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Buz Ecker, 67, and other dads his daughter has recruited have since spent hours writing to strangers looking for pick-me-ups — including to many whose fathers have died.

The volunteer-run group is called the Dad Letter Project. https://wapo.st/4ngbcH0

oh i'm the bandwagon fan if anything! started supporting united because of beckham and well supporting the biggest team in the world meant bragging rights at school every monday back then lol

ugh too many gunners and spurs fans in this city. practically north london at this point!

Robert Redford’s Many Types of Heroes

One more note on Robert Redford and his particular type of on-screen hero:

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“Fume events” on airplanes have been accelerating in recent years, at times leading to emergency landings, sickening passengers, or affecting pilots’ vision and reaction times, a WSJ investigation found.

Doctors compare the effects on the brain to concussions in NFL players. on.wsj.com/42x1dEW

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

NEW @miamiherald.com:

Hundreds of undocumented migrants who had been held at Alligator Alcatraz dropped off the grid after being moved out of the site.

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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleg...

SCOOP: Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

Books, magazines. and classrooms are great antidotes to the toxic rabbit holes of cable news, social media, ChatGPT, and video games. Unfortunately the resources of our society are devoted to building up the latter and destroying the former.

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

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The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.

a wonderful, moving piece on the universe and the sublime!

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.? Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.

Breaking News: The A.I. firm Anthropic agreed to a record $1.5 billion settlement for illegally downloading and storing copyrighted books.

Tesla offers Elon Musk pay package worth $1 trillion The electric vehicle-maker’s board proposed a compensation agreement that would dramatically increase the CEO’s personal wealth over the course of a decade.

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if investors approve a new pay package proposed by the board that would give him new shares over time based on company milestones.

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Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman with immediate effect * Levy had been in position for nearly 25 years * No changes to ownership or shareholder structure Daniel Levy has stepped down as the chairman of Tottenham with immediate effect. The 63-year-old was the longest serving chairman in the Premier League before his departure. He was appointed as Spurs chairman in March 2001 and leaves after the club won the Europa League last season to end a 17-year wait for a trophy. Continue reading...

Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman with immediate effect

genuinely one of the most upsetting things i’ve ever read

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Review: Michael Robbins on “Bomarzo” A literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color.

I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower t...

Since LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is in the news today for some alleged behind-the-scenes shenanigans, it's worth looking at this 2021 @propublica.org story showing how Ballmer, one of the world's wealthiest people, paid a lower tax rate than the vendors selling drinks at Clippers games:

What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting An exclusive, up-close look at the richest people in the U.S. from celebrities like Taylor Swift and Elon Musk to the founder of a roofing supplier in Wisconsin.

The biggest concentration of billionaires, 255 of them, is in California. But the super rich also run businesses in such remote spots as Ridgeland, Miss., and Waunakee, Wisc.

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One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

For the American middle class, it has been a summer of cooling confidence. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4g2u5KZ

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