John Hendrickson

NYT Adams professional obit

Perfect, 10/10

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

How Jeff Tweedy Made a New Magnum Opus

“Whether we feel like we have to transcend it or not, we do,” Tweedy said. “We keep moving. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and wanting to be here..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...

This was the closest we got to the rapture

They should at least make the robots wear tuxedos like old timey umps

YouTube video by casualfriday1977 The Rapture /// House of Jealous Lovers

All day www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HP0...

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue

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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

A photo of the Korean edition of Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter by John Hendrickson

I’m blown away that my book is now for sale in South Korea! Thank you to everyone who has read and shared it over these past few years, I’m so grateful.

Anthropic agrees to $1.5B settlement in AI piracy lawsuit AI company Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement on Friday, aimed at resolving a sweeping class-action lawsuit brought by authors who alleged the company used pirated copies of their books to....

Many developments since , and even more public misconceptions, but I remain proud (and hopeful) as 1 of 3 authors representing the class and standing up for copyright, even in the face of blinding tech progress. More soon. #AI #authors #publishers #copyright

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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Best way to celebrate novel release day.

Let Me Tell You About My Uncommon Cancer Dan McQuade shares what his last year has been like since learning he’s living with neuroendocrine cancer.

A year ago, doctors told me I had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. I’d probably been living with it for a decade. I will likely never be cured. But after a year of surgeries, radiation and monthly shots with a giant needle, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. defector.com/my-life-with...

Shout out to the guy who wheeled a vibraphone into Fort Greene park and busted out The Leftovers theme

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up.

Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year.

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Apparent Border Patrol agents came to arrest two firefighters battling an active wildfire in Washington state www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this."

How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't!

Materialist Next week I am doing one of the bravest things a person can do: I am moving from one apartment to another.

On moving: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

In my lifetime, I have read probably 10,000 stories about municipal government in some place or other… and this is easily in the top 5.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Exploring Louisiana's Fragile Coastline and Cultural Resilience Explore Louisiana's culture and environmental challenges as we interview locals working to preserve their unique landscape and heritage.

🧵 MY LATEST: Still Here, an eight-week multimedia series of stories from a fragile coastline.

During our nine days in South Louisiana, photographer John Noltner and I heard a lot about disappearance. Not only are wetlands vanishing, but so is Black-owned farmland. (1/4)

Witnessed a ribbon cutting at a new rest stop in OH. I wasn't sure what was going on since it was packed. I asked a guy at the door if I could enter. A short old man, some official, emerged from the crowd and hobbled forward, arms outstretched, and said "Yes! Come in! Come in and use the bathroom!"

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

Deftones Persisted for Decades. A New Generation Is Feeling the Noise.

i profiled deftones — a band that grew up in the age of numetal but always managed to transcend it

thirty years later on the eve of the group’s tenth record release, they are experiencing a late career renaissance

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/a...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.

I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS.

Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.”

www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

Steve Buscemi Is Glad He Took That Leap

“I used to feel so cool when sometimes the fire truck went by and I waved and Steve waved back.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/a...

“President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States…” is the only way we knew how to start this piece.

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. He's one of a growing number of people who are having persuasive, delusional conversations with A.I. that have led to institutionalization, divorce and death.

Chat-GPT5's hilariously bad attempt to write a song about golf in the style of Jeff Tweedy

lmao