Marc Levy
@mhlevy.bsky.social
Journalist in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Meaningless.
“Definitely seriously considering” a move, okay, guy
Let us know when you’re turning off the lights.
“Definitely seriously considering” a move, okay, guy
Let us know when you’re turning off the lights.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Meaningless.
“Definitely seriously considering” a move, okay, guy
Let us know when you’re turning off the lights.
“Definitely seriously considering” a move, okay, guy
Let us know when you’re turning off the lights.
If you’re staying on or near the Embarcadero in Oakland, California, don’t miss a meal from El Burrito Supreme #2 truck. I had the most amazing fish burrito from it ($25). Also good: queso birria tacos.
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you’re staying on or near the Embarcadero in Oakland, California, don’t miss a meal from El Burrito Supreme #2 truck. I had the most amazing fish burrito from it ($25). Also good: queso birria tacos.
I went to Oakland and god bless whoever Erica is
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I went to Oakland and god bless whoever Erica is
Holy fucking shit are we still doing this
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Holy fucking shit are we still doing this
I had dinner this week at Rei Da Picanha in East Somerville and it was simple and delicious: salmon with lemon, vegetables, rice and beans. I’m afraid I took a photo only of the perfect yuca fries. #Somerville #CambMA
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I had dinner this week at Rei Da Picanha in East Somerville and it was simple and delicious: salmon with lemon, vegetables, rice and beans. I’m afraid I took a photo only of the perfect yuca fries. #Somerville #CambMA
This “pull” sign on a restroom door at Diesel has to be a prank, right?
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This “pull” sign on a restroom door at Diesel has to be a prank, right?
Perversely excited to hear the argument of how a man who has gone on to become much richer and be elected president was “damaged very greatly” by agents coming to take back government documents, etc.
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Perversely excited to hear the argument of how a man who has gone on to become much richer and be elected president was “damaged very greatly” by agents coming to take back government documents, etc.
I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to resist digging into my latest purchase from @portersqbooks.bsky.social – Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket.” Even though I intended to finish my current read first.
October 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to resist digging into my latest purchase from @portersqbooks.bsky.social – Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket.” Even though I intended to finish my current read first.
Now that’s an ad budget well spent
Someone give this genius a big raise
I would, but I’m going to be busy signing up for this agentic workflow solution that I saw on a random billboard over a random Dunkin’ Donuts
Someone give this genius a big raise
I would, but I’m going to be busy signing up for this agentic workflow solution that I saw on a random billboard over a random Dunkin’ Donuts
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Now that’s an ad budget well spent
Someone give this genius a big raise
I would, but I’m going to be busy signing up for this agentic workflow solution that I saw on a random billboard over a random Dunkin’ Donuts
Someone give this genius a big raise
I would, but I’m going to be busy signing up for this agentic workflow solution that I saw on a random billboard over a random Dunkin’ Donuts
You can’t fault the Eric Adams campaign for consistency.
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
You can’t fault the Eric Adams campaign for consistency.
Let's check in with how Facebook is doing. Today, in checking a fact about an upcoming event, it tells me that an AI is "here to help," though “some results may be inaccurate or inappropriate."
Thanks to Meta for encapsulating it all so well: "This thing will give you answers you cannot trust."
Thanks to Meta for encapsulating it all so well: "This thing will give you answers you cannot trust."
September 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Let's check in with how Facebook is doing. Today, in checking a fact about an upcoming event, it tells me that an AI is "here to help," though “some results may be inaccurate or inappropriate."
Thanks to Meta for encapsulating it all so well: "This thing will give you answers you cannot trust."
Thanks to Meta for encapsulating it all so well: "This thing will give you answers you cannot trust."
Come on, guys
Literally just dropping them in
Literally just dropping them in
September 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Come on, guys
Literally just dropping them in
Literally just dropping them in
An absolutely exhausting take from a Boston Globe essayist that maybe "we should treat [AI] as imperfect, rife with just as many fragilities as the human brain – and as many unknowns." Like, why? People are using it as though it's the freaking Encyclopedia Brittanica, which is how it's being sold.
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
An absolutely exhausting take from a Boston Globe essayist that maybe "we should treat [AI] as imperfect, rife with just as many fragilities as the human brain – and as many unknowns." Like, why? People are using it as though it's the freaking Encyclopedia Brittanica, which is how it's being sold.
No, you're not going crazy. Today is Saturday the 13th. Yesterday was Friday the 12th.
September 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, you're not going crazy. Today is Saturday the 13th. Yesterday was Friday the 12th.
Let's check in on how Facebook is doing.
When I go to the Meta Business Suite (cringe) this is the prompt that greets me:
When I go to the Meta Business Suite (cringe) this is the prompt that greets me:
September 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Let's check in on how Facebook is doing.
