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Just imagine.
They Live was a documentary
Rolling out a doxxing program on your social media platform and then immediately pausing it because everyone is a robot
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh, look. It’s my childhood. youtu.be/_QeWO9K7Egs
CLASSIC COMMERCIAL FOR WORTHINGTON FORD FEATURING CAL WORTHINGTON AND HIS DOG SPOT
YouTube video by David Puls
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Red Viles
Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Nood & Plenty
Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Shittles
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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The average song duration on the Minutemen's "Double Nickels on the Dime" is 111 seconds. Selections from this album should constitute the only acceptable interludes at any MLB regular-season or postseason games.
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Remembering the time I wanted to name an a.m. newsletter of journalism “The Morning Constitutional,” which (almost) no one else thought was a good idea.
October 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
C is quite a sleeper. Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Today is International Democracy Day. City Bureau’s Documenters program puts regular folks right into local public meetings where it happens. We have a generous match going on this week so if you’ve got the means, consider a donation and see it doubled!

mailchi.mp/citybureau.o...
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Your phone should be allowed to interject if it detects you lying on a date

“Not according to your browser history, mister”

“I’m a _phone_ and I just threw up in my mouth a little bit”

“Honey, run”
July 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A thought for publishers: stop trying to “broaden your appeal” to somehow marginally compete with the entire global internet and curate more effectively for a specific audience/community. Time is the scarcity not amateur opinions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...
The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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There was an IBM ad 30 years ago that had a web developer going “look at the flame animation” and his boss saying, “but does it record orders accurately?” Now the bosses have all gone, “AI flame animation! AI flame animation!”
May 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Fun fact about PA: All the liquor stores are run by the state. That means sales are public.

@inquirer.com acquired one year of alcohol sales data from the state — 75 million rows of data.

We used it to build a guide to your neighborhood’s drinking habits.

Presenting: Pennsylvania Uncorked.
What does your neighborhood drink? Find out with Pennsylvania Uncorked, our breakdown of the most popular wine and spirits
Analysis of a year's worth of Fine Wine and Good Spirits sales data.
www.inquirer.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.
It isn't a surprise to me that returning to print has made the Onion significantly funnier, but it is a surprise to me how *quickly* it has done so.
April 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students" - skill issue
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Mozilla deleted the following text from its Terms of Service:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.”
github.com/mozilla/bedr...
Tos copy updates (fix #16016) (#16018) · mozilla/bedrock@d459add
* ToS copy updates (fix #16016) * Apply suggestions from code review - copy change Co-authored-by: maureenlholland <maureen@silverorange.com> --------- Co-authored-by: maureenlholland &lt...
github.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This feels important youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8
Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles
YouTube video by f4mi
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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as a hiring manager for a pile of entry and mid level public sector roles, domain knowledge candidates who are willing to learn a bit of python / DS skills have outperformed pure data science degree candidates who don’t care about the industry (public transit / transportation)
As the history advisor for the big public university in the state, I’ve been invited to a local prep school to talk about history majors.

I’m considering opening with this article from 2014. /1
I studied business and programming, not English. I still can’t find a job.
Colleges are failing science and math kids, too.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 11, 2024 at 2:02 PM
TIL I used to play Little League on the largest urban oil field in the United States. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglewo...
Inglewood Oil Field - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 29, 2023 at 11:53 PM