I'm like 95% sure I saw Chris crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on his bike earlier this week.

This might be the first time I’ve seen an article about Legionnaires in NYC cooling towers that actually includes a photo of cooling towers, and not water tanks

I think "great room" is a euphemism for "the place where you're supposed to sit down and watch TV"

What's wrong with them? In what way are they atypical?

Screenshot of the following headline and subhed: McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: ‘It’s a Betrayal’ | Exclusive Sacramento Bee staffers refuse bylines over a new AI tool as colleagues at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer harbor concerns

Unionized journalists at the Sacramento Bee stand united against McClatchy’s latest AI “articles” initiative. We have withheld our bylines from these stories because we do not want the public to think this is being done in our name — it’s not. We think it’s disgusting.

I also just cry at shit now. Five-year-old me was stone-faced at funerals and now all it takes is the slightest musical cue.

Europe must pay more for news, says Newsham

I forgot what day it is.

Learned a lot in here about how the collapse of traditional media has changed what swing voters hear.

Two 2024 Harris voters in this group were big Candace Owens fans!

Part of a very interesting thread

I noted that Citibikes are more space-efficient than cars and an MTA tower operator accused me of being part of a communist conspiracy to oppress drivers and called me a "fucking bastard"

Translated, or you can interview in French?

OK, news website publishers. Riddle me this. Why are so many paywalls complete shit that take 15 seconds to pop up? It's 2026; this problem has been solved.

Canada's broken access to information system Mounting delays are eroding our trust in democracy. It will take political will to overhaul our ATI system.

Canada's public records laws are already pretty bad. This would make Ontario, home to more than 1/3 of Canadians, even worse: nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

ANALYSIS: The public has a right to know what its government is doing | TVO Today Doug Ford’s changes to FIPPA are troubling. They could also backfire.

Ontario legislators are trying to make sweeping changes that would exempt swathes of officials' records from freedom of information laws.

My Canadian followers should consider letting lawmakers know their thoughts. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, "Clogging the System" and Driving Up Costs Self-represented litigants using chatbots are filing endless "AI slop" lawsuits, bogging down courts and sending costs skyrocketing.

NEW: lawyers across the country say courts are being clogged up by frivolous AI-generated lawsuits, driving up costs as ChatGPT et al empower cranks and vexatious litigants to flood the zone with endless pages of expensive-to-deal-with legalese

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In 1994, Eric Stefani left "No Doubt."

Big mistake? No. He spent more time on what had been a side project, animating "The Simpsons."

I sometimes wonder: what is the 2026 equivalent of leaving a band that would go on to become multi-Platinum for a show that would win 37 Emmys?

Great story, Reuven -- but a nit to pick. The hed says it "will cost $3.5 million," but the story says that was the 2022 estimate. Given everything that has happened, "may cost over $3.5 million" might be truer, and even more shocking.

The cows have kinda left the barn here.

Prosecutor Resigns, Judge Shows Slide Deck On AI Errors - Law360 A federal prosecutor told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday that he was separating from the office after admitting in open court to using artificial intelligence to help draft a response brief, which he called "the worst decision I've ever made in my 30-year career."

A federal prosecutor told a North Carolina federal court that he was separating from the office after admitting in open court to using artificial intelligence to help draft a response brief, what he called "the worst decision I've ever made in my 30-year career."

Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In 2010, an estimated 343 million people around the world identified as Buddhists. By 2020, that figure had fallen to 324 million. That’s a decline of roughly 5%. During this period, the global population grew by 12%. The size of other religious groups we track at the global level also grew. As a result, Buddhists’ share of the global population dropped from 4.9% in 2010 to 4.1% in 2020.

A bar chart showing that, for every 12 adults worldwide who have joined Buddhism, 22 adults have left. The decline of Buddhism also is in part of religious switching. We use that phrase to describe any change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (in childhood) and their present religious identity (as an adult). Globally, Buddhism has attracted many converts. For every 100 adults who were raised Buddhist, 12 adults have joined, according to a Center analysis of people ages 18 to 54. In proportion to its population, Buddhism gains more converts than Christianity, Hinduism or Islam do. (Due to data limitations, we don’t have comparable worldwide figures for Judaism or other religions.) However, Buddhism also loses a higher share of its adherents than any other world religion we study. For every 100 adults who were raised Buddhist, 22 have left Buddhism and now identify with other religions or with no religion. As a result of this switching in both directions, there is a net loss of 10 adherents for every 100 people raised Buddhist.

A bar chart showing that Buddhists tend to have fewer children and be older than other religious groups. Buddhists are older, on average, and have fewer children than any other worldwide religious group we routinely study. The median age of Buddhists around the world was roughly 40 as of 2020. That was nine years older than the median age of the overall global population (31). It was also older than the median age of Jews (38), Christians (31), Hindus (29) and Muslims (24). Buddhists around the world were estimated to have 1.6 children per woman, according to Pew Research Center’s most recent estimates for 2010-2015. That’s about one full child less than the average fertility level for women globally. It’s also well below the minimum of 2.1 children per woman that typically is needed for a population to stay the same size (without other factors like immigration or, in the case of religious groups, conversion). This number is also known as replacement-level fertility. Buddhists are the only religion in our analysis whose 2010-2015 global fertility rate was below replacement level.

NEW: Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide? Many people are drawn to Buddhism, but even more have left Buddhism behind. Also, population aging & low fertility.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander have just been found GUILTY on all counts in Manhattan in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever brought by the Justice Department. Tal and Oren were once among the US's highest paid real estate agents. They could face decades in prison.

Oil intensity

Why the US is particularly vulnerable to oil price shocks...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville

NYT: Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville

By Emily Cochrane and Hamed Aleaziz

"The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez ... raised fears that she had been targeted for her reporting."

@emilyscochrane.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social Gift link!

Taxi AND Limousine Commission? In THIS economy?

Any idea how much Citibike has to pay DOT for the street space?

Regular users should really consider buying their own bike. It's so much cheaper.

Did you use AI to generate that image or was there really a stock image of brown liquor, a gavel and a key?

The Tom Goldstein story would have been much more delightful if it had happened in New York, where there are tabloids that exist for stories like this.

Did D.C. ever have a voice-y tabloid?