Your outie uses chopsticks like an animal #Severance
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Adobe Illustrator is basically a cruel trickster spirit pretending to be a computer program
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Adobe Illustrator is basically a cruel trickster spirit pretending to be a computer program