Webster Ford

What if...the Bad Bunny halftime show was, in fact, about many of the things that make America great?

So presumably they are now going to fire this staffer or....?

Pokemon Go to the polls!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Dan Ariely in the Epstein Files? Color me surprised! (Not.)

Today in "economic impossibilities"

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

There is video of the entire encounter, and at no point did the man approach the officers with a handgun. Either explicitly note that the DHS statement is false or do not print it.

Dear @wsj.com, please do not print lies in the newspaper. Sometimes, there are different views about what exactly happened. This is not one of those times.

a man singing into a microphone with a ring on his finger in front of a purple background ALT: a man singing into a microphone with a ring on his finger in front of a purple background

German music? Sign me up!

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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Oh hell no. There can be no justice without peace. And there can be no peace without justice.

Reposting apropos of nothing. The media has a duty not only to document what's happening, but also to clearly spell out what is true based on the best available evidence

Could America win the AI race but lose the war? The US has gone all-in on artificial intelligence. But the idea of an end-of-times battle with China over tomorrow’s key technology is part delusion, part lobbying tool for Silicon Valley

Could America win the AI race but lose the war? - www.ft.com/content/1258... via @FT

I think it's the pretentiousness of the title that really gets to me

A fictional movie poster about a superhero called "Pork Rib Man"

Forgive me

Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI With AI taking over their grunt work, lawyers and other professionals may have to charge for outcomes rather than time spent

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-g...

And to think I could have read it in Italian.

Look at you! Making an old friend so proud

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City Money is just one reason why graduates are drawn to finance, management consulting and corporate law

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City - on.ft.com/4hAQQql via @FT

The Spritzes and Carbonaras That Ate Italy

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/w...

It does include the word "bespoke", though, so I tend to trust it

They had to rebuild the airport with plywood

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Big if true!

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

Inevitably, this is what a majority of folks in Texas voted for, whether they really wanted it or not.