Ryan Pitts
@ryanpitts.bsky.social
Journalist, coder, community developer. Managing director, Big Local News at Stanford.
“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
… who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”
“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
… who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”
Have seen David Eugene Edwards a few times, in solo and Wovenhand forms. Totally transfixing
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Have seen David Eugene Edwards a few times, in solo and Wovenhand forms. Totally transfixing
Yeah! I’m from eastern Washington, not far from my neck of the woods. (16 HP + Yob? Come on, that’s hard to resist.)
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
High Country News on Instagram: "When a string of teen suicides ripped through the Blackfeet Nation, local teachers banded together to shelter their students from suicidal distress. The plan: bring ki...
The heavy metal scene has long been a staple of alternative culture, but for Indigenous youth, it's become a source of strength and hope. A group of high school teachers in the Blackfeet Nation recogn...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah! I’m from eastern Washington, not far from my neck of the woods. (16 HP + Yob? Come on, that’s hard to resist.)
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Really appreciated this backstory on the festival: www.instagram.com/reel/DQwxWcZ...
Never imagined I’d even have a chance to see them live
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Never imagined I’d even have a chance to see them live
w/ companion second-screen web app a la the NPR elex Big Board
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
w/ companion second-screen web app a la the NPR elex Big Board
but Erin really whose child is this, because this child is much too big
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
but Erin really whose child is this, because this child is much too big
Glad you were OK, but Derek now I cannot WAIT for the next time I see you
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Glad you were OK, but Derek now I cannot WAIT for the next time I see you
A true gift to the world from the Royals
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A true gift to the world from the Royals
Love it. Always been fascinated with tinkering on derived statistics
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Love it. Always been fascinated with tinkering on derived statistics
Have you considered a bonus for exceptional individual performances? (Like maybe triple doubles, 40 pts, 20 boards, etc)
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Have you considered a bonus for exceptional individual performances? (Like maybe triple doubles, 40 pts, 20 boards, etc)
I love this. Are these all additive? (Curious how “low maximum lead” and “comeback bonus” interact with each other.)
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love this. Are these all additive? (Curious how “low maximum lead” and “comeback bonus” interact with each other.)
I also keep thinking about the way he distinguishes science fiction from “mimetic fiction”
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also keep thinking about the way he distinguishes science fiction from “mimetic fiction”
I got to see him speak last night, and it was every bit as great as I hoped. Just one of the tabs open on my phone now from his namechecks: poets.org/poem/you-are...
You Are Who I Love
You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding the pigeons You cheering for the bees You with cats in your voice in the morning, feeding cats You protecting the river You ar...
poets.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I got to see him speak last night, and it was every bit as great as I hoped. Just one of the tabs open on my phone now from his namechecks: poets.org/poem/you-are...
I dream of that migas
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I dream of that migas
Such a terrible place I just hated going there all the time
September 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Such a terrible place I just hated going there all the time
Made me think of this study I read about today. Maybe a little bit heartening, from that perspective at least. www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Made me think of this study I read about today. Maybe a little bit heartening, from that perspective at least. www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
They didn’t prepare me for the principalities to win or for so many of them to be this dumb
September 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
They didn’t prepare me for the principalities to win or for so many of them to be this dumb