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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

The NYC thing of taking them out and placing them in a whole separate Gifted School at elementary level is as wild to me as mass Christian homeschooling.

It’s the setting of Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, and I kept thinking, wait, this must be a middle school at least? But no?

For $150 skincare creams for 25-year-old skin, too…yikes.

Great to get a GoFundMe update that Bluesky donations have eased Paulina Borsook’s life this month (& bears out @dieworkwear.bsky.social saying Bluesky is more engaged & generous than X.)

It wrecks writers’ lifetime earnings to warn about tech overreach vs Klein, Weiss, Levy, & Swisher cashing in.

"Your muted words: polycule, bari weiss"

Mental health is important:

Four images of Robert O'Neill, a retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. The top two are as himself, one from FOXNews TV and the other from an online FOXNews article, then two more; a "former Antifa" (and in another Jesse Watters segment) as "former gang member."

Photo manipulation cropped away in this version.

Keep wondering about this regarding new funding. It would explain why they keep saying 'BS is tech and not the users' because it would look for all the world that BS was bought by Thiel/Andreessen to shut up opposition talk and no other reason if they didn't keep talking about the platform.

They wouldn’t last ten minutes on the first set of forms, judging by their Facebook posts.

I tried to explain this to my Trump-voting in-laws, who don’t register me as a real immigrant with a paper trail stretching from 1990 to 2018 (and legal fees to match) because I’m white.

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

‘Absolutely divine!’ How Jilly Cooper changed the world – one bonkbuster at a time Her romances were so intelligent, raunchy and outrageously readable that she created her own category, bewitching generations of readers

This is a huge loss in my culture www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

People magazine headline: University Issues Warning After Reports of a Man Using Ray-Ban Meta Sunglasses to Record Women on Campus The university said the man may be attempting to post the interactions on social media sites, including Instagram and TikTok By Erin Clack

Text thread from a college era Mark Zuckerberg when he was founding TheFacebook to rate female students’ attractiveness. Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS What? How'd you manage that one? People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me" Dumb fucks.

This is what young women at Bay Area colleges are dealing with this week, on top of everything else.

Mark Zuckerberg’s blighted creep-glasses are generating misogynistic bait content Marc Andreessen’s TikTok.

Zuck has always been that campus creep who called the rest of us “dumb fucks.”

That’s a good reason to de-escalate, even when they’re eyeroll-worthy.

In a world of context collapse, not everyone has practice decoding multiple cultures and shorthand.

Or just move past a post that’s not for us, as we want them to do. Especially if it’s a misguided reply...

Or: Carfish away, but don’t whine when your victims fall for it and won’t let go.

If we can’t even spell our own hashtags the same way twice in a row, it’s just misdirected meanness. They’re not the ones who voted to burn the world.

They’ve always been TERs not TERFs.

It’s funny for a minute, but today’s #spéirghorm catfishing to lure distraught North Americans into lashing out at imaginary MAGA for hours just feels like an extension of Russian-bots-on-Twitter shit.

Instead of soothing Google.

A fascinating read.

Manchán Magan found wonder everywhere, mourners hear at funeral full of music and poetry Writer and broadcaster, who died at 55 of cancer, was ‘fire-starter’ who will be remembered for ‘spirit of abundance’

Manchán Magan "opened for many people the “fifth province” not found in any map. “It’s a province of the soul, silence and story – a realm that lies between the visible and invisible between the old language and the new world,” Fr. Tom Casey.

#SpéirGhorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The Tech Coup A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her “forceful critique” of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy

Je l'ai déjà publié ici mais LE livre qu'il faut lire pour comprendre le big picture à propos de ce qui est en train de se passer avec la gouvernance politique vs le GAFAM c'est celui-ci. Un des plus brillants livres sur la technologie lus depuis 15 ans. Et suivez aussi @marietjeschaake.bsky.social

The steroids they prescribe for dental bone grafts bring a very special combo of insomnia and ravenous appetite.

I could eat a baby’s arm through a wicker chair, but I’m stuck with fucking apple sauce.

Ranking my library systems by how many Jilly Cooper titles they stock on Libby.

Berkeley: 1
San Francisco: 2
Oakland: 4

Kaleb Horton Obituary (2025) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times View Kaleb Charles Horton's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

This loss feels bigger with every archived piece. He was up there with the John Prines and Merle Haggards.

I’ve noticed over the years that some of the people who have pushed back hardest on autistic friends of mine trying to unmask have later come to discover their own autism.

Similar to “my child can’t be autistic…*everyone* acts/thinks like that.”

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

(I’m taking pity on this eejit because a lot of USians on this site are targeted and vulnerable, and even less able to look up and out than usual.)

(They’re trolling you for not bothering to find out that other countries also have presidents. This isn’t your election, buddy.)

Well, that’s one way to do it.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.