A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...
You know what Neil Young always says: it’s better to burn out than to CIA
Tomorrow I’ll be on again (3pm KDKA CBS #Pittsburgh to talk about #LoveStoryFX, the “American royals,” and how the show makes us all nostalgic for a lower tech 90s kind of world. I’m excited esp since tomorrow night’s episode of Love Story is likely wedding weekend.
A week and a day ago, I was on tv to talk prediction markets, and the risks of financializing everything. It seems pretty high risk for top secret info to become an opportunity for a (relatively anon via crypto) windfall. Watch the segment here www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...
GG Allin’s show tonight has the potential to put his career on more stable ground—if he doesn’t shit on stage, Jonathan Lemire tells Will Gottsgen in The Atlantic Daily
Chris and Jess in Columbus last weekend for NIN.
Chris and Jess at NIN
Chris and Jess with their daughters at Wicked
Chris and Jess with their daughters.
Happy Birthday to @someclevername.bsky.social, who is the only person with whom I’d drop out of life to follow around the NIN peel it back tour. He said on Saturday that if they add more shows and come to Pgh, we are bringing the girls. I’m not sure it’s their thing, but the girls and I love you!
Two crazy kids here to see Neil Degrasse Tyson
Neil’s stage setup
Neil’s DJ - Boys Noize
Back at it
Oh the filmic treatments, the 1939 one was the first and should have been the only.
The best Valentine dinner is when Chris and the girls do heart pizzas!
Roughly 2 USAIDs
First off, why is there not Couples Luge? I do not care gender alignment, bring on the couples! This is Valentines Day for goodness sakes. Or Skeleton
This one worked best though for a while we used the Terro dust to also create a perimeter of containment. amzn.to/4ciTCzG
I also tried this perimeter ant block stuff I forget the name of but they were these pellets you put around your house. Not sure if they did anything. I bought the outside retro baits too and put them in areas near our house where I saw colony activity.
So we went from Terro to Advion to Ortho home defense as the ant problem worsened each year. I never called an exterminator and tried to keep the Ortho outside but did have a few tricky spots where I did also cover inside. Ventilate and if you have pets make sure you follow the instructions esp.
Same thing happening to journalism as at universities following the massive federal budget cuts. You can't break institutions, cast off multiple age cohorts of journalists/scholars, & just flip switches later & expect go back to the ex ante SQ. The downstream systemic effects are huge & lasting.
Seriously! And the article to which he is presumably responding counted 7 times. He wrote that he believed Epstein when he said the allegations against him were untrue, but the friendship began in 2010, many years after a conviction for said crimes being alleged. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
I was also in the “a block” that day (first segment) to talk about TikTok nearby (a feature in some parts of Europe that I speculate may be being tested in the US), during which I had to climb on and off a tall stool while on camera. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...
I’m on linear tv at 3 today (KDKA #Pittsburgh) talking about chatbots and teenagers. I’m toward the bottom of the hour (which will lead into local news at 4). I’ll share the link when I have it. Here is my spot from Jan 20th on dynamic pricing. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/v...
Sabrina carpenter on stage in front of a screen replica of a split flap with the info about arrivals and departures at an airport.
I was hoping the one used in Sabrina Carpenter’s Grammys performance was the real deal but I think it was an led facsimile.
LOOMS large but also... apt typo as they do look large. hahaha
Photo of the appropriately named Winter Mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery: a large blocky stone mausoleum with large ornamental columns in the Egyptian Revival style, fronted by a wide set of seven stairs flanked by buxom sphinx statues. The mausoleum is surrounded by trees and everything is under a layer of about eight inches of snow. Several feet in front of the mausoleum, someone has sculpted a likeness of one large-breasted statue out of snow, replicating its engimatic smole with twigs plucked from a dead branch that lays nearby.
Pittsburgh, I need you to know that someone made a snow-tittysphinx.
We often make sure we get a family photo with to cause it looks large for us esp after spending so much time in the cemetery in the early part of pandemic times.
Photo of a web stream of a group of people on stage for a panel at the Beckman Center. Chris is on the right holding a microphone.
This time last week @someclevername.bsky.social was on his way to the National Academies of Sciences to present at a workshop I got to watch via livestream. Here he is being fancy. 😍
Thank you for reposting!
‘By bringing on Powell McCormick, Meta gave itself a critical connection to the Senate if it attempts to regulate AI… ‘I think it’s absolutely beneficial to have the wife of a senator in a high-profile position in your company when you are hoping to stave off any regulations,’ said Ghilani.”
Thank you to Jack Troy at @triblive.bsky.social for reaching out for my comment on Meta naming Dana Powell McCormick as President today. She has a long resume and a lot of experience, and her marital ties are bonus regulatory buffer.
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Now we have none of the above.
Media consolidation can really come back to haunt. City Paper was acquired by the Blocks in 2023 (after orig being indie-owned, then bought by the Butler Eagle in 2016). We had 2 great alt weeklies but in 2001, the City Paper bought InPgh; similar to how the PG bought the Pittsburgh Press in '92).
I admire that too!
I haven’t and won’t search bc I won’t yield even the tiniest engagement bump generated by doing so, but at this point (from my comparatively insignificant academic perch), it’s hard not to admire the lucrative grift she cultivated through that self anointed parent/pregnancy economist expert title.