When I go to the Meta Business Suite (cringe) this is the prompt that greets me:
When I go to the Meta Business Suite (cringe) this is the prompt that greets me:
The managers at Star Market can't figure out the benefit of posting a sign to say there's a broken part at a deli-counter chicken display. So apparently for six days they've just had people coming by and asking – and getting mixed responses, as not every worker knows or can say.
1/3
1/3
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The managers at Star Market can't figure out the benefit of posting a sign to say there's a broken part at a deli-counter chicken display. So apparently for six days they've just had people coming by and asking – and getting mixed responses, as not every worker knows or can say.
1/3
1/3
I can’t help but think about how world leaders talk about Trump and America when we’re not in the room. It is a certainty that they are basically – and probably literally – smacking their foreheads, laughing in disbelief and saying “What the FUCK, man!”
September 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I can’t help but think about how world leaders talk about Trump and America when we’re not in the room. It is a certainty that they are basically – and probably literally – smacking their foreheads, laughing in disbelief and saying “What the FUCK, man!”
Hey, I sure hope no one missed David Brooks' column Friday in The New York Times in which progressives are blamed for [rereads passages, confirms context] creating a group of terrorists who want to destroy America for no specific reason …
… because, you see, they felt _stifled_
… because, you see, they felt _stifled_
August 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Hey, I sure hope no one missed David Brooks' column Friday in The New York Times in which progressives are blamed for [rereads passages, confirms context] creating a group of terrorists who want to destroy America for no specific reason …
… because, you see, they felt _stifled_
… because, you see, they felt _stifled_
What an absolutely WILD paragraph from The New York Times today about how America cares only about mass shootings, reassuringly back to prepandemic levels of ONLY 271 so far this year.
I remember Americans being upset about mass shootings before the Covid pandemic, to say the least.
I remember Americans being upset about mass shootings before the Covid pandemic, to say the least.
August 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What an absolutely WILD paragraph from The New York Times today about how America cares only about mass shootings, reassuringly back to prepandemic levels of ONLY 271 so far this year.
I remember Americans being upset about mass shootings before the Covid pandemic, to say the least.
I remember Americans being upset about mass shootings before the Covid pandemic, to say the least.
So in Apple's Messages, to mute a conversation and stop notifications for it, you want the "mute conversation" icon to look like the OPPOSITE of what you want. In other words, if you DON'T click the bell icon, the bell icon in the chat will show you the opposite: That it IS muted.
Great design!
Great design!
August 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
So in Apple's Messages, to mute a conversation and stop notifications for it, you want the "mute conversation" icon to look like the OPPOSITE of what you want. In other words, if you DON'T click the bell icon, the bell icon in the chat will show you the opposite: That it IS muted.
Great design!
Great design!
Hey is it good when it's nearly midnight on the East Coast and Library of Congress search is down and blame is being put on its servers being "swamped"
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Hey is it good when it's nearly midnight on the East Coast and Library of Congress search is down and blame is being put on its servers being "swamped"
@natogreen.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social today on polling against the Democratic Party:
"The reason I hate the Democrats is that I would like it very much if they believed anything – anything at all. Start small! Genocide is bad. Ice cream is good. Build from there."
"The reason I hate the Democrats is that I would like it very much if they believed anything – anything at all. Start small! Genocide is bad. Ice cream is good. Build from there."
August 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@natogreen.bsky.social on @thebugle.bsky.social today on polling against the Democratic Party:
"The reason I hate the Democrats is that I would like it very much if they believed anything – anything at all. Start small! Genocide is bad. Ice cream is good. Build from there."
"The reason I hate the Democrats is that I would like it very much if they believed anything – anything at all. Start small! Genocide is bad. Ice cream is good. Build from there."
Wow, the Times says Android AI can do all these amazing things for you
If only there was already a way to look up how long it takes to get somewhere, or to compile a list of ingredients, or to … compile a list of ingredients
Anyway, obviously AI is amazing and changes everything
If only there was already a way to look up how long it takes to get somewhere, or to compile a list of ingredients, or to … compile a list of ingredients
Anyway, obviously AI is amazing and changes everything
July 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Wow, the Times says Android AI can do all these amazing things for you
If only there was already a way to look up how long it takes to get somewhere, or to compile a list of ingredients, or to … compile a list of ingredients
Anyway, obviously AI is amazing and changes everything
If only there was already a way to look up how long it takes to get somewhere, or to compile a list of ingredients, or to … compile a list of ingredients
Anyway, obviously AI is amazing and changes everything
Dare I hope to think this essay will mention the Republican habit of lying constantly and unapologetically?
July 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Dare I hope to think this essay will mention the Republican habit of lying constantly and unapologetically?