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Scare-ah is 4 eels
@sarahdcalhoun.bsky.social
Minneapolis, cats, books, dh, bacon.
But I'll always be an east coat swamp gal at heart.
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For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi is an Embarrassment to Journalism
She seamlessly landed a plum role at Vanity Fair and got a sweetheart book deal after breaking a fundamental journalistic ethics rule. When my co-host Christine Grimaldi and I recorded our October 20...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
oh dang, that explains why nothing was working today!
Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.

We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Halligan's incompetence is so overwhelming that the practical legal answers of how to unravel the situation devolve to esoteric questions of philosophy.
So arguably the judge can’t dismiss the case because there is, technically, no case!
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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looks like the servers went down at cloudflare, where i work as the server guy. not to worry, i will know how to fix it as soon as i ask chatgpt what to do
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
OOOO! Happy first snow, Minneapolis!
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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With our mayor getting reelected, and showing he thinks MPD working with ICE is just fine, I’m concerned for the safety and livelihood of many of our Latine small business owners and their families. Please consider visiting these locations around the metro!

Based on recommendations from you!
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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By my admittedly rushed math, it seems like Fateh needs about 71% of the Davis/Jazz vote to break his way. Seems tough, but not impossible
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
💃🕺💃🕺
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Minneapolis election results just got dumped in. With 99% reporting, Frey has 41% of the vote. Without a majority, we go to round two.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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So happy for NYC. Fuck yes.
But also if you could please send Minneapolis good vibes while we maybe collectively lose our minds for 48ish hours of ranked choice voting…that would be great.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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🚨EARLY EXITS: all your enemies are voting in high percentages and will get their way over the next four years unless you show up to the polls and bring several friends.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Library folks: does anyone know what's going on behind Taylor & Francis's / Informa's "SaleofInfo" cookie? Are they really asking to sell our browsing data to Google, Facebook, and X (among others)? privacy.informa.com/trackers/en/
privacy.informa.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h...

This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such
Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings
OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.
arstechnica.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Welp

The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words)

snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
The curious, contentious history of pumpkin spice lattes
Starbucks didn’t invent them. But it’s possible that Tori Amos or a Midwest grandma did.
snackstack.net
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Everybody who has ever spent time in downtown Minneapolis has needed skyway.run. Dang
Minneapolis Skyway
Navigate the Minneapolis Skyway System, find lunch spots and get directions.
skyway.run
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Initial crowd estimate of No Kings Twin Cities at 100,000-150,000 people! Way to show up for Democracy!! We filled the park, and the streets!

#NoKings #NoKingsTwinCities

@indivistwincities.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social @mnaflcio.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This.... is very true. Including the tree dreams 🌲🌲🌲
please don't be worried about me, this is literally just what people from New England who move away have to do every 9 to 24 months or we'll start dreaming about trees again
October 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM