Deirdre
@deirdremcno.bsky.social
Research Librarian at Condé Nast. Research credits include: Pitchfork, Glamour, Vogue, and British Vogue. Profile watercolor by Jenny Kroik.
(In deploying the English stop, the French teach their children to associate our language with the abrupt cessation of pleasure.)
I love Caity's writing!!!
I love Caity's writing!!!
I hate to say this, but I think Mark Twain fucking lied about going to the Louvre (with all due respect): www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.
www.theatlantic.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
(In deploying the English stop, the French teach their children to associate our language with the abrupt cessation of pleasure.)
I love Caity's writing!!!
I love Caity's writing!!!
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Read @chaykak.bsky.social with the definitive story of @bsky.app and its effort to build a better digital town square. @jay.bsky.team: “I think this self-styled tech-monarch thing is worth questioning. Do we want to live in that world?” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
www.newyorker.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Read @chaykak.bsky.social with the definitive story of @bsky.app and its effort to build a better digital town square. @jay.bsky.team: “I think this self-styled tech-monarch thing is worth questioning. Do we want to live in that world?” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Two weeks ago, I traveled to a secret location in the northern US to meet two white wolves, Romulus and Remus, made by de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences. The company says they're dire wolves. Are they? My story with @mattreynolds.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf
Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf?
www.wired.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Two weeks ago, I traveled to a secret location in the northern US to meet two white wolves, Romulus and Remus, made by de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences. The company says they're dire wolves. Are they? My story with @mattreynolds.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/scient...
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All of my work is authentically generated with a squishy brain and a creaky left hand.
December 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
All of my work is authentically generated with a squishy brain and a creaky left hand.
#UglyDogs I'm sharing a GoFundMe that is dear to me. Steve Crone & his wife Leo Joost ran New England Dogsledding. After a long struggle with cancer Steve died this month. All the dogs had built in retirement packages. Any help you could give would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-leo-j...
March 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#UglyDogs I'm sharing a GoFundMe that is dear to me. Steve Crone & his wife Leo Joost ran New England Dogsledding. After a long struggle with cancer Steve died this month. All the dogs had built in retirement packages. Any help you could give would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-leo-j...
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
"...digital tickets may have practical advantages, but they’re not vessels for meaning, which is something that humans — who spent millennia imbuing objects with abstract significance before anyone thought to sell souvenirs — have always looked for."
I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones
The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.
www.bloomberg.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"...digital tickets may have practical advantages, but they’re not vessels for meaning, which is something that humans — who spent millennia imbuing objects with abstract significance before anyone thought to sell souvenirs — have always looked for."
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i spent a ton of time with the new AI "perspectives" feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-...
The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more "objective" if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written by a human and the other side is generated by AI. The reality: Kind of a mess.
www.niemanlab.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i spent a ton of time with the new AI "perspectives" feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-...
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Here's an example of kind, thoughtful remembrance from an American entity. I wish this sort of thing wasn't so rare these days.
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Here's an example of kind, thoughtful remembrance from an American entity. I wish this sort of thing wasn't so rare these days.
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Wolf Moon: black crayon and body colour 2021
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Wolf Moon: black crayon and body colour 2021
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Winter Night Isleworth: acrylic on canvas
November 28, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Winter Night Isleworth: acrylic on canvas
In June 1982 there was one issue of that magazine digitized. Was it the issue you need? No, it was not.
Every.
Damn.
Time.
Every.
Damn.
Time.
January 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In June 1982 there was one issue of that magazine digitized. Was it the issue you need? No, it was not.
Every.
Damn.
Time.
Every.
Damn.
Time.
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I’m willing to bet that most of us pay more per month in underused streaming/cable fees than the cost of an annual magazine or newspaper subscription (eg $50 NY Mag). Subscribe more, read more, support what matters to you, stop whining about paywalls
January 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m willing to bet that most of us pay more per month in underused streaming/cable fees than the cost of an annual magazine or newspaper subscription (eg $50 NY Mag). Subscribe more, read more, support what matters to you, stop whining about paywalls
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I’m just here to see how we end.
November 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
I’m just here to see how we end.
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If you see this car please contact the police.
It's stollen.
🤦🏻♂️
It's stollen.
🤦🏻♂️
December 5, 2024 at 9:33 AM
If you see this car please contact the police.
It's stollen.
🤦🏻♂️
It's stollen.
🤦🏻♂️
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Don’t forget to dust off your board games for Xmas 😉
November 21, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Don’t forget to dust off your board games for Xmas 😉
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A gentle reminder that someday all social media will end. And we’ll return to our books. And hope they’ll still speak to us.
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
A gentle reminder that someday all social media will end. And we’ll return to our books. And hope they’ll still speak to us.