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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 17h

Fair, though it's worth noting that the person who hired her has no experience in network journalism either and so may well not be aware that the purpose of the standards department is largely to stop him from having to make big payouts to settle lawsuits.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Chuck Borges blew the whistle on DOGE uploading incredibly sensitive Social Security data to an unsecured cloud environment. Now he's running for state senate in Maryland, and gave his first interview to @makenakelly.bsky.social

This DOGE Whistleblower Is Running for Office

WIRED spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.

www.wired.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 19h

"We put someone with no experience in broadcast journalism in charge of a network news operation and you'll never believe what happened next" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS News insider claimed.

Weiss did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to the insider, Weiss had wondered aloud about why the network even had the Standards and Practices unit in a meeting with other network leaders, and had expressed concern about how powerful the team is to individuals in the newsroom.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 21h

Having avidly followed the deepening controversy over the problematic descriptions of Fair Isle-related knitting techniques on ”Game of Wool,“ I was delighted to find it on Youtube and even more delighted to find that despite the Shetland knitting community’s objections, it’s great

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague @libbybrooks.bsky.social spoke to some of the knitters of Shetland about the fair isle and steeking controversies touched off by the competitive knitting show www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Mesa want to carve it in the side of a mountain

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things this year that could have done it, it was actually seeing a poster arguing, seemingly seriously, that not liking Jar Jar Binks is racist that convinced me we're done as a civilization.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

The only performative reading I know about is that I used to be neighbors with Ethan Hawke and he would pace up and down the street in jeans and a t-shirt, smoking and running his hands through his hair, while reading Allen Ginsberg aloud, clearly wanting people to be impressed with his fervor.

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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 1d

In this video version of my Alex Karp interview, I get some words in edgewise--barely. But we do have a clash of viewpoints wherein he says tangling with me is like talking to his (progressive) parents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxW...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp On Government Contracts, Immigration, and the Future of Work | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

www.youtube.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's a soft interview at all.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Interviewing powerful tech figures is not a coverage shift.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

If I didn’t see it it didn’t happen

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

This is basically why Mantle and Mays were temporarily banned from baseball! That was way over the top, but it reflected an understanding that associating with gamblers leads to them getting their hooks into you, and that this is how games on the field get corrupted.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

*definitely not just allegedly NOT defending a choke

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

Between this, a UFC prelim guy allegedly throwing a fight by definitely not just allegedly defending a choke, and the books I’ve read about this subject, I’m beginning to think the taboos around gambling in US sports were put in place for highly sound reasons.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

The context here is that these two are, weirdly, unable to look up their own salaries on baseball-reference.com and thus unaware how trivial these sums are relative to their income; there is no reason to consider the possibility that the rate was low because they were doing this a lot

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

Forty years ago this month, The Smiths were busy finishing The Queen Is Dead, meaning that for forty years people have been wondering what the fuck Morrissey was whining about on that record.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

Relatedly, a trial of an experimental gene editing therapy cut levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by half within two weeks, according to research presented today, so I can eat all the whoopie pies I want:

A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half

An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.

www.wired.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

You think that everything has been done and then you go to the farmer’s market and see a Lancaster County bakery is hawking chocolate chip waffle whoopie pies, which turn out to be even better than they look.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 3d

The show goes on open.substack.com/pub/straight...

Catch Me On MSNBC Tonight + An Update

A campaign and communications strategy newsletter, plus a home for Jake Lahut's freelance feature reporting and other notebook items (no paywalls, but pay to support).

open.substack.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

Look, it will be a tough pill for many to swallow, but for the good of the country Democrats must work in a spirit of bipartisanship to advance the president’s policy priorities of making private insurance illegal and eliminating the filibuster.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

“In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare.”

Trump: I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance
Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

Really excited for the new era* of Penn men's basketball that begins tonight!

*We got a coach people have heard of and a guy who once played at Duke

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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · 4d

SSA employees grilled management during a tense meeting about the government shutdown yesterday. “People are coming to me saying they cannot put gas in their car and they cannot afford to come to work anymore," one employee said. Scoop w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/social...

Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting

WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.

www.wired.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

I am absolutely certain that Jake is going to have a great job lined up before too long (a good reason to reach out to him now if you're hiring), but a job tomorrow doesn't pay the bills today.

Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 4d

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 4d

Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 5d

Across Philadelphia tonight, whether it's a Fu Wah tofu banh mi, a DiNic's roast pork, a Rocco's sausage and peppers, or a Saad's chicken maroosh, sandwich enthusiasts will be digging in with extra zeal.

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