Chandra Steele

“My worst fear is that someday I’ll look up at the moon and there will be a strategic air command center there and you won’t really be able to see it without a big telescope but you’ll know it’s there.”
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We once loved pigeons. We might not remember that, but they do | Joseph Earp The gentle, beautiful curiosity of humans led to the discovery that these birds are able to differentiate between paintings by Monet and Picasso

It's nice to see more discussion about the origin of pigeons that, like gentle and humble dandelions, follow in the dismissive wreckage of human history, without any fault of their own.

Happy birthday!

When I was at PCMag, I recommended Chandra be hired. She was. So if you value my judgement, consider giving her an interview.

Thank you, Mark. It was one of the best things that happened to me

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I know there is a lot going on, but I am still for hire. I’m an award-winning writer, a careful editor, and people love working with me (you can ask around to check!)
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Maybe you've been offline all day? Maybe you've wondered if "art crime reporter" was a real beat? Maybe you didn't know the US government is currently selling four very valuable artworks on a sad looking auction website? Or maybe you just want to know what experts think might affect actual bids?

Maybe these will make up for them not bringing back the Thai iced tea ones

This is exactly the kind of book I want to read

And that mess in the kitchen

I spent a day filming the pilot of a Reductress show for Comedy Central with Abby Elliott that never aired. I have 0 IMDB credits to show for it but I did get my name on a call sheet and a per diem

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

A word.

I don’t know where to put my fury about this. Intentional starvation is a cruelty beyond measure. It happened to my Armenian family, it’s happening to Palestinians now, it could happen to you if the powers that be decide you’ve stepped out of line. Enough!

I cannot believe its memory has been preserved on Wikipedia. I definitely never went inside but now I wish I had at least looked in

It really was the start of the new Times Square. For worse or for even worse

No one has ever accepted the “he has the opportunity to do the funniest thing” challenge more than

That Tesla Diner juxtaposed against the word Mars jolted it back into my consciousness

He couldn’t even reopen Mars 2112

You’re welcome! Thank you for sharing it!

If you want to donate to a PBS station in a state that needs it the most, I made a list of all of the donation pages and a legend with how much of their budget relies on federal funding
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Another very innocent person

Photo of Sam Altman looking shocked like always with the headline OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns of an AI Fraud Crisis

Sam Altman always looks like a guy who’s just heard about all the terrible things done by Sam Altman

I am so sad about Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Magnificent Jerk Society & Culture Podcast · Weekly Series · On the last day of her grandmother’s life, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman finds a box of forgotten screenplays that sets her on a journey to uncover the truth...

This one is a limited series and not new but it’s riveting and heartbreaking and inspiring
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a person is walking through a doorway in a room with a mirror on the wall . ALT: a person is walking through a doorway in a room with a mirror on the wall .

This one hurts.

Benjamin Ryan, the first byline on the Times’ story about Mamdani, follows the alleged hacker on X. Ryan is the only non-staffer on the story and also the only non-political reporter. He typically writes about science for the Times, and often about trans kids in his newsletter. Ryan is a subscriber of Lasker’s email newsletter, Cremieux Recueil, according to the “reads” section of the Substack app. It is not terribly difficult to figure out why Ryan is credited on the story — he is the reporter most likely to have gotten ahold of the application. Ryan did not respond to a request for comment. It’s not unusual for journalists to use hacked materials, or those from less-than-savory sources. But best practices around hacked materials means being judicious about what to use, and giving the audience context about what the hack was meant to accomplish. It is difficult to believe The New York Times doesn’t know that — after all, a great deal of discussion around the ethics of using data from hacks sprang from the paper’s coverage of leaked emails from a hack of Hillary Clinton’s private server. In its story about Mamdani, The Times says the hack “appears to have been carried out in order to see if Columbia was still using race-conscious affirmative action in its admission policies after the Supreme Court effectively barred the practice in 2023,” but that’s it.

publishing hacked info from kids' college applications without noting the hacker is a racial-slur-handled nazi on a criminal vendetta against non-white people -- a thing you should probably know since your reporter follows them on social media -- is bad, actually www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

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Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die Millions of dollars in treatments, supplements, and scans. Immortality through AI. Bryan Johnson’s longevity script has everything—except an ending.

WIRED's Global Editorial Director @katie-drummond.bsky.social: True or false: You, Bryan Johnson, the man sitting across from me, one day at some point in the future, will die.

Bryan Johnson: False.

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