VN Archive: Inside Taylor Phinney's comeback to pro racing Taylor Phinney and those closest to him say he's not just different but much better — as both a person and an athlete.

Saw that Taylor Phinney is coming out of retirement to shoot for the 2028 Olympics. Reminded me of this, which is still my favorite profile I ever wrote. velo.outsideonline.com/news/vn-arch...

Apple News alert that reads: “Why more Gen Z men are turning to Catholicism, a favorite design trend that makes homes harder to sell, and more popular reads.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

It’s amazing how F1’s new regulations have made the sport both more dangerous and less exciting. That’s tough to pull off.

Yeah, but he fired her because she wasn’t awful enough

I started following F1 in the ‘80s (my dad was a motor head). Covered it as a journalist in the ‘90s & early 2000s. I have some historical context when I say the sport has completely shot itself in the foot with these cars.

They’re about to loose all the fans they picked up from the Netflix show.

Who else has seen their life completely taken over by Angine de Poitrine the past couple of weeks? #anginedepoitrine

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

About $60b is all it would take to make college tuition-free.... And that would provide a much higher ROI

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I don’t want to jinx it, but Bam Adebayo is on a no-hitter right now.

Wired has gotten more negative, and that’s a positive. I was working there when the vibe started shifting from “wow, look what tech can do!” to, “oh shit, look what tech companies are doing.”

Less cheerleading and more watchdogging is precisely the right call.

Kinda what Keynes was getting at, right?

If a couple of Tickle Me Elmos had told kids to kill themselves they would have been off the market by the weekend

But I thought that Americans were going to get those amazing jobs -- most of which were off book, anyway -- resulting in fantastic growth?? I might need this explained to me again.

(Please do not try to explain to me)

What a joyful American performance that was

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Howard Cosell lost his job for less (and rightly so).

CBS saw how Nike decimated its business by appointing an ecomm executive with no brand or sneaker experience as CEO and said “we’ll have some of that.”

The U.S. is exactly the sort of country the U.S. advises American travelers to avoid.

It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.

A truly scrumptious response

FYI: A heatpump is a reverse McDLT: instead of keeping hot and cold separate and then combining them, it takes combined hot and cold and makes them separate.

Quote from a New York Times profile of John Tesh

This graf in the @nytimes.com profile of John Tesh is an eight-episode tv show.

Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files Epstein Politics Shift on the Hill President Trump’s absurd effort to avoid...

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Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance

I don't know. Maybe someone who lets their words run that far ahead of their knowledge shouldn't work in think tanks? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Necklace ad that looks like a group of bicycle rim profiles.

When it's a jewelry add but all you see are rim profiles. Or maybe they're trying to sell diamonds to cyclists?

That would be silly, though. Who's going to spend Enve money on necklaces?

If you support the Electoral College on the grounds that it prevents the tyranny of the majority, how can you also support the end of Section 2 of the VRA?

Don't answer. I know. It's because you care only about conservative minorities, not racial ones.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

This idea that scientists just go along with each other in some grand conspiracy is so incorrect. So many of them are incredibly petty and contrarian. Proving others wrong is part of the motivation.

You understand that if anyone could prove a causal link between anything and autism, they would win a Nobel, right?

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.