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Senior Writer at The Ringer πŸ¦‰ NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls πŸ¦‰ occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) πŸ¦‰ whippet fancier https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337

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I want you toknow that proclamations like this come from the softest dude you will ever meet whose greatest challenge in life is waiting ten minutes in line at Merridee's

09.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1606 πŸ” 200 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

07.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 1143 πŸ” 598 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 280
Walk-In Soda Cave at Sheetz

Walk-In Soda Cave at Sheetz

Plato's

07.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 849 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 10
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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year | TechCrunch The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

I simply can't believe the guy who made an app to help you "cheat on everything" would turn out to be untrustworthy

06.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Then fell asleep and missed the game

06.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I just appreciate that he somehow parleyed Guy Who Memorized The Whole First Half Of Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back into a Cartier endorsement

06.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm Legolas's cousin, and my visitation rights were just cut off" I say with a smirk as the GQ photographer urges me to undo one more button

06.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

I care about ballet and opera a lot more than I care about Timothee Chalamet, but I will always maintain a baseline level of respect for a man who convinced the world for like three straight years that the height of glamor is to look like a pixie that's six months late on its Mustang payments

06.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

I can't think of a clearer explanation of how capitalism works in practice than that they figured out how to trade futures in missile strikes before they figured out how to solve the weird six-hour shipping-status gap after the email is sent but before the parcel is received

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Proud to be in the trenches with my revolutionary brothers in arms, Bill Kristol and the House of Lords

06.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."

06.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 1413 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 3

Y’all go get this dog so we don’t have to

06.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

05.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 15

I didn't say there were no downsides

05.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The site couldn't last 72 hours without you, goes without saying

05.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I regularly check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours and when I come back I'm overwhelmed with the realization that many people I like very much need to check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours

04.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

04.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1971 πŸ” 788 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 39
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The Terrifying Tentacles of Paramount’s Media Empire The Ellisons are building a multicorporate network of data mining, surveillance, news, and entertainment. What could possibly go wrong?

I wrote about the Ellisons' Warner Bros. takeover, which will create an entirely new type of right-wing media empire

03.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

If Sun-, Mon-, or Tues- the -day do be,

The game is on Peacock or perhaps N- and/or ABC;

If Wednesday has come round again,

'Tis wise to check ESPN;

Yet if it be long weekend time,

Search Disney's sports verticals, but first try searching Prime

27.10.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 422 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 6

That was the first of several moments when I almost bailed on the piece

04.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Reporter: You'll concede this is war?

Markwayne Mullin: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us.

Reporter: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war.

Reporter: When you walked up just now, you called it war.

Mullin: Okay. That was a misspoke.

03.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 357 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 85

If he'd studied the blade The Beast in the Jungle would have been a lot shorter

03.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Consequences won't hit for what, two years at the earliest? Two years is four thousand years when you're 12

03.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much! No, we pitched a continuation but the bosses weren't interested, unfortunately

03.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wish I'd had space to talk more about this! The debt math is doubly interesting given that Oracle's been tanking after (stop me if you've heard this one before) overspending on data centers. Some of these guys have clearly decided Trump + AI = a future where normal financial math won't apply anymore

03.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

Basically interchangeable in this case

03.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And/or they can hire me to write a piece for Harper's about the future of motorsports

03.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

None. I've scattered a series of riddles whose answers point to my offline contact information throughout my work over the last 15 years. Whosoever solves these riddles and find me will be my true disciple, and will learn the blade at my hands

03.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Terrifying Tentacles of Paramount’s Media Empire The Ellisons are building a multicorporate network of data mining, surveillance, news, and entertainment. What could possibly go wrong?

I wrote about the Ellisons' Warner Bros. takeover, which will create an entirely new type of right-wing media empire

03.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10
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I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

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