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Former news editor, current tech R&D nerd. Always high quality, internet-grade posting

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11.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

Gift link to NYT exclusive on confirmed U.S. bombing of an elementary school

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

11.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I've read this article a few times, and I can't say I understand the premise of this story.

It feels like a topic was assigned and delivered. But for the reader on the other end, its impossible to parse this without sifting through tea leaves.

10.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot imagine anything sadder than going to write a post on LinkedIn and then clicking the β€œrewrite with AI” button. If you aren’t confident you can meet the baseline tone of LinkedIn? I dont know, man.

10.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 971 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 17
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09.03.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I missed the third option, which was: completely change the meaning of the word: Unconditional

06.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not really relevant, but damn im impressed with this guy's ability to organize new information in his head while still speaking

06.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of note: There is no way for Trump to enforce an "unconditional surrender" without ground troops.

So either that is a lie or U.S. special forces is about to try to abduct dozens of people from bunkers in the middle of hundreds of thousands of hostile troops

06.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
A shelf lined with yellow bottles of SpongeBob SquarePants themed party drunks, stylized after champagne or sparkling grape juice

A shelf lined with yellow bottles of SpongeBob SquarePants themed party drunks, stylized after champagne or sparkling grape juice

WE FINNA GET CRUNK OFF DAT BOB 🍾

04.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11

The way I read media must be so different from most people on this app... I finished reading this story right before I logged on and thought:

'Hmm, yeah based on the story seems like there's not much of a problem with abuse here. Looks like everyone is doing a good job so far.'

04.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we appear to be free-jazzing a war

03.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

There's definitely something to be said about which stories the big elite media outlets choose to put their energy into on the topic of trans issues.

03.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 972 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

Um... news apps and newsletters

03.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its so insane -- I literally knew more about this situation than the president did when he launched the strikes, and I only read newspapers and blogs!

03.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It could still be good content regardless, but I think time likely separates it from "news"

02.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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6 Conservative Voters React to Attacks on Iran Ahead of the Texas Primaries

I dont really understand the analytical utility of checking in with this same group throughout -- they're kindof collapsing the wave function here.

It becomes more of a sociological experiment about saving or gaining face...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

02.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The job of an op/ed page is not to only publish the "right" opinions. If a topic, policy, or decision is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op/ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for that policy or decision. Even if the policy is bad!

02.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 436 πŸ“Œ 379

Of course, the word "salary" would just be a clever bit of marketing

02.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think you could sell Americans on a sports-style soft salary cap

02.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In real immediate terms, this just sets up a two-tier AI economy where companies that do business with the government have worse AI applications than companies that work with private business

27.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kitty Kelley was assigned a review of my Judy Blume biography, but did she read it? The best-selling biographer of Sinatra and Jackie O. filled her review of my book with invented quotations, possible hallucinations, and assorted Mad Libs

Kudos to Mark Oppenheimer for writing this corrective. Andβ€” assuming that the corrective is indeed correct –shame on Kitty Kelley for an appalling breach of truth, ethics, and professionalism.

markoppenheimer.substack.com/p/kitty-kell...

27.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8

Coming from NY, Rikers Island has been a known scandal since forever. Everyone on every side of the debate acknowledges it. But nothing changes, despite a proposed closing date of 2027. If these camps go unchallenged and the new ones get built, we will never get rid of them.

26.02.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 289 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Would be awesome if every level of society wasn't judged based on their industry equivalent of quarterly earnings reports

26.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It'a crazy that all of these tiny public universities have major AI projects while thier teachers use literally 20 year old computers in classrooms that take an actual 15 minutes to boot up

26.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

Uuuh, have y'all seen this? Its not AI doomer or maxi, just a speculative report on a future reality that's on our trendline.

Its kinda like the news media spec we did on themopup.com , but for the entire economy

www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

25.02.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so well said, but a note to the repliers: very few of your kids or young friends are either representative or 'cool'. Please zoom out and aggregate for useful anecdotes lol

18.02.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dev: drives himself to the brink of death

Me 20 hours in: oh the title is like β€œblueprints” I get it now

18.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 502 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
Project Hail Mary | Final Trailer
Project Hail Mary | Final Trailer YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

Saw the trailer for Project Hail Mary and literally screamed lol.

If you haven't read the book (same author as The Martian), I will just tell you that when I finished it I said to myself: well, there's no way they can make a movie out of THIS.

youtu.be/P0XN3-n-2Lo?...

17.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0