Darryl Laiu
@dlaiu.bsky.social
Video Journalist. Data Journalist. Recovering content monkey.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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Now I want a Hot Ones episode with Chotiner, and a follow up article interviewing Sean Evans.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Now I want a Hot Ones episode with Chotiner, and a follow up article interviewing Sean Evans.
On a whim, I finally cleaned up a project I worked on about a year ago! It is now much less buggy (thanks Claude), so if you wanna know my argument for why John Oliver is a journalist and how PEEL from high school was useful, read it here!
dlaiu.github.io/john-oliver-...
dlaiu.github.io/john-oliver-...
October 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
On a whim, I finally cleaned up a project I worked on about a year ago! It is now much less buggy (thanks Claude), so if you wanna know my argument for why John Oliver is a journalist and how PEEL from high school was useful, read it here!
dlaiu.github.io/john-oliver-...
dlaiu.github.io/john-oliver-...
If a man performs and no one is there to see it, did anyone hear how much of an ally he is?
September 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If a man performs and no one is there to see it, did anyone hear how much of an ally he is?
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very good article. talked about it on stream today.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
very good article. talked about it on stream today.
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Like I’m sorry we cannot call a guy who demands then reinstatement of violently enforced social hierarchy based on race/gender/religion etc a guy who was “doing politics right”
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Like I’m sorry we cannot call a guy who demands then reinstatement of violently enforced social hierarchy based on race/gender/religion etc a guy who was “doing politics right”
Sam's reaction is my reaction
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sam's reaction is my reaction
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just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Why is every single train delayed today
July 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Why is every single train delayed today
The poll failed the charisma check
July 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The poll failed the charisma check
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I’m sure I’m not the first person to make this joke, but some journalists really do talk about Mamdani the way J. Jonah Jameson talks about Spider-Man
July 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I’m sure I’m not the first person to make this joke, but some journalists really do talk about Mamdani the way J. Jonah Jameson talks about Spider-Man
My issue with the angle of the story is that "Water identifies as H2O, but acknowledges it has fluoride" is also a factual angle, but is it newsworthy??
Patrick Healy, NYT assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, wrote a thread on how the Zohran Mamdani/Columbia story came together:
July 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My issue with the angle of the story is that "Water identifies as H2O, but acknowledges it has fluoride" is also a factual angle, but is it newsworthy??
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One of the habits from Gawker that I will always carry with me is how to, as we called it, "eat shit" with honesty, even when it's painful or embarrassing. It helps readers trust you more when you explain how and why you fucked up. This is... not that
July 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
One of the habits from Gawker that I will always carry with me is how to, as we called it, "eat shit" with honesty, even when it's painful or embarrassing. It helps readers trust you more when you explain how and why you fucked up. This is... not that
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You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
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it pisses me off so much that em dashes are a sign of something written by AI — some of us are simply addicted to em dashes and refuse to use other forms of punctuation!!!
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
it pisses me off so much that em dashes are a sign of something written by AI — some of us are simply addicted to em dashes and refuse to use other forms of punctuation!!!
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The psychology of a situationship
May 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The psychology of a situationship
I'm so happy this show is back on :''') @gamechangershow.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm so happy this show is back on :''') @gamechangershow.bsky.social
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The most New York of stories happened this morning:
A baby was born on the subway.
Still working on getting more info, but. There's good news in the city.
(Broken by the New York Daily News, of course)
A baby was born on the subway.
Still working on getting more info, but. There's good news in the city.
(Broken by the New York Daily News, of course)
Baby born on W subway train traveling in Midtown Manhattan
EMS was called to the 34th St. station of the M, N, Q, R, and W trains just before 11:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News, and brought mother and baby to a nearby hospital.
www.nydailynews.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The most New York of stories happened this morning:
A baby was born on the subway.
Still working on getting more info, but. There's good news in the city.
(Broken by the New York Daily News, of course)
A baby was born on the subway.
Still working on getting more info, but. There's good news in the city.
(Broken by the New York Daily News, of course)
No fr Man in the Middle was a great show. Solid Michael Schur.
December 7, 2024 at 12:14 AM
No fr Man in the Middle was a great show. Solid Michael Schur.
I clicked play on what I thought was a whimsical Mike Schur sitcom. Tell me why they're playing Cat Stevens within the first 5 mins and it's suddenly raining in my apartment
December 5, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I clicked play on what I thought was a whimsical Mike Schur sitcom. Tell me why they're playing Cat Stevens within the first 5 mins and it's suddenly raining in my apartment
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absolutely, this was a hard lesson i learned at kotaku but it really molded me into a better writer
Some of my best writing ever was clickbait shit that a gaming website was having me churn out 12 times a day. It was meaningless to me but I still made it readable and at least remotely interesting. I feel like that's a core writing discipline, taking boring shit and make it _something._
November 21, 2024 at 5:09 PM
absolutely, this was a hard lesson i learned at kotaku but it really molded me into a better writer