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Native brooklynite; what the world needs now is facts, sweet facts; tv fiend. Broaden.substact.com

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Encouraging that many showed up in defense of opera, ballet, & I’d like to think, classical music artists too. I do hope (as someone who actually listens to classical music) this controversy increases ticket sales, music downloads & overall curiosity. Otherwise it’s a bit performative for my taste.

07.03.2026 17:21 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And when all these publications dissolve, Google will have nothing to scrape for new information.

Killing jobs and killing industries that will eventually lead to their own demise.

🫠

07.03.2026 17:48 👍 96 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 3

Listen.

07.03.2026 08:03 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I have an opinion on Maine's Dem senate primary because my senator is John fucking Fetterman and I don't think there's a politically minded American alive who doesn't have an opinion on that guy. "United States" means we all get to have an opinion on what you're doing in your state

07.03.2026 14:11 👍 122 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

This is very frustrating news to hear, as a talent agent who only manages sexy, talking foxes.

07.03.2026 15:35 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Daylight Saving Time starts tonight at 2 a.m. Anyone caught saving daylight before then is subject to fines for hoarding.

07.03.2026 16:28 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Russia Revels in a Sudden Reversal in Fortunes as Oil and Gas Prices Soar

And there you have it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

07.03.2026 16:48 👍 52 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0
07.03.2026 03:27 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to

Women in tech and digital rights deserve more and brighter spotlights. At EFF, we’ve had the honor of celebrating some of our heroes at our annual EFF Awards.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

07.03.2026 02:29 👍 76 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
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congratulations, Republicans — you own this shithole mess the price of gas goes fuckity-zoom

here's today's post: "congratulations, Republicans — you own this shithole mess" — the price of gas goes fuckity-zoom.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

06.03.2026 15:43 👍 1021 🔁 211 💬 42 📌 4

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

07.03.2026 02:25 👍 1602 🔁 217 💬 33 📌 22
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Trader Joe’s Recalls 4 Frozen Food Products That May Contain Glass

Fried Rice - March 4 through Feb. 10, 2027
Vegetable Fried Rice - Feb. 28 through Nov. 19
Japanese Style Fried Rice - Feb. 28 through Nov. 14
Chicken Shu Mai - March 13 through Oct. 23

The previous recall, issued on Feb. 20, was for Chicken Fried Rice.

07.03.2026 02:31 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

One nice thing about the Gilded Age was how many of those dudes believed they were going to hell. And were scared.

07.03.2026 02:20 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

06.03.2026 21:22 👍 1758 🔁 324 💬 40 📌 44
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2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

07.03.2026 02:16 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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All About Timothée Chalamet's Parents, Mom Nicole Flender and Dad Marc Chalamet Timothée Chalamet was raised by his parents, dad Marc Chalamet and mom Nicole Flender. Here’s all about Timothée Chalamet’s parents.

The thing about Timothee Chalamet choosing to shit on ballet and opera is that his mom “majored in dance at LaGuardia High School and attended Yale University on a ballet scholarship. As a child, she danced with the New York City Ballet and later went on to perform in several Broadway musicals.”

07.03.2026 02:00 👍 640 🔁 83 💬 40 📌 39
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Freeloader Friday: 95 Free Things To Do This Weekend - Racket A mutual aid yard sale, International Women's Day celebrations, concerts, and more.

A mutual aid yard sale, International Women's Day celebrations, concerts, and more.

07.03.2026 02:17 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 3919 🔁 1494 💬 177 📌 102

accelerating chaos in all directions.

i am just barely able to begin to register the damage Republican dysfunction has wrought on domestic & global scales.

god help us come up with enuf electoral retrospection to climb back to some sanity.

06.03.2026 14:57 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

If you're still using Substack, have you tried subscribing to your own publication lately to see what it's like?

Like how the entire process is about Substack 1) annoying your new reader and 2) trying to them to make use the Substack app, where your paying subscribers become theirs, not yours?

07.03.2026 02:06 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

Heated Rivalry but it sucks and you hope they're miserable forever

07.03.2026 01:21 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What other band could possibly write a song about marine microbiology and have it rock this hard? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ5i...

07.03.2026 01:57 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Grammarly's AI is recruiting writers, alive and dead, whether they like it or not Grammarly's AI is recruiting writers, alive and dead, whether they like it or not

The latest unnecessary feature from an app that's supposed to just check for typos offers "Expert Reviews" from victims of identity theft.

07.03.2026 00:03 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.

07.03.2026 00:24 👍 1034 🔁 190 💬 37 📌 6

if it didn't come with such a horrific body count there'd be at least a twinge of satisfaction in seeing Trump the face-eating leopard become the leopard-face-eatee because no amount of sucking up to Putin will ever stop Putin from screwing him over

as it is, I'm just livid he's so FUCKING gullible

06.03.2026 20:35 👍 150 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0

looking forward to some dipshit in a suit that doesn't fit them standing in the White House press room and explaining how "foot-powered cars, like those popularized in the Flintstones, are actually far cheaper and more reliable than gas guzzlers."

06.03.2026 21:14 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And by a distant moon I saw
Ten thousand raiders, maybe more

06.03.2026 21:34 👍 111 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 0

For the second time in as many days: ✨delete grammarly✨

06.03.2026 21:48 👍 77 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 0

The Trump regime's assault on the English language keeps making me think of this old Twilight Zone episode.

06.03.2026 21:57 👍 431 🔁 51 💬 16 📌 0
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

“This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing …

… Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioral levels”

06.03.2026 20:04 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1